Raise your hand if you use GoDaddy. If you raised your hand click me. (looks at Stella)
December 23, 2011 by Ryan
GoDaddy has came out in support of SOPA. It is a law that would pretty much allow the Federal Government to close down any site it wants at the request of lobbyists. It would do this at the DNS level so there would be no need to involve your hosting company.
Here is a primer: MetaFilter
More info here: Arstechnica
GoDaddy responds: Response from GoDaddy
Namecheap’s stance: Alternate registrars response.
I plan on moving three domains off Godaddy this weekend to another registrar since I only have three with them. If anyone else wants help doing the same I will spend as much time as you need helping you do it.
If you have them as your host I will even help you get going on the wonderful Linode.
The gist of SOPA is that if someone posted a youtube video here that contained a copyrighted song they could kill the domain name with a simple letter. I would have no recourse. But GoDaddy is proud to support this law so I think we should stop giving them money.
I really hate them.
I have a few sites that I have to move so this is going to be a fucking nightmare.
ARRGGHHJJSJSL:
What do you expect of a guy who gets a hard on shooting endangered animals that are trapped in pens.
I will totally help. Changing the DNS isn’t a problem. If you have stuff hosted with them it will be harder but doable. I am totally willing to help. If you want I can host stuff on this server. I can have hundreds of different sites with unique domains hosted here. Or if you want the hosting in your name (understandable) I can set up a Linode for you.
We can even switch stuff over to test before fully making the switch.
I have wanted to switch for a long time but this pissed me off enough to spend a few hours doing it.
But Fuck GoDaddy:
http://www.metafilter.com/102059/ElephantPR-Killer
http://www.metafilter.com/42906/Dear-Bob-Im-glad-youre-not-in-charge
http://jezebel.com/5154266/does-using-sexism-to-sell-products-ever-backfire
Oh.. And here is a tutorial showing how easy it is to switch.
This is great. I can do this. Not sure where I want to go though. A lot of my domains are still with NetSol.
The guy who founded GoDaddy and ran it for years [his cariacature the aging hippie logo] had just retired/sold up? And new management were fuckheads?
GoDaddy wimped out and then tried to “explain” their brand new Mitt Romneyesque position on SOPA, but I don’t think it’s gonna help ‘em any. The thing is, it isn’t as easy to boycott Sony, etc.
I was just reading that they changed their tune. It still doesn’t help. They still support it but just don’t have the balls to say so publicly.
Sort of the reverse of Lowe’s being too scared of losing bible-belt customers to keep supporting its “Little Mosque on the Prairie” family show with advertising
I moved mine today. It was pretty painless. Once it is completed in a few days I can tell GoDaddy to suck my balls.
Yeah, but what if they want to?
A boy can dream.
OMG…. Lets do it. I have to figure out what to keep and what I can just kill though.
I am going to leave “Backondisplay.com” and just give my old account to the dude I made it for.
Then there is the other crap… ugh… I hate GoDaddy.
I do not think I use up that much space really though.. I will figure out what domains I give a damn about and ditch the rest. The list will be pretty short for keepers.
Check this fucking shit out.
http://community.namecheap.com/blog/2011/12/26/godaddy-transfer-update/
Fuck GoDaddy.
But when you want to pull the trigger let me know. The only real pain is that you need to pay the new company at the time of transfer. But that extends your domain for a year so nothing is really lost. So if you have 6 months left then you pay the seven bucks and and it goes to 18 months.
This feels good
Lets pull the trigger when I get paid- some time this week. I look forward to ditching them forever! If you feel like nosing around to see what we are up against I never changed the password.
I have about 10 domains on godaddy. We’ll switch them in January.
Color me surprised..
http://i.imgur.com/7ItHK.png
HA- Too little too late.
Hey did it work???
ARGGHHHH!!! GoDaddy says I need to accept or decline the transfer- I go everywhere and click click click and nowhere do they give me the stupid damn option to actually accept! It is an evil ploy to keep me there!
“37000 domains moved in 2 days, by the next day another 28000 had bailed” http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2011/12/go-daddy-really-screwed/46666/ (written yesterday)
Also this link lists both companies that support and oppose the bill – http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h3261/money
Amazing links. And I am sure GoDaddy will (illegally) prevent the boycott from being effective with stunts like they are doing with me right now. Dicks.
Today is the official day most people are transferring. Namecheap has put up a counter of how many people have transferred to them. At 3 AM it is at 2110.
8AM PST it is at 5828.
9AM PST it is at 8127.
Interesting.
I just have a few domain names parked there but Linode intrigues.
Thanks Ryan!
If you need any help let me know. Dreamhost.com is also having a pretty awesome deal right now if you need to switch hosting. Dreamhost is very good and does domain names too.
HEY!!!!
I think it worked! Our STFU got moved! WHOO HOOO!
Hot damn… It did work. We are now Godaddy free!!
I wrote godaddy an e-mail and told them I’m moving everything soon and why
We can work on it.. Babysteps.
Al Gore spoke out against SOPA today, quite elegantly I thought. People make fun of him, but the man is no fool.
He did invent the Internet