Domain registrar and hosting provider Go Daddy responded Monday to allegations that the company shut down a police watchdog site last week for reasons of “suspicious activity.”

Up until last Tuesday, Go Daddy was hosting RateMyCop, a website that enables visitors to rate and comment on their community’s police officers. Go Daddy shut down the site last Tuesday and redirected the domain to a Go Daddy page with the message, “Oops!!!”

The takedown sparked questions of censorship from around the Internet, as many speculated that Go Daddy had taken the site down in protest of its content. Go Daddy said otherwise.

Website founder, Gino Sesto, said Go Daddy’s customer support told him that the site had been disabled under grounds of “suspicious activity.” He says the company soon changed its story and said the site was taken down because it had exceeded bandwidth limitations.

On Monday, Go Daddy general counsel Christine Jones responded to an email request for comment by reiterating that the site was exceeding bandwidth limitations, and claiming that Sesto seemed unwilling to resolve the dispute.

“The situation was absolutely NOT about censorship in ANY way,” wrote Jones. “The site’s operator has publicly disclosed the concerns were over bandwidth. More accurately, Go Daddy’s concerns were about how the RateMyCop site was far exceeding the amount of server usage for which it had contracted.

“This customer paid for a shared server plan. The connections to his site were six times more than an entire ’shared server’ accommodates. While he was paying for a service that cost $14.99 a month, his site actually required a much more extensive set-up.

“Basically, he was paying for compact car, when he really needed a semi-truck. The customer was not willing to work with our staff to resolve the issue. It is important that the website administrators select a hosting plan appropriate for their needs and be willing to communicate with us if those needs require modification.”

Last week, Sesto reportedly turned to RackSpace in hopes of finding a new Web host, but he says the company declined to host his site.

After first accepting his down payment for the services, Sesto says a RackSpace lawyer sent him a letter saying, “We believe that the website to be found at www.ratemycop.com as described to our sales representative could create a risk to the health and safety of law enforcement officers.”

Reached for a statement, Rackspace said it was unable to comment on the RateMyCop story “due to its customer confidentiality policy.”

As of Monday afternoon, RateMyCop.com was online. A DNS lookup appears to identify My cPanel Host as the site’s new home.