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I agree with you. I would say the same if I would do domain name front running. Who wouldn't lie in this situation? But there are more reasons for avoiding godaddy. Their CEO kills elephants, they had an important role in designing the SOPA bill(and moved back then) and they are expensive. I would recommend gandi.net or inwx(InternetworX) instead.

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Gandi has the unique contract term where they can take your domain if you violate their "ethical code" or "fail to facilitate the fight against deviant use of the Internet"... which is pretty much a blanket right to revoke your domain at any time if you host user-generated content, among other things.

http://www.gandi.net/static/contracts/en/g2/pdf/MSA-1.2-EN.p...

I'd avoid that. NameCheap has a history of standing on the side of its customers' rights. They're my current choice.

Well, but I thought it isn't wise to use an US registrar today, because it's easier for the US feds to seize a domain?

It does not matter what registrar you use if the TLD is managed by a US registry (.com, .net, .org, .name, .cc, etc). The government goes straight to the registry, not to your registrar, to change the records. Gandi would have no power to stop that.

Well thats true as well. I think the best choices for TLD's are .is, .ch/.li and .eu. However, .is is quite expensive(39 euro).

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