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
#2It's too late for sorry, GoDaddy. Take your medicine.
Re: Godaddy No Longer Just Doesn’t Support But Actually “Opposes” SOPA
#3Yeah, OK. Let me know when they OPPOSE making serious decisions that affect real people based on who needs the most sucking-up-to today.
Re: Godaddy No Longer Just Doesn’t Support But Actually “Opposes” SOPA
#4In an email? Whatever.
Re: Godaddy No Longer Just Doesn’t Support But Actually “Opposes” SOPA
#5GoDaddy's prior SOPA support isn't the only reason why people are leaving them.
Re: Godaddy No Longer Just Doesn’t Support But Actually “Opposes” SOPA
#6The reporter from TechCrunch refers to GoDaddy's "new CEO Warren Adelman", but according to CrunchBase, he's been in that position for over two and a half years:
Re: Godaddy No Longer Just Doesn’t Support But Actually “Opposes” SOPA
#7I'll believe they "OPPOSE" SOPA when I see a commercial during SportsCenter with Danica Patrick talking about the evils of internet censorship and telling us to contact our Congresspeople.
Re: Godaddy No Longer Just Doesn’t Support But Actually “Opposes” SOPA
#8Opposes in current form. I don't believe they've changed their stance. It's just a ploy to get people to stop transferring domains.
Re: Godaddy No Longer Just Doesn’t Support But Actually “Opposes” SOPA
#9GoDaddy does not get that this isn't like the elephant thing or using moderately attractive B-listers to sell stuff.
Those things, while some find them objectionable, don't really reflect much about how they view their customers in relationship to their core business offerings, domain registration and hosting.
I've seen a few questions to the effect of, "Why do tech savvy people use GoDaddy."
I can't speak for everyone else, but I used them because the customer service people spoke good English, they were always helpful and polite, the services were cheap, and the DNS control panel was constantly improving (we only use them for domains, their hosting has always been crap).
But their support of SOPA made it now clear that not only will they happily toss me and my clients right under the bus, but they'll put their name on something that makes it easier for someone else to be the one doing the tossing.
Re: Godaddy No Longer Just Doesn’t Support But Actually “Opposes” SOPA
#10GoDaddy'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.