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Here is Godaddy’s statement in support of SOPA
- mindcrime 15y agoWell, looks like I'll be moving all of my domains to a different registrar. Anybody have any suggestions for a good one?
- grsites 15y agoI've heard many people mention namecheap and dreamhost as good alternate registrars that charge about the same as godaddy.
- nextparadigms 15y agoYes, namecheap is good and it as a simpler interface than Godaddy, which is way too cluttered.
- re_todd 15y agoI've had good luck with namecheap.
- stephen_g 15y agoI've used Namecheap for a couple a while back, and had no problems. Their online interface is quite nice and a lot better than GoDaddy's. I recently heard of some people saying their customer support isn't very good though, so that may be something to look out for.
- SquareWheel 15y agoI dealt with their customer service about 2 years ago and it was fine. Fairly quick, they solved my problem.
- RexM 15y agoI just moved 5 domains to namecheap from godaddy. I used coupon code SWITCH2NC to get $1 off each domain I was transferring.
- deweller 15y ago+1 for namecheap. I've been migrating domains away from GoDaddy over the past 2 years to namecheap with positive results.
- untog 15y agoI use gandi.net - I've found the prices to be great. They're also based in France, which means they won't be victim to any of this SOPA idiocy (until the EU passes something similar, I suppose).
- corford 15y agoI use www.dyn.com for all my domain and dns stuff and would recommend them in a heart beat. Note: they're not the cheapest though if that's something important to you.
- mitchellhislop 15y agoNamecheap currently has a deal running just for this: http://twitter.com/#!/Namecheap/status/149919610253213697 http://twitter.com/#!/Namecheap/status/149919610253213697
- a_a_r_o_n 15y agoI've used pairnic for ten years for personal sites, never any trouble, they'll probably be in business longer than me.
- astevens 15y agoAnother vote for namecheap here. I switched over when old man Parsons took a lot of pride in his hunting videos. I'm not an activist or anything, but he could at least conduct himself with a bit of tact.
- ryandvm 15y agoLooking for a good, cheap GoDaddy alternative that also has an API for scripting host name changes (yes, I host a server on my cable modem).
- SeamusBrady 15y agoSeriously people, use Gandi... https://www.gandi.net/ https://www.gandi.net/ They are so far removed from the kind of bullshit that I hear from other registrars I forget how bad some of them actually are. In fact that is their slogan - "No bullshit". Not sure about the scripting interface though.
- falava 15y agogandi.net with a reseller account has an XML-RPC API, good registrar, not so cheap: http://wiki.gandi.net/fr/api-xml/docs/domain/host http://wiki.gandi.net/fr/api-xml/docs/domain/host
- andyking 15y agoSeconded Gandi. I've moved my domains to them over the past year as they've come up for renewal and I can't fault the service provided. They aren't the cheapest, but they aren't exactly pricey either, and I feel safe in the knowledge that my domains are well looked after, within Europe, and I have full control over the DNS records and so on.
- gabrtv 15y agoI'll third gandi.net. I use them for all my US-based domains. Their slogan is "No Bullshit" -- and they live up to it. My only complaint is that DNS changes through the webapp take 10-15 min to propagate to their authoritative zone files, making DNS cut-overs a little slower than I'd like. But all in all, highly recommended..
- hub_ 15y agoGandi.net has a US branch/office now. I asked them what they would do if the US Govt wanted to seize domain they host and I only heard crickets....
- ryan_s 15y agoFrom the post: "protecting American consumers from the dangers that they face on-line" Seriously? I dont need someone to protect me online. It's. It the Wild West. Who will protect me from the crap they sell on late night TV? Maybe we should put a stop to infomercials next. I thought the supporters of this were supposed to be anti "big government". Seems like this bill is just imposing more government regulations.
- maeon3 15y agofrom the article: I’m finding that most of the concerns on the substance out there are unfounded. The notion that the solutions that have been put forth will break the Internet, or that certain legal businesses will go off-line because of new mandates is utterly unconvincing to me. Good men had to die to give me the freedom this man is trying to take away. This man made his fortune in a country founded on what he is actively destroying. Lets take away some of godaddy's freedom. Lets make this an unprofitable year for them.
- mapgrep 15y agoGood men had to die to give us due process; yet our government can now officially assassinate citizens without trial. Good men had to die to firmly establish habeas corpus; yet today our government detains people indefinitely without trial. Good men had to die to ban unlawful search and seizure; that right lies in ruins amid warrantless phone wiretaps and a farcical law that says email left on a server for more than 60 days is abandoned property. SOPA is terrible and the right of startups to avoid prosecution for user piracy is important — but for you to invoke the death of American soldiers across countless wars in support of this relatively narrow cause, when there is so much other injustice going on, greatly undermines your point. A little perspective goes a long way.
- samstave 15y agoI think you're missing the fact that SOPA can be easily abused to shut down sites like wikileaks, or sites which would otherwise be documenting and broadcasting the injustices carried out by your first three points. The government could kill, detain and illegally raid citizens who oppose them - and with SOPA, the internet will be censored such that people will be in the dark on these issues.
