There's no need to move all your domains today (that can be a HUGE job). Just pledge to not give GoDaddy another cent and move your domains as they expire. In five years, problem solved.
This what I'll likely end up doing, I only have, maybe, 60-70 names but that's a lot of money (for me) to move them all at once.
It works great. And it's a nice feeling every time you receive a GoDaddy email complaining that they were unable to charge your credit card.
ONLY 60-70??? Can you just abandon 2/3 of them...?
What are the incentives for Visa and Mastercard to support SOPA?
I suspect one reason is that they get process a lot of chargebacks when people's fake Viagra and counterfeit NFL jerseys get seized by Customs before delivery.
Except they make out like bandits in that case. Hefty fees to the merchant, jacked up transaction fees...
This what I'll likely end up doing, I only have, maybe, 60-70 names but that's a lot of money (for me) to move them all at once.
It works great. And it's a nice feeling every time you receive a GoDaddy email complaining that they were unable to charge your credit card. ONLY 60-70??? Can you just abandon 2/3 of them...?
haha, I think you're right, I could probably prune a bit. Domains can get addicting, but probably 15 to 20 are not related to anything but late night ideas. :)
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.
They are not legally liable, which is different from being responsible. Imagine if one of their portfolio companies was a child porn distributor. You wouldn't defend KKR, because clearly they have some choice in who they put in their portfolio, and a child porn distributor is an immoral choice. Holding a SOPA supporting company is also a (albeit less egregious) poor choice. Taking away invites of their portfolio companies provides motivation for them to look into this sort of thing when choosing companies in the future.
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?
Yep. I registered my first domain with them about a decade ago. I've finally moved on to NearlyFreeSpeech.Net (don't really like their weird account funding thing, though) for a couple of new domains last year.
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.
In Sweden wire transfers within Sweden[1] generally do not have a per transaction cost and most utility bills are paid through wire transfer. Recently many online stores have started allowing purchase with invoice (many use a company called Klarna[2] which handles the sending of invoices and the risks) which you then have to pay through wire transfer.
1. I think it is usually free to all EU countries too as long as you use IBAN.
On one cheap Linode VPS instance I already have 5 websites hosted, plus a personal email server, plus several private git repositories, all for ~ $20 per month. I get my domains from other services, like namecheap.com; and good/cheap hosting for PHP stuff (and even Rails) can be found on DreamHost.com. There really isn't any reason for anybody to use GoDaddy anymore, unless you're hunting for their coupons, but in th…
I've heard that GoDaddy is good if you want Windows-based hosting. (personally, I use DreamHost and love them)
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.
Actually it looks like Visa and MC were some of the most reasonable in the hearings -- they said there would be lots of costs to comply, and while they didn't support visa/mc being used for any illegal activity, ...
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.
"but no one who still has a domain at GoDaddy will be entitled to complain about SOPA if it passes."
I was going to complain about this sentiment from someone not that rich and who can't afford the fanciest red polo shirts money can buy ha ha, but then I said forget it, for what it truly costs to move a domain it's far less then the cost on our liberties if SOPA passes, so I went outside shoveled a few driveways and earned enough money to move over the domains I have without cutting into my budget. There really isn't a reason for people not to do this.
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.
PG, thanks for making this stand. It makes me want to support YC-funded companies more actively now.