MySpace and GoDaddy shut down site
From /.: MySpace and GoDaddy shut down security site
From the article, apparently, a bunch of MySpace usernames and passwords were archived on Seclists.org. This information was already available on several sites and seclists.org simply mirrored the information. 1 page out of 250,000. So MySpace contacted GoDaddy directly and they suspended the domain.
WTF??? This stinks of dictatorship… I repeat what several others have already said, follow these 3 steps in order.
- Contact the site owner and inform him/her of the offending content.
- If that fails, then contact the hosting provider.
- If that also fails, then, and only then, contact the registrar to suspend the domain.
So, taking this to the extreme, somebody posts a link to something interesting (I’ll let your imagination define ’something interesting’), which is a problem to somebody else. So this somebody else contacts GoDaddy and tells them to pull the plug on my website. Man, I’m glad I transferred away from GoDaddy (for a different purpose).