Be careful if you keep your domain with Godaddy.com, you may loose it. I got one of my domains by auction, it is the most expensive domain I have. I use it for BBS, classfied ads, business listing.

BBS is the most free format of Internet speech, anyone can post a few words or thousands of words. Most webmasters will delete contents with dirty words, personal attacks etc.  Webmasters also delete contents based on request.

One post under that domain has one article. Then I received a letter from XYZ lawyer, he claims that article is copytighted by his company - some testing questions. I asked moderator to delete it. That is it!

Six months later, I found that my domain disappeared in the list of my domains under godaddy.com. I called, they said I should contact Copyright_bla@godaddy. Then I found out that they suspended the domain (but the domain DNS is still alive).

They reminded me that legal email letter.

I am Godaddy.com's long time customer - domains, hostings (servers before, but ended the business as Godaddy did a different very offensive thing). Godaddy will suspend my domain just by an email from someone out there.

If I did not see this in time, I may lose the domain totally. I am still spending time to satisfy Godaddy to give the domain back.

In my response to Godaddy: It is not a judge. Even a judge, he/she needs evidence, needs ask questions, evidences. Godaddy just suspend your account by reading an email.

If Godaddy understands Internet, it can kill any domain under its registration. As almost every websites may carry some contents from some where if the websites have BBS or blogs. You are lucky if no one write an email to Godaddy.

Now I realiezed, domain owners should be prepared to lose your domain, or at least spend a few hours with Godaddy to work things out.

My honest recomendation: keep domain away from Godaddy.  I am transferring all my domains to name.com. Name.com even gives your privacy free, godaddy charges for $8.XX/year.

My instinct tells me that godaddy should be legally responsible for its careless role as a judge to its customers. Domain names are owned by the registrant. Registrant paid and own the domain, any action to the domain should be in court, not Godaddy.

This is the requirement to recover your domain:

Option 1. Remove the content in question.
In order to reactivate the site in question we will need you to provide
the following information in a single email response:

A. An electronic signature. (This can be a scanned copy of your
physical signature, or as simple as typing your full name.)
B. Identification of the material in question.
C. A statement, under penalty of perjury, that the material has
either been removed or will promptly be removed.

Option 2. Submit a complete Counter Notification on the works in
question in accordance with our Copyright Dispute policy. (See Above)
You will need to reply, via email and include all of the following
elements.

A. An electronic signature of the Infringer. (This can be a scanned
copy of ytour physical signature, or as simple as typing your full
name.)
B. Identification of the material that has been removed or to which
access has been disabled and the location at which the material appeared
before it was removed or access to it was disabled.
C. A statement under penalty of perjury that the Infringer has a good
faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of
mistake or misidentification of the material to be removed or disabled.
D. The Infringer's name, address, and telephone number, and a
statement that the Infringer consents to the jurisdiction of the Federal
District Court for the judicial district of Arizona, or if the
Infringer's address is outside of the United States, for any judicial
district in which Go Daddy may be found, and that the Infringer will
accept service of process from the Complaining Party or an agent of such
Party.

3. Reply, via email to [email protected] with a formal
agreement that your domain will not forward, in any way, to any services
that could be considered to be in violation of any existing copyrights
and/or trademarks, or that in any way violates GoDaddy's Terms of
Service.