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Right now, the ISPs are charging the same price to heavy users and light users. Heavy users cost the ISP more than light users. Therefore, their profit motive is to maximize light users and minimize heavy users.

There's an Elephant that you are ignoring.
Comcast residential "promises" to move up to 250GB/month for a fee of $46/month.
I can get 3TB/month of transit through 1&1 for $20/month. Hell, I can get 300GB/month through them for $4/month.

If you don't like 1&1, you can hop on over to godaddy.com. Their most expensive 300GB/month plan is $5/month. Their most expensive "wide open throttle" plan (which must be at least 1.5TB/month, seeing as how that's their next smallest plan [which is $7/month, at worst]) is $15/month.

Please tell me how these companies can move 20% more of my data than Comcast can for a tenth of what Comcast charges.

How it works:
"Attributor scans billions of web sites, blogs and social networks on a continuous basis to find copies of your content across the web."

Another example:
Just like when attributor copies another site's design and embeds a remote site's image.

by default (last I checked, and meaning you don't install innodb, etc), the tables will not be transactional.

Why would one assume InnoDB is turned off? MySQL binaries in Ubuntu 8.04's repository and the MySQL essentials installer for Windows include InnoDB. So does Go Daddy's hosting platform, if one believes this page deprecating Berkeley DB in favor of InnoDB.

Strict mode can be turned off by any application.

Per the MySQL manual: You could try not handing out the SUPER privilege like candy. This way, other apps can't SET GLOBAL sql_mode, and when they try to SET SESSION sql_mode, it won't affect any other apps' connections.

Funny enough, the commercial must have worked, because guess where the guy bought the domain:

% whois ComcastSuperBowlPorn.com

Whois Server Version 2.0

      Domain Name: COMCASTSUPERBOWLPORN.COM
      Registrar: GODADDY.COM, INC.
      Whois Server: whois.godaddy.com
      Referral URL: http://registrar.godaddy.com/
      Name Server: DNS66-1.NEXCESS.NET
      Name Server: DNS66-2.NEXCESS.NET
      Status: clientDeleteProhibited
      Status: clientRenewProhibited
      Status: clientTransferProhibited
      Status: clientUpdateProhibited
      Updated Date: 01-feb-2009
      Creation Date: 01-feb-2009
      Expiration Date: 01-feb-2010

>>> Last update of whois database: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:46:33 EST

They must have watched the GoDaddy ad that reinforced the idea that the internet is only for porn.

You're exactly right. I often have people ask me why I don't post all of the pics I post to my personal website on myspace or facebook. My short answer is - I *pay* for jcrouse.com, the hosting of my data, etc. and it is [essentially] my little spot on the `net. When I put it on Faceboook, there is an always changing EULA and the fact that I have no control over their servers, their policies, or *anything* that they do with my data. I don't even know if I even 'own' the pictures I post on those websites anymore. Since I make the EULA on what is posted on my website, I have a better feeling I own them.

This of course is not withstanding the EULA I have with my hosting provider. I know some, like godaddy have some weird things going on, and I am not trying to get into that discussion with this post (I don't use godaddy for that specific reason) - my point is, posting your [presumably] valuable information on something like Yahoo or Facebook could be problematic. You *don't* own the domain, you *don't* pay for the server space. You have no recourse if they delete, modify, censor, or otherwise (in your mind) misuse your data.

Register with GoDaddy and you'll get 100 E-Mail forwards thrown into your domain registration.

Now you can use your own e-mail address and use the server of your ISP or GMail, Yahoo, etc. Only make sure your outgoing mail is configured correctly to show your own domain as sender and probably or at least the Return To: field as such.

But then you can also go with GoogleApps and ignore the rest.

K<o>
P.S.: What ever provider you use, make sure you keep the domain registration separate (no opportunity to hold it hostage) and that you backup regularly to some local media.

You can set up a "Catchall" E-mail account on GoDaddy.com. They're extremely Fast. Use whatever name on your Business Cards you want to use. If a person writes you and misspells the name on the card you get it anyway. If you wanted to you could actually print different business cards with different names for them to write keyed to their specific location, then set up Message Rules to divert 'their location' incoming mail into the different Mail Folders.

