Re:EasyDNS threatened with criminal complaint if client data...
by ryanlol on Monday September 16, 2019 @01:57PM
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>we may also wildcard your DNS to localhost and set the TTL on your zone out to a year. You’ve been warned
Go ahead, name some "professional" hosting companies with similar practices.
Re:EasyDNS threatened with criminal complaint if client data...
by lima on Monday September 16, 2019 @02:02PM
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With how tongue-in-cheek the whole document is, this is clearly a joke to emphasize their point (which, I agree, has no place in a legal document, no matter how plain). My point is that everything else in the document is pretty much industry standard, except that others are less...direct about it.
Re:EasyDNS threatened with criminal complaint if client data...
by ryanlol on Monday September 16, 2019 @02:08PM
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>My point is that everything else in the document is pretty much industry standard
Is it really surprising that a hosting industry company is similar to the other companies doing exactly the same thing? I feel like this is always going to be the case.
It's specifically the weird stuff in this document that makes them stand out from the crowd.
Of course, if it's a purely B2B hosting company of the "Talk to our sales department and sign a contract" variety, it's less of issue, but even they have to deal with spammers and fake company registrations who really want those clean IP blocks and will have clauses in their ToS that allows them to terminate the contract immediately.
In fact, the only providers who do not do this are the cheap low-end hosts who don't care about their IP and ASN reputation.