BREAKING: GoDaddy Links to Porn
Just imagine: you reserve a website for your family-friendly business and have it parked by a trusted name in domain registration, only to find your site full of links to explicitly adult content. Well, I just discovered that GoDaddy is taking domains, parked for unsuspecting consumers, and putting porn links on their sites! In the past, GoDaddy has been criticized for everything from shady business practicies to having somewhat scandalous advertising. This, however, takes things to an entirely new level.
Now you begin to understand my refusal to work with them ;)..
I don’t use godaddy but am always interested in finding out whose reputible and who isn’t so I followed your links. But I don’t see any proof of what you are claiming. The link to questionable business practices is broken. Do you have any references where I can investigate your claims further?
LOL yah … I can’t really believe this. But it’s true!
As for links: Check allsucks.com, which I also made screenshots of above. GoDaddy is listed at the bottom of the page …
You can enable any of your parked domains on GoDaddy to have them show “related search links”. You are paid a share of the advertising revenue.
But this is something you need to manually activate for your parked domains.
In this domains case “allsucks.com” - it is no wonder this particular domain is showing adult links.
Juuso
I have had a problem with the ads that GoDaddy placed on my free pages. My visitors even emailed me that they didn’t want to visit my site because of the content and destination of the ads. My site has no references to anything sexual or adult or dating, and I was under the impression that the ads would be placed according to content. Wrong. I had a go-round with GoDaddy and even posted to Mr. Parsons’ “What Would Bob Do?” section of his site, and although I never received an answer from him, the powers that be and I reached an uncomfortable agreement. They took down ALL ads from my site. They also said they would look into contacting their “Advertising Partner” to see about fixing the situation. Nothing has been done as far as I know. There needs to be a way for subscribers to a hosting service to opt-out of adult advertising. Sounds like an easy fix to me. Why isn’t it happening? Because the porn industry makes and spends billions of dollars. Whether we like it or not, that industry also controls much of our technology direction. For instance, when Betamax and VHS were struggling for the upper hand, who won? The one used by the porn industry of course. That’s where the customers went, that’s where the technology went, and those who used BetaMax… which was the BETTER product… went the way of the dinosaur. If Bob Parsons has sold his soul for the big bucks, that’s too bad. He could have a great product instead of a cheap knockoff. Makes me sad, really.
http://lynnellenwolf.blogspot.com/2007/09/i-object.html
http://lynnellenwolf.blogspot.com/2007/09/godaddy-resolves-problem-with-ads.html
The links in your newsbyte do not support the claim you are making. What evidence do you have for the claim you are making here? PS: I do not represent GoDaddy
In case you were not aware, the screen shot of the image you are showing.
Is Cash Parking, a product that GoDaddy offers and this person selected the template and the keywords, by their choice. They can and should have previewed the adult template/content.
This is different than the free parked pages that they get their ads on.
Might as well get a cut of the profits and select what it looks like