Say for instance you wanted to use cards in Las Vegas and wanted to know who responded to your card mail address from Las Vegas, a Msg Rule would Move LasVegasCustomers@YourWebsite to the Las Vegas Mail Folder. (If you write me I'll know it came from somebody on SlashDot.) Glad to be able to assist you in your Search for (Mail) Truth. Here's a page that will help you with that immensely => http://www.newpath4.com/pdflistfor2008.htm .

Honestly, I'm a little surprised you've got to ask this question, since there are so many options out there...

First off, there's Google Apps. I know you said that it was never intended for home use, but I don't see why that matters. I've got a personal domain that I registered through GoDaddy a few years back, and have pointed the email service at Google's stuff. It took about 10 minutes to set up. I've only got about 5 email accounts that I'm using. I've got craptons of storage, nice webmail, POP3, IMAP, and all sorts of other stuff I'll never use (GTalk, Sites, whatever). If you're looking for free/cheap email you really ought to look at Google's offerings - all you need is a domain.

If you're looking to register a domain, GoDaddy has them cheap and I've had no trouble with them so far. They also provide email if you want it. They're cheap. I pay about $50/year for some web hosting and the domain name, and I had more email accounts than I would ever use. I switched to the Google Apps largely because I prefer their webmail - the stuff at GoDaddy is pretty crappy. But if all you want is POP3 or IMAP they're certainly an option.

There are also other companies out there that will sell you email service... One that I've heard good things about, but never used, is Fastmail.

Plus, just about any hosting company will sell you email service.

GoDaddy offers this service much cheaper, I think, with at least as many features. If only I could make heads or tails of their site anymore... it's so fully of crap these days it's hard to find the actual stuff you want to buy.

People complain about the 'SSL Cartel' and Verisign's hefty fee's yet fail to check there competitors. There are ALOT of CA's out there for you to choose from.
One of MANY examples. https://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/ssl/ssl.asp

$27/year is not what I would call hefty.

Ever notice that https://amazon.com/ gives a warning because the certificate is for www.amazon.com? Subject Alt Name can fix this. GoDaddy SSL certificates for example.com include www.example.com as a Subject Alt Name (see the cert for https://godaddy.com/).

They also sell certificates for multiple domains called "Multiple Domains Certificate (UCC)" which utilize Subject Alt Name. These certificates work fine in Apache, although you get an incorrect warning in the error log about the CommonName not matching the server name.

(I dislike many of GoDaddy's business practices and would never register a domain with them, but they seem to have the best value for SSL. Google "ssl" and click the GoDaddy advertisement for a discount.)

      Domain Name: LAUGHINGNOW.COM
      Registrar: GODADDY.COM, INC.
      Whois Server: whois.godaddy.com
      Referral URL: http://registrar.godaddy.com/
      Name Server: NS1.ACTIVEAUDIENCE.COM
      Name Server: NS2.ACTIVEAUDIENCE.COM
      Status: clientDeleteProhibited
      Status: clientRenewProhibited
      Status: clientTransferProhibited
      Status: clientUpdateProhibited
      Updated Date: 06-aug-2008
      Creation Date: 11-mar-2005
      Expiration Date: 11-mar-2009

What causes more harm to Children? Porn or Religion?

And thus, in companion to this response:

God Addy

Yes, everyone shares a SINGLE cert, you will only get full validation if you form your URL like https://yoursite.godaddy.com/ or whatever it is that godaddy offers you. Otherwise your visiters get a warning that this cert isn't for your site.

Not true you can get your own cert: https://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/ssl/ssl.asp?ci=8979 ... although I don't know why anyone would get anything through GoDaddy

Yes, everyone shares a SINGLE cert, you will only get full validation if you form your URL like https://yoursite.godaddy.com/ or whatever it is that godaddy offers you. Otherwise your visiters get a warning that this cert isn't for your site.

