Transferring my domains to https://dnsimple.com/ :) A little more expensive than the cheap registrars... but Anthony who runs the company is amazing! Shameless plug: he did some development work from the back in the day, and is one of the best RoR programmers in the world!
GoDaddy supports SOPA, redditor proposes "Move your Domain Day"
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Re: GoDaddy supports SOPA, redditor proposes "Move your Domain Day"
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While I understand your sentiments towards SOPA, are you really going to distance yourself from all of these companies? http://judiciary.house.gov/issues/Rouge%20Websites/SOPA%20Su...
Actually that's exactly what I thought when I saw the list yesterday. Several of those companies send people to Demo Day, and when I saw the list I thought: we should stop inviting them. So yes, we'll remove anyone from those companies from the Demo Day invite list.
I'm talking to my Congressman on the phone right now. What do you think should be altered so the bill can achieve its original purpose? Or will nothing help?
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#203Re: GoDaddy supports SOPA, redditor proposes "Move your Domain Day"
#204Earlier quoted context omitted.
While I understand your sentiments towards SOPA, are you really going to distance yourself from all of these companies? http://judiciary.house.gov/issues/Rouge%20Websites/SOPA%20Su...
Actually that's exactly what I thought when I saw the list yesterday. Several of those companies send people to Demo Day, and when I saw the list I thought: we should stop inviting them. So yes, we'll remove anyone from those companies from the Demo Day invite list.
+1
Re: GoDaddy supports SOPA, redditor proposes "Move your Domain Day"
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I'm going to piggyback on your comment here, since it's at the top of the comment thread. From the Reddit link: "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." I'm not affiliated with NameCheap at all, but if you're going to move your domain, this might make things easier.
Yeah I'm moving mine too. That, or code SOPASUCKS, I believe. Extends domain for another year so it's decently cheap.
SOPASUCKS takes the renewal cost down to $6.99 (with BYEBYEGD it was $7.99)
Great price for something you were going to buy anyway. I just moved 10 domains.
Re: GoDaddy supports SOPA, redditor proposes "Move your Domain Day"
#206This blog post from their lead lobbyist defending their support is absolutely grating. http://rudysyndrome.com/2011/10/28/online-copyright-laws-won... "Most of what we are seeing is either 1) rhetoric, 2) regurgitated lobbying spin, 3) criticism of language we have already fixed, or 4) retweets by people who like to steal music and buy fake, but cheap, goods." Ugh. (oBDisclaimer: I work for a registrar that unequivoc…
What does "Open Internet" mean though? You can't reasonably support free speech in all instances, just like you can't reasonably support an "open internet" in all instances. There have to be some exceptions. It's the listing of those exceptions and how you deal with them that's the tricky bit. So saying "I support an open internet" is just ignoring the issue.
Its a networking issue, not a legal or political issue. Big Media has decided to go to the mat to defend their dying business model at the expense of the Open Internet by lobbying for legislation like this.
If you want to make the Internet safer, more secure, better for commerce, more accepting of DRM, whatever, then let's take that up as a technical discussion and figure out how to amend the infrastructure so that it continues to work. Hiving off slabs of address space and putting them under the control of national legislatures is the fastest and most direct way to ensure that the entire network stops working real quick.
Re: GoDaddy supports SOPA, redditor proposes "Move your Domain Day"
#207Even if domains are just a loss leader for GoDaddy, they surely look at their numbers, so this is a way to send them a message they'll hear. Maybe it will work, maybe it won't, but no one who still has a domain at GoDaddy will be entitled to complain about SOPA if it passes.
In the past godaddy has invited (and thrived) based on negative publicity as well as questionable sales practices. (Godaddy girls, exploitation of women, the elephant hunt as a few examples).
(Note: We are a competitor of godaddy.)
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Wow that was an interesting list... I had only heard of 5 of those companies, but this one stood out. Tasc.com Checkout one of their services: Cyberwarrior training http://www.tasc.com/capabilities/cyberwarrior_training/ "Cyber security requirements have changed: hackers have started working full time for criminal syndicates; spammers and adware/spyware developers are now using the same code as worm writers; and orga…
I don't understand how it's "sick" to market a training program at people who are "clueless".
I am talking about marketing the program to congress/political figures in charge of funding for the training.
THey would not be the ones taking the training - but the ones spending tax dollars on a service they really don't understand - thus the likelihood for abuse is higher.
I err on the side of corruption when anything pertaining to governments is concerned. Call me paranoid.
Re: GoDaddy supports SOPA, redditor proposes "Move your Domain Day"
#209Earlier quoted context omitted.
Actually that's exactly what I thought when I saw the list yesterday. Several of those companies send people to Demo Day, and when I saw the list I thought: we should stop inviting them. So yes, we'll remove anyone from those companies from the Demo Day invite list.
I'm talking to my Congressman on the phone right now. What do you think should be altered so the bill can achieve its original purpose? Or will nothing help?
You could try saying "nothing". Hollywood is actually doing quite alright, piracy or not.
Alternatively, you could suggest Ron Wyden's OPEN bill. OPEN nixes the the DNS filtering, but keeps some of the follow-the-money measures in SOPA. More importantly, it also requires a full court hearing before any action can be taken.
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I've been seeing a lot of recommendations for NameCheap, but there is one thing that makes me hesitate: I get a staggering amount of spam from domains registered by NameCheap with the Whois info shielded by WhoisGuard. Yes, I've used their reporting tool to report spammers, but it still comes. Is this about scammers flocking to NameCheap because it's, well, cheap? Or is NameCheap somehow marketing to spammers while t…
I have all my domains at NameCheap and have never gotten any spam (or maybe google blocks it all?). Either way, I'm happy. I haven't tried http://en.gandi.net/ but they are bit more expensive.
I've been using Gandi for 11 years. They've generally been great. Initially I was drawn to them because they were one of the first registrars to make it clear you owned the domain name and they were an agent.
I've kept with them largely because of the generally convenient and low-upsell nature of the website on top of this.
One caveat for U.S. customers: on the very rare (once or twice a decade) occasions when I've had to contact customer service, the time separation and some rough English skills have led to a slightly bumpy communication experience while resolving issues, but even with those obstacles, they're better at it than GoDaddy (and their English is a heck of a lot better than my French :).
~$15usd/yr rather than $7ish a year isn't a big deal for domains I care about.