I'm not sure many US-based registrars would be willing go against a law enforcement agency. Or would be able to do it twice.

It all depends on what was on the letter they got and who sent it.

Should they have ditched GoDaddy? Most probably yes. Would that save them now? I wouldn't bet my company.

I'd like to think that this is still a free country, and that there are some companies that still act as though we live under the rule of law, rather than automatically complying with every whimsical demand our government agencies dream up.

Now thiiis is a valid reason for it being their fault

Even if its not. Bail from Godaddy.com. Seriously. Granted the same problem may persist given that .coms have a US based organization that governs them (I think). Nonetheless, this is the exact same godaddy.com that supported SOPA. There have been so many forks in the road where the obvious choice was to bail on GoDaddy.com. Yet, they stayed and here they are.

This is why we can't have nice things.

Verisign, an American company based in Virginia, is the authoritative registrar for .com and .net.

More precisely Verisign is the registrY, GoDaddy the registrAR. Not that it changes anything in this case.

That's not a very solid argument. GoDaddy sucking is besides the point here. I doubt many if any registrars would refuse the government like that. But even that's beside the point.

What the real issue here is, is that law enforcement pretty much busted in and took down a domain name without warning. They shot first and asked questions later. Jotform is a legit site, not even close to dubious like some others where you can actually argue that they might have been knowingly violating copyright and such. This is scary stuff. There was no due process, no warning, nothing. They just did it. It's proof that any more laws giving the Feds power to take down sites is totally superfluous and unnecessary as its already happening in a very public way.

You don't get mad at the company for not switching registrars (even if they are a douchey one). Jotform could have been able to take care of this situation had someone just alerted them to the problem. No way is this their fault, especially not for the reason you put forth.

namecheap does, it is well known that GoDaddy needs nothing but an email from a semi-serious domain with bogus claims to shut down your business.

This was even a reason people were advocating against GoDaddy before the whole SOPA story.

We need a list of startups using GoDaddy, with alternatives, so we can be aware and not use these services for storing anything important.

I no longer want to take this risk blindly.

https://github.com/astronoob/NoDaddy Here is a chrome extension that notifies you if the domain you're on is registered through GoDaddy. Looks like it does an XHR request to who.is and then matches on: new RegExp("/(registrar\.godaddy\.com|whois\.godaddy.com)/")