Not true you can get your own cert: https://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/ssl/ssl.asp?ci=8979 ... although I don't know why anyone would get anything through GoDaddy

Yes, everyone shares a SINGLE cert, you will only get full validation if you form your URL like https://yoursite.godaddy.com/ or whatever it is that godaddy offers you. Otherwise your visiters get a warning that this cert isn't for your site.

At my company, we use three different providers depending on the need.

Client Facing
We use Verisign for anything a client will interact with since we can use the Verisign Secured Seal on any web content on our site. Our studies have shown a percentage of our users actually know of the Versign secured logo and helps to assure them of the security.

Non-client Facing
We use Thawte certificates since these are much cheaper than Verisign, and are fully compatible with most browsers/mobile devices.

QA/Dev Servers
We use GoDaddy for internal/external tests and projects. They are cheap and quick, which makes them useful in a non production environment.

Expire Date: 04/10/2009
Admin email address:
Registrant: praxistheory LLC
Registrar: GODADDY.COM, INC.
Status: active
Locked: Y
Raw whois output:

      Domain Name: TRAFFICJAMES.COM
      Registrar: GODADDY.COM, INC.
      Whois Server: whois.godaddy.com
      Referral URL: http://registrar.godaddy.com/
      Name Server: NS1.EVERYDNS.NET
      Name Server: NS2.EVERYDNS.NET
      Name Server: NS3.EVERYDNS.NET
      Name Server: NS4.EVERYDNS.NET
      Status: clientDeleteProhibited
      Status: clientRenewProhibited
      Status: clientTransferProhibited
      Status: clientUpdateProhibited
      Updated Date: 10-apr-2008
      Creation Date: 10-apr-2008
      Expiration Date: 10-apr-2009
The data contained in GoDaddy.com, Inc.'s WhoIs database,
while believed by the company to be reliable, is provided "as is"
with no guarantee or warranties regarding its accuracy. This
information is provided for the sole purpose of assisting you
in obtaining information about domain name registration records.
Any use of this data for any other purpose is expressly forbidden without the prior written
permission of GoDaddy.com, Inc. By submitting an inquiry,
you agree to these terms of usage and limitations of warranty. In particular,
you agree not to use this data to allow, enable, or otherwise make possible,
dissemination or collection of this data, in part or in its entirety, for any
purpose, such as the transmission of unsolicited advertising and
and solicitations of any kind, including spam. You further agree
not to use this data to enable high volume, automated or robotic electronic
processes designed to collect or compile this data for any purpose,
including mining this data for your own personal or commercial purposes.

Please note: the registrant of the domain name is specified
in the "registrant" field. In most cases, GoDaddy.com, Inc.
is not the registrant of domain names listed in this database.

Registrant:
      praxistheory LLC

      Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
      Domain Name: TRAFFICJAMES.COM

      Domain servers in listed order:
            NS1.EVERYDNS.NET
            NS2.EVERYDNS.NET
            NS3.EVERYDNS.NET
            NS4.EVERYDNS.NET

No, it's just that it requires www. http://ratemycop.com/ redirects to http://sites.godaddy.com/sites.html, http://www.ratemycop.com/ loads the site properly. Sounds more like some DNS noob worked on their records.

It doesnt look up to me, looks to me like its redirecting to http://sites.godaddy.com/sites.html.

I happen to be in the market for a host so I checked out your link. I was a little disturbed by what I saw. Compare:

https://www.securepaynet.net/gdshop/hosting/shared.asp?se=+&app_hdr=&prog_id=1t611&ci=5652#tabs

to

https://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/hosting/shared.asp?ci=8886#tabs

Really? You couldn't have ripped off a better looking site than godaddy? Maybe you're affiliated, maybe they ripped you off, maybe it's some cots template... Anyway you spin it, sorry, but I'll be looking elsewhere.

Bob Parsons, CEO of GoDaddy, has been talking about this problem since 2004. You can read his thoughts on it, and see a letter sent to ICANN in 2004 here.

The point being, they're fully in favour of an end to "tasting" and have been calling for it for ~3 years.

>> Thanks, but not everyone is interested in creating a memorable brand.

