FTC sues GoDaddy for years of poor hosting security practices

FTC really do be dropping all of the really hot lawsuits that should have happened years ago... all of 4 days before it won't matter anymore and the FTC will get dissolved lmfao what a virtue signaling shitfest

Right? I just hope the news outlets just put out one giant list of all the lawsuits that the new FTC drops instead of having a million "Trump's FTC drops lawsuit against [company]
It's all part of the game. Same reason senators constantly introduce bills that they know won't get passed. So they can say "we tried but the other team refused to pass it".
True, but it makes headlines and looks good for the party and that's all that matters. Actual substance is so overrated.

Friday: GoDaddy CEO donates $1,000,000 to Trump's inauguration fund

Monday: Trump takes office

Tuesday: Senate confirms new FTC chair

Wednesday: FTC announces a settlement with GoDaddy where the FTC will withdraw the case and GoDaddy agrees to a $125,000 penalty paid over the next five years

That's very generous with the penalty. More likely to get off Scott free
- More likely the US government will pay them $125k for their trouble in this "political witchhunt."
I guess they're all paying Trump to make sure a Lina Khan will never get there ...
$125k over five years is stupid. That's $25k a year for five years.

GoDaddy made 4.481B last year.

For math nerds, that's 179,240 times the penalty.
- That's the joke

This is the closest thing I've ever seen to suing someone for sucking. Which, for whatever reason, was a childhood trope in my family. I love the idea of that being an actual thing. Many companies would be open to lawsuits if you could sue them for sucking.

There are things they do that are beyond that, like if you look up a domain on their website to see if its available and it is, theyll essentially register it for cheap and then hold onto it so you can only buy it from them at an upcharged price, and even if you go to another registrar thats cheaper, you cant register it because they already own it
- Can we set up a bot to look up billions of random character combinations and put them out of business when they buy them all and can't sell them?

When they gonna go after businesses for this clandestine return to office bullshite

Definitely not in the next 4 years

I feel like I must be the only person on Earth who has successfully used Godaddy for anything and not had a problem...

Did you try getting an SSL certificate on your website by chance? Without paying $400/yr...
- Yes.
  
  I just had to log in and check. We pay $49.99 per year for our SSL cert. (Edit: Certs. We actually have two domains.) Do they do surge pricing or something...?
There are dozens of us; but I am scared to use go daddy now , not just for all the horror and cut back tech support, or for it’s shady business practices, or deceptive marketing.

But because I heard that they keep stealing valuable ip and domains
- But because I heard that they keep stealing valuable ip and domains
  
  they've always done this
- I've worked with tons of clients that have "successfully used GoDaddy for years" while they are paying far more for a domain that nearly any other registrar, they are forced to pay for a basic SSL certificate that is free anywhere else, they are tricked into buying services that that don't need and literally makes things worse and more difficult.
  
  But ask someone who actually knows webdev and web hosting and you'll hear all about the issues that are there in plain sight.
  
  GoDaddy very simply preys on people who don't know any better.
- I used GoDaddy when I got my first domain, and then I heard about drama and switched GUI namecheap for domains. That was 10 years ago and I've never once had issues.
  
  I'm now with Cloudflare and pretty happy.
The problem is they are screwing you over without you knowing about it. Just because you're oblivious doesn't mean it's not happening. Yes, they make it easy to give them money, but the services they provide are horrendous when you know how they compare.

Of course, if you're not qualified to determine how bad they are then you're not going to see much of it. Just like if you don't know anything about cars and your mechanic charges you way too much and for things that you don't need, like "blinker fluid", and you just think "oh this is fine", that doesn't mean that's not an awful mechanic.

For instance, in February 2023, the hosting giant disclosed that unknown attackers stole source code and installed malware on compromised servers after breaching its cPanel shared hosting environment in a multi-year breach.

I assumed their security for this was to keep shuffling around their web site to make that cPanel stuff impossible to find? It's like a store that keeps rearranging their floor inventory. I dread having to do anything with cPanel. Kudos to the hackers who managed to work it out.

next you're going to tell me ask Jeeves isn't a good search engine

Frx has been pulling a lot of triggers recently. Hope they survive trump term