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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 madhouse »

jimmyjim wrote: post #41
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 qu…

It isn't a clear choice, because the service they provide is something I didn't have a problem with, and moving would mean extra work and effort I'm not willing to pay. Why am I not willing to pay the price?

Because, as I wrote, I'd have to do the same thing with every other company who's services I use, when I don't agree with their decisions, or find their CEO someone who should be locked away and never spoken of ever again.

If I'm starting to boycot companies based on what they support, then I will do it with all of them, not just a single one. However, that is not possible.

I'm not neutral, either. I'm not going to use GoDaddy for any more domains in the future (partly due to their support for SOPA, partly for other reasons). I just won't move my domains from there, because it's not worth the effort.

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

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Post by kermitthehermit »

madhouse wrote: post #48
kermitthehermit wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 sup…

I didn't say anything about not doing the same to the others.

Please feel free to list up others along with what they did / are doing and I will support actions against all of those as well.

I only said the boycott against godaddy is OK for many reasons.

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

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Post by iamandrus »

blurbytree wrote: post #43
iamandrus wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

Uh, yeah. A boycott isn't a boycott if nobody knows about it. If you don't want to join us, then don't. Nobody is making you move your domains away.

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

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Post by kermitthehermit »

xinjiang wrote: post #49
blurbytree wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I've got reasons to suspect that guy is working for godaddy as he keeps defending them.

I really wish I could've downvoted him.

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

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Post by mekoka »

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.

Regardless, protests like this never achieve anything apart from wasting peoples times.

It's ironic you should say this. The type of people who think exactly this, is imo the reason nothing ever gets done as well. What I'm seeing is people doing something (voting with their wallet). As the saying goes All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.

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.

You may have a point. Many people don't take the time to check facts, they instead rely on the moral compass of their peers to take a direction. That's how the world usually works and it won't change tomorrow. However, in this case precisely, I fail to see which facts you'd like to bring to light, that would play in GoDaddy's favor, or how someone would take the time to move their domains without some prior understanding of why they're doing it. Also, what exactly qualifies this as a 'hate mob' rather than an angry mob?

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

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Post by madhouse »

kermitthehermit wrote: post #52
madhouse wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 sup…

I didn't say anything about not doing the same to the others. Please feel free to list up others along with what they did / are doing and I will support actions against all of those as well. I only said the boycott against godaddy is OK for many reasons.

You can pretty easily get a list of SOPA supporters (eg, from wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_organizations_that_supp...). Good luck boycotting them all!

However, I didn't say the boycott wasn't OK, either. It sure is, and it's well deserved.

I just said I'm not participating in it. If others do, that's their choice, and I don't see anything wrong with doing so, either. I just said I'm not going to, because (among other things) I consider it wrong to select one from the many, and punish only that, when there are others who are guilty of the same thing (and some even guilty of more).

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

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Post by jfoster »

madhouse wrote: post #48
kermitthehermit wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 sup…

I think the main factor here is that GoDaddy is probably the one SOPA supporter that many of us have used or are using. It's also very simple to switch away from them, and there are similar services with better interfaces.

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

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Post by mekoka »

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…

Just because I am using a service does not mean I agree with whatever choices the provider makes. As long as those decisions don't affect me, I honestly don't care, because doing otherwise leads to a path of constant anger and depression. Don't need that, thank you.

So you found solace in the notion that apathy is the exemplary path to happiness? I'm not religious, but I'll borrow a saying

Lord grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

I find it unfortunate that more and more people are not granted that proverbial wisdom.

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

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Post by eurohacker »

rauar wrote: post #33
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.

quite happy with name.com also , also using enom.com and dynadot.com

i have also used godaddy before , but did not like it too much

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

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Post by dangrossman »

SeoxyS wrote: post #46

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 do…

To be fair, editing DNS records has nothing to do with being a registrar. Free DNS servers aren't even a service all registrars provide, and they're one most customers don't use -- they use their web host's. For anyone building a tech business, you have no excuse for tying your DNS service to your choice of registrar.
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