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Company information:
Godaddy
14455 N. Hayden Rd. Suite 219
Scottsdale, Arizona
United States
Phone: 480-505-8877
www.godaddy.com

I have owned regen-med.org since February of 2006 approximately. In 2006, I paid for a 2 year contract with Godaddy and renewed the domain on a one year basis in January of 2008. I have bank statements to prove it. On or about May 22, 2008, I purchased another domain name called VoterRights.info. A couple of days later, I logged into my account and both domain names are gone. I looked up regen-med.org on the who is server and it appears that Goddady has never bothered to remove themselves as the owner -- inspite of the fact that the account is in good standing and paid up at leas through January 31, 2009.

I have sent more than 30 different emails and placed several calls to Godaddy and their response was that neither of the account belong to me. If you do an internet search for regen-med.org, what you find is that Godaddy has a parked space with a lot of advertising that they have sold on the site and without my permission. From a point of ethics, once a domain is sold, it should be up to the owner of the domain as to what he is willing to allow to be used.

Bob Parsons and his Godaddy are a bunch of thieves and should be prosecuted for fraud. A formal complaint has been filed with Icann. However, I don't think my case is suitable for ICANN arbitration because of the large number of people that have similar if not identical complaints such as mine.

Godaddy staff is alleging that neither of the domains belong to me; even the one that was bought only a few days ago. If I advertise the domains with search engine companies, I can't even receive the benefit of people looking up the names because they will be redirected to Godaddy's advertisements.

I do not have hosting services with Godady and have asked ICANN to decertify godaddy as a registrar of names.