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It's only been a day or two. GoDaddy is getting free press but bad press. It's getting name recognition but not the kind it wants. This will have a dramatic eff
by quacker 15y ago
It's only been a day or two. GoDaddy is getting free press but bad press. It's getting name recognition but not the kind it wants. This will have a dramatic effect on the image of the company, and personally I want to see how GoDaddy handles this and what effect it has on the company and its competitors, if any, as well as the effect on the bill's passage, if any. I'll agree that some of the revelry may be unwarranted, but this submission is still entirely relevant.
- timr 15y agoAs they say: "there's no such thing as bad publicity". This old maxim is particularly true when the publicity helps you to come up as the #1 search result for "domain registration" (or worse, links directly to your press releases), and most of your customers don't care about your position on SOPA. Every seething blog post you vote up to the front page of HN sends potential customers to GoDaddy, if only to see what the fuss is all about.
- rue 15y ago“There's no such thing as bad publicity” is a highly profession-dependent proposition.
- balloot 15y agoAt the very least, I think GoDaddy put namecheap.com on the map this week. I know I had personally never heard of namecheap before the last few days. GoDaddy probably won't release how many customers they lost, but I bet namecheap will be happy to tell us all how many transfers happened after all this is over.