It's okay, the Internet mob that told everyone to leave Godaddy won't change their opinion.
Godaddy No Longer Just Doesn’t Support But Actually “Opposes” SOPA
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Re: Godaddy No Longer Just Doesn’t Support But Actually “Opposes” SOPA
#32GoDaddy's prior SOPA support isn't the only reason why people are leaving them.
Many of GoDaddy's customers have wanted to leave for awhile. This was just the final straw.
Right. I know I was only on there out of inertia. As hard as it might be to believe, at one time GoDaddy was the least evil registrar (note that "least evil" isn't the same as "good" :-). That changed, but it was still easier to keep registering new domains with them just to keep everything in one place. This SOPA crap, though... sorry, not going to forgive and forget on this one.
I don't think I'll make the boycott date 'cause I'm traveling at the moment and don't want to risk breaking anything while I'm away, but I will definitely be moving all of my domains when I return.
Re: Godaddy No Longer Just Doesn’t Support But Actually “Opposes” SOPA
#33It's too late for sorry, GoDaddy. Take your medicine.
To anyone saying, "Hey, don't be vindictive! Don't we _want_ people to come around and be forgiven?" I see it as the difference between what a politician says and what a politician does. (That metaphor is not really a stretch here.) Saying, "We oppose SOPA," is not the same as opposing it. GoDaddy participated in drafting the bills (SOPA, PROTECT-IP, and probably COICA and ACTA -- remember, GoDaddy is the de facto re…
Exactly. If we say we're going to boycott a company and don't do it because they claim to have changed, that makes us look stupid.
Re: Godaddy No Longer Just Doesn’t Support But Actually “Opposes” SOPA
#34In my eyes, this is yet another reason to avoid GoDaddy. I wouldn't invest alongside a known con artist, no matter how she tries to demonstrate her changed nature.
Re: Godaddy No Longer Just Doesn’t Support But Actually “Opposes” SOPA
#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
Things like these seem to happen to market leaders, who hear complains for years about certain stuff, but don't mind it because they aren't seeing their customers leaving in droves. But that doesn't mean it doesn't add to the growing frustration of their customers. They are only creating a ticking time bomb, and when they do eventually go over the top with something, that's when the bomb explodes, and then they wonde…
About Facebook: There's probably no serious competitor for people to switch to (Google+ isn't quite there yet) and the majority of Facebook's users are not "techies" that care about SOPA. But yeah, who knows, in the future..
Coke's major competitor is not Pepsi, it's water. Coke's biggest challenge is to get people to drink more Coke and less water.
Facebook's biggest competitor will never be another network, it will be "not bothering with a social network." And eventually people will get bored with these things. It may not be the current set of users, it might instead be the next generation of people, just as today's kids supposedly don't use email.
Re: Godaddy No Longer Just Doesn’t Support But Actually “Opposes” SOPA
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
Many of GoDaddy's customers have wanted to leave for awhile. This was just the final straw.
Right. I know I was only on there out of inertia. As hard as it might be to believe, at one time GoDaddy was the least evil registrar (note that "least evil" isn't the same as "good" :-). That changed, but it was still easier to keep registering new domains with them just to keep everything in one place. This SOPA crap, though... sorry, not going to forgive and forget on this one. I don't think I'll make the boycott…
I just moved the last three of my domains from them. All oddball things like .ws and .name that I'd just been too lazy to find an alternate for but this is just enough motivation to do the authorization code dance. I wish I could have sent them to namecheap, anyone who takes a principled stand is someone I'd like to support but they don't accept transfers of the oddball tlds so I went with Gandi.
Re: Godaddy No Longer Just Doesn’t Support But Actually “Opposes” SOPA
#37"Our company regrets the loss of any of our customers, who remain our highest priority..." If your customers had been your highest priority, you wouldn't be in this mess. I promise you that. How many of your customers asked you to draft and support a legislation which risks permanently damaging the Internet as we know it? GoDaddy has served media-companies and politicians, and not their customers. And based on their…
> "Our company regrets the loss of any of our customers, who remain our highest priority..."
That's probably the only true thing they've said here. They change their public face based entirely on what gets them customers. I don't want to do business with a company that changes their positions every time the wind changes.
Re: Godaddy No Longer Just Doesn’t Support But Actually “Opposes” SOPA
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
About Facebook: There's probably no serious competitor for people to switch to (Google+ isn't quite there yet) and the majority of Facebook's users are not "techies" that care about SOPA. But yeah, who knows, in the future..
Coke's major competitor is not Pepsi, it's water. Coke's biggest challenge is to get people to drink more Coke and less water. Facebook's biggest competitor will never be another network, it will be "not bothering with a social network." And eventually people will get bored with these things. It may not be the current set of users, it might instead be the next generation of people, just as today's kids supposedly don…
> Facebook's biggest competitor will never be another network, it will be "not bothering with a social network."
I agree that this is their biggest competitor right now, but saying it 'never' will be is a real stretch IMO. Not long ago, we would've said the same thing about MySpace, and look where that ended up. The social networking space is still wearing diapers -- naming the ultimate winner based on what you see today is pretty short-sighted.
Re: Godaddy No Longer Just Doesn’t Support But Actually “Opposes” SOPA
#39It is not going to help either GoDaddy
Re: Godaddy No Longer Just Doesn’t Support But Actually “Opposes” SOPA
#40Too late, too soon. Go kill more elephants.