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GoDaddy's response sounds like "well, if they would have told us what they wanted we might have given them access to secret privileges we have given others."

If that's indeed what they're trying to say, it's not particularly reassuring.

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How so? A lot of public APIs work this way, there is a free limit and you can do x requests and then if you want to do more you get the limit raised, I've used a bunch of APIs with a similar limit policy. The only problem is if GoDaddy refused to do this for Namecheap, which doesn't appear to be the case, it seems Namecheap complained publicly first and didn't contact GoDaddy at all.

But they didn't, as they stated they didn't. At the end of the day, as Namecheap points out, it's against the ICANN rules to prevent whois's and frankly I wish ICANN had the teeth to trash GoDaddy's registrar status.

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