This is terrible. Anyone have any suggestions for a registrar to switch to from GoDaddy?
DNSimple (dnsimple.com) is great, also offering a promotion and 'escape hatch' from godaddy.
How to damage your brand in one smooth shot - Way to GoDaddy
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Re: How to damage your brand in one smooth shot - Way to GoDaddy
#82I 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…
Thank you. Agreed. He fed a village (or more), saved the crop, and it looks like the people there find this to be a noble act. Our U.S. grocery stores have stock piles of meat stacked in open refrigerators, butchered behind closed doors. Animals are fed and bred to be slaughtered so we can have a juicy burger and fries. Out of sight out of mind I guess. Now... MAYBE the CEO of a hugely popular brand should not have p…
Yes, it seems a large number of people are comparing our own countries way of life to the way of life in another country. We might go and admire elephants in zoos, but for some countries they're a PITA. Some people might think the way we (the "west") exterminate cock roaches and stuff is bs. Different cultures etc.
Re: How to damage your brand in one smooth shot - Way to GoDaddy
#83I 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…
Thank you. Agreed. He fed a village (or more), saved the crop, and it looks like the people there find this to be a noble act. Our U.S. grocery stores have stock piles of meat stacked in open refrigerators, butchered behind closed doors. Animals are fed and bred to be slaughtered so we can have a juicy burger and fries. Out of sight out of mind I guess. Now... MAYBE the CEO of a hugely popular brand should not have p…
And there are already too many elephants in South Africa: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7700606
Re: How to damage your brand in one smooth shot - Way to GoDaddy
#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because basic supply and demand suggests that their are way more rich Americans wanting to shoot elephants than there are elephants in need of shooting. Ergo: the idea itself isn't sustainable, economically or morally.
Charge them a license fee to shoot the elephants in need of shooting, and increase that fee until supply meets demand. Now its sustainable economically, if possibly not morally.
If only elephant supply was so easy to control...
Re: How to damage your brand in one smooth shot - Way to GoDaddy
#85I 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…
Thank you. Agreed. He fed a village (or more), saved the crop, and it looks like the people there find this to be a noble act. Our U.S. grocery stores have stock piles of meat stacked in open refrigerators, butchered behind closed doors. Animals are fed and bred to be slaughtered so we can have a juicy burger and fries. Out of sight out of mind I guess. Now... MAYBE the CEO of a hugely popular brand should not have p…
> I'm certainly not moving my domains over this.
Godaddy's got plenty of other atrocities higher on my list, like the usability of their web panel.
Re: How to damage your brand in one smooth shot - Way to GoDaddy
#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've been thinking of moving for some time now (even before I watched this video). My question is: how? They kind of own my domain names now, how can I simply change registrars?
Transfer to: Gandi: https://www.gandi.net/domain/transfer 1and1: http://order.1and1.com/xml/order/DomaininfoMove NameCheap: http://community.namecheap.com/blog/2011/03/30/elephants/ Basically go to any registrars home page and either search for "Transfer" on the page itself or in their search box if provided. They will all offer it together with easy how to steps - and I am sure their support team will help as well.…
I happily recommend Gandi myself; ben switching all my domains there for the past year or so and couldn't be happier.
Re: How to damage your brand in one smooth shot - Way to GoDaddy
#87I 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…
Thank you. Agreed. He fed a village (or more), saved the crop, and it looks like the people there find this to be a noble act. Our U.S. grocery stores have stock piles of meat stacked in open refrigerators, butchered behind closed doors. Animals are fed and bred to be slaughtered so we can have a juicy burger and fries. Out of sight out of mind I guess. Now... MAYBE the CEO of a hugely popular brand should not have p…
It's not the hunting that offends me. It's the GoDaddy hats during the slaughter.
Re: How to damage your brand in one smooth shot - Way to GoDaddy
#88I 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…
Thank you. Agreed. He fed a village (or more), saved the crop, and it looks like the people there find this to be a noble act. Our U.S. grocery stores have stock piles of meat stacked in open refrigerators, butchered behind closed doors. Animals are fed and bred to be slaughtered so we can have a juicy burger and fries. Out of sight out of mind I guess. Now... MAYBE the CEO of a hugely popular brand should not have p…
While I agree that this certainly isn't the worst action of a CEO ever (nor this year or probably this day), I can understand the outrage a bit.
First of all, controlling your public image is a good idea, most of the time. Unless you want to go totally over the top and take it too a Donal Trump level. Hunting probably belongs in the same class as politics, religion and sexuality: Don't talk about it too much.
Second, it's hunting in Africa. Trying to look like you're the protector of a poor village there is going to bring back things like the "White Man's Burden" into the mind of people reading and watching this. Not a good idea, part deux.
Never mind that shooting elephants is a last-ditch effort. As far as I know there are lots of other ways to drive them off, maybe not as easy (and "entertaining") as just shooting them.
On the other hand, it's the GoDaddy CEO. Not exactly a brand with a good publicity anyway, and they barely need it. Enough people go there because they like to save money and/or don't know any competitors. Regarding needs for good publicity, they're probably somewhere between McDonalds and Monsanto.
Re: How to damage your brand in one smooth shot - Way to GoDaddy
#89Wow. Just wow. Having been to Africa and seen elephants in the wild up close, among other animals, I simply can't stomach that I'm supporting a bunch of fat white Americans flying half way around the world to destroy a magnificent animal simply because they can. I'll be moving my domains away from GoDaddy asap.
I've been thinking of moving for some time now (even before I watched this video). My question is: how? They kind of own my domain names now, how can I simply change registrars?
I put together a step-by-step guide on how to prepare domains for transfer out of GoDaddy:
http://blog.dnsimple.com/post/3167427271/preparing-domains-i...
Naturally I'd love if you used DNSimple, but this will work for transferring out to any other registrar.
Re: How to damage your brand in one smooth shot - Way to GoDaddy
#90Technically it was two shots...