今天,知名域名注册商GoDaddy发邮件给我,说我的某个已经使用了多年的域名,其联系人信息无效,因此要一次性扣除我9.95美元的管理费,GoDaddy这可真是赚钱有道啊。
由于我的Godaddy绑定了我的招商银行信用卡,使得Godaddy可以自己去我的信用卡上扣款,但是我没有想到GoDaddy竟然这么不负责任的胡乱扣款,因此我只好将我保存在GoDaddy的信用卡号码删除,而使用PayPal,如果GoDaddy再敢用PayPal乱扣款,我就要去PayPal进行投诉了。
至于联系人信息,我的确录入的不是真实的,因为任何人都可以通过Whois查询我的域名得到我的联系信息,这显然侵犯了我的隐私权。垃圾邮件发送者、垃圾短信发送者、诈骗者以及各式各样的恶意用户都可以很容易地获取这些信息,这对于我来说就是一场灾难。而且也没有规定域名的联系人信息必须输入自己的真实信息啊,退一步讲,即使我录入的联系人信息是不真实的,美国有中国的身份证和地址查询系统吗?GoDaddy又凭什么判定用户录入的联系信息是无效的呢?GoDaddy又有什么权利收取我管理费呢?
我以前是信任GoDaddy,所以才使用信用卡直接在GoDaddy消费,而现在,GoDaddy让我失去了信任,说明它本身也是一个不负责任的公司。
2018年5月更新:根据ICANN(互联网名称与数字地址分配机构)《通用顶级域名注册数据临时政策细则》和欧盟通用数据保护条例(GDPR)合规要求,为保护用户隐私,域名WHOIS将不显示个人信息,通过WHOIS来查询域名持有者的信息将成为历史。域名WHOIS信息公开查询结果中将不再显示域名注册人/注册机构的名称,以及域名注册人/注册机构、管理联系人和技术联系人的联系信息。以上调整措施生效后,域名注册信息将默认得到保护。
附录:Godaddy的invalidwhois部门发给我的邮件:
Action Required -Invalid whois
Please consider this message as official notification that the contact information provided for your domain name registration appears to be invalid, or incomplete. Please update the information within 5 days as per Section 3 of the Registration Agreement, which you agreed to at the time you registered your domain name. For your convenience, we have attached a copy of the current contact information listed for your domain name. If the update has not been accomplished within 5 days, this can be grounds for cancellation of your domain name registration as per Section 6 of the Registration Agreement. Please respond to this email to confirm the changes have been made. Thank you for your cooperation.
Godaddy的销售部门发给我的扣费通知邮件:
Go Daddy Software Administrative Fee
We recently received an inquiry related to your domain name. The specific inquiry related to your domain name can be described as follows:
Per our Domain Name Registration Agreement and our Universal Terms of Service, a $9.95 non-refundable administrative fee has been charged for invalid Whois contact information.
In accordance with our registration agreement, we have charged your credit card in the amount of $9.95 for our processing of this inquiry.