GoDaddy.com shuts down entire data center?

Fri Jan 27 17:07:59 UTC 2006

I'm not sure how on-topic this is/was, but considering long thread
and different opinions that were expressed before, I believe some
here may want to have additional information I recently read:
  http://www.emailbattles.com/archive/battles/phish_aacgebeeje_hc/

The article author talked to both nectartech and godaddy and
is also including copies of emails from nectartech side as to
their conversations with godaddy. The last one (on how domain
can be reactivated) you may find most interesting if you're not
otherwise familiar with godaddy's policies:
  http://www.trimmail.com/news/archive/extra/godaddy_v_nectartech/14012006/

Also here is a quote from godaddy that also seems on-topic as
to what was discussed on this thread at nanog before:
"The phone call was not up to our high standards and it's being addressed 
internally. The Abuse Department is available 24/7, 365 days a year."

At the end article it says "Update 18 January 2006: NectarTECH owner
Nick Mariani dropped us a line to let us know that Go Daddy senior 
management is talking to him. Although we profess no ownership of
a crystal ball, we're guessing these two old pals will ultimately
stick together."

Since I also "profess no ownership of crystal ball", I used my
favorite net tool (you surely can guess by now what it is). The
results (as of January 20th) are as follows:

[DOMAIN whois information for NECTARTECH.COM ]
    Domain Name: NECTARTECH.COM
    Namespace: ICANN Unsponsored Generic TLD - http://www.icann.org
    TLD Info: See IANA Whois - http://www.iana.org/root-whois/com.htm
    Registry: VeriSign, Inc. - http://www.verisign-grs.com
    Registrar: FABULOUS.COM PTY LTD. - http://www.fabulous.com
    Whois Server: whois.fabulous.com
    Name Server[whois+dns with ip] NS1.NECTARTECH.COM 69.50.224.2
    Name Server[whois+dns with ip] NS2.NECTARTECH.COM 69.50.225.2
    Updated Date: 20-Jan-2006
    Creation Date: 26-Feb-2002
    Expiration Date: 26-Feb-2007
    Status: REGISTRAR-LOCK

For full copy of whois data and aup please see:
  http://www.completewhois.com/cgi-bin/whois.cgi?query=28433753&options=retrieve

BTW - the read comments at the end of the article may also be quite 
interesting if you want to get an additional point of view on 
nectartech...

-- 
William Leibzon
Elan Networks
william at elan.net