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How to damage your brand in one smooth shot - Way to GoDaddy

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Re: How to damage your brand in one smooth shot - Way to GoDaddy

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Post by ryanwatkins »

run4yourlives wrote: post #31
orbenn wrote: post #12

This is stupid. If the elephant is going to be shot by a warden anyway, WHY NOT let some rich american shoot it? Why does it matter WHO shoots the elephant? It doesn't! If you want to argue about whether the elephant SHOULD have been killed, that's fine. There is plenty to debate there. But who does the shooting is of no importance. That said he's right that as a CEO you represent your company--especially when you're…

Because basic supply and demand suggests that their are way more rich Americans wanting to shoot elephants than there are elephants in need of shooting. Ergo: the idea itself isn't sustainable, economically or morally.

Charge them a license fee to shoot the elephants in need of shooting, and increase that fee until supply meets demand.

Now its sustainable economically, if possibly not morally.

Re: How to damage your brand in one smooth shot - Way to GoDaddy

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Post by elliottcarlson »

malvim wrote: post #41
run4yourlives wrote: post #25

Wow. Just wow. Having been to Africa and seen elephants in the wild up close, among other animals, I simply can't stomach that I'm supporting a bunch of fat white Americans flying half way around the world to destroy a magnificent animal simply because they can. I'll be moving my domains away from GoDaddy asap.

I've been thinking of moving for some time now (even before I watched this video). My question is: how? They kind of own my domain names now, how can I simply change registrars?

Transfer to:

Gandi: https://www.gandi.net/domain/transfer

1and1: http://order.1and1.com/xml/order/DomaininfoMove

NameCheap: http://community.namecheap.com/blog/2011/03/30/elephants/

Basically go to any registrars home page and either search for "Transfer" on the page itself or in their search box if provided. They will all offer it together with easy how to steps - and I am sure their support team will help as well. They want your business and will make it as easy as possible.

Re: How to damage your brand in one smooth shot - Way to GoDaddy

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Post by dpcan »

c2 wrote: post #50

I guess I'll be the lone discenting voice and say I don't think it's that bad. Bob Parsons has always run his company the way he wants, and he has particular freedom to do so since he has zero investors and is the sole owner. He does certain things for shock value, such as the super bowl commercials, which by the way caused outage with a completely different demographic of people. Slaughtering an elephant might offen…

Thank you. Agreed. He fed a village (or more), saved the crop, and it looks like the people there find this to be a noble act.

Our U.S. grocery stores have stock piles of meat stacked in open refrigerators, butchered behind closed doors. Animals are fed and bred to be slaughtered so we can have a juicy burger and fries. Out of sight out of mind I guess.

Now... MAYBE the CEO of a hugely popular brand should not have participated in such an activity and filmed it for sake of his company, employees and customers, but I'm certainly not moving my domains over this.

There are probably employees there that don't like what he did either, but I'm not going to punish them for the actions of 1.

Re: How to damage your brand in one smooth shot - Way to GoDaddy

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Post by protomyth »

dman wrote: post #43
dman wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do you use a gun for if not killing people or animals?

I dont mind the downvotes but I could like the education on what people who believe in gun rights believe in.

I cannot speak for anyone other than myself. I don't currently own a gun, but that is more because of my life circumstances than belief.

I believe in gun rights because I have had relatives / personally been protected from both people and animals (feral dogs) by gun ownership. I believe weakening any of the bill of rights provides avenues to weaken the others. I also believe that it is an important counter balance to authority figures becoming despots. Mostly I just see guns as another tool and have serious problems with saying an object did something when it is the person who did. Plus, most of the gun stat stories were done narrowly and didn't include rural areas (did a stint in the social work area).

So, I understand the purpose, but am horrified by the picture and do not think NRA membership is a factor in the reaction to the picture.

Re: How to damage your brand in one smooth shot - Way to GoDaddy

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Post by dman »

staunch wrote: post #49
dman wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I dont mind the downvotes but I could like the education on what people who believe in gun rights believe in.

If you're genuinely interested (and not just trolling): http://www.amazon.com/That-Every-Man-Armed-Constitutional/dp...

Thanks for the link. I shall read it. I wasnt trolling, but I come from a country where we won our freedom with a non violent movement so the point of guns is largely missing from my cultural upbringing. In my opinion 10 million people uprising is sufficient for any government - with or without guns. That being said I will read the book and will not comment on this conversation any further so that it doesnt derail the original post.

Re: How to damage your brand in one smooth shot - Way to GoDaddy

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Post by ericmoritz »

elliottcarlson wrote: post #62
malvim wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been thinking of moving for some time now (even before I watched this video). My question is: how? They kind of own my domain names now, how can I simply change registrars?

Transfer to: Gandi: https://www.gandi.net/domain/transfer 1and1: http://order.1and1.com/xml/order/DomaininfoMove NameCheap: http://community.namecheap.com/blog/2011/03/30/elephants/ Basically go to any registrars home page and either search for "Transfer" on the page itself or in their search box if provided. They will all offer it together with easy how to steps - and I am sure their support team will help as well.…

I've been slowly transferring my domains to Gandi as they expire, you have to love their tag line.

Re: How to damage your brand in one smooth shot - Way to GoDaddy

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Post by protomyth »

peterwwillis wrote: post #22
protomyth wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It has precious little to do with the legality or morality of the action. Circumstances don't really matter here. What "matters" is that you have a picture and video clip that can fuel a he said / she said segment on all the 24 hour news channels and various organizations now have something they can spin for their own purposes. CEOs should know better.

And they do. Any publicity is good publicity.

"Any publicity is good publicity" - tell that to Enron and Lindsay Lohan.

Re: How to damage your brand in one smooth shot - Way to GoDaddy

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Post by joshmanders »

run4yourlives wrote: post #25

Wow. Just wow. Having been to Africa and seen elephants in the wild up close, among other animals, I simply can't stomach that I'm supporting a bunch of fat white Americans flying half way around the world to destroy a magnificent animal simply because they can. I'll be moving my domains away from GoDaddy asap.

You should move your domains away for reasons like constant up sales and other crappy tactics to keep you from your domains, not because the CEO shot a elephant in a different country.
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