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 think that it’s high time for Go Daddy to just go…
GoDaddy is learning this lesson the hard way: GoDaddy, you try to screw over We The People, and We The People will screw YOU over in the end by putting your raggedy-ass company out of business.
1) The boycott wasn’t supposed to start until the 29th. IT HASNT HAPPENED YET.
2) GoDaddy already announced it withdrew all support of SOPA. So the boycott is pointless.
Just because some Rhino introduced a bill, doesn’t make it a Repub effort. Remember all the money for SOPA comes from Hollywood. Duh?
Morons. Republican and democrat are one in the same. Get a grip on reality. Kill all monopolistic corporations with what little dollars you have left.
Starting with the largest one of them all, government. You’re kidding yourselves if you think this Occupy bullsh!t is a good idea, asking government to remove ‘greed’ from corporate America is like asking a pedophile to be your elementary school’s bathroom attendant, come on people, wake up. Vote with your dollars, I agree completely with that part, and that’s the beauty, you can always vote against corporate interests with dollars, you can’t do the same with government. Go Daddy will feel the pain, isn’t that nice to be able to have that affect? Now, let’s vote out every incumbant in Congress and the White House.