Comments on: Go Daddy shuts down police-rating Web site

Go Daddy says site was using up too much bandwidth, but site owner disputes that and says the site was censored after police officers complained.

[Francky B]

These past actions of Go Daddy is why I would NEVER use them.

They've also done this in the past with P2P sites. Doing more that just closing those sites, but actually "stealing" the domain name, so the the site owner lost the name he had registered. How this is even legal I don't know. As I would think they'd need a warrant or something to start deciding whose name they "keep" for themselves ?!

[The_Decider]

You get what you pay for

Including with a domain name. Pay the $5-$8 a year and truly own your domain or pay the $2 or whatever it is to rent it.

As long as this guy kept backups, and given he was on such a low rent host he probably didn't, he can set up shop again easily.

Godaddy is web space for the clueless who need a slight bump up from MySpace.

[Apple Tweaker]

Go Daddy Should Shut this down!

I have good friends that are cops and work very hard to serve and protect. To many people take for granted the service that would otherwise go unfulfilled if we did not have police in our society.

We should respect their privacy and honor them, not use the smut that is the internet to exploit these individuals.

[james_blish747]

Name and Badge Number??????

What the hecK!!!! The Cops name and badge number are PUBLIC!!!! Joe cop doesn't want the spotlight on him. The cops want our names, addresses, ssn's and other information and say it's already public information, but when we use public information they act like babies.

[The_Decider]

bad cops need a light shined on them

Good cops could use some recognition.

A site like this could provide this.

This is the same kind of whining we see from professors and ratemyprofessor.com.

[MTGrizzly]

How did I know that there...

...would be troll in the comments about this article who would
say, more or less, "Oh, poor police, we shouldn't hold them
accountable." You are, probably, a cop since cops don't have
friends who aren't other cops.

Cops get what they sign up for. If they give BS, they get back
BS. If they would just step back, take a big breath, realize they
are just like everybody else and start respecting people they
wouldn't have to worry. Unfortunately, most of the ones I have
had the misfortune of coming into contact with in the last 30
years as a paramedic are egotistical meglomaniacs that think
they are better than everyone else.

If a person in any other profession considered everyone they
met a threat to them, as cops do, they would be incarcerated as
paranoid. Not wanting or tolerating public accountability is
another symptom of paranoia. If anything, because of their
behavior, cops I have met should be placed under constant
scrutiny and held accountable for every one of the legion of
dumb, stupid, dangerous and sadistic things they do.

Cops are not your friend...

[Jbyrd843]

The Police are here to service us the people.Years ago the cops talked to the people knew the people today they do not serve the comunty they r trained like the military dress like the military I'm not saying all cops r bad i have a few friends that r cops they r good people and have good intentions!!! but u can not give anyone power over u and let ti be unchecked if anyone wants to be a cop they need to take the job knowing that they rpublic officers and they have to answer to the public there name and badge number is public information and should be available if there is no accountability then this just as well be the Russia or China!!!!!! All police officers take an oath to uphold the constitution on the USA and the state they live in or work in

[protaper07]

Setup your own server

If there was good interest in the site the owner should just setup their own server and transfer the domain name somewhere else. Not all cops are good cops so the bad ones should get their names displayed if people care enough to do so.

[t8]

Seriously you shouldn't use Godaddy for hosting

I had hosting problems with Godaddy. My web site went from a no1 listing in Google to dropping out of their index.

The reason I discovered later on was that Googlebot couldn't access Godaddy hosted web sites.

Needless to say I gave up my Godaddy account and reappeared back in the Google index some time later.

A costly exercise, but I learned never to repeat that mistake.

[jdrachmat]

Good to know so we now AVOID GoDaddy

It is good to know that GoDaddy is a web hoster that loves to censor its customers.

Good to know because we can now AVOID GoDaddy forever !

[bluehole.foetry]

I don't believe Driscoll

When I was victimized by GoDaddy, one of their goons -- Douglas Preston Jr -- started posting lies about me/the incident on my own site and other websites. But the truth is, Bob Parsons himself called me several times to reach a settlement. So I believe this is just another example of the company trying to blame the victim. See http://nodaddy.com

[LordxDragon]

It Fig.'s

I wonder how many other web hosting sites will be doing the same thing.

it looks like the freedom of speech dose not count on these web sites and they like our money but if we try to say something then we get shut down, all because some body tells them we do not like that so kill it, we do not want you to have that person saying that any more...

GoDaddy is the worst of them all if I need to say it they are chickens cause they let others push them around so much, in a way I feel sorry for them, they remind me of the kid that got bullied in school and had no one to tell oh well maybe some day they well find some one to help them out

Dragon...

[MedicKam]

Good Thing

Well, I know that many of you feel that Go Daddy shutting down this web site was bad. However, let me just say this. As Police Officers we deal with enough danger, problems, threats etc.. and we do not need those things coming to our home and endangering our families. We want a normal home life just like you all do. These types of web sites put our wives, husbands, and children in unnecessary harm?s way.

So, though you may think that this was another big brother move, this time it was a good one. We are people to, and deserve the same right to privacy as you do.

[MedicKam]

Good Job GO DADDY!

I am glad that GO DADDY realized that this site was a bad thing. So, thank you GO DADDY!