GoDaddy is now officially against SOPA

fan

http://gizmodo.com/5872055/godaddys-now-officially-against-sopa

One of the biggest jokes of the year?

Joel

What they may not consider is that people will not use them in the future. How many people transfer away now is short-sighted compared to how many future registrations they have lost.

Their change of position was brought about by the impact on their business, not because morally those in charge have had a change of heart. Money talks, and in this case transferring away worked better than any petition because it's the very coin you pay with that enables their lifestyles. Threaten that and you get their ears and attention.

MrAndroid

Their management still support it, they're just trying to stop people transferring.

They've even imposed limits on transferring now.

Joel

@Daniel said: They've even imposed limits on transferring now.

WTF? What limits?

[Deleted User]

Daniel I read that somewhere. However they said 'its standard pratice in the industry' the amount of domaans that could be transferred(I couldn't comment on that). Personally have moved my few away and will never return. I know some guy who had way over 200 odd domains with them and hes moved every single one.

Christian

@Daniel said: They've even imposed limits on transferring now.

In what way? I'm going to transfer 50+ domains away from godaddy in couple of days(not because of SOPA just because I save a lot of money that way). So I hope I won't have trouble...

Infinity

@Christian said: not because of SOPA

You support SOPA then? :P

miTgiB

@Christian said: because I save a lot of money that way

Because of their ToS was my reason to leave many many years ago.

MrAndroid

@Joel said: WTF? What limits?

If you have less then 30 days or something on your domain, you are unable to transfer it. I wanted to transfer 1 domain out of GoDaddy, but it came out of that error. Im just going to leave it to die along with the other 4 domains on GoDaddy I have that expire within 30 days.

Go59954

@Daniel said: If you have less then 30 days or something on your domain, you are unable to transfer it. I wanted to transfer 1 domain out of GoDaddy, but it came out of that error. Im just going to leave it to die along with the other 4 domains on GoDaddy I have that expire within 30 days.

Wow, damn :X ..Then luckily I transferred a domain that should've expired now, just week ago (days, actually)! And another 3 domains where transferred few months ago, all of mentioned domains where expiring in 10-15 days (one actually was expiring in 7 or 8 days)! I must be lucky that this shit wasn't applied until some days ago when I transferred my last expiring domain.
I don't have more domains under godaddy expiring soon, I have to take it into consideration when I start transferring every other domain from there, I used to do it right before expiration.

Christian

@Infinity said: You support SOPA then? :P

No, but I don't really care about it.

[Deleted User]

@Christian said: No, but I don't really care about it.

Trust me you will.

Infinity

@Christian said: No, but I don't really care about it.

If it comes into action, watch how you'll take those words back.

miTgiB

@Christian said: No, but I don't really care about it.

First they came for the communists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me.

[Deleted User]

I think I fall at the first hurdle not sure well I use to be a trade unionist and I'm not jewish you can check if you want...

miTgiB

@net said: I think I fall at the first hurdle

It's not about any of that, it's about speaking up for your rights before nobody will.

[Deleted User]

@mitgib

Yeah I understand Just kidding