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Cry Baby Domainers Locate Godaddys Warehouse

domainer reviewing her portfolioTo the left is a secret photo taken inside a leading domainers office. The photo was taken after a recent blog post which alleged that GoDaddy is warehousing domains.

If you look at clause 9 in the ICANN Registrar Agreement it states “Registrar shall abide by any ICANN-adopted policy prohibiting or restricting warehousing of or speculation in domain names by registrars.” As ICANN does not have any adopted policies in this regard, it can’t actually enforce anything.

So, welcome to the world of commercial reality where companies set up subsidiaries to hold their assets. In the case of Godaddy, its been alleged that Standard Tactics LLC performs this activity.

DomainerIncome has recently learned that a rogue group of blonde domainers is heading down to New Mexico to find the actual warehouse belonging to Standard Tactics LLC. Best of luck with the trip.

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This entry was posted on Friday, December 5th, 2008 at 6:52 pm and is filed under icann, law, registrars. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

8 Responses to “Cry Baby Domainers Locate Godaddys Warehouse”

  1. littledevil Says:

    Hilarious post. I almost spit up my coffee when I saw that photo.

  2. Reece Says:

    Completely agree.

    Doesn’t bother me personally — if I let a domain drop, it’s because I no longer want it. Godaddy is more than reasonable giving you plenty of time after expiration to renew your domain if you actually wanted to keep it.

    Besides, we all know anything half decent would end up on Snap/Pool/NameJet anyway, so what’s all the whining about? :)

  3. Johnny Says:

    Wow….I’m sorry you don’t see the unethical side to this. conflict of interet, etc… but really your post really just seems like flame bait for upset domainers.

    The photo is hilarious, though. I’m not sure where/how you got/made it. It’s cool. :)

  4. Reece Says:

    @ Johnny: The photo gave me a good laugh :)

    Honestly, with how little ethics exist with most of the domaining companies in this industry, maybe some of us are just immune to really caring about stuff like this anymore.

    In comparison to domain sniffing or shill bidding, is this really such a big deal?

  5. Troy Says:

    Where did you get that picture? It is hilarious!

  6. Anonymous Says:

    Very classy post.

    I’ve never heard of you or your company in any domain circle before (other than seeing this blog on Domaining.com), however, I know Andrew to be one of the most respected members of the domainer community. Clearly this is an important issue to many (posted in Tech Crunch/Washington Post yesterday). Godaddy takes the moral high road about kiting, yet Andrew found many trademark registrations owned by this Godaddy company.

    I don’t see the point of your post, as it just makes you look bad.

  7. Scott Roberts Says:

    Troll, link-baiting, whatever you want to call it. I’m not impressed in the least.

  8. Michael Berkens Says:

    And we wonder how domainers got themselves in the position where we are abused daily by registrars, drop service, and auction houses.

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