> Yes you are, just because you're not selling something doesn't mean you're
> not "branding" your site. Otherwise you could save yourself some money
> and just use your IP address.

Even so, shouldn't I at least have the ability to choose a generic name if I want? What is so wrong with having some general informatin about aspect ratios on a site called 'aspectratio.org' or 'aspectratio.info'? Why must I use some crappy name like 'aspect-ratio.org' (oh, how I LOVE saying 'dash' or 'hyphen' out loud when I'm talking to a human) or asprat.org (just sounds bad... almost like 'ass' plus 'brat')? Just because the name contains some of the original letters DOES NOT MAKE IT MORE MEMORABLE! Again, this is ALL ABOUT COMMUNICATING WITH HUMANS. "Hmm... was it asra.org? aspra.org? asprat.org? Asp + rat... snake and vermin... yeah, that just screams 'aspect ratio.'

> If you expect people to find your site by typing what they are looking
> for into the address box of their browser and adding .com or .org
> to the end, you are not going to get many visitors.

Again, we've got different goals here. I really don't give a shit if not one single person on this planet that I don't know personally ever sees this site or not. What I DO want is the absolutely easiest-to-remember domain. WordWordWord.(com|org|maybe info) is ideal. I'm not going to go into detail about who I am, what I do, and how I like to work, but the fact is it would make my life easier if I could TELL people--not email them, not give them specific terms to search for--an easy-to-remember domain name. But no... someone who has NO USE AT ALL for aspectratio.org is sitting on it... and to get it, I have to pay $59.99 plus whatever the owner wants plus a 10% commission to get it.

You're missing the forest for the trees here. The whole point is that domain-squatting is bad enough, but bulk domain squatting based on insider information is just evil. Trading stocks based on inside information is illegal. And how would you feel if this happened to you: You've got two jobs. There was an emergency at your day job and you had to skip lunch and work overtime. Now you're in a rush to get to your night job. You casually mention this to the nice person at the counter who says "Oh, you're extra-hungry and pressed for time? OK, that's $26.50 for your burger and fries then."

If you don't like generic names, don't use them. Don't buy them for yourself, hell, you can even quit visiting sites that use them if you want. But if I want one and have a legitimate need for it, why should I be unable to? This is more than just a matter of taste, of what you do or don't like. It's about what's right and what's wrong.

Trying to access the site lands me on GoDaddy's website (who's your daddy!)
http://sites.godaddy.com/sites.html:
(Web Site Unavailable)
                    Oops!
This site is currently unavailable.

If you are the owner of this site,
please contact us at 1-480-505-8855 at your earliest convenience.

---
Maybe they should find a better ISP?

You bet they do. There's a lot of money to be made selling "premium" domains names.

https://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/registrar/search.asp?ci=9175

Lousy squatters.

Server Name: BIGFATTURD.COM Registrar: GODADDY.COM, INC. Whois Server: whois.godaddy.com Referral URL: http://registrar.godaddy.com/ >>> Last update of whois database: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:54:43 UTC

The registrars I've used charge nothing to substitute their own details for the registrants in the public WHOIS response. And their "profits far in excess"? On the $15-a-year fees, they're welcome to any profit they can take.

Well, I'm sure there's sellers on eBay that don't charge for shipping, but the ones I've dealt with always do. ;-) Godaddy charges $6.99 per year for private registation.

As a side note, people on DSL (cable?) connections may want to a whois lookup on their own address. I was miffed when I discovered my personal info published. Asking my provider to mask the private information required a formal request, but unlike some registars, they did it for free.

The User Agent extension is perfect for this. 'nuff said.

I had been using it a while back, the last time somebody tried this unintelligent stunt.

I did a quick whois on whyfirefoxisblocked.com at http://who.godaddy.com/WhoIsVerify.aspx?domain=why firefoxisblocked.com&prog_id=godaddy

The administrative contact is listed as "Carlton, Danny godaddy@DannyCarlton.net"

And for you spam bots:
godaddy@DannyCarlton.net
godaddy@DannyCarlton.net
godaddy@DannyCarlton.net
godaddy@DannyCarlton.net
godaddy@DannyCarlton.net
godaddy@DannyCarlton.net

:p

what do you expect from a godaddy (m$ owned) site?

