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GoDaddy supports SOPA, redditor proposes "Move your Domain Day"

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Same thing's true for their SSL certificates. $12 if you Google, $60+ if you don't.

Careful, they'll autorenew those at a much higher price. Mine went up to $100+ when it renewed last month. I'm kicking myself for being stuck with that cert, especially since the GoDaddy badge isn't exactly the mark of trustworthiness.

Yeah, I turn off auto-renew always with them.

Re: GoDaddy supports SOPA, redditor proposes "Move your Domain Day"

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Both MasterCard and VISA are there. What to do? :(

Spend less.

How is this relevant? I don't spend much, and use cash in real life. But I need a card for online purchases for my business (hosting, etc.) and for access to my bank accounts in a different country. Maybe I can replace most of it with wire transfer, but Amazon, Rackspace, etc. won't accept it.

Re: GoDaddy supports SOPA, redditor proposes "Move your Domain Day"

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Even if domains are just a loss leader for GoDaddy, they surely look at their numbers, so this is a way to send them a message they'll hear. Maybe it will work, maybe it won't, but no one who still has a domain at GoDaddy will be entitled to complain about SOPA if it passes.

I'm going to piggyback on your comment here, since it's at the top of the comment thread. From the Reddit link: "Name Cheap messaged me with a special discount code for reddit users: BYEBYEGD I'm not taking any positions i'm just reporting it. I asked him to give reddit users a better deal." I'm not affiliated with NameCheap at all, but if you're going to move your domain, this might make things easier.

I transferred my domains to NameCheap from GoDaddy during their last PR nightmare. I wish I had done it sooner. NameCheap's interface isn't the best in the world, but not having to use GoDaddy's site is worth more to me than 5x the transfer fees I paid. Plus the domain privacy option is bundled, meaning cheaper domain registrations ($11 for a .com vs. $17 at godaddy -- at least for the first year).

Re: GoDaddy supports SOPA, redditor proposes "Move your Domain Day"

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post #114

Even if domains are just a loss leader for GoDaddy, they surely look at their numbers, so this is a way to send them a message they'll hear. Maybe it will work, maybe it won't, but no one who still has a domain at GoDaddy will be entitled to complain about SOPA if it passes.

While I understand your sentiments towards SOPA, are you really going to distance yourself from all of these companies? http://judiciary.house.gov/issues/Rouge%20Websites/SOPA%20Su...

Yes, no problem. F*ck every last one of those companies. The only two that I still have no real choice but to support would be Comcast because of my local ISP monopoly (I can get 512K DSL from SBC [ATT] or 100mbit Comcast...not really what I'd call a "choice") and MasterCard because my credit union does not offer debit cards via AmEx.

Re: GoDaddy supports SOPA, redditor proposes "Move your Domain Day"

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Serious question: Has anyone in the HN community actually bought anything from GoDaddy? I find it difficult to imagine that any HN reader would. Was there ever an era when GoDaddy's reputation and service were respectable?

People makes mistakes. I bought some domains from GoDaddy. As they expire i'm transfering them to namecheap.

You don't have to wait until they expire! Transferring adds another year to your current registration, and you don't lose anything at all, unless you bought hosting at GoDaddy.

For basic website hosting, I've been very happy with HostGator. For about $7 a month you get unlimited space, bandwidth, and domains. It takes care of DNS for your sites (just point your registrar nameserver information at HostGator's nameservers), has SSH access, provides unlimited MySQL databases, and has a pretty nice interface.

Re: GoDaddy supports SOPA, redditor proposes "Move your Domain Day"

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post #114

Even if domains are just a loss leader for GoDaddy, they surely look at their numbers, so this is a way to send them a message they'll hear. Maybe it will work, maybe it won't, but no one who still has a domain at GoDaddy will be entitled to complain about SOPA if it passes.

I'm going to piggyback on your comment here, since it's at the top of the comment thread. From the Reddit link: "Name Cheap messaged me with a special discount code for reddit users: BYEBYEGD I'm not taking any positions i'm just reporting it. I asked him to give reddit users a better deal." I'm not affiliated with NameCheap at all, but if you're going to move your domain, this might make things easier.

Name.com also has a rocking transfer special if you use the promocode "NoDaddy" as a response to their SOPA position.

Re: GoDaddy supports SOPA, redditor proposes "Move your Domain Day"

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While I understand your sentiments towards SOPA, are you really going to distance yourself from all of these companies? http://judiciary.house.gov/issues/Rouge%20Websites/SOPA%20Su...

Actually that's exactly what I thought when I saw the list yesterday. Several of those companies send people to Demo Day, and when I saw the list I thought: we should stop inviting them. So yes, we'll remove anyone from those companies from the Demo Day invite list.

Awesome. More people with influence should (be brave enough to) take their part of action if they think something sucks!

Re: GoDaddy supports SOPA, redditor proposes "Move your Domain Day"

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I sent an email:

Hello,

I am writing to you to inform you that because of GoDaddy's continued support of SOPA I am transferring my domains to a different registrar as soon as I can(they were renewed recently so I have to wait).

I read your press release today and I felt that you didn't actually respond to a bulk of the criticism of SOPA, that is that takedown requests can be filed by private parties and the respondent is legally required to remove the content before even considering challenging the takedown request. This obviously presents a large challenge to sites based on user-created content.

A world with SOPA is one in which businesses can't run websites with user-generated content without having a legal team on hand.

SOPA is bad for the open internet and if GoDaddy refuses to look into the issue and actually give a reasoned, intelligent response(as opposed to the "well, we have to stop piracy!" argument your press release made -- yes, something should be done about piracy but SOPA is NOT the answer) then GoDaddy, too, must be considered bad for the open internet and I will stop hosting my domains with you and stop recommending my clients host domains with you.

Thanks,

Re: GoDaddy supports SOPA, redditor proposes "Move your Domain Day"

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post #114

Even if domains are just a loss leader for GoDaddy, they surely look at their numbers, so this is a way to send them a message they'll hear. Maybe it will work, maybe it won't, but no one who still has a domain at GoDaddy will be entitled to complain about SOPA if it passes.

While I understand your sentiments towards SOPA, are you really going to distance yourself from all of these companies? http://judiciary.house.gov/issues/Rouge%20Websites/SOPA%20Su...

What are the incentives for Visa and Mastercard to support SOPA?
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