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elgato · Joined: 24 Feb 2005 Posts: 17240 Location: Texas

The abandon ship notice for GoDaddy’s domain registration service, while netting some notable names — Wikipedia, Imgur — apparently failed to have the impact some suspected.

If not for GoDaddy’s waffling on the SOPA/PIPA issue, something that’s discussed at an ad nauseam level across the Internet, the boycott that fizzled wouldn’t have happened. Hype about the GoDaddy boycott was spurred on by the company’s competitors, with Namecheap being the foremost. In order to capitalize on GoDaddy’s PR blunder, Namecheap went on an anti-SOPA promotional tirade, creating a MoveYourDomain Day, where, for every domain transfer, Namecheap donated $1 to the Electronic Frontier Foundation to help the EFF’s fight against SOPA.

After 25,000 transfers, Namecheap upped the donation to $2 a transfer, and have, as of this writing, raised $61872 for the EFF.

http://www.webpronews.com/abandon-godaddy-day-wasnt-a-smash-hit-2011-12

cohibastore.com · Joined: 14 Sep 2006 Posts: 4908

The real question is what is the long term impact. Most of my domains with GD just re-upped in November, so it would benefit the if I packed up and moved services elsewhere. As for future services it may be time to diversify away from them as current service expire.

Techies have long memories. As domains come up for renewel many will not think twice about moving elsewhere.

CS

elgato · Joined: 24 Feb 2005 Posts: 17240 Location: Texas

cohibastore.com wrote (View Post): › docWrite("quote")The real question is what is the long term impact. Most of my domains with GD just re-upped in November, so it would benefit the if I packed up and moved services elsewhere. As for future services it may be time to diversify away from them as current service expire.

Techies have long memories. As domains come up for renewel many will not think twice about moving elsewhere.

CS

Yes I didnt' realize my GD account was set on auto-renewal a while back. :roll:
Needless to say I changed my account back to NON automatic renewal.

elpereles · Joined: 15 Dec 2006 Posts: 1478 Location: Puerto Rico

I was reading the news. I was like a De Ja Vu from the eBay boycott for November of 2 years ago. A group or somebody just searching for personal benefits. :roll:

All Things Luxury · Joined: 26 Sep 2011 Posts: 73

It got go daddy to withdraw its support for the SOPA Bill, which is what they were trying to accomplish. So I think it was a hit.

Good on them (the ones who started the boycott) for supporting a good job and trying to protect the internet.

cohibastore.com · Joined: 14 Sep 2006 Posts: 4908

GoDaddy just keep trying to drive off users

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/02/secret-service-asks-for-shutdown-of-legit-website-over-user-content-godaddy-complies.ars

Popular site JotForm doesn't host music or movies or child pornography, all of which have led US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to seize other Internet domain names without advance warning (sometimes making serious mistakes). JotForm also doesn't create content itself. Instead, it helps customers create online forms that can then be embedded in their websites for easy data collection.

But that didn't spare the site from having its entire business shuttered without warning yesterday as the site's domain name was shut down at the request of the US Secret Service. JotForm's domain name registrar, GoDaddy, redirected the site's nameservers to NS1.SUSPENDED-FOR.SPAM-AND-ABUSE.COM—and with that, JotForm.com became unreachable and the site's two million user-created forms all broke.

And it all may have been done without a court order.

When he saw his site was down, JotForm cofounder Aytekin Tank scrambled. He checked in with GoDaddy, which told him that the site had been suspended as part of an ongoing investigation.

GoDaddy has long supported authorities who have concerns about the websites and domains it hosts. In Congressional testimony last year, the company's general counsel Christine Jones noted that "Our staff routinely works with courts and law enforcement from the local to international level to shut down domain names and websites through which infringers and counterfeiters operate. Any time we are notified by a court or a federal or state prosecutor that there is criminally infringing material on our systems, we work rapidly to disable access to that material."

Note the two criteria: a court order or a notification from a prosecutor. That latter category amounts to an unproven allegation—and it's what Tank believes derailed him here. "No, as far as I know, there is no judge order," he told me. "They sent a request to GoDaddy and GoDaddy complied."

But GoDaddy won't say publicly whether the takedown was voluntary or compulsory. When I asked, the company's Director of Network Abuse, Ben Butler, told me that his office complies with "orders from courts, as well as confirmed official requests from law enforcement agencies," but he wouldn't get into specifics in this case.

cohibastore.com · Joined: 14 Sep 2006 Posts: 4908

And sopas back too!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxUOyNzBePA&list=UUczrL-2b-gYK3l4yDld4XlQ&index=1&feature=plcp

cohibastore.com · Joined: 14 Sep 2006 Posts: 4908

cohibastore.com wrote (View Post): › docWrite("quote")GoDaddy just keep trying to drive off users

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Secret-Service-Shuts-Down-Then-Reinstates-JotForm-524759/

Secret Service Shuts Down Then Reinstates JotForm