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

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Mar 31, 2011, 7:24 PM UTC

barefoot wrote: post #97

kwis wrote: post #5

Earlier 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

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Post by jrockway » Thu, Mar 31, 2011, 7:25 PM UTC

I doubt that even a video of Parsons raping small children would affect their sales. As long as they are slightly cheaper than other registrars and offer the same functionality, they will always have customers. People don't vote with their wallets, and have very short memories anyway.

(DNS is something I consider too important to delegate to the lowest bidder, but I am apparently a minority.)

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

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Post by Artagra » Thu, Mar 31, 2011, 7:26 PM UTC

Well, I'm pretty sure this won't be a popular response, but anyway.

Firstly, I'm not really referring to this specific case. I think the video is tasteless and in many ways vile. However, I want to comment specifically on trophy hunting.

In my opinion, allowing big game hunters to pay for trophy animals is an important and integral part of animal conservation. In many impoverished African countries, their is little to no government funding to conserve animals.

Yes, there are risk factors. But personally, I believe the additional amount of animals that are killed due to the argument of excess demand is a lot less than the number of animals saved by the increased funding for poaching prevention.

Furthermore, I believe the economic benefits of this to the local community hugely improve the lives of the local people (who I believe are a lot more important than the elephants, as important as I think the elephants are), and that this improvement will decrease poaching.

To summarize: - I agree that Trophy hunting can have negative effects. - However, I believe the positives of Trophy Hunting offset the negatives in two major ways:

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

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Post by fjh » Thu, Mar 31, 2011, 7:26 PM UTC

powertower wrote: post #104

Let's see who this outrage is coming from: 1) Someone who has never gone hungry for a single day in his/her life. 2) Someone who has consumed 100s of chickens, many cattle, and many other animals so far... Most of which have been literally tortured all their lives. 3) Someone who has never gone to Africa to help, but sits around all day posting his/her opinion on how things there (and everywhere else in the world) sh…

Allow me to point you to these:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_herring

Not to mention that you are making an awful lot of unwarranted assumptions about the outraged people.

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

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Post by forensic » Thu, Mar 31, 2011, 7:27 PM UTC

jonknee wrote: post #70

The part that struck me the most odd is he claims that this is the most fulfilling thing he does. He must be pretty hard up for fulfilling activities.

He sees himself as the hero of the village. Practically a superhero to these Africans.

You don't see how a massive narcissist would find that fulfilling?

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

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Post by ddemchuk » Thu, Mar 31, 2011, 7:29 PM UTC

This is going to have about as much effect on GoDaddy's userbase and bottom line as did all of the privacy concerns last year with Facebook.

A sliver of a fraction of GoDaddy customers will ever see that video or even hear about it. Most people buy domains there because they have hot chicks in super bowl commercials.

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

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Post by visakhcr » Thu, Mar 31, 2011, 7:29 PM UTC

StavrosK wrote: post #80

dpcan wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 p…

> I'm certainly not moving my domains over this. Me neither. I'm moving my domains because this reminded me of the silent, seething rage I have for Bob Parson's face. When I go to a site that registers and manages domains, I don't want to see your face. I also don't want to see ads about how great your company is. When I buy a domain, I don't want to wade through five pages of bullshit you put up in the hopes that I…

Well, did u by any chance mean expert sex change??

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

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Post by kongqiu » Thu, Mar 31, 2011, 7:30 PM UTC

monochromatic wrote: post #45

This was a reasonable post when it was about it was stupid to mix up GoDaddy's corporate image with this stuff. But this: > It's a good thing that I have all my domains with another registrar or I'd be forced to move them. is way over the top. Nobody's forcing you to do anything. If you choose to buy into the "CEO image = corporate image" thing, then fine, move your business elsewhere. But I kind of thought the point…

GoDaddy is essentially 100% owned by Bob Parsons. I've heard that their marketing department dislikes the Super Bowl ads almost as much as the rest of us, but the final call rests with Bob.

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

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Post by michaeldhopkins » Thu, Mar 31, 2011, 7:30 PM UTC

This is perfectly acceptable, and all the bravado about moving domains looks silly. Obviously, the local citizens (tour guides) in this video didn't want to tell the warden about the elephant.

Additionally, I have no doubt the owners of many registrars do objectionable things. The devil you know...

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

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Post by Artagra » Thu, Mar 31, 2011, 7:30 PM UTC

Well, I'm pretty sure this won't be a popular response, but anyway.

Firstly, I'm not really referring to this specific case. I think the video is tasteless and in many ways vile. However, I want to comment specifically on trophy hunting.

In my opinion, allowing big game hunters to pay for trophy animals is an important and integral part of animal conservation. In many impoverished African countries, their is little to no government funding to conserve animals.

Yes, there are risk factors. But personally, I believe the additional amount of animals that are killed due to the argument of excess demand is a lot less than the number of animals saved by the increased funding for poaching prevention.

Furthermore, I believe the economic benefits of this to the local community hugely improve the lives of the local people (who I believe are a lot more important than the elephants, as important as I think the elephants are), and that this improvement will decrease poaching.

To summarize: - I agree that Trophy hunting can have negative effects. - However, I believe the positives for animal conservation of Trophy Hunting offset the negatives in two major ways. - Trophy Hunting decreases the ease with which poaching takes place by funding anti-poaching measures. - Trophy Hunting decreases the extent to which poaching takes place by improving the situation of the local communities.

So if you are pro animal conservation, and pro human rights, you should be pro Trophy Hunting. IMHO.