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They have a massive incentive to turn a blind eye to it because cutting these bad actors off would mean they lose out on all that money. GoDaddy could make eve
by reaperducer 3y ago
They have a massive incentive to turn a blind eye to it because cutting these bad actors off would mean they lose out on all that money.
GoDaddy could make even more money by cutting those people off. Then they can re-sell the domain again.
Like when a restaurant shortens the amount of time diners are allowed to linger so it can turn the tables more often.
- freedomben 3y agoThis is a good point. I have loathing for GoDaddy based on abject misery they've subjected me to in the past, coupled with their unethical behavior (like registering and re-selling (for much more money) domains that customers are searching for through their interface but don't buy right a way). But it's important not to be overly reductive about the incentives here.
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- autoexec 3y agoIdeally, they'd be doing their job and screening these people before they paid for a domain and started hosting phishing sites or malware, but you know, assuming they were catching these issues proactively and basically as soon as the payment was processed I'd be okay with them taking the money before shutting the domain down. Sure, it'd still be a company profiting from stolen money, but if it can't be returned it might as well be wasted. I think the issue is that as soon as scammers realized they were throwing their money away they'd stop buying up .US domains and find some other means to trick people. Probably just using other TLDs and/or registrars which means GoDaddy loses their income stream either way.
- stOneskull 3y agogodaddy needs a spanking
- isk517 3y agoI believe thankyoumommy offers that service.
- adrr 3y agoTo another phisher. Who wants to buy microsoftsupport2023.us?