I Just Got Done Talking To Chris From Moniker: I Am Moving All Of My Domains To Them
I just got off of the phone with Chris from Moniker. I have decided to move all of my domains, from various registrars, over to them.
Full Disclosure: I know no one from Moniker, from DirectNic, or from any other registrar for that matter. Up until today I've never registered a domain at Moniker. This is a business decision on my part based on the actions and policies of the registrars as I understand them to be.
Never in my wildest dreams did I think I'd see the day where a REGISTRAR would take unilateral action against a site in this way, and honestly haven't paid much attention to where my domains were registered up until now.
Chris has assured me that under NO circumstances would Moniker, or has Moniker, ever shut a site down due to the content it contains. He said their job is simply to maintain the registration of domains, and that they have no legal liability for the content appearing on them, and will assume no liability for it either.
DirectNic has a policy in place as I understand it, to shut down domains that contain, what they deem, to be "illegal content", and has demonstrated these past couple of days, that they act upon that policy.
Moniker's policy as stated to me is that if a complaint comes in, they forward it to the domain owner, and that's the end of their responsibility, and that's the only action that they take, unless they are served a court order compelling them to do otherwise.
I'm not saying that the folks at DirectNic are bad people, and by many of the comments I've read on here, they actually seem to be really good people. But their company has a policy in place that I don't agree with, and that I personally feel is against the best interests of not only the adult industry, but of the entire foundation of the internet as a whole.
As such, I'll have nothing to do with them.
I do not, under any stretch of the imagination, condone CP, or running a site that contains any illegal content. What I do condone, however, is due process.
Full Disclosure: I know no one from Moniker, from DirectNic, or from any other registrar for that matter. Up until today I've never registered a domain at Moniker. This is a business decision on my part based on the actions and policies of the registrars as I understand them to be.
Never in my wildest dreams did I think I'd see the day where a REGISTRAR would take unilateral action against a site in this way, and honestly haven't paid much attention to where my domains were registered up until now.
Chris has assured me that under NO circumstances would Moniker, or has Moniker, ever shut a site down due to the content it contains. He said their job is simply to maintain the registration of domains, and that they have no legal liability for the content appearing on them, and will assume no liability for it either.
DirectNic has a policy in place as I understand it, to shut down domains that contain, what they deem, to be "illegal content", and has demonstrated these past couple of days, that they act upon that policy.
Moniker's policy as stated to me is that if a complaint comes in, they forward it to the domain owner, and that's the end of their responsibility, and that's the only action that they take, unless they are served a court order compelling them to do otherwise.
I'm not saying that the folks at DirectNic are bad people, and by many of the comments I've read on here, they actually seem to be really good people. But their company has a policy in place that I don't agree with, and that I personally feel is against the best interests of not only the adult industry, but of the entire foundation of the internet as a whole.
As such, I'll have nothing to do with them.
I do not, under any stretch of the imagination, condone CP, or running a site that contains any illegal content. What I do condone, however, is due process.
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