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

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Post by marcanthonyrosa »

pg wrote: post #122
solipsist wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I'm sure you've seen the list of supporters (http://1.usa.gov/t7Wpo8). Even the list itself is a half-assed job by pro-SOPAs to illustrate Congressional support for the bill.

Unless, of course, the fragrance company Coty Inc has been seeing a lot of their fragrances being pirated online.

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

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Post by stephenson »

antr wrote: post #191
stephenson wrote: post #183

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why? The KKR portfolio is independent companies with independent political standpoints...

YC is an investor and has a standpoint. YC is promoting anti-SOPA support outwards and towards its (independent) portfolio companies. KKR is also an investor and also has a standpoint.

But its not KKR listet on the pro SOPA list its one, and only one of there portefolie companies. KKR are not (in the same way as YC isent) responsible for its portefolies standpoints.

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

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Post by hub_ »

pg wrote: post #122
solipsist wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Thanks pg ! This is the kind of effort that make a difference.

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

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Post by intenex »

jimmyjim wrote: post #176
pg wrote: post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Just wondering here -- would you go so far as to consider the domain registrars of YC hopefuls when going through the application process, or would their choice hold essentially zero weight in whether they get accepted or not?

I doubt it'll become a topic of conversation what your registrar is..but if it does happen to come up and you happen to say GoDaddy, judging from pg's post above the answer is probably yes, he will hold it against you :)

Funding a company that supports a company that supports SOPA is just one step away from supporting a company that supports SOPA...which in turn is just one step away from supporting SOPA. Scary, isn't it?

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Post by hub_ »

rdl wrote: post #189
pg wrote: post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Is Amex the only card association (well, sort of) left? Visa and Mastercard both are on the list.

Remember their take on Wikileaks? No surprise. Use cash.

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Post by eek04 »

180grl wrote: post #202
pg wrote: post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I'm talking to my Congressman on the phone right now. What do you think should be altered so the bill can achieve its original purpose? Or will nothing help?

I think it's very hard to make anything help. Here's a shortlist of things that should be fixed to avoid it horribly hurting innocent people, but I doubt it's enough - there seems likely to be more things in there. The original purpose of the law seems to be "Give the 'intellectual property' industries a blunt instrument to attack perceived violators", so making it less blunt probably violate the original purpose anyway.

Stop removing DNS entries; that's attempting to censor things that aren't in the US for non-US citizens.

Require a full court proceeding to stop advertisements and payment processing in the US - ie, no "court order", it has to be a full lawsuit with the ability to defend.

Require the removal of access to only affect a specific, listed set of companies.

Require the company requesting the blocking to pay reasonable costs of blocking.

Remove the making of copyright infringement into a felony; each of these things can easily happen by mistake.

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Post by djeikyb »

jeltz wrote: post #203
dchest wrote: post #132

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

Use cash as much as possible and use wire transfer for online payments whenever you can.

With my credit union in California, wire transfers are $20 + 2-3 business days. This is cost prohibitive. Western Union is similarly pricey. Dwolla is an interesting competitor ($3/mo for unlimited instant transfers), but it needs wider adoption before it can be used directly.

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Post by intenex »

citricsquid wrote: post #2

To 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…

Strange logic. If they don't care about their domain business, why are they in it? Even if it's just a loss leader, you still care about the loss leader or you wouldn't continue running it.

The reason this thread is about domain transfers is because GoDaddy is at large known best as a domain registrar. If they were primarily a hosting company/etc., this thread would just as easily be about transferring your hosting/etc.

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Post by GHFigs »

samstave wrote: post #208
GHFigs wrote: post #192

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I don't understand how it's "sick" to market a training program at people who are "clueless".

I am talking about marketing the program to congress/political figures in charge of funding for the training. THey would not be the ones taking the training - but the ones spending tax dollars on a service they really don't understand - thus the likelihood for abuse is higher. I err on the side of corruption when anything pertaining to governments is concerned. Call me paranoid.

Paranoid is not the word that comes to mind.
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