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Re: GoDaddy is default registrar for Google Apps Domains

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Post by maratd »

_pius wrote: post #38
superasn wrote: post #32

Is it just me or has the focus shifting from SOPA to GoDaddy (reddit too has the same trend). I'm as anti-GoDaddy as the next person but let's remember that calling your representative will help the cause more than punishing a domain registrar. Maybe if you run a popular website then informing your site visitors about the evil of the bill (like tumblr) can do much more to help the cause than moving your domain name t…

I'm as anti-GoDaddy as the next person but let's remember that calling your representative will help the cause more than punishing a domain registrar. Are you sure about that?

Bingo. If you take out GoDaddy and a few others who either are or have potential to donate funds to election campaigns, those representatives will pay attention real quick. Much more effective than sending letters or calling.

Re: GoDaddy is default registrar for Google Apps Domains

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Post by mdwrigh2 »

ctman wrote: post #28

deleted my G+ account. Will not be buying another Android phone.

I think you threw the baby out with the bath water there. You've started boycotting Google, who's one of the most vocal opponents to SOPA, because one of the default options they give for domain registration for Google Apps accounts is GoDaddy, who supports SOPA.

Re: GoDaddy is default registrar for Google Apps Domains

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Post by emehrkay »

presidentx wrote: post #39
bdg wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No kidding. Hash tags need to die, this isn't twitter, and I don't come here for 100-character-long spam bursts of groupthink and newspeak.

Chill. I have no problem with hashtags, and I don't think it's spam. I'm totally okay with it, and I have as much say as you do.

Maybe if it actually did something...

Re: GoDaddy is default registrar for Google Apps Domains

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Post by ascendant »

bdg wrote: post #37
SandB0x wrote: post #24

Let's not pollute this place with hashtags.

No kidding. Hash tags need to die, this isn't twitter, and I don't come here for 100-character-long spam bursts of groupthink and newspeak.

You and all the people hating on hashtags are busy engaging in your own groupthink. How about you focus more on the content and less on the presentation?

Re: GoDaddy is default registrar for Google Apps Domains

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Post by [deleted] »

ascendant wrote: post #44
bdg wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No kidding. Hash tags need to die, this isn't twitter, and I don't come here for 100-character-long spam bursts of groupthink and newspeak.

You and all the people hating on hashtags are busy engaging in your own groupthink. How about you focus more on the content and less on the presentation?

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Re: GoDaddy is default registrar for Google Apps Domains

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Post by politician »

maratd wrote: post #41
_pius wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm as anti-GoDaddy as the next person but let's remember that calling your representative will help the cause more than punishing a domain registrar. Are you sure about that?

Bingo. If you take out GoDaddy and a few others who either are or have potential to donate funds to election campaigns, those representatives will pay attention real quick. Much more effective than sending letters or calling.

IMO, do both, and mention that fact in your letter. "I will continue to boycott businesses that donate to your campaign because of your support for this legislation."

Re: GoDaddy is default registrar for Google Apps Domains

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Post by grandalf »

sunchild wrote: post #36
billpatrianakos wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 unders…

Google really ought to distance itself from GoDaddy. It reflects poorly on them, and I'm quite sure that Google has enough leverage to do whatever it likes in this case.

Why did Google ever do a deal with GoDaddy in the first place? Godaddy's UI alone should have been reason enough not to.

Re: GoDaddy is default registrar for Google Apps Domains

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Post by pavel_lishin »

ascendant wrote: post #44
bdg wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No kidding. Hash tags need to die, this isn't twitter, and I don't come here for 100-character-long spam bursts of groupthink and newspeak.

You and all the people hating on hashtags are busy engaging in your own groupthink. How about you focus more on the content and less on the presentation?

What content did the #justsayin hashtag add to the topic?

Re: GoDaddy is default registrar for Google Apps Domains

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Post by ascendant »

pavel_lishin wrote: post #48
ascendant wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You and all the people hating on hashtags are busy engaging in your own groupthink. How about you focus more on the content and less on the presentation?

What content did the #justsayin hashtag add to the topic?

The content is the link and the discussing of Google using GoDaddy. The presentation is the fact there's a hashtag in the title and everyone with their underwear in a twist over a # sign.

Re: GoDaddy is default registrar for Google Apps Domains

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Post by throwaway88 »

presidentx wrote: post #39
bdg wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No kidding. Hash tags need to die, this isn't twitter, and I don't come here for 100-character-long spam bursts of groupthink and newspeak.

Chill. I have no problem with hashtags, and I don't think it's spam. I'm totally okay with it, and I have as much say as you do.

This is why HN has declined rapidly over the last year, and became a clone of Reddit, with the same groupthink circlejerking, etc.

It's essentially become useless for people interested in intelligent hacker/startup topics.

If you want a good community, whatever you do, don't have an open policy on membership and equal votes to everyone. That's a recipe to decline to idiocy pretty quickly.

RIP HN. Sad to see you go.

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