Whois Server Version 2.0

Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net/
for detailed information.

      Domain Name: WHYFIREFOXISBLOCKED.COM
      Registrar: GODADDY.COM, INC.
      Whois Server: whois.godaddy.com
      Referral URL: http://registrar.godaddy.com/
      Name Server: NS1.FAMILYNETHOME.COM
      Name Server: NS2.FAMILYNETHOME.COM
      Status: clientDeleteProhibited
      Status: clientRenewProhibited
      Status: clientTransferProhibited
      Status: clientUpdateProhibited
      Updated Date: 06-aug-2007
      Creation Date: 06-aug-2007
      Expiration Date: 06-aug-2008

First thing you've got to do is recognize that email is broken. we need an "smtp 2.0" which eliminates the spoofable "feature" of smtp mail, and ensures positive id for the sending and receiving servers. There are many ways to do this, but a place to start is to require DomainKeys on smtp 2.0 servers, which goes a long way towards this end.

Once we know who is talking to us, and who we're talking to, we can finally address the real issue. It costs almost nothing to send a billion emails, but it costs plenty to sort through a billion spams. If I can't spoof my source domain, then it becomes much more expensive to send spam if I have to authenticate when claiming to be a legitimate e-mail domain like yahoo, gmail or hotmail.

Also devise a scheme where it is computationally expensive to send an email, but is trivial to receive one. It wouldn't be expensive to send 1000 outgoing messages an hour, but 1000(or more) a minute will require serious hardware. The harder I make the challenge, the fewer emails a bogus (a small server is unlikely to be legitimately sending millions of messages) server can try to deliver.

smtp 2.0 servers would be set to favor established domains to which we frequently send & receive messages, also to set a hard limit for the number of messages an unknown domain can send to us. Since nobody will accept more than a handfull of emails from my newly registered domain, I have to drop a lot more money on bogus domains which i can't even use for a year or two. you can protect legitimate new domains by following a "certified SSL" protocol for validating the identity of a domain owner. anybody without a certified domain or an established domain will have a really hard time getting their spam delivered.

Of course the attackers will find weaknesses in the processes and protocols, but we can simply ensure that servers are ready to migrate to the rules of mail 2.1, which fills in the gaps of smtp 2.0. If your servers aren't updated to a recent smtp version, I can stop "preferring" your mail.

...and I was too late. However, .net and .org are still open...

https://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/ssl/ssl.asp Godaddy does 'em for $20 per year. They're even a real root CA, not chained from Verisign, Thawte, Equifax or Comodo. Woah, they even have EV-SSL for half of Verisign's extortionist price.

Go to http://godaddy.com/registerfly and get a special rate and they'll petition ICANN directly for you.

But seriously, isn't this already addressed well through OpenDNS?

I can confirm that they were down, but it looks like they might be coming back up. Some of my hosts are responding now.

For a bit, the GoDaddy support site mentions "technical difficulty". Godaddy.com

The Internet Storm Center has notes, too: SANS Internet Storm Center

They should have registered it with God Addy.com.

I'd like to assume it was because StartingUp.com wasn't available, but there's a trend to use unique constructions in order to get ownership of the unique keyword for search terms. I'm sure that's one of the reasons why Nintendo's Revolution was renamed the Wii.

In any case, the reading of it as "Star Tupping" gives it some added resale value. It'll be worth even more if he can get a lot of links to it as it is now before eventually selling it off to become a celebrity-sex site.

Use Go Daddy.

Besides, I was never suggesting sequences of 9 random alphanumericals.

No, you were suggesting 5 random alphanumericals. Which wouldn't work, by the way -- you'd very quickly fill up on things like sex.whatever.

Because there are plenty of other people who have just as much right to the name "coke" as the coca-coly company.

Which is why we mostly do first-come, first-serve.

