It really doesn't matter what "spin" Mecca wants to try and put on this.
Mecca, took a clients domain (which the client OWNS) that
they were contracted to host and redirected traffic destined to that domain to a different destination.
PERIOD! It IS what happened....no marketing spin or quotes of we were trying to help the client or any other BS can change this or cover it up.
As a web host, they are charged with the responsibility of doing what a clients wants and contracts with them to do.
If a web host hosts domain1.com, then it is the RESPONSIBILITY of that web host to deliver any traffic destined for domain1.com TO domain1.com.... PERIOD!
I am also a member of a number of web hosting forums, although I haven't been active in a few of them lately, but NEVER have I heard of this kind of action by any host that claims to be so respectable, and certainly not one that has the kind of ewxtensive client list that Mecca does.
It is my sincere hope that this action gives Mecca a serious black eye, and that they either change their terms of service to make it more clear that they do this to clients traffic at their discretion, or that they become known for these practices, or that they CEASE these types of practices.
Many of us here are VERY well versed in the art of
SEO, and we all know how much damage this kind of practice can do to rankings of a domain...
BUYER BEWARE!
Rick
Universal4