What is Digg?152 Comments
- davidairey, on 12/28/2007, -4/+143Every Digg helped. Thanks so much everyone. I really appreciate it.
- OttawaMarcin, on 12/28/2007, -12/+139That was fun! Glad to see the digg community is effective. Our next digg community goal -- bring democracy to America.
- DrBillNye, on 12/28/2007, -1/+107the digg effect used for good? could it be!?
- SIRBERUS, on 12/28/2007, -0/+62It's good to know GoDaddy has amazing Customer Service!... as long as you get enough attention... and tons of traffic because of that attention... and just so happen to attract attention from someone who knows the CEO of GoDaddy... and then have that person be a good enough friend with the CEO to pull strings.
But gee whiz... if all of that lines up, then you are set for some really snazzy customer service!
Seriously though, I'm happy for this guy... but I still despise GoDaddy.
If you're reading this comment, GoDaddy employee's... I'd still appreciate a call back/e-mail/anything in regards to my complaints made in 2002. *sigh* - darnit, on 12/28/2007, -1/+45GoDaddy has amazing customer service..... when you are the celeb of the day on digg.
- kingofpenguins, on 12/28/2007, -2/+43Glad he could get his domain back! :)
- sajnikanth, on 12/28/2007, -3/+40In Iran, we have don't have crackers
- clokwise, on 12/28/2007, -0/+36Digg effect brought his site back, Yay!
Digg effect brought it back down. Bummer. - TiMMY8765, on 12/28/2007, -2/+33a cracker is someone who exploits security holes to break the law or for malicious purposes (including for warez)
a hacker is someone who finds security holes for security testing, development, or just out of curiosity - sikosmurf, on 12/28/2007, -1/+29Wow, I didn't even notice it until I read it again a few times...
- craftyshrew, on 12/28/2007, -3/+27What an awesome example of social networks used for good...I see a Holiday Hallmark commercial on the horizon.
- BossKey, on 12/28/2007, -1/+22...who apparently lives somewhere deep in Iran, if you RTFA...good luck finding the guy
- TastyLamp, on 12/28/2007, -0/+21In Soviet Russia, crackers....don't.....errr... Sorry, I'm new to digg.
- DigDugDigger, on 12/28/2007, -1/+17GoDaddy's incentive to lend a hand was due to potential loss of business by the Digg community (remember, they are a sponsor) if they came across the wrong way. The gov't... try not paying your taxes and see what happens.
- crushfan, on 12/28/2007, -0/+13"DttR" -- Digg to the rescue
- inactive, on 12/28/2007, -2/+14A "cracker" could be a script kiddie also. He gets his ***** from Hackers.
- colindunn, on 12/28/2007, -1/+12http://www.davidairey.com/david-airey-domain-resto ...
- jquipp, on 12/28/2007, -1/+11That's great news!
- elamr, on 12/28/2007, -4/+13digg is incredible.. next stop the Constitional United States and protection of civil liberties.
- binhcan, on 12/28/2007, -3/+11Congrats to David for getting his domain back and get over 50,000 visitors to his site.
Congrats to Godaddy.com for getting out of trouble.
Congrats to the cracker to not get jailed for his criminal intent.
Congrats to digg for getting credit
Congrats to ICDSoft.com for getting their name known and service recognized.
Congrats to everyone else who concern this issue.
Sorry for Google who get all the blame. - Intenseboredom, on 12/28/2007, -4/+12or it could be used to post top 10 lists
- Aitese, on 12/28/2007, -1/+9@ peaceninja
I'd suggest not making an a man known to exploit email details aware of your email address... - LeStratege, on 12/28/2007, -0/+7This act being wholly un-islamic, that guy should be denounced to the local islamic court that will cut his right hand for stealing...
- inactive, on 12/28/2007, -1/+8I'm so glad he got his domain back. Nice to see the whole Digg and social community get together and support this guy.
