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FTC takes action against GoDaddy for alleged lax data security

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Re: FTC takes action against GoDaddy for alleged lax data security

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Press release is dated Jan 15. The folks who made this happen are gone now. If you'd like to see what the new admin's FTC is spending your tax dollars on instead of this, take a look here: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases

Why do you think they’re gone now? (Sounds like hyperbole, as it’s not like non political people just all got replaced.)

Federal employees are being asked who they voted for.

This is not hyperbole.

Re: FTC takes action against GoDaddy for alleged lax data security

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It's amazing that (approximately) no one cares about stuff like this. GoDaddy was severely breached several times over several years, yet they still rake in billions of revenue from their millions of customers. Now they have to pay someone to fill out a biennial checklist and... promise to not lie. Awesome. If you own a company, why even bother with security? Security is expensive. Wait until a breach is exposed, off…

If you don't make the fines or whatever substantially more than the profit of the illicit or negligent conduct, it isn't a consequence. It's a budget line-item.

Every regulatory agency in America has been stripped to the bones by decades of budget cuts and never ending accusations of "stifling innovation" and we're shocked now that companies get away with both metaphorical and actual murder.

Re: FTC takes action against GoDaddy for alleged lax data security

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I guess its just the power of advertising but its amazing to me that GoDaddy continues to be a popular solution for hosting, domain registration, etc given their absolute toilet of a reputation.

They got their product out. Who else is there that the average person would know about?

Squarespace advertises a lot too, probably more than GoDaddy nowadays, and they are also a domain registrar.

Maybe GoDaddy just sells themselves better? I see Squarespace as kind of an amorphous boring blob of internet business services.

Re: FTC takes action against GoDaddy for alleged lax data security

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I never thought I'd be a fan of a government agency. But here we are.

Press release is dated Jan 15. The folks who made this happen are gone now. If you'd like to see what the new admin's FTC is spending your tax dollars on instead of this, take a look here: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases

>NOTICE: The FTC website is currently unavailable. Thank you for your patience while we work to restore service.

Re: FTC takes action against GoDaddy for alleged lax data security

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post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Press release is dated Jan 15. The folks who made this happen are gone now. If you'd like to see what the new admin's FTC is spending your tax dollars on instead of this, take a look here: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases

Why do you think they’re gone now? (Sounds like hyperbole, as it’s not like non political people just all got replaced.)

Change "gone" to "out of power," if you like. The FTC Chair controls the agency's agenda, and the Chair switched parties last week.

Re: FTC takes action against GoDaddy for alleged lax data security

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I was shocked when I purchased a domain recently on GoDaddy (I normally use Cloudflare or AWS) and noticed that they have an 'upsell' with more security options (MFA and some other features) for something like $10/yr. Why wouldn't they want their customers to be more secure by default? To me it just reeks of money-grabbing for people that are none the wiser.

Re: FTC takes action against GoDaddy for alleged lax data security

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post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They got their product out. Who else is there that the average person would know about?

Squarespace advertises a lot too, probably more than GoDaddy nowadays, and they are also a domain registrar. Maybe GoDaddy just sells themselves better? I see Squarespace as kind of an amorphous boring blob of internet business services.

Squarespace is not 'tagged' in my brain under the "domain registrar" category yet. When I blindly think of domain registrars, as much as I dislike them, Godaddy is the first to come to mind.

Re: FTC takes action against GoDaddy for alleged lax data security

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post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They got their product out. Who else is there that the average person would know about?

Squarespace advertises a lot too, probably more than GoDaddy nowadays, and they are also a domain registrar. Maybe GoDaddy just sells themselves better? I see Squarespace as kind of an amorphous boring blob of internet business services.

Squarespace positions themselves as a website builder more than a registrar. In fact, I doubt the average person would even realize they are a registrar, since that is abstracted away in the website building process.

Re: FTC takes action against GoDaddy for alleged lax data security

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It's amazing that (approximately) no one cares about stuff like this. GoDaddy was severely breached several times over several years, yet they still rake in billions of revenue from their millions of customers. Now they have to pay someone to fill out a biennial checklist and... promise to not lie. Awesome. If you own a company, why even bother with security? Security is expensive. Wait until a breach is exposed, off…

They profit a lot from uninformed CTOs and founders just going for whatever they heard of, instead of looking into whether it is a good provider, footing their businesses on shaky foundations.

Re: FTC takes action against GoDaddy for alleged lax data security

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I guess its just the power of advertising but its amazing to me that GoDaddy continues to be a popular solution for hosting, domain registration, etc given their absolute toilet of a reputation.

They got their product out. Who else is there that the average person would know about?

Correct. And the average person isn't aware of their "toilet of a reputation".
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