December 29 is 'Dump Go Daddy Day'
 

My idiots of the year award almost certainly will go to Netflix and Go Daddy, which tarnished their brands through nothing more than sheer stupidity (there are still five days in the month for your organization to royally screw up and claim the honor). Both companies tried to step back from the brink, only to watch tens of thousands of customers fly over the edge into the "frak you" abyss. I can't decide which company's actions is stupider; Go Daddy's idiocy is more recent, and the damage still unfolds.

http://betanews.com/2011/12/26/decem...publisher-main

godaddy exempt from sopa http://donttreadonmike.com/2011/12/2...m-it-scumbags/

most people with any good number of domains at godaddy won't be doing anything. its too much cost/work.

BlackCrayon, verisign will go up next year, it's a great time to renew.

Reddit is full blast on the boycott.

I'm personally moving out 25ish domain to another registar.

yup, unless someone generous wants to pay for the transfers for me. :)

pay $6.99/$7.99 to transfer NOW and dump godaddy, or pay $10+ next year for your renewals after the price increase.

Seems like an easy choice to me, but I've already transferred all my domains from Godaddy a long time ago. I still have one .es there that I'm transferring out soon.

I have 200+ domains with GoDaddy last year, at present time there are only 5 left - the ones I'm not thinking of renewing so I'm leaving them there until they expire. I've done this on my own terms, not because I follow the sheep who decided it was cool to leave GoDaddy right now, though.

I'm not going anywhere. GoDaddy takes good care of me.

Exactly what is wrong with Netflix wanting to raise their prices? Free trial month, then $8.00 a month, for access to hundreds of movies and TV shows that I don't have to get to get up off of my fat ass to rent a the video store. It's a pretty good value even at twice that.

Never used GoDaddy :pimp

It's pretty dumb if you ask me. Godady's support has no bearing on whether or not SOPA passes. If it passes you're bound under the new law no matter what domain registrar you're utilizing as well.

People just have WAY too much time on their hands. Any opportunity they get to crucify a company and they take it to extremes.

i like ANY day, that attaches the word 'Dump' to it....

Godaddy has great bulk renewal deals :/ ...

get real, you aren't going to be paying 10+ with godaddy next year or the year after or even the year after that. I am paying 7.48 right now. Prices will go up 25 cents maybe..

Well they didn't charge separate and extra for the streaming. It was just something free on the accounts. When they decided to change this, they basically added it on and didn't tell people, so all of a sudden bills went up like ten bucks for something they were giving us for free. They royally pissed off lots of people... when I noticed the charge was more I immediately cancelled too. I mean, wtf? they just do that?

that's what happened...

Hover are offering a concierge service to do it all for you. If you ring and mention MacBreakWeekly you get that for free. Code SOPA gets you an extra 10% off too.

Yeah, imagine protesting something you disagree with. Fucking idiots.

"Polis pointed out that SOPA and Smith’s amendment already excluded certain operators of sub-domains, such as GoDaddy.com, from being subject to shutdowns under SOPA."

Isn't that ironic! All those persons who moved their domains are now vulnerable to the very thing that they are protesting against!

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

I don't agree with the broad powers of SOPA, but I really don't give a fuck about what Godaddy supports or doesn't support.

This mass moving of domains merely is an exercise in groupthink. The last anti-godaddy situation was pretty much the same type of thing. If Parsons wanted to spend his personal money on hunting elephants, what exactly does that have to do with my domains running smoothly on a continual basis?

If Godaddy decided that SOPA is "good", then that's just a difference in opinion about the topic (and is probably just pandering to their own business interests with the MPAA and RIAA). It's business, nothing more. Just make sure that my domains and hosting run with no problems and I really don't give a shit. (btw, I use mutiple domain and web hosts, but godaddy hosts the majority of my registrations - 100+)

It's this same type of bullshit groupthink that has US citizens lambasting employees/owners of adult industry companies for providing a product that is profitable (and legal) and thereby judging them for what they have decided to do with their own lives.

Anyone in adult that still had domains at godaddy is a not very smart. They have had a history of ransoming people domains for even a single spam complaint. They will lock your domain and charge you several hundred to get it back.

Every company has their "stories" and Godaddy is the proverbial elephant in the room that everyone wants to shoot.

I have never seen an online company garner so much negativity, often from persons who heard a story from another person, who happened to read something online. Or from persons who happened to not control some aspect of their operation and mistakenly let things get out of hand.

For me it isn't that serious a situation to listen to the noise in the market, which is why I use multiple domain hosts. For the past 5+ years, I have never had a problem with Godaddy though. I have other options.

The way that I look at it is this: The minute that one of your sites consistently is pulling more than a few grand a month, Godaddy shouldn't be the host in any event. They're a bargain-based operation. Period.

Such a strategy in itself nullifies any chance of them having the opportunity of ransoming something that is of any real value. If they were to try that with any of my GD domains that are making less than $500/month, I would just let it die. Now if they tried it again after that, then I would make a move.

Yea because it totally hasn't happened to anyone whom posts on this forum or anything..

https://gfy.com/showthread.php?threadid=238979&s=

That's just one that I remember who the poster was, because I had a trade with him at the time on his site. However there have been a few others over the years that have had the same thing happened to them. One guy ended up paying several hundred to get his name freed from godaddy to transfer it.

ironically some of the suggestions in that topic for registrars turned to be shit too.. DirectNic fucked the porn industry pretty good and Registerfly went belly up causing a lot of grief for many of us.

As are all registrars.

If you have privacy on your godaddy domains have fun transfering them lol

The idiots of the year are all of the sad fucks who work in adult and oppose SOPA... that is unless you are one of the stupid fucks who advertises on the torrent sites...

That entire thread was reflexive in nature and did not take into consideration that Godaddy was protecting their interests as they pertain to the CAN-SPAM Act.

Following the guidelines as described in said act, Godaddy ensured that they performed their due diligence in the matter as the host of the domain in question by ensuring that the domain was disabled after the threshold of spam complaints was exceeded. Was it inconvenient for their client? Yes. Did they reduce liability on their behalf in the matter? Yes. (And that last sentence is all that counts to Godaddy's legal department)

Everything else in that thread was a matter of opinion regarding the policies of Godaddy. The perceived incompetence of the representatives had nothing to do with the procedures that are in place to circumvent Godaddy being held legally liable for a violation of the aforementioned act.

As usual though, such depth of interpretation regarding the entire scenario escaped the participants of the thread and the Godaddy bashing began. No surprise there.

Interesting viewpoint.

As an experiment I would dare any major adult entertainment company to openly and publicly advertise their support of SOPA.

The debate involving the act in question has become almost childish in its present manifestation. The serious nature of the potential long-standing and expansive legal ramifications involving SOPA have been diminished to mere talking points. For example, "If you don't support SOPA, then you must support piracy"! Such is a matter of oversimplification at best and is not accurate or representative of a perspective that involves looking at the entire picture.

Protecting the intellectual property of copyright holders is indeed important to any industry and all attempts to pass laws to ensure such protections are imperative. However, SOPA is the equivalent of using a flamethrower in an attempt to kill a fly in one's home. It may get the job done, but the side effect is that one is going to destroy a room or two in the process.

Two times (that I'm aware of) Godaddy failed to properly register an available domain for me, despite charging me. One, I caught right away and just registered some place else and asked for a refund, which I got. The other I didn't realize until months later, where by then someone else had it.

The thing is, I have much worse stories with other domain registrars!

Exactly the point at hand. Godaddy is the elephant in the room that everyone wants to shoot.

A few more persons likely will come along and share their stories about Godaddy, all the while neglecting the very point that I made earlier: