godaddy.com, GoDaddy refused to release our domains to be moved to competetor Violated ICANN, Internet

If you have EVER purchased a domain within GoDaddy's system, you'll know that it doesn't allow you (or a representative of their company) to register a domain without a registrant name entered.  The ONLY way their system would have had that field empty is if you transferred it in from another company with those fields already empty.  By the way, their lock lasts for 60 days, not eternity, you can take the time with you to your next registrar since that's how domains work, and you checked a box that you said that you agreed to all this.  There's no way in the world that ICANN is going to take you seriously.

We have all the proof needed to back up this claim.

The problem with your rebuttal is this; the person from Go Daddy that initially set up our domains and then put them on privacy didn't do his job correctly or someone in the interim changed information. We also have the e-mail confirmation from one year ago from that employee which states "I have set up your domains for you and put them on Privacy" and as you well know, once a site is on Privacy - you cannot see the original Whois unless you remove them from Privacy but to put them back on - Go Daddy charges!

As far as your rebuttal, when you go in to change JUST the admin e-mail - yes, that should work HOWEVER if someone from Go Daddy removed an admin FIRST NAME and LAST NAME which leaves you unable to update just your e-mail and the second you change the Name you are locked. We know, this is what happened. WE ALSO HAVE ALL THE screen shots to prove this case.

We were unable to update our admin e-mail to get the domains transfered as the account had "Invalid Contact Information" when that happens, you are FORCED to change all the information as they are required fields and Go Daddy Supervisor Ian F. specifically said if you change the name on all the accounts you are forced into a lock. If the names on the tabs are INVALID you must change them.

Sorry, your rebuttal is moot. All of our expiring domains had invalid contact making them impossible to fix without changing that information and forcing our accounts to be locked.

As an update, we filed formal complaints to ICANN on every single domain that had incorrect Whois data. Only 24 hours after the complaints were made we got an e-mail from Go Daddy stating they would "as a courtesy" remove the locks, therefore we were authorized to change the Whois data without penalty. Your free to see that e-mail as well.

We wouldn't file a Ripoff Report unless we were 100% prepared to back up our claims. So, feel free to request any of the e-mail correspondence or screen shots. We will be happy to upload the screen shots to Photobucket.

Anymore claims that we are false will only prompt us to continue to defend and continue to prove our case. The next rebuttal will include all the e-mails from GoDaddy if necessary.

Updating the administrative email address does not constitute a 60 day lock... however updating the STREET ADDRESS, COMPANY NAME, or NAME of REGISTRANT does. Any and ALL whois information is provided by the REGISTRANT at time of registration and cannot be changed by this registrar. WHOIS privacy hides this underlying contact information, and once removed, will show the original information provided by the REGISTRANT.