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I don't think they're going to 'go under' anytime soon. Domains are only a small portion of the product portfolio they offer.

• exit 15y ago
  well, why wouldn't users abandon those services too?
  • mattvot 15y ago
    Maybe, but my judgement is that while domains are relatively easy to move, various other services aren't. It seems to me that the focus on HN and other sites is to move domains. I'm not particularly up on GoDaddy TOS, but I imagine their not going to give refunds to prepurchased hosting. This would increase the friction involved in a total dump of GoDaddy. The customer would also have to allocate time to setup the new environments. Same with email, Dedicated and Virtual servers. There are also SSL certificates. Again, I assume no refund, and the time it takes to gain and install a new SSL certificate from another provider would also increase the friction. GoDaddy also provides alot of instant website tools. I'm not saying that SOPA opposers do not use these tools, but they tend to be marketed towards a non web savvy user that may not care/know about SOPA. This would reduce the effect of SOPA protests. In summary I'd say that the tech savvy GoDaddy customer with a decent budget and the time to set up alternatives could dump all services, it's could be unreasonable to expect a total boycott of services from other GoDaddy customers.
    • cookiecaper 15y ago
      >It seems to me that the focus on HN and other sites is to move domains. I don't think that many readers of HN would have anything besides a domain with GoDaddy anyway. I have ONE client with a GoDaddy hosting account. I picked up this client on oDesk last week. The GoDaddy account was pre-existing. We have been fighting GoDaddy support for the last week or so to fix an intermittent misconfiguration that other users occasionally also experience. They have heretofore not fixed it and it constitutes a serious disruption to the client's business. GoDaddy is awful and any tech-savvy individual knows it.
• rhizome 15y ago
  How much of their product portfolio requires a domain registration?
  • mattvot 15y ago
    I'd say quite a lot of GoDaddy services require a domain to be registered. But that does not mean they need to be registered with GoDaddy. Services that do need a domain registered with GoDaddy: Domain Name Registration Transfer Domain Bulk Domain Name Registration Bulk Domain Transfers Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) Discount Domain Club Domain Buy Service Go Daddy Auctions® Private Registration Business Registration Deluxe Registration Protected Registration Certified Domain Premium Listing Premium DNS Domain Backordering Domain Management Services that don't need a domain registered with GoDaddy: CashParking® Web Hosting WordPress Blog Hosting Virtual Dedicated Servers Dedicated Servers Managed Hosting Virtual DataCenter Dedicated IP Go Daddy Hosting Connection® Website Analytics Search Engine Visibility Website Protection Site Scanner Hosting Management Go Daddy Email Hosted Exchange Online Calendar Fax thru Email Online File Storage Email Marketing Email Management Webmail Search Engine Visibility Website Analytics Email Marketing Business Consulting Business Solutions Quick Shopping Cart® Merchant Accounts SSL Certificates Code Signing Certificate Website Protection Site Scanner SSL Certificate Management Turnkey Reseller Plans API Reseller
    • rhizome 15y ago
      Well, good luck to them on surviving in their current state on hosting margins and "email to fax."