Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

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?"

4 of 222 comments (clear)

  1. Digg by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    http://digg.com/tech_news/GoDaddy_Executives_Bid_Against_Own_Customers_Auctions

    1. Re:Digg by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      AIDS

  2. Re:if there was an equal price competitor ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    This is a huge troll here.

    All of this is BS, and you are trying real hard to lie through your teeth.

    Why would you ditch that many? WTF is GoDaddy trying to do by rotating around that many domains? Do the operators even know this.

    Raping domains, especially your own will never fly in my book, or this world for that matter.

    - The Demetrius -

  3. Go Daddy is absolutely immoral by alxtoth · · Score: 0, Troll

    These are nothing, remember when they stopped using Apache, only to go for IIS ?

    --
    http://revj.sourceforge.net