False alarm apparently about godaddy.com and evil Repubs

[Bozos for Bush]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x2563863#2563917

When I saw this link to a recent thread about the discovery of infiltration and ridiculing of DU members at a site known as therightsociety.com, I investigated the domain name, found that it was registered to godaddy, and godaddy registers domain names and offers hosting services.

Looks like these fascists have infiltrated our lives in even more ways than I thought.

ON EDIT - Just tired and overreacting here I guess.

[henslee]

1. If I am not mistaken, when you reg. a domain at godaddy, you can pay extra

to have them act as agent for your name, thus your personal contact info never becomes available to anyone doing a who-is search. I think, you are interpreting this as Godaddy.com actually being the owner of the domain name. Make sense?

[union_maid]

2. I wouldn't jump to conclusions

The whois search says it's registered THROUGH godaddy.com. It's a private registration, which costs another few dollars and is available to anyone - meaning the details of the registrant are not published.

[arcos]

3. lots of sites use godaddy...

Some domain registars that give you a "free domain" when you sign up for hosting, register the domain in their name instead of yours. Probably that's what happened in this case.