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

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Post by ohashi »

redthrowaway wrote: post #90
ohashi wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 o…

>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 Savvy people have been badmouthing GoDaddy for years . Being recommended by the technorati simply isn't a part of GoDaddy's business model. Here in Vancouver, there's a plumbing company called Milani. They hire bad plumbers, do…

I think it's silly to say everyone knows who fit a certain category. For example, look at Cheezburger moving away. I would have suspected he is fairly web savvy, you know, owning 1000 domains and running a giant blog network. But this apparently was the thing that called him into action. Plenty of room to spread the message and actually have people act.

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

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Post by ninjastar99 »

wwweston wrote: post #210
evandena wrote: post #175

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I have all my domains at NameCheap and have never gotten any spam (or maybe google blocks it all?). Either way, I'm happy. I haven't tried http://en.gandi.net/ but they are bit more expensive.

I've been using Gandi for 11 years. They've generally been great. Initially I was drawn to them because they were one of the first registrars to make it clear you owned the domain name and they were an agent. I've kept with them largely because of the generally convenient and low-upsell nature of the website on top of this. One caveat for U.S. customers: on the very rare (once or twice a decade) occasions when I've h…

I like Gandi's motto ("no bullshit"), but their support is - for lack of a better word - exactly that. It's now hovering at 36 hours without a response after repeated emails to them. No excuse. I'd rather pay the $10 extra and get real phone or live chat support from anyone else. Avoid.

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

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Post by DavidSJ »

pg wrote: post #114

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, this makes me uncomfortable. While I strongly oppose SOPA, this seems like an attempt to intimidate people for expressing views we dislike.

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Post by Confusion »

DavidSJ wrote: post #243
pg wrote: post #114

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, this makes me uncomfortable. While I strongly oppose SOPA, this seems like an attempt to intimidate people for expressing views we dislike.

If you care about who will be offended or who will feel intimidated, free speech is not for you. This is about putting your money where your mouth is.

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Post by pajop »

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

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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.

Paul - you've always been one of my heroes - this takes a lot of intestinal fortitude - I salute you!

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

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Post by danssig »

stephenson wrote: post #212
antr wrote: post #191

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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're an enabler. You punish them the same to inspire them to push pressure downward on everyone they work with.

Remember when Glenn Beck was still on Fox and people were crying continuously? Nothing worked until they started boycotting the companies advertising for him.

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Post by adrianN »

jacquesm wrote: post #186
grecy wrote: post #100

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> 1) Child pornography Obviously this is an extremely touchy subject, but I think the fact you have even one exception shows you are not grasping the problem here. So in your country, "Child" may mean It just makes no sense to say "There are no exceptions. Except this one, that can be interpreted in hundreds of different ways". Once you leave it for interpretation, the scope will expand and expand until children are…

Slippery slopes notwithstanding you could easily make a case that anything lower than the lowest age-of-consent is at least clearly child porn. After that you're in a gray area, but below that you definitely should get into a lot of trouble.

It is not well defined what "porn" is. In my country it is, as far as I know, perfectly legal to distribute photos of nude children, as long as they are not engaged in a "sexual act". cf. the art of David Hamilton.

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Post by hobbes »

chirayuk wrote: post #240
libraryatnight wrote: post #171

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I've decided to go with Name.com as it seems Namecheap is a reseller of ENOM, who I haven't particularly cared for (no reasons I can link or substantiate, just my own personal experiences and opinion on this one.)

That hasn't been the case for a few years now. http://community.namecheap.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&...

I transferred my domain into Namecheap earlier this year, and the whois states "ENOM, INC."

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Post by hobbes »

jberryman wrote: post #238
seles wrote: post #43

I have been using GoDaddy for years. I'm just using it for a simple webpage+domain hosting and email. It works but I'm probably being overcharged since I don't bother with coupons. I have always been annoyed about the privacy complaints I've seen about them, but never cared enough to switch. Now I do care enough to switch, thanks.

Lots of people probably have recommendations, but I've been using nearlyfreespeech.net for a couple of years for hosting my personal site. They're great.

They will be great when they finally allow their users to run cron jobs.

https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/about/faq?&keywords=cro...

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Post by stanmancan »

So... I know spams bad and all. But what about writing a crawler that sends a single email to the owner of every domain it finds hosted on GoDaddy? Just something that says "Incase you haven't heard, this is SOPA, this is what it means, GoDaddy supports it, this is how to switch if you decide to" type of thing. Sure, it's certainly in a grey area, but even if you could send out 10 million emails and 0.2% actually took action as a result, thats another 20,000 customers.
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