Godaddy commits consumer fraud and violates ICANN policies by allowing numerous fake spam/scan loan offer domains to be registered in order to send mass spam/phishing emails. I have received over 100 spam/scam loan offer emails per month from Godaddy domains. For weeks I filed reports of abuse to Godaddy, yet the domains still remained active and online. Godaddy's failure to enforce the provisions of its own registrar service agreement constitutes gross negligence.
Godaddy is advertising my registered domain with Namecheap as "for sale" on both Afternic and DomainTools. I spoke to a broker with Godaddy who tells me that one of their sellers "acquired" the domain a month ago. Yet the domain has never been acquired and I would never offer it for sale. I asked the broker why they don't have systems to verify ownership, and I was told that sometimes the systems don't work. Godaddy has my domain listed with a sale price of $100,000.
Network Solutions is incompetent when it comes to account security. They have a password change form that requires you enter a password between 12 and 16 characters long. Who in their right mind would think that limiting password length is more secure? How can a major registrar not adhere to industry best practices for account security?
Restricting login passwords to a narrow range of lengths makes them significantly easier to crack, since that reduces the amount of entropy. In other words, all Network Solutions customers are guaranteed to have a mere 5-character variation in lengths of their login passwords -- which is a dream come true for hackers if a data breach should ever occur. What kind of bumbling idiot thought that was a good idea?