Go Daddy


Shutdown of RateMyCop
On March 11, 2008, Go Daddy shut down RateMyCop.com — a RateMyProfessors-type site where people would comment on their interactions with law enforcement officers — after complaints from police officers.[71] After being contacted about the shutdown, Go Daddy responded that it was due to "suspicious activity".[citation needed] However, the owner of the site was later told by Go Daddy that the site was shut down for reaching its 3 terabyte bandwidth limit, although doubt has been expressed[who?] about the second explanation as the site had only 80,000 connected users that day and 400,000 the previous day.[citation needed] In reality the website was suspended for pegging the CPU on one of Go Daddy's shared hosting servers which affected the performance of other websites hosted on that same server. Normal response was to suspend the account and for customer support to encourage the customer to upgrade to a dedicated hosting plan. This internal procedure went through a major change after the RateMyCop controversy, so that websites that violate the usage terms are moved to their own host temporarily until the customer can resolve the resource consumption issue or migrate to a more robust hosting plan.[citation needed] The registrar for the name, Name.com, continued to allow the DNS to resolve. Go Daddy stated the reason for shutting down the Web site had nothing to do with censorship or complaints but that the site was receiving too many simultaneous connections.[72] In a similar incident, GoDaddy also complied with a demand that the Irish website RateYourSolicitor.com be taken down