I don’t know what GoDaddy’s “security / abuse” department does, but apparently illegal activities (i.e. phishing sites) are not very high on their priority list!

This has happened several times in the last 2 weeks.  I’ve submitted several URLs to them that are hosting a few phishing sites.  The sites are hosted on GoDaddy’s servers.  Some of the domains were very recently registered with GoDaddy.  They take several days before they come back to me and say something like this:

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REALLY?!?!?!?  “As quickly as possible”????  I don’t think so!

Meanwhile, the phishing sites are still up and the phishing pages (there are at least 8 on just 1 site!) are still collecting information from (new) victims of identity theft!!  If the [phishing] content has ALREADY BEEN IDENTIFIED AND REPORTED, why does it take so long to take it down?!?!?

GoDaddyPhishingSiteSmallIt wasn’t until I called GoDaddy’s “Support” team and threw a hissy fit that the agent asked me to email the URL directly to him (instead of ‘abuse@godaddy.com’).  He accepted my email, forwarded it to his boss, and the site was down 2 or 3 hours later.

But, THAT’S NOT HOW IT’S SUPPOSED TO WORK!!!

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