GoDaddy Shuts Down RateMyCop

Found on Techdirt on Tuesday, 11 March 2008
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Tim wrote about the pointless controversy around the site RateMyCop.com, which would allow people to rate police officers they had dealings with.

But, of course, many police officers didn't see it that way. However, what no one expected is that the site's registrar and host would step into the fight and take the site completely offline with no warning to its owner.

People at GoDaddy gave conflicting reports as to why the site was taken offline, first claiming it was taken offline for "suspicious activity" and later that he had surpassed a 3 terabyte bandwidth limit, which the owner of the site disputes, saying there weren't nearly enough page views for that to happen. Either way, he's now ditched GoDaddy and found a host that won't pull the site offline with no warning and no recourse.

He should sign up with prq.se and host his site there; I doubt it would go offline anytime soon as easily as this time.