FYI Stop SOPA and punch GoDaddy in the cant

This thread just reminded me to get one of my clients to transfer their business domain name off of the employee's Godaddy account to my domain registrar service. The employee is leaving the company in a week or two. Best to take care of this before it becomes an issue.
 
Godaddy supported sopa, testified for congress, issued a public statement supporting sopa.

People started calling them out.

Godaddy strongly reaffirmed their support for sopa.

people said fuck it, we well go somewhere else.

When people started flooding out the doors and the negative press followed killing future business prospects (guarantee new registration has dropped off after this) they come out claiming they don't support it any more.

their actions speak louder than their words, no reason to support someone trying to kill the freedom of information on the internet.
 
I think the masses leaving Godaddy was more like the last straw for most folks, who just needed one last thing to send them over the edge:
1. CEO who kills elephants. Some Godaddy customers object to this.
2. Crappy website, as already mentioned.
3. Upselling of unwanted services.
4. Phone calls from them asking to renew domains or selling of services that may or may not be wanted.
5. Becoming one of the more expensive registrars to do business with (especially if you don't use available coupon codes).
6. Games played with stolen accounts and domains, and trying to get them back.
7. Poor customer support.

etc etc.

Not CEO, I mean the founder of Godaddy.
 
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If the internet gets shut down more people will have sex with their spouses and read more books. And news article comment sections will be filled with less eye-blistering stupidity.

So I'm in favor of SOPA.
 
If the internet gets shut down more people will have sex with their spouses and read more books. And news article comment sections will be filled with less eye-blistering stupidity.

So I'm in favor of SOPA.

And everyone here will probably lose there jobs. But I know you are just trolling.
 
they were instrumental in the writing of the legislation and crafted it to exclude themselves. their withdrawal is like hitler saying "whoops, my bad" after the fact and expecting leniency.

Interesting. Although I doubt that means their exclusion goes away. Not to mention they helped craft the fucking thing.

Likely more of a PR stunt since they're leaking domains now.


article is pulling up blank. they may be in the middle of a rewrite. still, see above
 
nm, article is there in the left column typically reserved for ad space and the rest of the page to the right is blank. odd.
edit: mobile page link
 
article is pulling up blank. they may be in the middle of a rewrite. still, see above

Dump GoDaddy Day appears to have worked.

GoDaddy, the domain register targeted by online activists in response to its enthusiasm for a pair of Hollywood-backed copyright bills, has finally denounced the legislation in response to a boycott scheduled for today.

Warren Adelman, the company's chief executive, said today that "GoDaddy opposes SOPA," meaning the Stop Online Piracy Act, which is facing a House of Representatives committee vote next month.

A GoDaddy spokeswoman confirmed to CNET this afternoon that "we oppose PIPA, as well." That's the Senate bill known as Protect IP, which will be debated on the Senate floor January 24. (See CNET's SOPA FAQ.)

The idea of boycotting GoDaddy began with a protest thread on Reddit and was aided by Jimmy Wales' announcement last week that "Wikipedia domain names will move away from GoDaddy." It inspired GoDaddyBoycott.org, which urged Internet users and companies to "boycott GoDaddy until they send a letter to Congress taking back any and all support of the House and Senate versions of the Internet censorship bill, both SOPA and PIPA."

GoDaddy did itself few favors by only saying it no longer supported SOPA -- but pointedly not criticizing it -- and declining to answer questions from CNET and customers who asked for further clarification. Accusations of interfering with customers' attempts to leave, which appear to have arisen from a misunderstanding, didn't help.

Neither did gleeful attempts by competitors to lure away GoDaddy customers. At least half a dozen GoDaddy rivals responded with anti-SOPA promotions: NameCheap dubbed December 29 "move your domain" day, offering below-cost transfers with the coupon "SOPASUCKS" plus a $1 donation to the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Other registrars such as Dreamhost, HostGator, and Hover.com, and Name.com have offered similar anti-SOPA promotions. NameCheap even offered step-by-step instructions titled: "How to transfer a domain from GoDaddy."

After GoDaddy began to back away from SOPA last week, customers-turned-activists demanded a full repudiation. A discussion thread on GoDaddy's support forums said: "Until GoDaddy gets a clue and changes their stance to being opposed to all SOPA-like legislation... my business and I and our network of influence will continue to boycott you."

Today's newly contrite statement from Adelman, the CEO, did just that:

We have observed a spike in domain name transfers, which are running above normal rates and which we attribute to GoDaddy's prior support for SOPA, which was reversed. GoDaddy opposes SOPA because the legislation has not fulfilled its basic requirement to build a consensus among stake-holders in the technology and Internet communities. Our company regrets the loss of any of our customers, who remain our highest priority, and we hope to repair those relationships and win back their business over time.

SOPA, of course, represents the latest effort from the Motion Picture Association of America, the Recording Industry Association of America, and their allies to counter what they view as rampant piracy on the Internet, especially offshore sites such as ThePirateBay.org. It would allow the Justice Department to obtain an order to be served on search engines, Internet providers, and other companies forcing them to make a suspected piratical Web site effectively vanish, a kind of Internet death penalty. It's opposed (PDF) by many Internet companies and Internet users, who often cite free speech concerns.

Before this public relations debacle, GoDaddy had been an enthusiastic supporter of expanding copyright law to deal with "parasite" Web sites. In testimony (PDF) before a House of Representatives hearing this spring, GoDaddy general counsel Christine Jones endorsed Domain Name System (DNS) blocking as a way to prevent Americans from accessing suspected piratical Web sites.

Jones said that DNS blocking is an "effective strategy for disabling access to illegal" Web sites. It can "be done by the registrar (which provides the authoritative DNS response), or, in cases where the registrar is unable or unwilling to comply, by the registry (which provides the Root zone file records -- the database -- for the entire TLD)," she said.
 
hahaha, i'm still moving for the reasons hawk mentioned above.

godaddy used to be "the" registrar. now I've seen half a dozen other reputable ones.
 
hahaha, i'm still moving for the reasons hawk mentioned above.

godaddy used to be "the" registrar. now I've seen half a dozen other reputable ones.

I've never had an issues with godaddy. Sometimes my site is slow, but it's a cheap shared hosting setup, so I can't really fault them for it.
 
i do my hosting through bluehost, i only use godaddy for domain regs.

learned long ago to never host and register a domain with the same company