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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 brudgers »

No. Because I do not confuse consumerism with political action. Time spent moving domains from Godaddy in hopes of some indirect impact on SOPA would be better spent upon swaying my congressional representatives directly...despite the popular wisdom, they represent me within our political system, not various corporations.

To put it another way, moving domains as a way of expressing displeasure over SOPA legitimates the very logic which created it; that internet users in the US are merely consumers, not citizens. Move your domain day id premised on the idea that consumer choices are our most effective political act and accepting that premise is done at the peril of losing our legitimate political power.

supreme executive authority derives from a mandate from the people, not some farcical shopping ceremony to paraphrase Dennis.

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

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Post by nmridul »

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.

If you watched the original un-cut video, you would've seen the hungry villagers in Godaddy T-shirts and Caps skinning and chopping the elephant. That was disgusting. He thought of making it as a campaign, but when it backfired, they edited the video,

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

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Post by nhebb »

No, but I will when the domains expire. The way I look at it, transferring all my domains now will just cost me more money for a service that I've already paid for. So part of the short term punishment is letting GoDaddy keep my money but no longer have to provide me with a service? There is the short term negative impact their SOPA support has reaped, and that's what everyone is focusing on. But there is also the long term impact, and I'll be part of that "movement".

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

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Post by olegious »

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…

Moved to NameCheap after the elephant story broke.

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

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Post by alexro »

clemesha wrote: post #7

I'm still on the fence. (should this be a choice?) They do have an exceptionally crappy web interface, and their marketing is distasteful. On the other hand, I've called them several times over the last couple years for random support, and my experience with that has always been excellent. So yeah, still on the fence. And all this Godaddy backlash has just a tad to much witch-trial feel to it. But man their web inter…

Your experience with their support was excellent because mine was very poor ... in the sense that they charged me money and didn't gave it back - they have auto billing enabled by default.

So yeah, go enjoy on the expense of other people both money-wise and liberty-wise, support the damn bastard

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

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Post by ereckers »

I actually moved a friends hosting from Godaddy to my own servers just last night (he was about a week past expiration on a 2 yr contract).

One thing I haven't seen out of the hundreds of comments about moving off of Godaddy the last few days is any mention of Email. Call me stupid, but I was using Godaddy's email service for really simple email accounts (ie. catchalls on personal domains). I'm using Google Apps to manage some of my email, but I found just going with Godaddy to be much simpler on non mission critical stuff. Was nobody at all, not one person using Godaddy's email service?

Also, I'm on Name.com which I like a lot, but they use Google Apps for email, I've got some dumb domains that I want to run email through (as I described above). Can anyone tell me if Namecheap approaches email the same basic way that Godaddy had (ie. free email credits with each domain registered, pop3/imap, etc..).

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

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Post by ereckers »

plusbryan wrote: post #80

The thing that surprised me most about this whole situation is that so many tech-savvy people use Godaddy. Their spammy marketing and variable pricing screams bush-league to me. I'll forgive my dad for using them cause he doesn't know he had options, but for something so fundamental, how does anyone trust them?

A long time ago Network Solutions was the place to register domains for something like $30 a year (I can't remember), and Godaddy was the cheap, fast, up-and-comer. That's when I moved onto them, and everything after that was just an afterthought. I even got really good and completely ignoring the upsells and could navigate around pretty quickly. Some of it is legacy and if I was in the market for a first time registrar today, I may have chosen differently.

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

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Post by switz »

ereckers wrote: post #119
plusbryan wrote: post #80

The thing that surprised me most about this whole situation is that so many tech-savvy people use Godaddy. Their spammy marketing and variable pricing screams bush-league to me. I'll forgive my dad for using them cause he doesn't know he had options, but for something so fundamental, how does anyone trust them?

A long time ago Network Solutions was the place to register domains for something like $30 a year (I can't remember), and Godaddy was the cheap, fast, up-and-comer. That's when I moved onto them, and everything after that was just an afterthought. I even got really good and completely ignoring the upsells and could navigate around pretty quickly. Some of it is legacy and if I was in the market for a first time regist…

I agree with this. Plus GoDaddy you can always find domains for very cheap due to all of their "promotions" or "coupons". I've gotten so many $2 domains from GoDaddy that it's ridiculous.

But I moved my domains away about a week ago. No discount is worth supporting GoDaddy.

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