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Re: GoDaddy is default registrar for Google Apps Domains

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Post by maratd »

VMG wrote: post #9

What I don't get about it - what does GoDaddy realistically have to gain from supporting SOPA?

When you get to the top, you want to stay at the top. The problem is that on the way to the top, you became big. Real big.

Big companies can't maneuver well. An elephant can't do acrobatics. They know they can't compete head-to-head with smaller companies.

So big companies start to create artificial barriers to entry. They form partnerships (i.e. Google), they begin to advertise heavily (i.e. Superbowl), and they start to lobby the government (i.e. SOPA). All of these actions are there to create lasting relationships that will help a large company like GoDaddy compete with smaller, more maneuverable firms.

GoDaddy couldn't give a damn about SOPA. They simply want to have a solid relationship with various members of congress, the senate, and parts of the executive branch. I'll scratch your back, you scratch mine down the road.

Also, although I don't believe this is a significant motivating factor, SOPA would reduce legal costs for GoDaddy. Currently, if there's a court order for a seizure or something along those lines, it has to go through a process in legal. One of the features of SOPA, is that it would take the process out of the courts, at least initially. No courts = no court orders to process.

Re: GoDaddy is default registrar for Google Apps Domains

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Post by billpatrianakos »

DiabloD3 wrote: post #2

Given the number of Google people who regularly read HN, I suspect this is already in the process of being fixed.

Fixed? You know, I get the whole backlash against GoDaddy and it's totally justified but these posts that basically demand all businesses switch registrars or imply that any company using GoDaddy as their registrar are somehow sympathetic to them is nuts to me. I know they don't outright say it but that's the subtext I'm getting.

I hope everyone boycotts GoDaddy and transfers to another provider but we have to understand that something like this may not be feasible for some companies right now. Google may have a long term deal they have to finish out. In addition transferring the thousands of domains they have costs money for not just the transfers but they also have to get people to work on it and provide customer support as there will be many people who will need to know why this is happening and how they'll be affected.

GoDaddy has sucked even before they came out in support of SOPA, there's no doubt about that and the transfer/boycott movement is justified but let's please not put the entire focus on GD and remember the situations some companies are in can make it harder to transfer their domains. Also, using GoDaddy != support for SOPA just as using a gas powered car doesn't automatically make you a global warming denier. Circumstances just don't always allow for people to be idealists.

Re: GoDaddy is default registrar for Google Apps Domains

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Post by sharmajai »

jwildeboer wrote: post #10
VMG wrote: post #9

What I don't get about it - what does GoDaddy realistically have to gain from supporting SOPA?

Maybe they hope they will become default registrar for all the other proponents? Quite some big names on that list.

Those big names don't make the internet, we do. They might be what 10^-googol% of the internet.

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Post by RexRollman »

VMG wrote: post #9

What I don't get about it - what does GoDaddy realistically have to gain from supporting SOPA?

Maybe they are planning to make money by charging fees to the government when they have to make changes to a domain name due to a SOPA action? Does the bill require companies like GoDaddy to do this for free?

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Post by bradleyland »

maratd wrote: post #21
VMG wrote: post #9

What I don't get about it - what does GoDaddy realistically have to gain from supporting SOPA?

When you get to the top, you want to stay at the top. The problem is that on the way to the top, you became big. Real big. Big companies can't maneuver well. An elephant can't do acrobatics. They know they can't compete head-to-head with smaller companies. So big companies start to create artificial barriers to entry. They form partnerships (i.e. Google), they begin to advertise heavily (i.e. Superbowl), and they sta…

This whole thing is like the plot of a bad movie (based on an Ayn Rand novel, no less).
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