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Re: [atlarge-discuss] Philippines question
http://registrar.godaddy.com/
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i confirm that i cannot access the above-stated url. can you explain to me what actually is happening? why is godaddy doing this?
gilbert
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Quezon City 1101 Philippines
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--------- Original Message ---------
DATE: Mon, 02 Jun 2003 20:57:49
From: "Daniel R. Tobias" <dan@tobias.name>
To: atlarge-discuss@lists.fitug.de
Cc:
>Since I believe from earlier discussion there's at least one person
>on this list who's in the Philippines, I'd like you to check
>something for me. I have a report that the GoDaddy domain registrar
>has blocked all access to its site from the Philippines, to the
>consternation of domain registrants who live there and find
>themselves unable to access their accounts. This appears to be
>breach of contract on the part of GoDaddy (at least with regard to
>blocking access from existing registrants; refusing to take new
>registrations from there would be legal though still discriminatory).
>Perhaps ICANN ought to take action against them for this.
>
>Anyway, can any Philippine members try this URL:
>http://registrar.godaddy.com/
>to verify that it is in fact blocked?
>
>Yet another stupid blockage: Stargate blocks access to their site
>from MacOS computers, though it works fine from Windows based
>systems. I've verified this myself; on a PC I can get to their site
>with Mozilla, Opera, Lynx, and MSIE, but from a Mac I get redirected
>to a page saying that their system doesn't work with MacOS. That's
>totally ridiculous; the Web is cross-platform except when developers
>go to great lengths to stop it from being so. Does this break any
>ICANN rules by preventing registrants with only a Mac from getting to
>their accounts? Anyway, if you want to test it, their site is at:
>http://www.stargate.com/
>(which actually redirects to stargateinc.com, which they're still
>using in all their actual URLs and email addresses, despite calling
>themselves "Stargate.com" [haven't they heard that putting dot-com in
>a company name is SO '90s???] for branding purposes. Thus,
>ridiculously, the address of stargate.com is stargateinc.com
>[bringing to mind the old joke "What's the number of 911?"].)
>
>If I were ICANN, I'd threaten to revoke the accreditation of both
>GoDaddy and Stargate unless they ensured access by all their current
>registrants regardless of country of residence or operating system.
>
>--
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>
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