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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 jimmyjim »

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…

In the words of Elie Wiesel, "Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor. Never the victim. Never the tormented." It obviously doesn't feel quite right to equate this whole fiasco to what Wiesel was talking about, but I just cannot think of a quote more fitting than that.

Too often people think inaction implies neutrality . It does not. It's an enabling behavior. Passivity is a free permission slip for the status quo to persist onward.

In the end you do have to pick and choose your battles. For me personally, this time I simply had to do it -- I transferred. It was a very clear choice for me, frankly I don't see why it isn't also a clear choice for you either (it's not that difficult to make the change, if you have the docs handy, etc.), but hey, whatever suits you.

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

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Post by cyrusshepard »

blurbytree wrote: post #31
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.

He killed it for sport, the rest is an excuse. If he were concerned about the community food supply he could have donated food. Anyone who hires "booth babes" for spokespeople and is a fan of 24 (a show I used to work for) hunts because he enjoys it. Bob Parsons does not spend thousands of dollars to kill elephants for humanitarian reasons.

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

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Post by blurbytree »

iamandrus wrote: post #39
blurbytree wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

You're also posting endless articles (Not you personally ;) ), trying to poke everyone else into doing the same.

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

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Post by gargalatas »

Companies are not political parties and therefore they cannot express political thesis. If they do, then they loose, it's simple. Music, Cinema and all these forms of Art are signs that we are civilized. Civilization means that the civilized person copies the behavior of another civilized person and customize it with his own way. So this is a similar situation like maths, and physics and science. Every scientist helps building the science by putting his own piece of stone to the great miracle of science. If you want people to copyright your Stigma of Civilization or "Intellectual property" (you call it like this) first you must pay your debts to Shannon, and Babbage and Euler and many many other great persons who passed leaving their signs for ever and not just for 1 month.

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

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Post by SeoxyS »

What surprises me is that it took the SOPA fiasco to get people to move their domains from GoDaddy. A while back, I bought one domain from them and it took less than a month for me to transfer it out. The service was just that bad.

Not only is GoDaddy a morally reprehensible company, but more disturbingly they're not even a good registrar. They constantly try to upsell you, they plaster your domains with ads. They don't even allow certain certain kind of DNS records… (their UI doesn't allow for a wildcard CNAME for example). I don't need elephants or congress bills to stay far away from GoDaddy, their crappy product is more than enough.

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

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Post by kermitthehermit »

blurbytree wrote: post #37
kermitthehermit wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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".

What they're getting is well deserved.

If I go out and do bad things, I go to jail, people will hate me / dislike me and wish that I stay in jail for a long time because I'm a criminal.

Why should people & companies who threaten important civil rights and liberties be treated differently? It's not OK to do crimes which affect 1-100 persons, but it's OK to affect the basic civil liberties & free speech of hundreds of millions, perhaps even billions?

Any entity, a company or a number of individuals, which does something like this should suffer consequences. If it's a company, then it should really go away.

A company is responsible for its image. People don't owe them anything, so that the said company deserves the money of their clients. They must have a good image and keep their customers happy. Either they do that, or they should go out of business.

All in all, keeping customers happy means you must also uphold some moral values and protect civil liberties.

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

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Post by madhouse »

kermitthehermit wrote: post #40
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 con…

A lot of other companies were involved in writing SOPA, and even more support it still, that are not treated the same way GoDaddy is. There are a lot of other CEOs who did very bad things - but I don't see people boycotting them, either.

Just boycotting one SOPA supporter won't buy you anything, either.

Do tell me though, why GoDaddy is exceptional, and why the same treatment doesn't apply to the rest of the SOPA supporters.. because I honestly don't see the difference: they're all bad.

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

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Post by xinjiang »

blurbytree wrote: post #31
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.

You bought that lie? That story was a PR cover-up to stop people from leaving GoDaddy. I guess it actually worked.
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