Go Daddy Reverses Course On SOPA 330
An anonymous reader writes "Go Daddy has relented in the face of public pressure and will no longer support SOPA. 'Fighting online piracy is of the utmost importance, which is why Go Daddy has been working to help craft revisions to this legislation—but we can clearly do better,' Warren Adelman, Go Daddy's newly appointed CEO, said."
Go Daddy was put under a tremendous amount of pressure from around the internet; a boycott had been organized for Dec. 29th, and several major sites threatened to pull their domains from Go Daddy, including Stack Overflow and I Can Has Cheezburger. The U.S. House Judiciary committee posted a list of companies who support SOPA (PDF).
Re:Too late? (Score:4, Informative)
Ditto ditto. My 3 domains are transferred off already. Honestly I've been planning on doing so anyway as GoDaddy sucks in so many other ways, so their change in course on SOPA is too-little too-late.
Re:lolwut? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Too Late. You've shown us your heart. (Score:3, Informative)
Go Daddy re-evaluated what that meant and changed its stance.
Isn't that what you would want to see a corporate entity do?
It didn't change its stance. It dropped support for the bill, but still claimed that 'fighting online piracy is of the utmost importance'. So it's still not a company anyone should be dealing with.
Re:Too late? (Score:3, Informative)
I've already transferred my domain and cancelled the auto renewal on another. Ha.
Why only cancel the auto-renew on one? It's worth pointing out (in case this is your reason) that you won't lose your current registration time by transferring to a new registrar. Usually transferring to the new registrar involves paying for a 1 year renewal but this 1 year will be added on to your existing registration, not replacing it. For instance I had domains with Godaddy that expired in 2012 and 2013, now I've transferred to internet.bs they expire in 2013 and 2014 respectively.
Re:Obligatory (Score:4, Informative)
Hostgator has great support and stands against SOPA: http://blog.hostgator.com/2011/12/22/sopa-must-die/ [hostgator.com]
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Re:Obligatory (Score:3, Informative)
Re:I think the bigger news here is... (Score:5, Informative)
Not anymore. They're already in the process of moving away from GD.
https://twitter.com/#!/jimmy_wales/status/150287579642740736 [twitter.com]
GoDaddy CEO interview with TechCrunch (Score:5, Informative)
http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/23/godaddy-ceo-there-has-to-be-consensus-about-the-leadership-of-the-internet-community/ [techcrunch.com]
Especially this piece:
Adelman couldn’t commit to changing its position on the record in Congress when asked about that, but said “I’ll take that back to our legislative guys, but I agree that’s an important step.” But when pressed, he said “We’re going to step back and let others take leadership roles.” He felt that the public statement removing their support would be sufficient for now, though further steps would be considered.
It's clear that they just want to hide in the shadow instead of taking "leadership" role in supporting SOPA now. Surprise!
Re:Obligatory (Score:3, Informative)