- guns 15y agoI think you're being facetious in turn by summarizing SOPA as the revocation of "the right of startups to avoid prosecution for user piracy". SOPA is dangerous because it gives the executive wide power to deprive private citizens of their property, without any due process, in direct violation of the Fifth Amendment.
- chalst 15y agoI still don't get it. What's in it for them? Have they got connections to big media?
- revscat 15y agoThe CEO of GoDaddy is a hardcore Republican. They tend to be more authoritarian than other people. Like you, I see no direct financial benefit to GoDaddy in supporting SOPA. I suspect this is simply that authoritarian tendency in action.
- danso 15y agoThis is not a partisan issue. One of the most vehement opposers of SOPA is Darrell Issa, a staunch California conservative. On the other hand, Dianne Feinstein, whose constituency includes the Bay Area and Silicon Valley, is for the bill.
- revscat 15y agoPerhaps I should have emphasized "authoritarian" more. And Sen. Feinstein's constituency is the entire state of California. She has received a lot of money from the entertainment industry, including the MPAA, Disney, Sony, and others. But you are correct: this is not a partisan issue. I was simply trying to guess at the motives of GoDaddy's CEO. Since it was a guess, it will obviously be imperfect.
- AndyKelley 15y agoBut you derived your guess from his political party. This is fundamentally incompatible with thinking that this is not a partisan issue. So your guess isn't consistent with your own beliefs. (Unless you've changed them since the other comment.)
- paulhauggis 15y ago"They tend to be more authoritarian than other people" The left is just as authoritarian. Mostly revolving around taxes (IE: forcing one group of people to pay more taxes than another because they don't need or deserve it).
- mwsherman 15y agoCan someone cite a source either on the GoDaddy site or a .gov site? I don’t doubt it personally, but I’d like to see an official source for the statement. This being the Internet and all.
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- maeon3 15y agohttp://support.godaddy.com/groups/go-daddy-customers/forum/topic/godaddy-is-supporting-sopa/ http://support.godaddy.com/groups/go-daddy-customers/forum/t...
- damoncali 15y agoMore to the point: http://support.godaddy.com/godaddy/go-daddys-position-on-sopa/ http://support.godaddy.com/godaddy/go-daddys-position-on-sop...
- samstave 15y agohttp://judiciary.house.gov/issues/Rouge%20Websites/SOPA%20Supporters.pdf http://judiciary.house.gov/issues/Rouge%20Websites/SOPA%20Su...
- CWuestefeld 15y agoHoly mackerel! I hadn't realized how badly the deck was stacked. If you go to the page [1] that links to that document, you'll be horrified. The official page of the House Judiciary Committee shows that the committee has completely made up its mind already. In addition to this list of supporters, they are full of links to supportive letters, pro-SOPA press releases, etc. There is not one single item on that page to reveal that anyone is opposing this. It seems to me that before a bill is approved, and especially at this point, still in committee, the legislature ought to try to maintain some balance. They ought to at least acknowledge that there are alternate points of view, and show those alongside the supporters. [1] http://judiciary.house.gov/issues/issues_RogueWebsites.html http://judiciary.house.gov/issues/issues_RogueWebsites.html UPDATE: I just called Rep. Lamar Smith to complain about this, since he heads the committee. The person taking the calls said that's a committee issue, and forwarded me to them. As soon as I started explaining my concern to the committee phone-answerer, they stopped me and forwarded me to another line, that allows me to record comments "for the full committee", and which is "checked periodically". In other words, there doesn't seem to be any real way to complain to the committee about this. UPDATE 2: I talked to my own Representative (or rather, his assistant). There doesn't seem to be any process where he can feed comments about this to the committee.
- JamisonM 15y agoI wonder if GoDaddy supports this because it gives them a clearer legal framework for dealing with complaints of piracy problems on domains they have under management. If I were them I would be concerned about my legal responsibilities to the parties whose domains I manage and to the complainants and would want specific legislation that can allow my business to address complaints in a standardized manner that is unlikely to make me look worse than the other guy down the block. If this is the case then as a business they pretty much have to support it -- it would be their obligation to shareholders to do so.
- lallysingh 15y agoSorry I just don't get this. They're about as responsible as Verizon is for listings of "Escort Services" in the yellow pages.
- JamisonM 15y agoAs responsible morally or legally? Their moral obligation would be irrelevant to them as a business, their legal responsibilities right now might be unclear. If SOPA clarifies it for them in a way that they think will improve their business it makes sense for them to support it on that basis. Perhaps the parallel you draw is useful, if a business is doing something illegal and someone demands that their yellow page listing be pulled so that the phone company is not seen as supporting the business and sues them to get them to do so is there legislation to cover that? Legal precedent? Remember the Crag's List flap over "erotic services"? GoDaddy does not want to be put in a similar position of having to decide between Legal/PR battle to defend their customers vs. just giving in. Maybe SOPA gives them that clarity?
