I received an email from my domain registrar and website host, GoDaddy.com, the other day. A few details caught my interest.

First of all, I absolutely hate that it is legal to qualify 'continued use of service as constituting acceptance of an Agreement. It's an agreement, shouldn't I have to agree to it?

But section 8 also caught my attention. They 'added language to assist with their fraud abuse detection and prevention efforts'? I wondered what this could entail, so I decided to look at GoDaddy's Universal Terms of Service Agreement, in section 8 where they said the revision was made, and I found this:

"GoDaddy expressly reserves the right to deny, cancel, terminate, suspend, lock, or modify access to (or control of) any Account or Service (including the right to cancel or transfer any domain name registration) for any reason (as determined by GoDaddy in its sole and absolute discretion)"

I have heard GoDaddy horror stories of the company deliberately taking accounts with domains that had appreciated in value and reselling them to other customers on a waiting list- absolutely ridiculous. And this new language makes it even easier!

What happened next?

Well, needless to say, GoDaddy is no longer my registrar nor do they provide my website's hosting.

You may have noticed that The Rambling Fool was down the other day for some time. This is because GoDaddy doesn't allow for smooth transitions when you migrate your website to another company's servers.

But now that the time-consuming transition has been made, and I have adequately expressed my disdain for GoDaddy's blatantly unethical policies, we can move on back to what really matters- content!

More coming soon.