[Fwd: Important ICANN Notice Regarding Your Domain Name(s)]

Sat Oct 7 07:49:02 UTC 2006

On Fri, 6 Oct 2006, Chris Adams wrote:

> Heh.  We had an IP (of a customer's mail server) that GoDaddy blocked.
> They told us it had been blocked for something like 8 months (at which
> time it had not been assigned to any customer); we had zero complaints
> on record for that IP.  They couldn't tell us why it was blocked or how
> to get the block removed.  When we asked to speak with a supervisor,
> they told us that their supervisors didn't have phones.

I must be dumb, but how does a registrar 'block an ip' in a manner 
that affects anyone but themselves?

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