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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.

This is Awesome.

Re: GoDaddy supports SOPA, redditor proposes "Move your Domain Day"

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Earlier 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...

Hmm. last.fm's parent corp. CBS is on that list. I wonder what those guys think of the bill.

They already pay the licencing fees to the respective music labels, so if SOPA gets passed they'll be one of the few legal music streaming sites remaining. If SOPA is used to full effect then it's plausible they could get a larger market share.

Re: GoDaddy supports SOPA, redditor proposes "Move your Domain Day"

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post #122

Earlier 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.

Even though the national/local press does not follow this very closely in Europe, we are making as much effort as possible to bring it to everyone's attention in order to stimulate participation along the same lines as yours. where possible I/we shall boycott over here also.

Re: GoDaddy supports SOPA, redditor proposes "Move your Domain Day"

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post #114

Even 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.

If they lose money on domains we should all buy domains from them (and only domains).

Re: GoDaddy supports SOPA, redditor proposes "Move your Domain Day"

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post #132

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Both MasterCard and VISA are there. What to do? :(

Use cash as much as possible and use wire transfer for online payments whenever you can.

You guys should look at Dwolla http://www.dwolla.com

Re: GoDaddy supports SOPA, redditor proposes "Move your Domain Day"

#256

Serious question: Has anyone in the HN community actually bought anything from GoDaddy? I find it difficult to imagine that any HN reader would. Was there ever an era when GoDaddy's reputation and service were respectable?

I have a domain that's (shamefully) hosted on GoDaddy. Worse, I had the domain on a better registrar and I transferred it to godaddy. I needed a registrar that was able to handle IPv6 glue records, which was rare at the time. (The TUCOWS-backed services only got this capability last month! Before that you had to email TUCOWS and have them manually add the AAAA records to your glue, which I didn't consider a solution.…

I believe name.com does ipv6 glue
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