freelance84 Posted December 21, 2011 Share Posted December 21, 2011 Has anyone had any experience with GoDaddy.com? I have a domain name which appears to be owned by them, as per the whois info: Registered through: GoDaddy.com, LLC (http://www.godaddy.com) Domain Name: MYSITE.COM On the domain in question, there is a link which reads 'interested in this domain' I phoned 'GoDaddy.com' up to inquire about what exactly their service is regarding the 'Domain Buy Service', their response: We basically go talk to the owner and try to negotiate a deal But... they own the domain according to the whois, and they even advertise on the site sitting on the domain name: 'Interested in buying me, click here to go to godaddy'. http://www.chillingeffects.org/domain/faq.cgi#QID246 UDRP (Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy) or ACPA (Anti-cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act) appear to protect domain names based on trademark infringements but nothing else. Furthermore they can only assist when the trademark was acquired before the registration of the domain name. I know potentially you could argue that this sort of business is acceptable as it is similar to the landlord owning a building before the shop owner had the idea of setting up a shop. Is there really nothing you can do except pay the organisers of the scam to get hold of the domain you want? It really feels like buying tickets from a tout outside a gig for x times more that its worth! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pikachu2000 Posted December 21, 2011 Share Posted December 21, 2011 As far as i can see, it doesn't say GoDaddy owns the domain name, it says it was registered through them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freelance84 Posted December 21, 2011 Author Share Posted December 21, 2011 Ah shit true.. My mistake! This is the actual info as printed: Domain Name: MYSITE.COM Registrar: GO CANADA DOMAINS, INC. Whois Server: whois.gocanadadomains.com Referral URL: http://www.gocanadadomains.com Name Server: NS05.DOMAINCONTROL.COM Name Server: NS06.DOMAINCONTROL.COM Status: clientDeleteProhibited Status: clientRenewProhibited Status: clientTransferProhibited Status: clientUpdateProhibited Updated Date: 22-jan-2011 Creation Date: 21-jan-2010 Expiration Date: 21-jan-2012 Its not godaddy but goCanada... but clearly they are they same entity or joint effort? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kicken Posted December 21, 2011 Share Posted December 21, 2011 There is still nothing there that says they own the domain. You need to find the part that lists the owner. Possibly toward the bottom of the output if it is there. Ex, for my domain: Domain Name: AOEEX.COM Registrar: GODADDY.COM, INC. Whois Server: whois.godaddy.com Referral URL: http://registrar.godaddy.com Name Server: NS33.DOMAINCONTROL.COM Name Server: NS34.DOMAINCONTROL.COM Status: clientDeleteProhibited Status: clientRenewProhibited Status: clientTransferProhibited Status: clientUpdateProhibited Updated Date: 02-apr-2009 Creation Date: 24-may-2001 Expiration Date: 24-may-2018 >>> Last update of whois database: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 22:08:15 UTC <<< [snip lots of legal text] Registrant: Keith M [snip address] United States That bold part is what you need to find, or something similar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scootstah Posted December 22, 2011 Share Posted December 22, 2011 If they have private WHOIS, you might just see GoDaddy's details. It doesn't mean they actually own it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freelance84 Posted December 22, 2011 Author Share Posted December 22, 2011 Yea.. I didn't realise that "proxy, inc" was essentially a private whois. I read up a little on it and there is some dispute in quite a lot of cases to the legitimacy of hiding the whois behind proxy, inc. Without seeing behind all the shut doors it is impossible to really see whether the domain you want is being held by a "cybersquater" or not. In my case i think it would be fair to assume that it is the case, but thn i cannot prove it. (thanks for pointing out the tips on the whois info tho) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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