The reason I've been more spurred to action over GoDaddy's involvement is twofold: 1) I'm not surprised that the record labels and movie publishers want this l

The reason I've been more spurred to action over GoDaddy's involvement is twofold: 1) I'm not surprised that the record labels and movie publishers want this law. I am very surprised that a technology company who should be impacted by this law (but aren't, because of a special exemption) would support it, and it shows irresponsibility at best. At worst, they want to use it to stifle competitors. GoDaddy, as a technology company, has more reputation on technological matters to Congress, and is therefore in a position of severe abdication of responsibility. They aren't just a dying industry trying to legislate their survival - they're a traitor from "our" industry who have sided with the Bad Guys. 2) There are a lot of very easy-to-use alternatives to GoDaddy. I can't very easily just pick up and stop using Visa and Mastercard - I'm dismayed that they appear on the supporters list (and frankly, I'm a bit surprised; it increases costs and decreases revenues for them. Feels like they're being squeezed), but there aren't easy alternatives. To be clear, I'm not talking about credit cards here - I'm talking about my debit card, for which Mastercard is the processor. Carrying cash around is both risky and impractical in many cases, and I still have to do business online somehow. Compared to those, I can easily just pick up and leave GoDaddy and never do business with them again. I wish that I could easily boycott every company involved in supporting SOPA. Many of them can't be as cut out as easily as GoDaddy can, but I'm happy to start with the low-hanging fruit and work up from there. I was a GoDaddy customer for a very long time - back when they had decent geek cred (yes, that was a very long time ago). They've always provided good customer service to me, personally. The sexist ads were distasteful, but didn't bother me enough to cost them my business - sex sells, and it always has. Bob Parsons shooting an elephant was likewise distasteful, but that's Bob Parsons being a guy that I don't want to have over for dinner, not GoDaddy launching an initiative to hunt elephants to extinction. However, GoDaddy's support of SOPA, as a company is GoDaddy being an entity that I don't want to be involved with, and don't want to lend any financial means to. That's why I left. I wasn't looking for an excuse to leave, and frankly, it's financially costly and a pain in the ass to move a bunch of domains, but I couldn't ignore it, given the reasons enumerated above.