GoDaddy boycott

[alidsl]

i just finished writing GoDaddy a letter stating why I'm moving my small businesses 51 domains away from them, as well as my personal domains. I also pointed out that i transferred over 300 domains to them as a director of IT for a major American company.

I'm suggesting Dec 29th as move your domain away from GoDaddy day because of their support of SOPA. Who's with me?

EDIT (Added Sources & Statements)

Source: "Go Daddy has a long history of supporting federal legislation directed toward combating illegal conduct on the Internet. For example, our company strongly supported the Ryan Haight Online Pharmacy Consumer Protection Act of 2008, the Protect Our Children Act of 2008, and the Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act of 2011 (PROTECT IP). Go Daddy has always supported both government and private industry efforts to identify and disable all types of illegal activity on the Internet. It is for these reasons that I’m still struggling with why some Internet companies oppose PROTECT IP and SOPA. There is no question that we need these added tools to counteract illegal foreign sites that are falling outside the jurisdiction of U.S. law enforcement. And there is clearly more that we could all be doing to adequately address the problems that exist."

http://www.thedomain...aring-tomorrow/

Name Cheap messaged me with a special discount code for reddit users: BYEBYEGD I'm not taking any positions i'm just reporting it. I asked him to give reddit users a better deal.

EDIT: Name.com messaged me with this. use "NODADDY" for 10% off transfer ins (COM, NET, ORG, TV, INFO, IN, US, CO, ME & TEL) and also receive 40% off any of our hosting plans. They also oppose sopa:http://blog.name.com...ving-you-money/

EDIT: HostGator is doing 50% off Shared / Reseller / VPS first month. Coupon code: NOSOPAhttp://blog.hostgato.../sopa-must-die/

EDIT: http://blog.easydns....y-the-internet/ Another anti sopa registrar

EDIT: Contact GoDaddy Send your emails here: [email protected] (This is the "office of the president", the highest non-corporate level you can talk to.) [email protected] (If this gets flooded they will take notice.) - from a fellow reddit user. I also emailed [email protected] before i ever posted this.

Update: Looks like we got their attention: They posted this http://support.godad...osition-on-sopa today. It's from "october" but it was posted today.

NEW EDIT: I've been talking with a few organizations that suggest we keep the boycott going until, GoDaddy announces they are no longer in favor of the SOPA act. They are working to setup a domain, with facts, counters, and more. The holiday's is going to make it a bit tough as our resources are limited because of family events but i will keep posting as it comes through.

UPDATE: heezburger’s Ben Huh: If GoDaddy Supports SOPA, We’re Taking Our 1000+ Domains Elsewherehttp://techcrunch.co...ains-elsewhere/

UPDATE: Dont PISS OFF REDDIT:http://www.techdirt....-bad-idea.shtml

FOR THE PEOPLE WHO ARE CALLING ME A LIAR.... HERE IS MY OUTLOOK INBOX http://i.imgur.com/cPkll.jpg

FINAL UPDATE:

Pledge your support to boycott Godaddy here. http://godaddyboycott.org

source

Other sites of relevance:
http://godaddyboycott.org
http://techcrunch.co...gle+Feedfetcher

 

[exangel]

Good thing I never liked GoDaddy. They try to sell you everything but the kitchen sink when you register a domain.
I only used them once to register a domain that Namecheap (a reseller of eNom) didn't provide registration for at the time. I transferred it as soon as Namecheap adopted .cc domains.
Been using Namecheap since 1999 2001 Prior to that I only ran one ".org" and one ".com" domains and those used to cost a fucking fortune from Network Solutions.

http://en.wikipedia...._name_registrar

 

[Deleted_171835]

I feel so special seeing this all go down on reddit.

Also, this boycott worked. GoDaddy dropped support for SOPA. But you should still switch to Namecheap, anyways.
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111223/10474517182/breaking-godaddy-drops-sopa-support.shtml

 

[Vulpes Abnocto]

Upvote for x-post.


One victory for us.
Hundreds more to go.

Next boycott: Time-Warner

 

[exangel]

Next boycott: Time-Warner

Does this mean that I shouldn't buy any more copies of Bastion? T_T
I got no problem boycotting the AOL side of it

 

[Vulpes Abnocto]

It means you should only buy pirated copies, or pirate them yourself.

 

[exangel]

I bought it because I love the game so much and wanted it both on OnLive and on Steam.. but its indie developer is affiliated with Warner Bros

On Topic: People are still transferring off GoDaddy in droves considering how much bullshit they spewed before finally reversing their stance. Once you tip the fruit stand, it's often too little, too late to apologize.

 

[ShadowSoldier]

Next boycott: Time-Warner

Does this mean that I shouldn't buy any more copies of Bastion? T_T
I got no problem boycotting the AOL side of it

 

[emugirl1994]

Next boycott: Time-Warner

Does this mean that I shouldn't buy any more copies of Bastion? T_T
I got no problem boycotting the AOL side of it