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GoDaddy VP Caught Bidding Against Customers

Posted by timothy on from the strong-accusations-so-consider-the-source dept.

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?"

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  1. Here's What Can Be Done... by BlueStrat · · Score: 3, Funny

    Pay a Congressman.

    Cheers!

    Strat

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    1. Re:Here's What Can Be Done... by TheVelvetFlamebait · · Score: 4, Funny

      Yeah, but I hear that even congressmen are bidding for themselves these days...

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  2. Unbelieveable... by canUbeleiveIT · · Score: 4, Funny

    What an appropriate last name!

  3. Adam Dicker? by jollyreaper · · Score: 5, Funny

    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

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  4. Superbowl by Ritz_Just_Ritz · · Score: 3, Funny

    They've got to pay for those Superbowl adverts somehow. :)