Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, NO. I believe in the bill of rights, but I do not condone the hunting of elephants.
What do you use a gun for if not killing people or animals?
Practice?
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Re: How to damage your brand in one smooth shot - Way to GoDaddy
#112Wow. 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.
Agreed. There are millions of people getting scammed and ruined by fat-cats everywhere, and an elephant is what it takes for people to get mad?
Wake up, everyone. I hate asshats like the GoDaddy CEO just as much as you do, but this self-righteous indignation is at The View levels right now.
Re: How to damage your brand in one smooth shot - Way to GoDaddy
#113I hate godaddy to death, guys, but I use them because they offer most tlds around the world easily (me, ly, at, to, etc)(that's the only easy thing they do)
If you can name at least five registrars with world wide reach please do so, so we can have a better option next time.
Re: How to damage your brand in one smooth shot - Way to GoDaddy
#114the worst part about this is that it totally worked on me. I now know about their video.me product.
Re: How to damage your brand in one smooth shot - Way to GoDaddy
#115So, to recap: sexist advertising campaigns for the benefit of the entire company == OK; the CEO shooting an elephant == boycott. To be clear, I'm in no way agreeing with his actions, but it was getting fed up with the advertising that got me to dump GoDaddy for DynDNS long before anything like this occurred.
Umm -- YES! Sexist advertising campaign = Silly, but I am not going to choose or drop a registrar based on that. CEO shooting an innocent animal = A company that I don't want to do business with. You aren't trying to say that showing some scantily clad women is equivalent to killing, are you?
Besides, Jillian Michaels and Danica Patrick are willing participants.
Re: How to damage your brand in one smooth shot - Way to GoDaddy
#116GoDaddy will need an extra sexy ad campaign to calm the crowd.
Maybe Danica Patrick will ride an elephant.
Elephant killing aside, I can't use GoDaddy's hosting/domain control panel. Settings feel buried under layers of links and is just confusing.
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#117This is terrible. Anyone have any suggestions for a registrar to switch to from GoDaddy?
I recently moved to name.com. I absolutely love their minimalistic interface, and I like supporting local business (Denver)... So far no issues what so ever other than with GoDaddy and moving domains over because of issues with whois, but once there everything is fast, and simple. Unlike GoDaddy's interface.
I'm a former customer of name.com.
I'm not sure if they're still doing it, but the thing that drove me away was their spammy DNS.
Example: I had valid DNS records for mydomain.com and www.mydomain.com but they were forwarding ANYTHING.mydomain.com to one of their ad-ridden pages.
I can kind of see an argument for having that when a domain has just been purchased and there is no valid content yet. But doing that to an established site makes ME look like a spammer.
tl;dr - if you're using name.com's DNS, you might want to see if they're hosting spam pages on whatever.yourdomain.com
Re: How to damage your brand in one smooth shot - Way to GoDaddy
#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is a CEO who, in 2005, posted a blog article talking about why we have to torture prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, because (mumble mumble) 9/11. He deleted both the original post and a half-retraction shortly thereafter, or I'd provide a link. As such, I'm not surprised that he turned his personal hunting exhibition into a marketing expense. He seems to have a deaf ear when it comes to brand management. And that doe…
Right, I find it difficult to believe that any of this was uncalculated (does that make me a high-mach?) They appear to target the bottom 90% who needs a domain name. And, they very wisely get name recognition with non tech savvy business owners who often have the ultimate decision in which registrar to use. Look at it from the vantage of a typical conservative small business owner here in America. Slaughtering a bea…
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Re: How to damage your brand in one smooth shot - Way to GoDaddy
#119So, to recap: sexist advertising campaigns for the benefit of the entire company == OK; the CEO shooting an elephant == boycott. To be clear, I'm in no way agreeing with his actions, but it was getting fed up with the advertising that got me to dump GoDaddy for DynDNS long before anything like this occurred.
Umm -- YES! Sexist advertising campaign = Silly, but I am not going to choose or drop a registrar based on that. CEO shooting an innocent animal = A company that I don't want to do business with. You aren't trying to say that showing some scantily clad women is equivalent to killing, are you?
Almost every CEO in the country is responsible for killing "innocent" animals, since most are not vegetarian. Most are paying others to do it for them and are eating it themselves, but why is that morally better?
Re: How to damage your brand in one smooth shot - Way to GoDaddy
#120Wow. 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'll be moving my domains away from GoDaddy asap. I moved all my domains, ~30, from GoDaddy about 18 months ago. It was a slog. There was no "asap" to it. It took about 2 months to get them all moved over to namecheap. Transfers gets curtailed for various reasons and the current registrar is usually little help in solving the mysteries. I'm telling you this not to take the wind from your sails but to prep you for…
I also transferred all my domains from GoDaddy to NameCheap in the past year and never looked back. I was tired of having to navigate a maze of circa-1995-UI pages filled with upselling. Want to change your DNS settings? Oh, look for that teeny tiny link in the corner. Want to turn on domain privacy? That'll be another $9.95, and you have to log in to a different site with a different username+password to manage that.
Admittedly, GoDaddy has a genius business model IMO. The confusing UI is what probably makes them their bucks.