Examples include suppliers of dry-destilled charcoal, columbian drug-cartels, people working to help coke-addicts, people who think the coca-cola company sucks, etc...

Wow, watch this: charcoal, columbian-coke, coke-addiction, cokesucks, coca-cola. And whoever is first to register gets "coke".

Actually, it's not named Apple Corp, it is named Apple Inc (and it was Apple Computer Inc until 8. jan 2007).

For someone so worried about confusion: I very specifically meant Apple Corps, which does not sell computers.

Many companies use different names when they register as a business, and when they conduct their business with real customers.

And in the corporate world, domain names are not business registrations, and business registrations are not domain names. Domain names are where they conduct business with real customers.

So, let's talk about Apple Computer: I don't go to applecomputerinc.com, I go to apple.com. If Apple Corps wanted a real web presence, they'd probably own applerecords.com (which it seems they do, it's just mis-managed). If Apple Records got there first, I could live with applecomputer.com, or mac.com (which does exist, and is owned by Apple).

Furthermore, this doesn't stop us from doing nice things like redirecting to a more relevant site, if you think someone might get lost -- parrotcode.org is about a VM called "Parrot", and it does say "Parrot is not about parrots", with a link to a Google search on parrots, the first result of which is the Wikipedia page. That Wikipedia page, by the way, is about the birds, but does provide a link to a disambiguation page, which includes links to pages about Parrot VM, and Parrot Records, and so on.

Of course, SSNs doesn't work within USA, so your idea may still have some merit.

You do realize that was sarcasm, right?

In the real world, we almost never run into people with the same first and last name, and if we do, we have things like nicknames, or "of $state", to sort them out. However, the real world is not exactly analogous here, as we do have a central authority of this kind of thing. Just as there can be only one "Apple, Inc" in the US, there also can be only one "apple.com" on the Internet. Both of them are generally first-come, first-serve. I just don't get why you want us to add random alphanumeric strings -- if you aren't imaginative enough to register "cokesucks" when Coca-Cola already owns "coke", then you don't deserve a web presence anyway.

"I don't like big companies putting up billboards along the main roads, while other people with fewer resources, who has something to say, are not allowed to put their own billboards up..."

Ahem. Domain Names are dirt cheap.

Besides, you yourself said:

And the coca-cola company probably has enough money to repeat registering their name untill they come up with something more rememberab

Regarding the recent action GoDaddy took against Seclists.org, I want to know just *why* I should keep my domains at GoDaddy, and not transfer to somebody who shows some respect for their customers.

I find it disgraceful that GoDaddy would bend over when somebody like MySpace pushes a little. How can I now know that my domains are safe from being shut down on a whim? By not following any meaningful procedure to resolve the conflict, you have caused myself and many others to loose any faith we had with you as a registrar.

When my domains expire in a few months, I will be transferring them to another registrar unless GoDaddy publicly apologizes to Fyodor Vaskovich, the owner of Seclists.org. In addition, he should also receive some compensation for his trouble, such as a free three-year renewal for all his domains.

See http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/26/154 2218 for more information and more customer responses.

Regarding the recent action GoDaddy took against Seclists.org, I want to know just *why* I should keep my domains at GoDaddy, and not transfer to somebody who shows some respect for their customers.

I find it disgraceful that GoDaddy would bend over when somebody like MySpace pushes a little. How can I now know that my domains are safe from being shut down on a whim? By not following any meaningful procedure to resolve the conflict, you have caused myself and many others to loose any faith we had with you as a registrar.

When my domains expire in a few months, I will be transferring them to another registrar unless GoDaddy publicly apologizes to Fyodor Vaskovich, the owner of Seclists.org. In addition, he should also receive some compensation for his trouble, such as a free three-year renewal for all his domains.

See http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/26/154 2218 for more information and more customer responses.

Best I can figure is that the people who own iPhone.com figured it would be better to get the free advertising than to sell it. Also they were trying to keep the iPhone a secret. Or maybe now that they are admitting they are working on a phone, they will try and buy it.

