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.
The candidate that wins the presidential office is better qualified and automatically will make better decisions versus the current president that has made all the wrong decisions and spent tax payer money like a drunk with half of the money going overseas for redistribution of wealth and more to fund competing business in green projects which are failures and to drill oil which he will not allow here. Newt would make a remarkable president over what we have. ABO. Anybody but obama would make a fine president. It just don’t matter who it is. There has been no cuts to the money spending with tax payers on the hook. I just don’t think the news media nor the people understand this just isn’t going to go on.
thanks for giving the christian coalition Repubs more locker room bulletin board material, dickweed.
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SOPA will kill the freedom of the Internet. Anyone will be able to shut down any site, no matter how big, by even -claiming- copyright infringement. This will undoubtedly by leveraged to the hilt by liberals to shut down any conservative web site, corporate web site, etc. they can get their hands on. The only way to prevent a shut-down will be to remove all user-supplied content, which means liberals will essentially own the Internet, and by extension, public opinion. Even if conservatives fight back using the same dirty tactics, the bad guys will have won – the Internet will be heavily regulated by the government, and big government essentially equates to socialism. You can bet radio will be next, a la “Fairness Doctrine”.
Now, should Godaddy pay for supporting SOPA, even in a covert manner? Perhaps yes. I’ve been a long-time Godaddy customer, but I may consider using a local hoster for new clients from now on. Godaddy’s phone support hasn’t been nearly as helpful for the past few years anyway – they always send you to the online chat for anything moderately complicated, and there are a few things that ought to be working out of the box (for instance, mail logs on their virtual dedicated servers) that don’t, and which they won’t configure for free. Not that that will necessarily affect most people, but it makes life difficult for me.
WRONG. That’s just the number of domains who changed their nameservers, NOT the number of domains who changed providers. Domain owners change their nameservers all the time, so it’s not really a bit deal, but there have definitely been tens of thousands of transferred domains because GoDaddy decided to f*** with Reddit.
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