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Re: GoDaddy is scrambling to do damage control

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Post by timr »

quacker wrote: post #45
timr wrote: post #36

Urgh. I can't be the only person who is getting exceptionally tired of seeing self-congratulatory blog posts about GoDaddy rise to the top of HN. Dear interwebnerds: the point has been made. Stop obsessing. Every time you get your knickers in a knot and write a crowing blog post about how you just put it to The Domain Provider Who Shall Not Be Named, you give them more name recognition, free press and SEO. So stop it…

It's only been a day or two. GoDaddy is getting free press but bad press. It's getting name recognition but not the kind it wants. This will have a dramatic effect on the image of the company, and personally I want to see how GoDaddy handles this and what effect it has on the company and its competitors, if any, as well as the effect on the bill's passage, if any. I'll agree that some of the revelry may be unwarrante…

As they say: "there's no such thing as bad publicity".

This old maxim is particularly true when the publicity helps you to come up as the #1 search result for "domain registration" (or worse, links directly to your press releases), and most of your customers don't care about your position on SOPA.

Every seething blog post you vote up to the front page of HN sends potential customers to GoDaddy, if only to see what the fuss is all about.

Re: GoDaddy is scrambling to do damage control

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Post by balloot »

quacker wrote: post #45
timr wrote: post #36

Urgh. I can't be the only person who is getting exceptionally tired of seeing self-congratulatory blog posts about GoDaddy rise to the top of HN. Dear interwebnerds: the point has been made. Stop obsessing. Every time you get your knickers in a knot and write a crowing blog post about how you just put it to The Domain Provider Who Shall Not Be Named, you give them more name recognition, free press and SEO. So stop it…

It's only been a day or two. GoDaddy is getting free press but bad press. It's getting name recognition but not the kind it wants. This will have a dramatic effect on the image of the company, and personally I want to see how GoDaddy handles this and what effect it has on the company and its competitors, if any, as well as the effect on the bill's passage, if any. I'll agree that some of the revelry may be unwarrante…

At the very least, I think GoDaddy put namecheap.com on the map this week. I know I had personally never heard of namecheap before the last few days.

GoDaddy probably won't release how many customers they lost, but I bet namecheap will be happy to tell us all how many transfers happened after all this is over.

Re: GoDaddy is scrambling to do damage control

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Post by culturestate »

wx77 wrote: post #46
gry wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same here. I've moved most of mine to gandi.net. They are foreign sites now.

Aren't they still applicable to SOPA if they are .com .net .org .us domains such as homeland security taking down domains previous example shows.

This is correct. They're not foreign if the registry is controlled by the US.

Re: GoDaddy is scrambling to do damage control

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Post by kirubakaran »

wycats wrote: post #35
phillmv wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not a matter of distraction, it's a matter of support and influence and money. If you can convince a politician that a sizeable percentage of influential people who are liable to donate money to a cause are for or a against a particular issue that that they are legislating on, preferably people who are from within his/her riding/ward/district and thus directly impact him/her. Say, like well connected, high earni…

"It's all about money" is a one-dimensional caricature that really doesn't reflect the way most congresspeople actually think. Money matters, of course, but it's not the only thing that matters.

But it is the most significant bit, correct?

Re: GoDaddy is scrambling to do damage control

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Post by impendia »

phil wrote: post #22
sage_joch wrote: post #14

I'm not sure if I'm alone in this, but I had to actually look up the name of SOPA's founder (Lamar Smith). He should be facing heavy criticism right now, at least to the extent that SOPA-supporting companies are. It's as if his career isn't in any jeopardy at all over this.

This might help: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamar_S._Smith Lamar Smith is a Texas Republican in a district that is 2/3 R -- any effort to unseat him would have to involve a primary challenge and thus speak to Republican primary voters.

This says he represents (among other places) much of Austin. Isn't Austin a tech hotbed?

Surely there are a couple hundred people in his district who have a lot at stake here? Judging from the campaign rhetoric I've heard, "XYZ's policy destroyed [or will destroy] my business" definitely speaks to Republican primary voters.

Re: GoDaddy is scrambling to do damage control

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Post by hughw »

impendia wrote: post #57
phil wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This might help: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamar_S._Smith Lamar Smith is a Texas Republican in a district that is 2/3 R -- any effort to unseat him would have to involve a primary challenge and thus speak to Republican primary voters.

This says he represents (among other places) much of Austin . Isn't Austin a tech hotbed? Surely there are a couple hundred people in his district who have a lot at stake here? Judging from the campaign rhetoric I've heard, "XYZ's policy destroyed [or will destroy] my business" definitely speaks to Republican primary voters.

It's a ridiculously gerrymandered district, winding around to catch the Republican precincts in Austin. I live in the district. Sure, I'll drop him an email. Just for the exercise. I've done it before. There's zero chance he'll react. You can't vote this guy out of office with a district like this. He collects the big money -- not from constituents, but from The Interests -- as Judiciary chairman. Untouchable.

Re: GoDaddy is scrambling to do damage control

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Post by tuxcanfly »

chrislaco wrote: post #9

I can confirm damage control. I'm just your average nerd. 34 domains. Had some of them for over a decade. Transfered to NameCheap last night. Just got a call/voicemail from Mandy from the Office of the [GoDaddy] President (480-505-8828) wanting to talk about my account. I haven't returned the call yet. I bet others are getting this call.

Please do let them know that you are doing this for protest.
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