I doubt she'll be hurt. I own 3 small businesses. Most of my friends also own businesses. I don't know anybody who is rushing out to pay for one of these "make yourself green" certificates. Hell, I hear people grousing all the time about how much ordinary, no-human-intervention-required SSL certs cost. In small business, every dollar counts (why do you think Auntie Treestocking isn't even incorporated? Because that costs money), and did you look at how much these EV certs cost?

They cost $1299.00 per year. How much profit do you really think Pippy Longstocking is making from her little business? Look at her site. She does sales through via phone, a shared-SSL ecommerce package, and an eBay store. In other words, she didn't even spring for her own $20 SSL cert. Do you really think she's going to drop $1300 just so she can be "green"? Why not just direct all visitors to her eBay store? You know that they're going to be green.

Seriously, I don't think many small businesses are going to be hurt by this.

GoDaddy High Assurance SSL.
Comodo Trusted SSL.
GeoTrust True BusinessID.

Business identity validation SSL certificates have been around for a long time. The only thing different about VeriSign's offering is that they're partnering with Microsoft to have the bar turn green if their more expensive cert is detected, to the disadvantage of all other SSL providers. This is an attempt by VeriSign to make it effectively necessary for businesses to use their cert so customers won't think that their site is insecure.

There's so much wrong with this attempt to gain a monopoly without adding anything of value to the market... but par for the course for VeriSign.

Here is the .mobi information page on GoDaddy's website: http://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/tlds/mobi.asp?isc=go omobi01a

Here is the Godaddy link to registration ($29/yr for Landrush period): https://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/tlds/mobi.asp?se=%2 B

Go Daddy may also cancel the registration of a domain name, after thirty (30) days, if that name is being used, as determined by Go Daddy in its sole discretion, in association with spam or morally objectionable activities. Morally objectionable activities will include, but not be limited to: activities designed to defame, embarrass, harm, abuse, threaten, slander or harass third parties; activities prohibited by the laws of the United States and/or foreign territories in which You conduct business; activities designed to encourage unlawful behavior by others, such as hate crimes, terrorism and child pornography; activities that are tortious, vulgar, obscene, invasive of the privacy of a third party, racially, ethnically, or otherwise objectionable; activities designed to impersonate the identity of a third party; and activities designed to harm or use unethically minors in any way.

CEO: Good news guys, the web devs have completed the search facility and our website will go live next week.
Lowly Ex-MS Employee: So what domain name have we chosen?
CEO: Good question, I'll let our CTO answer that one.
CTO: ahem, well as some of you know, we registered ohloh.org, ohloh.com & ohloh.net through "Proxy" registrars before the final decision was made. In the conference call with Bill we had last week we made our decision.
Lowly Ex-MS Employee: and?
CTO: Well the decision was made that "ohloh.org" would be ditched... it's simply to difficult to masquerade as a .org organisation - after all, we clearly want to profit from OSS some way or another. The .com address, well we decided that it should re-direct to the .net address. For Marketing purposes we will use the .net address as it is sufficiently vague as whether it is a profiteering company of open source ideals or an open source organisation without profit aspirations.
CEO: I think you'll all agree that this is an ingenious idea.

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CEO: Good news guys, the web devs have completed the search facility and our website will go live next week.
Lowly Ex-MS Employee: So what domain name have we chosen?
CEO: Good question, I'll let our CTO answer that one.
CTO: ahem, well as some of you know, we registered ohloh.org, ohloh.com & ohloh.net through "Proxy" registrars before the final decision was made. In the conference call with Bill we had last week we made our decision.
Lowly Ex-MS Employee: and?
CTO: Well the decision was made that "ohloh.org" would be ditched... it's simply to difficult to masquerade as a .org organisation - after all, we clearly want to profit from OSS some way or another. The .com address, well we decided that it should re-direct to the .net address. For Marketing purposes we will use the .net address as it is sufficiently vague as whether it is a profiteering company of open source ideals or an open source organisation without profit aspirations.
CEO: I think you'll all agree that this is an ingenious idea.

ohloh.net whois entry
ohloh.com whois entry
ohloh.org whois entry