[Update] Carey at the consumerist updated the article, including our explanation.

You might have seen Bert Boerland's piece indicating that Drupal just got some bad press, and is currently on the front page of Digg.com for that bad press.

I just got off the phone with Justin Jilg from GoDaddy.com and we are now working together on a joint response. He is reviewing what's going on with his security and his public relations team.

Over the last two years the Drupal association has been building relationships with Drupal businesses. Why? The credit actually goes to Matt Mullenweg from Wordpress. Matt and I meet at conferences and talk about what it takes to make our web content management projects successful. Matt suggested that we develop relationships with businesses using Drupal, not because we want to cash in, but because we can better help users if we have pre-existing relationships with these businesses if a problem arises.

As a result of creating business relationships between the Drupal association and hosting businesses I had the phone numbers and emails of four people inside GoDaddy.com. I was able to get a partner at GoDaddy on the phone in five minutes and now have the redphone hotline to GoDaddy's security and PR teams.

Justin assured me that Drupal is one of GoDaddy's top three most value added applications. They love Drupal and are going to work closely with us to resolve this issue. We've now talked twice.

If you want to help the Drupal association create business relationships so we can better help Drupal users please contact me. If you want to drop Matt a thank-you card you can reach him at m@mullenweg.com.

Cheers,
Kieran