- patja 15y agoActual article title is "Here Is Godaddy’s Statement In Support Of The Stop Online Privacy Act House Hearing Tomorrow" Maybe Godaddy thought they were throwing their weight behind an effort to stop online Privacy, not Piracy? :)
- maeon3 15y agoCan we get the word "Godaddy" to link to homosexual images on google images for that keyword? make it a meme like pedobear. Make them change their brand name.
- vijayr 15y agoand then what? even if they did change their brand name, they'll still act the same way. I hope you aren't serious. Remember how Bank of America reversed their decision on the 5$ fee they were planning to impose, when people started moving their money to community banks? the only way to make these big businesses budge on anything is to take your business elsewhere.
- polyfractal 15y agoMeh, they are just going to move that $5 fee somewhere else. And it will likely be somewhere much less transparent. Nothing was won against BoA, they just pushed the fee someplace harder to find.
- rjbond3rd 15y agoWhy not go for things which are -actually- bad, like corruption, greed, pollution, poverty, hunger, war?
- paulhauggis 15y agoBy doing this and not explaining your point-of-view, it makes me think you are the bad guy in the situation.
- chc 15y agoYou want to outrank Godaddy for the query "godaddy"? Good luck with that one. I don't think Google is quite as malleable as you seem to believe.
- gergles 15y agoGoogle "Santorum" sometime. It's possible.
- manojlds 15y agoArticle says - Stop online Privacy???? I suppose Google, Facebook and others would love that
- ojbyrne 15y agoFreudian slip or that's the next bill in the pipeline ;-)
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- malandrew 15y agoGodaddy, with all its built up infrastructure around policing the domains registered with them, has a major financial self-interest in supporting this bill. While it may or may not increase costs for GoDaddy given all the stuff their already do, SOPA would reduce competition and increase the barriers to entry. I'm sure GoDaddy sees SOPA as a way to further consolidate market share.
- rubinelli 15y agoI've heard horror stories from webmasters that got their domains taken by GoDaddy after baseless IP-related accusations and forced to pay hundreds of dollars to get them back, so they not only have the infrastructure in place, they seem to be making a tidy profit off it.
- gasull 15y agoI've used http://www.name.com/ http://www.name.com/ in the past. It's cheap and with very good usability, unlike the clunky GoDaddy's UI.
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- jwblackwell 15y agoI've got a feeling Namcheap are going to do pretty well if Go Daddy carries on like this.
- swalsh 15y agoReddit has been throwing around the idea of making December 29th pull your domains day.
- olegious 15y agoI wish I had some domains to remove from Godaddy- but I got rid of my Godaddy account after that elephant killing story.
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- billpatrianakos 15y agoThey seem to want to dumb down the Internet. Their reasons for support, with all the "safety online" rhetoric made me want to vomit. The number one registrar obviously doesn't get the Internet. The Internet isn't about safety and we don't need anyone to protect us online. That responsibility should fall upon each of us. They're playing off people's ignorance to try to make us all believe that they support SOPA for out own good. I don't want to be protected online. I'll take my chances in exchange for being able to decide for myself what is safe and how I behave even if I decide wrong.
- jebblue 15y agoSo far, there is a very clear picture emerging to me of who the anti-SOPA people are. It looks a lot like the Occupy Wall Street images. I'm not for or against SOPA so far, still making up my mind but the people who are against it so far aren't helping their case much with all the arm waving and now veteran hating that I see in the comments on this page.
- AndyKelley 15y agoWhat does veteran hating have to do with whether or not SOPA is good legislation? Truth is truth, regardless of how despicable the truth-bearer is.
- jebblue 15y agoIf SOPA is bad legislation then opposing it should be a supportable noble thing to do, it should not require defending hate speech.
- linuxhansl 15y agoThis is the best line: The U.S. military has unintentionally procured counterfeit products that could easily have put our troops in grave danger had they gone undetected. The military gets conned into buying counterfeit products, but somehow it is the fault of the inter-tubes that that occurred. Good buy reason and common sense.
- brndnhy 15y agoAs a high school student in 1988, I interviewed with Bob's previous company, Parsons Technology, for an after-school customer support position. At that time Parsons Technology was known primarily as the publisher of a personal finance program called MoneyCounts, but they also released a formidable catalog of Bible-related software. Much to my dismay, the interview process was heavily skewed toward determining how much of a believer I was and ran into all manner of private territory. I did briefly meet Bob -- just a handshake and he was gone. Very little of my computer experience was discussed and by the end of the rushed interview I was given complimentary copies of Parsons Technology Bible-related software. I drove away from that interview disappointed and tricked. Obviously you can't jump to conclusions from anecdotal data, but I wanted to share this experience and my personal opinion that Bob Parsons is an intensely self-righteous and dogmatic fellow. Anyway, from my early experience with his first company, to his bizarre and narcissistic elephant hunt, GoDaddy's obnoxious objectification of women, and now SOPA... I've always felt the guy is just sort of twisted and unsavory. One man's view only.