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Re: How to damage your brand in one smooth shot - Way to GoDaddy

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Post by Smrchy » Thu, Mar 31, 2011, 9:09 PM UTC

tnorthcutt wrote: post #76

elliottcarlson wrote: post #62

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Transfer to: Gandi: https://www.gandi.net/domain/transfer 1and1: http://order.1and1.com/xml/order/DomaininfoMove NameCheap: http://community.namecheap.com/blog/2011/03/30/elephants/ Basically go to any registrars home page and either search for "Transfer" on the page itself or in their search box if provided. They will all offer it together with easy how to steps - and I am sure their support team will help as well.…

I'd encourage you to avoid 1and1. Horrendous customer service, crippled control panels, etc.

100% agree on that. I had a DSL contract with them in Germany and moved to another town where i had internet via cable included. They insisted that i have to keep paying for another 18 months with no way to cancel the contract early.

I paid and will avoid 1and1 for the rest of my life.

Re: How to damage your brand in one smooth shot - Way to GoDaddy

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Post by wheels » Thu, Mar 31, 2011, 9:12 PM UTC

c2 wrote: post #50

I guess I'll be the lone discenting voice and say I don't think it's that bad. Bob Parsons has always run his company the way he wants, and he has particular freedom to do so since he has zero investors and is the sole owner. He does certain things for shock value, such as the super bowl commercials, which by the way caused outage with a completely different demographic of people. Slaughtering an elephant might offen…

I have no problems with killing and eating animals. There are 1.5 billion cattle on this planet. Elephants, however, have been hunted from a population of 5-10 million a century ago to around 600,000 today and are now a threatened species. Do you really not see the difference between one and the other?

Re: How to damage your brand in one smooth shot - Way to GoDaddy

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Mar 31, 2011, 9:12 PM UTC

lwhi wrote: post #205

powertower wrote: post #169

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> I know at least one person who is angry about this and is a strict vegetarian who has done lots of humanitarian work in Africa. Agreed. There are people like this in the world. But they are few, and certainly not the majority. My issue is not with what is moral, but with how easily people blame and demonize others.

.. and so you generalise and point your finger towards others as a response?

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Re: How to damage your brand in one smooth shot - Way to GoDaddy

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Post by imechura » Thu, Mar 31, 2011, 9:12 PM UTC

I needed to purchase a name today.

BTW, I found this...

GODADDY.COM TRADEMARK LIST

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Registered Trademarks

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Pending Trademarks

4GH™ Claim Your Domain™ Data Center on Demand™ Data Widgets™ Domains, websites & everything* in between!™ Domains, websites & everything* in between! Logo Dream Design Team™ Dream Design Team Logo Expert Hands™ Go Daddy Savings Network™ GoDaddy.co™ GoDaddy.co Logo GoDaddy.com SSL Seal Logo Social Visibility™ Video.ME™ We Make Websites Easy™ Web Professionals' Day™ Website Protection Seal Logo

Re: How to damage your brand in one smooth shot - Way to GoDaddy

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Post by jarin » Thu, Mar 31, 2011, 9:13 PM UTC

mikx wrote: post #196

nhangen wrote: post #110

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Exactly. Vegetarians have problems with killing...period.

Hitler was a vegetarian

Well there you go. Close thread.

Re: How to damage your brand in one smooth shot - Way to GoDaddy

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Post by jarin » Thu, Mar 31, 2011, 9:16 PM UTC

fistofjohnwayne wrote: post #151

Untitled wrote: post #136

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> As someone who has worked with ecologists in the field on a number of wildlife projects in rural Africa, I find this to be truly repugnant. Really? You know that the majority of ecologists support Elephant Culling (killing elephant family groups wholesale from helicopters)? > There are many ways of controlling "problem elephants" other than killing them There is an oversupply of elephants and an undersupply of spac…

There is an oversupply of humans and an undersupply of space. Killing a lone human male is no problem. I find it sad that a lot of damage is done to the ecosystem and to other animals (which may not be as pretty as humans) because some groups (such as the UN) opposed human culling. How long does it take for a tree to grow? How long for a beautiful Baobab? Do you know how quickly a human fucks up a tree? Humans are no…

This satirical response only applies if you value human lives and elephant lives equally.

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Post by namityadav » Thu, Mar 31, 2011, 9:19 PM UTC

namityadav wrote: post #106

locopati wrote: post #37

So, to recap: sexist advertising campaigns for the benefit of the entire company == OK; the CEO shooting an elephant == boycott. To be clear, I'm in no way agreeing with his actions, but it was getting fed up with the advertising that got me to dump GoDaddy for DynDNS long before anything like this occurred.

Umm -- YES! Sexist advertising campaign = Silly, but I am not going to choose or drop a registrar based on that. CEO shooting an innocent animal = A company that I don't want to do business with. You aren't trying to say that showing some scantily clad women is equivalent to killing, are you?

@locopati You are right. The difference is in where people draw the lines.

@travisp I've heard this logic before. Your girlfriend perhaps eats beef. Ask her to take a chainsaw and chop a cow for her next meal. She'll tell you how the two things are different.

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Post by mitjak » Thu, Mar 31, 2011, 9:22 PM UTC

cookiecaper wrote: post #200

mitjak wrote: post #140

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Perhaps some of us care more about endangered species than those getting scammed around the world? Just a thought.

African elephants aren't an endangered species.

Maybe not technically, but the African Bush Elephant going down from 300,000 in 1970 to 10,000 today is a very significant drop.

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Post by eklovlfjkeos » Thu, Mar 31, 2011, 9:22 PM UTC

StavrosK wrote: post #210

erreon wrote: post #181

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Just out of curiosity where are you going to move your domains? I own just over 30 domains all at GoDaddy and I'd move them over the massive amounts of cross selling and insanely cluttered UI.

I like gandi quite a lot, it's simple and reliable.

I second that.

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Post by elliottcarlson » Thu, Mar 31, 2011, 9:22 PM UTC

tnorthcutt wrote: post #76

elliottcarlson wrote: post #62

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Transfer to: Gandi: https://www.gandi.net/domain/transfer 1and1: http://order.1and1.com/xml/order/DomaininfoMove NameCheap: http://community.namecheap.com/blog/2011/03/30/elephants/ Basically go to any registrars home page and either search for "Transfer" on the page itself or in their search box if provided. They will all offer it together with easy how to steps - and I am sure their support team will help as well.…

I'd encourage you to avoid 1and1. Horrendous customer service, crippled control panels, etc.

We use them at work - not a fan but haven't had any issues. Personally I use Gandi and love them.

Another one to avoid like the plague imho is dotster - lost a domain via dotster, even though my payment was accepted and then returned a week later. Domain briefly showed up with whois information of the CEO, and then it changed.