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GoDaddy supports SOPA, redditor proposes "Move your Domain Day"
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Re: GoDaddy supports SOPA, redditor proposes "Move your Domain Day"
#22To put it frankly, godaddy don't give a shit. Their domain business exists as a way to get people into their other products, hosting, whois privacy etc. the ones that actually make money (nobody makes money on domains nowadays, savvy customers use coupons which godaddy provides a lot of). This won't do anything to Godaddy as a business, they'll be losing customers they don't care about -- unless people shutting off t…
Even with their extreme coupon usage, from what I can tell they are still not using them as loss leaders (if we ignore all costs besides registry/icann).
You also neglect to see the effect of thousands or tens of thousands of savvy people actively changing their mind about a company and NOT recommending it to people or bad mouthing the company. My suspicion is, the kind of people reading HN/Reddit are also the type of people that get asked 'computery' stuff quite a bit. I know from personal experience I've probably influenced ~30-50 people's registrar choice this year. Even if it were 1-2 as the average number, the knock on effects could potentially put a nice dent in them.
Re: GoDaddy supports SOPA, redditor proposes "Move your Domain Day"
#23alternate: use godaddy, but only their loss-leading coupons when they appear. For example, I registered a domain last week using a code that got me $1.00 domain registration. The code expired last week unfortunately so posting it would be irrelevant.
Why even support them at all?
Re: GoDaddy supports SOPA, redditor proposes "Move your Domain Day"
#24This blog post from their lead lobbyist defending their support is absolutely grating. http://rudysyndrome.com/2011/10/28/online-copyright-laws-won... "Most of what we are seeing is either 1) rhetoric, 2) regurgitated lobbying spin, 3) criticism of language we have already fixed, or 4) retweets by people who like to steal music and buy fake, but cheap, goods." Ugh. (oBDisclaimer: I work for a registrar that unequivoc…
What does "Open Internet" mean though?
You can't reasonably support free speech in all instances, just like you can't reasonably support an "open internet" in all instances. There have to be some exceptions.
It's the listing of those exceptions and how you deal with them that's the tricky bit. So saying "I support an open internet" is just ignoring the issue.
Re: GoDaddy supports SOPA, redditor proposes "Move your Domain Day"
#25Serious 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?
For years, yes - years ago they were cheaper than anyone else and no worse than anyone else. It wasn't until last summer, I think, that I finally moved the last domain off of GoDaddy.
If you find one of the not-infrequent "Which registrar do you use?" posts, even on HN a lot of people still use them.
Re: GoDaddy supports SOPA, redditor proposes "Move your Domain Day"
#26Please can we at least try to ensure HN doesn't go the way of Reddit? I'm against SOPA as much as the next guy, but it's a moot issue. Browsers will just release new versions that use alternate DNS systems or get past any 'blocks'. There's nothing uglier than an internet hate/protest mob.
It sounds like you're suggesting apathy instead?
To say it's a moot issue because there are technical work arounds is pretty naive. I seriously doubt any major browser would ship with a work around to this...I don't know why you assume they would.
Re: GoDaddy supports SOPA, redditor proposes "Move your Domain Day"
#27Please can we at least try to ensure HN doesn't go the way of Reddit? I'm against SOPA as much as the next guy, but it's a moot issue. Browsers will just release new versions that use alternate DNS systems or get past any 'blocks'. There's nothing uglier than an internet hate/protest mob.
A mob of unruly domain registrants? Not exactly Kristallnacht, if you ask me...
Re: GoDaddy supports SOPA, redditor proposes "Move your Domain Day"
#28Please can we at least try to ensure HN doesn't go the way of Reddit? I'm against SOPA as much as the next guy, but it's a moot issue. Browsers will just release new versions that use alternate DNS systems or get past any 'blocks'. There's nothing uglier than an internet hate/protest mob.
It sounds like you're suggesting apathy instead? To say it's a moot issue because there are technical work arounds is pretty naive. I seriously doubt any major browser would ship with a work around to this...I don't know why you assume they would.
I just think the sky isn't falling that's all. I think the endless posting of articles, protesting, etc etc is a big waste of man hours.
Re: GoDaddy supports SOPA, redditor proposes "Move your Domain Day"
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Re: GoDaddy supports SOPA, redditor proposes "Move your Domain Day"
#30This blog post from their lead lobbyist defending their support is absolutely grating. http://rudysyndrome.com/2011/10/28/online-copyright-laws-won... "Most of what we are seeing is either 1) rhetoric, 2) regurgitated lobbying spin, 3) criticism of language we have already fixed, or 4) retweets by people who like to steal music and buy fake, but cheap, goods." Ugh. (oBDisclaimer: I work for a registrar that unequivoc…
What does "Open Internet" mean though? You can't reasonably support free speech in all instances, just like you can't reasonably support an "open internet" in all instances. There have to be some exceptions. It's the listing of those exceptions and how you deal with them that's the tricky bit. So saying "I support an open internet" is just ignoring the issue.
> you can't reasonably support an "open internet" in all instances. There have to be some exceptions.
Why? I am fine with the internet not blocking anything at all, even though I accept limits on free speech.
To drag the "speech" analogy further, I can shout whatever I want and I'm ok with the fact that in some cases this can bring consequences.