GoDaddy lost 72,354 domains this week. It’s not enough.
Despite a massive Twitter campaign and a blog post that claims “Go Daddy no longer supports SOPA legislation” the company and its CEO have dodged questions about opposing the bill. In essence, they are taking a lesser role by not showing support for the bill. They have not opposed it.
This week, they lost around 72,000 domain registrations. At a yearly discounted rate of $6.99 (most registrations are higher), that’s over half a million dollars per year. It is apparently not enough for them to speak out against the bill.
Everyone from large corporations like Google down to small startups like Oklahoma City Dodge are voicing concern about the legislation. “We are watching this subject very closely and looking at what domain changes will need to be made because of GoDaddy’s support of this legislation,” said Mike Chell.
How many domains is the company willing to lose before they oppose this abomination of legislation? Do they believe that when they “step back and let others take leadership roles” we are going to see it as something other than a “duck and cover” public relations move to try to get out of the spotlight and hope someone else takes the brunt of the attacks while they quietly support the bill?
Are 72,354 domains enough? Not even close. It’s a drop in the bucket. They have anywhere from 15,000 to 40,000 domains added daily. Despite cries from the internet, yesterday was a good day with over 32,000 added. Go Daddy has not felt much pain yet. The “PR nightmare” that many of us in the tech industry perceive is happening to them hasn’t hit their pocketbooks in any real form, yet.
Until the effect is more pronounced, they can afford to deflect questions and let the negative PR pass. More must be done.
I do have archived web pages and forums from the early 90’s where we discussed this exact occurence.Dims would jump on us netizens like flies to ,well,you know.Free speech is an anathema to control.
I am trying i imagine what impact my thoughts on the SOPA bill would be if only this story explained what the hell it was?
They just won’t get it. These people play ping pong, tag team, taking turns screwing us equally and they are able to keep up the gig by introducing a new puppet every 4 or 8 years under the pretence of a difference. There is no difference between Bush and Obama..or Obama and Gengrich, or Gingrich and Perry..they would continue this agenda of Globalization regardless of who “wins” the election. I love the” at least”, and” even though” people, as in; “even though Bush lied us into war and murdered countless innocent people and killed scores of U.S soldiers based on that lie, signed into law the Patriot act and other unconstitutional legislation, at least he didn’t unconstitutionally start 2 more wars without congressional approval, murder U.S citizens with no due process, and sign into law the NDAA and SOPA bills”. This logic is flawed and ridiculous, They are both equally guilty of crimes against the very constitution they were sworn to protect and uphold. I guess it boils down to who do you like screwing you more, the elepahnt or the donkey? they all work for the same power structure, and right now that power structure has to collapse America in order to construct this NWO, (google George Bush sr. speach on the “New World Order” dated Sept. 11 1991, yes, 10 years to the DAY the towers fell). We wont even recognize the real enemies if we keep wasting our energy on these puppet punching bags……..
Stupid Oppressive Politician A-Holes
Stop Online Piracy? OK, thats fine, we have Copyright and Trademark LAWS for a reason.
Notice – “LAWS” in capital letters.
LAW….
This is not about “copyright” or “LAW” or “right”…
This is about a phrase, memorize it:
“CIRCUMVENTING DUE PROCESS OF LAW”
Someone selling your new movie on line instead of you? Fine, collect
evidence, take them before a JURY and when/if the JURY finds guilt, THEN
issue an order to CEASE AND DECIST and award damages.
But, theres been a move a-foot to -(repeat after me)
CIRCUMVENT DUE PROCESS OF LAW”
and how it ususally goes is “there is a situation which has ocurred in
the past which we NOW, conveniently declare a CRISIS, so in order to
deal with a CRISIS (we have invented- not that copyright infrigement has
been invented, it already existed, but the CRISIS has been fabricated)
then we dont have time to bother with the CONSTITUTION and DUE PROCESS
OF LAW.
Its how it was in WACO.
The Legislation is partly about legal process against web hosters who so
far, have been held absolutely harmless while all manner of CRIMINAL
activity has gone across their servers.
The worst of it has been the US GOVERNMENTS illegal actity, namely,
ILLEGAL SEARCH AND SEIZURE of emails, hacking computerst etc…
But now, apparently the outcry from Corporations who are losing a lot of
revenue is competing against the Governments phoney terrorist crisis
from which their “the sky is falling so we must abandon DUE PROCESS, and
exceeding the stranglehold our corrupt Government has on the questions.
Look up Dial/Coins
second-amendment.tripodDOTcom