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GoDaddy VP Caught Bidding Against Customers
An anonymous reader writes "A GoDaddy Vice President has been caught bidding against customers in their own domain name auctions. The employee Adam Dicker isn't just any GoDaddy employee; he's head of the GoDaddy subsidiary that controls the auctions.
Dicker won some of the domains he bid for, and pushed up the bid price on auctions he didn't win. The conflict of interest is unethical, but could this practice also be illegal? Said a representative for a competitor, 'Even if controlled, that practice has bad news written all over it.'
This comes hot on the heels of news that despite earlier promises to ICANN to end their 60-Day ban on transfers, GoDaddy quietly circumvented it by forcing customers to agree to the ban anyway. ICANN doesn't appear to be investigating or asking follow-up questions about this. What can be done to force ICANN to police the registrars for which it is responsible?"
Pay a Congressman.
Cheers!
Strat
Progressivism (aka US 'Liberalism'): Ideas so good they need a police/surveillance-state to enforce.
What an appropriate last name!
Wow, if Charles Dickens were writing today, he'd be all over that name.
Adam Dicker, quicker with the clicker than the clients he dicks o'er
Mr. Pinchloaf, known as a tight-ass most horribly, whose pucker snaps shut audibly
Nadia Rotchacokoff, who gives her love freely and her diseases venerally
Steve Ballmer, a rabid wombat would be much calmer, screaming, hurling chairs against the wallmer
President Bush and Vice President Dick, with names like that, someone's getting fucked right quick
Kwisatz Haderach
Sell the spice to CHOAM
This Mahdi took Shaddam's Throne
A first post that is neither insightful, nor interesting, nor flamebait nor troll! Will this be the FP to not be modded at all!?? The world looks on with baited breath.
They've got to pay for those Superbowl adverts somehow. :)
The company is rife with unethical business practices.
Yes, but they have sweaty, scantily clad babes in their commercials!
You're using her as bait, Master!
I only use PayPal with GoDaddy. I figure the evil cancels itself out. I just hope I did not miscalculate and the evil is aggregate.
My name is Elizabeth L. Driscoll/Go Daddy PR VP. I am posting this comment on behalf of Go Daddy General Counsel, Christine Jones. "Go Daddy has reviewed the auction and found nothing improper. Adam Dicker's knowledge on the auction was no different from what any customer coming to our TDNAM site would have had. To ensure customer confidence and to avoid any possible future questions of impropriety all GD employees are now and in the future prohibited from participating in TDNAM auctions, purchasing, sales & back orders." - Christine Jones, Go Daddy General Counsel & Corporate Secretary
So tell me, NameMogul, what business are you in? ;-)
Lose.
One "o".
It means to fail.
As in 'You lose at spelling'.
It's lose.
This signature is lame.