GoDaddy VP Caught Bidding Against Customers 222
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?"
Here's What Can Be Done... (Score:4, Funny)
Pay a Congressman.
Cheers!
Strat
Unbelieveable... (Score:5, Funny)
Adam Dicker? (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
Re:Its legal (Score:0, Funny)
Superbowl (Score:4, Funny)
They've got to pay for those Superbowl adverts somehow. :)
Re:if there was an equal price competitor ... (Score:3, Funny)
The company is rife with unethical business practices.
Yes, but they have sweaty, scantily clad babes in their commercials!
Re:Here's What Can Be Done... (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, but I hear that even congressmen are bidding for themselves these days...
Re:And just think... (Score:1, Funny)
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.
Re:Its legal (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Adam (Score:1, Funny)
So tell me, NameMogul, what business are you in? ;-)
Re:Its legal (Score:2, Funny)
One "o".
It means to fail.
As in 'You lose at spelling'.
It's lose.