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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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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.

Latest press release: "FTC Grants Chairman Ferguson Authority to Comply with President Trump’s Orders to End DEI"

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

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

The new chair was nominated for the FTC (as a commissioner, not chair) by Biden.

Yes, and?

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Federal employees are being asked who they voted for. This is not hyperbole.

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I am not sure what you mean by falsified but is this OK?

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...

"Incoming senior Trump administration officials have begun questioning career civil servants who work on the White House National Security Council about who they voted for in the 2024 election, their political contributions and whether they have made social media posts that could be considered incriminating by President-elect Donald Trump's team, according to a U.S. official familiar with the matter."

That those charged with national security are culled for lack of loyalty should be very concerning - even to those who voted for this person.

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Total dissolved solids? Technical Documentation Services? Time-driven switching?

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(insert president name here, as it's not limited to any single person) Derangement Syndrome is definitely problematic.

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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".

This is the real key. They have an awful reputation amongst technical people (for good reason) but that reputation largely fades away the less technical you are. The average person knows them for their effective marketing, seemingly low prices, and seemingly decent products. They don't get into the weeds enough to expose how untrue those things really are.

For a long time, I worked in an office across from their (now former) headquarters in the Scottsdale Air Park. The number of clients we had come in amazed that we must work so closely with them and expecting great things made the location of the office so invaluable that when they moved to Tempe and Chandler, we had to seriously discuss internally if we needed to follow them.

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I am not sure what you mean by falsified but is this OK? https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic... "Incoming senior Trump administration officials have begun questioning career civil servants who work on the White House National Security Council about who they voted for in the 2024 election, their political contributions and whether they have made social media posts that could be considered incr…

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(insert president name here, as it's not limited to any single person) Derangement Syndrome is definitely problematic.

Agreed.

ODS was pretty bad. CDS was very self destructive for the GOP. BDS helped give Jr a second term.

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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 bought out another registrar I was a customer of. Now I am paying 40% more for renewals. If I want to migrate I need to expose my whois info. They're always looking to upsell me into some horrible hosting garbage.

Can you temporarily change your whois info before you migrate to somewhere else?

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Federal employees are being asked who they voted for. This is not hyperbole.

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Uh, is Trump's mouth during both of his presidential campaigns citation enough? He's not even shy about his, um, desire for fealty.
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