You have to wonder who is/are the animal(s) here?
Could be worse... "The last license to hunt Bushmen was reportedly issued in Namibia by the South African government in 1936. " - http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0102/feature6/
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Re: How to damage your brand in one smooth shot - Way to GoDaddy
#222Earlier quoted context omitted.
Actually, it will. What if a 1000 customers like you who own 10 domains do it at the same day? They sure HAVE to notice it. I've already transferred my domains and I'll make sure I won't buy any from GoDaddy again. GoDaddy already has one of the scammiest UIs I've ever come across (with a possible exception of, maybe, MySpace) and the recent elephant killing was the last straw!
But where to transfer to? NameCheap? 1&1?
Gandi.net seems to have a good reputation here on HN, and I like them myself.
Re: How to damage your brand in one smooth shot - Way to GoDaddy
#223What amazes me is that anyone here cares about GoDaddy, and as much as it pains me to imagine, there are probably people here that do business with GoDaddy.
It's a shame really. Your loss.
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#224I 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…
Was with you until your stab at vegetarians. I'm a vegetarian, I'm not an animal rights activists.
This is like seeing a change going in the Ubuntu distribution and saying it might offend Linux kernel developers. In other words, it's misinformed at best, and a worthless and argumentative statement at worst.
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#225In my opinion, the animal cruelty side of this pails in comparison to the total and utter obtuseness of playing an AC/DC track over the top of a bunch of people who are clearly starving scrambling for a hunk of meet like some post apocalyptic nightmare!!
It doesn't really surprise me coming from this guy because the he is obviously obtuse (NASCAR sponsorship, Pamela Anderson ads etc.) but I found the graphic pictures of the slaughtered elephant far less confronting than the fact that he turned the life or death struggle of these desperate people into a sideshow spectacle for his PR exercise.
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#226Earlier quoted context omitted.
You should move your domains away for reasons like constant up sales and other crappy tactics to keep you from your domains, not because the CEO shot a elephant in a different country.
Agreed. There are millions of people getting scammed and ruined by fat-cats everywhere, and an elephant is what it takes for people to get mad? Wake up, everyone. I hate asshats like the GoDaddy CEO just as much as you do, but this self-righteous indignation is at The View levels right now.
Personally, I'm rather disheartened that it took shooting an elephant to convince people to leave GoDaddy.
Re: How to damage your brand in one smooth shot - Way to GoDaddy
#227I haven't watched the video (I'm at work now), but are elephants currently protected? I recently read about a program where African elephants are being sterilized because the populations have grown so large that they're becoming a problem.
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#228Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Namecheap offers a 4.99 USD transfer special using the "byebyeGD" coupon code, valid until 11:59pm EST 1st of April 2011: http://community.namecheap.com/blog/2011/03/30/elephants/
... and just emailed me, as an existing Namecheap customer, letting me know that I can help save the elephants. Nice fast-move marketing. :)
"It's not often that we would disagree publicly with a competitor, but we at Namecheap are very disturbed by this video of a competitor killing an elephant for sport. Check out the ABC News Report (Warning: Very Graphic!)
We've decided to throw our support behind our Elephant friends by offering domain transfers at a price where we actually lose money.
Show your protest by saying BYEBYEGD again and transfer your domains to Namecheap for $4.99 for the next 24 hours through 11:59pm EST on 3/31/11 (limit 10 per user, valid for all com/net/org domains).
On top of that, we'll donate $1 for each transfer to Save The Elephants at http://www.savetheelephants.org/
Use coupon code BYEBYEGD and let's help the Elephants together!
Regards, Team Namecheap"
Re: How to damage your brand in one smooth shot - Way to GoDaddy
#229Never using GoDaddy again. I'm not a vegetarian or a leftist, but glorifying the murder of an endangered species is sickening.
Just finished transferring all my domains.
Re: How to damage your brand in one smooth shot - Way to GoDaddy
#230Remember when Acclaim seriously considered advertising its games on tombstones?
Yeah, way to top that in the lack of taste department.
Guess who I'm not registering domains with.