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Yes. For another account, see David Rusenko's blog post about GoDaddy and Weebly: http://david.weebly.com/1/post/2011/12/godaddy-a-glimpse-of-...

Their .com doesn't seem to have the same ugly ICE/government/FBI logo landing page, so that seems to also implicate GoDaddy.

If that's the case they could get their services up again by just switching registrars and DNS servers. (?)

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If it's anything like the others I've seen, GoDaddy will charge an "administrative fee" of hundreds of dollars to get the domain name turned back on, let alone unlocked and able to be transferred out.

I have been telling people this for YEARS. Yet everyone always thinks "It won't happen to me." Until it does.

Yet everyone always thinks "It won't happen to me." Until it does.

This principle also keeps Paypal in business.

Indeed, but there are zillions of good alternatives to GoDaddy (shouldn't the name be a clue???), many, sometimes no alternatives to PayPal.

(Wasn't I just reading something recently about a payments system startup that isn't likely to extend itself to Australia due to their laws and regulations?)

If you look at the spam-and-abuse.com domain, all the records pointed to it are GoDaddty domains, the IP addresses it uses are GoDaddy's, and the domain itself is registered to GoDaddy:

http://xml.ssdsandbox.net/dnslookup/ns1.suspended-for.spam-a....

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