We recently bought a delux plan of godaddy using an american credit card (our credit cards were not working). After registering and buying the delux hosting account (100gb space and 1000 gb transfer blah blah) we found out that the reason that our credit cards were not working was because godaddy doesn’t accept any transactions from a number of countries and Pakistan is one of them.
Ok so I do realize why they are doing it but the most stupid part was when I read that we might not be able to access godaddy accounts in the future because many of the Pakistani IP addresses are blocked on GodDaddy. This is extremely lame and frustrating! Anyway, we got in touch with their support team and they told us that we CAN access the servers as Pakistan is not in the list of the countries with which GoDaddy can not do business.
hxxp://help.godaddy.com/article.php?article_id=219&topic_id=&&
(remove the hxxp and put in http if you want to visit their site. I don’t want to give them a backlink from this blog!)
“You can order Web hosting even though you don’t live in the United States, unless you live in one of the countries listed below.
Countries whose governments have been declared sponsors of international terrorism by the United States Department of State (more info):
Cuba
Iran
Iraq
Libya
North Korea
Sudan
Syria
We also block the following countries from purchasing our services due to fraud:
Bulgaria
China (including Hong Kong)
Indonesia
Malaysia
Pakistan
Philippines
Singapore
Vietnam“
It’s pretty lame to see such a big company have such pathetic policies.
Anyways, what has me all happy is the fact that it’s raining like crazy here in Karachi. It’s winter and it hardly ever rains this hard in winter now. No thanks to the rapid growth of population and industrial pollution in Karachi. Ah well, it’s raining here finally. Apparently, everybody feels pretty cold but I don’t :s Though I am suffering with cold, I don’t feel cold. Hehehe pretty ironic and not so enjoyable.
