FINALLY
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.”
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
Man, fuck off with that attitude. This isn’t like Biden trying to score points on his way out or the Trump report getting released, the FTC did a ton of good shit the past few years and stuff takes time. They’re rushing all this at the last minute because they have to.
The more they push through, the more time the next admin has to spend dealing with it. I’m sure they know a ton of it will get rolled back but…all of it? Maybe not. Inundating them is all they can do now.
I would have liked to see this sooner but most (all?) of the other issues they tackled were more important than this one
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]
True, but it makes headlines and looks good for the party and that’s all that matters. Actual substance is so overrated.
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. 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
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.