I only hope we can catch the bastard who stole it. - Youssif, on 12/28/2007, -0/+6Now, I think we need a new section ...
- valkries, on 12/28/2007, -0/+6Epic Fail
- peaceninja, on 12/28/2007, -0/+6I'm very glad he got it back, but is it really hard for GoDaddy support to have instructed him originally to fill out the "Undo of Change Request" form? Originally when he went to GoDaddy they told him that undoing this change request the cracker made is impossible. I'm glad he didnt have to pay the cracker or the $1500 fee to go to court.
- nuggetboy, on 12/28/2007, -0/+6He mentioned comments like this, but I'm not seeing the "dumb mistakes" he made. OK, so you shouldn't rely on a free mail service for business. However, if you were to pay for the Google Apps premium service, the same hack would have worked. And does this mistake equate with his "deserving" to have his domain stolen from him? This is that same old line of blaming the victim. The thief is to blame, not David.
- quade, on 12/28/2007, -1/+7Hey, it's a free country. We can bash it for not being free if we want to.
- peaceninja, on 12/28/2007, -0/+5I do too--in the meantime let's remember to email this lowly cracker (a bad hacker, not a white guy) and tell him what we think of him
pay.irv@gmail.com and/or ba_marame_pooli@yahoo.com - erasedgod, on 12/28/2007, -0/+5You don't get points for extra ?'s.
- japostoles, on 12/28/2007, -0/+5All of GoDaddy's customer support is located in Arizona. You probably just got a support specialist who knows a thing or two.
- inactive, on 12/28/2007, -3/+8And he gets a few thousand new readers of his site and wild publicity. Any evidence that what happened was actually real?
- AnotherTechie, on 12/28/2007, -0/+5This is the white people's version of "How Stella Got Her Groove Back."
- averagejohndoe, on 12/28/2007, -0/+5The gov't gives you free housing, meals, and clothing. . . in prison.
- crazycracker911, on 12/28/2007, -1/+6You don't have gay people either;-)
- fartbuttes, on 12/28/2007, -4/+9Still a lot of dumb mistakes on his part in the beginning, but like a champ he admits to it so I'm glad he got his stuff back.
- robbh66, on 12/28/2007, -1/+6Digg had very little, if nothing, to do with this. Read the article.
- exformation, on 12/28/2007, -0/+5Site down.
ahahahaha, digg giveth and digg taketh away. - Audacitor, on 12/28/2007, -2/+6I think you need to re-read this: http://www.mithral.com/~beberg/manifesto.html
- metamorfoza, on 12/28/2007, -11/+15FTA: "Soon after publishing my story, I found I was receiving floods of visitors from NYTimes, Digg, StumbleUpon, Reddit, Lifehacker and many other online sources."
And here we go again. Digg community in illusion that they are rulers of interwebs.
Burried just because submmiter thinks that without digg David wouldn't get his domain, - grayapple, on 12/28/2007, -0/+4The only reason GoDaddy 'helped' was because they didn't want the bad press I suppose.
- MikeonTV, on 12/28/2007, -0/+3Great! Now lets help him get his server back!
- AdamFromMyspace, on 12/28/2007, -0/+3Actually, I paid $18/day when I was there.. wouldn't exactly call it free.
- peaceninja, on 12/28/2007, -0/+3I'm not aware of this phenomenon
- Trax91, on 12/28/2007, -3/+6I logged in just so I could bury this, who cares?
- ferrariman60, on 12/28/2007, -5/+8A commercial?!?! ***** that!! I see a full length, made-for-TV movie just around the corner!
- MrPig, on 12/28/2007, -0/+3Not for long...
- Jookly, on 12/28/2007, -0/+3I completely disagree that using gmail for business is naive. He obviously clicked on something that installed that filter it didn't just happen by coincidence.
- peaceninja, on 12/28/2007, -0/+3Originally, GoDaddy stonewalled him saying they can't do anything. They only helped after this story became viral.
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