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Poll: Will you move your domains from GoDaddy today?

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Re: Poll: Will you move your domains from GoDaddy today?

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Post by blurbytree »

xinjiang wrote: post #21

I moved all my domains when the former CEO shot and killed an elephant, then gloated about it on video. It was both shocking and saddening for me. Now the elephant killing is kind of a Voight-Kampff test I use. Anyone who isn't bothered with the elephant shooting wouldn't be my friend. I wouldn't want that type of person as a business partner or employee either. I don't think I could trust them. I certainly wouldn't…

He killed the elephant because it was destroying the communities crops, and the community got fed well from the meat.

I don't think it's quite as one sided as you propose.

Re: Poll: Will you move your domains from GoDaddy today?

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Post by rplnt »

madhouse wrote: post #27

No, for multiple reasons: * I never had problems with it. * I registered my domains via google, I have no idea how to move to a different registrar, and I'm not motivated enough to find out. * If I started to stop using services where I don't agree with either the company's decisions, or whatever their prominent staff members chose to do, I would have to stop using all such services, not only one. I would have to go…

Exactly, a lot of us uses Apple products after all.

Re: Poll: Will you move your domains from GoDaddy today?

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Post by rauar »

jaysonelliot wrote: post #15

I left GoDaddy earlier this year, when Bob Parsons made his childish Great White Hunter video killing that elephant. With the stories I've heard since about how GoDaddy already handles copyright complaints and otherwise mistreats customers, not to mention Parsons' support of torture, and of course SOPA, I can't imagine why I would ever consider giving them money—especially with how well NameCheap has treated me since…

Exactly the same for me. Except that I went with name.com.

Re: Poll: Will you move your domains from GoDaddy today?

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Post by [deleted] »

kokey wrote: post #18
chippy wrote: post #9

My peer pressure / herd mentality / mob detection shields always get activated at times like this.

Indeed, and I just got myself another domain Yesterday through Godaddy. They are really the Wal-Mart of domain name selling, disliked by snobs and hipsters but everyone will buy from them at some point.

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Re: Poll: Will you move your domains from GoDaddy today?

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Post by blurbytree »

kermitthehermit wrote: post #26
blurbytree wrote: post #8

No. But I think people should make up their own minds. The process of whipping up an internet hate mob with the aim of destroying / etc is one of the parts of the internet I detest the most. It's ugly bullying. It rarely concerns itself with facts, just how big the internet hate mob can grow to and whether they can succeed at destroying their chosen enemy.

Hello, GoDaddy employee. GoDaddy needs to learn their lesson for the mistakes they did in the past and for SOPA. I wish I could have downvoted you.

I'm in no way affiliated or connected to GoDaddy. I don't have any domains registered with them. I dislike internet hate mobs, which as you say are designed to "teach them a lesson".

Re: Poll: Will you move your domains from GoDaddy today?

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Post by iamandrus »

blurbytree wrote: post #17
jaysonelliot wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So, despite the fact that GoDaddy helped write SOPA, never officially withdrew their support from SOPA, and even has special exemptions written into SOPA for themselves, it's a hate mob?

Yes. Regardless, protests like this never achieve anything apart from wasting peoples time. If you don't like GoDaddy, or disagree with some of their policies, don't use them. It's the whipping people up into an internet hate mob unconcerned with any facts that I find distasteful.

> If you don't like GoDaddy, or disagree with some of their policies, don't use them.

... that's exactly what we're doing. What, do you think we're firebombing GoDaddy's headquarters and killing its executives?

Re: Poll: Will you move your domains from GoDaddy today?

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Post by kermitthehermit »

madhouse wrote: post #27

No, for multiple reasons: * I never had problems with it. * I registered my domains via google, I have no idea how to move to a different registrar, and I'm not motivated enough to find out. * If I started to stop using services where I don't agree with either the company's decisions, or whatever their prominent staff members chose to do, I would have to stop using all such services, not only one. I would have to go…

While your view might be acceptable for some things, it's not acceptable when it comes to godaddy.

Their CEO is a bad person, they do a lot of bad things, they're exempt from SOPA, they support it, they helped redact it, they never withdrew SOPA support for real.

They threaten the 1st amendment of the US constitution - except it wil affect far more people than just the people of the US, the people for whom the US constitution was written for.

Please take these arguments somewhere else where they hold.

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