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Poll: Will you move your domains from GoDaddy today?
Today is a day. What is your choice?
- madhouse 15y agoNo, for multiple reasons: * I never had problems with it. * I registered my domains via google, I have no idea how to move to a different registrar, and I'm not motivated enough to find out. * If I started to stop using services where I don't agree with either the company's decisions, or whatever their prominent staff members chose to do, I would have to stop using all such services, not only one. I would have to go offline and live in a cage, pretty much. Just because I am using a service does not mean I agree with whatever choices the provider makes. As long as those decisions don't affect me, I honestly don't care, because doing otherwise leads to a path of constant anger and depression. Don't need that, thank you.
- rplnt 15y agoExactly, a lot of us uses Apple products after all.
- kermitthehermit 15y agoWhile your view might be acceptable for some things, it's not acceptable when it comes to godaddy. Their CEO is a bad person, they do a lot of bad things, they're exempt from SOPA, they support it, they helped redact it, they never withdrew SOPA support for real. They threaten the 1st amendment of the US constitution - except it wil affect far more people than just the people of the US, the people for whom the US constitution was written for. Please take these arguments somewhere else where they hold.
- madhouse 15y agoA lot of other companies were involved in writing SOPA, and even more support it still, that are not treated the same way GoDaddy is. There are a lot of other CEOs who did very bad things - but I don't see people boycotting them, either. Just boycotting one SOPA supporter won't buy you anything, either. Do tell me though, why GoDaddy is exceptional, and why the same treatment doesn't apply to the rest of the SOPA supporters.. because I honestly don't see the difference: they're all bad.
- kermitthehermit 15y agoI didn't say anything about not doing the same to the others. Please feel free to list up others along with what they did / are doing and I will support actions against all of those as well. I only said the boycott against godaddy is OK for many reasons.
- madhouse 15y agoYou can pretty easily get a list of SOPA supporters (eg, from wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_organizations_that_support_the_Stop_Online_Piracy_Act http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_organizations_that_supp...). Good luck boycotting them all! However, I didn't say the boycott wasn't OK, either. It sure is, and it's well deserved. I just said I'm not participating in it. If others do, that's their choice, and I don't see anything wrong with doing so, either. I just said I'm not going to, because (among other things) I consider it wrong to select one from the many, and punish only that, when there are others who are guilty of the same thing (and some even guilty of more).
- jfoster 15y agoI think the main factor here is that GoDaddy is probably the one SOPA supporter that many of us have used or are using. It's also very simple to switch away from them, and there are similar services with better interfaces.
- jimmyjim 15y agoIn the words of Elie Wiesel, "Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor. Never the victim. Never the tormented." It obviously doesn't feel quite right to equate this whole fiasco to what Wiesel was talking about, but I just cannot think of a quote more fitting than that. Too often people think inaction implies neutrality . It does not. It's an enabling behavior. Passivity is a free permission slip for the status quo to persist onward. In the end you do have to pick and choose your battles. For me personally, this time I simply had to do it -- I transferred. It was a very clear choice for me, frankly I don't see why it isn't also a clear choice for you either (it's not that difficult to make the change, if you have the docs handy, etc.), but hey, whatever suits you.
- madhouse 15y agoIt isn't a clear choice, because the service they provide is something I didn't have a problem with, and moving would mean extra work and effort I'm not willing to pay. Why am I not willing to pay the price? Because, as I wrote, I'd have to do the same thing with every other company who's services I use, when I don't agree with their decisions, or find their CEO someone who should be locked away and never spoken of ever again. If I'm starting to boycot companies based on what they support, then I will do it with all of them, not just a single one. However, that is not possible. I'm not neutral, either. I'm not going to use GoDaddy for any more domains in the future (partly due to their support for SOPA, partly for other reasons). I just won't move my domains from there, because it's not worth the effort.
- jtheory 15y agoNot to argue about this particular decision so much, but in general the argument that you can't do X good thing because it's not possible for you to do the same in all similar contexts in your life simply doesn't hold water. It's your prerogative to draw the line for effort you'll allocate to this particular goal. Some decisions will fall below that line, and some above it. It's basically saying you can't pick any of the cherries off of the tree, because some are on much higher branches than others. That's fine; if you don't have the time to clamber around on a ladder -- e.g., research the ethics behind every company you give any money to -- you pick the low-hanging fruit. So when you can make a fairly low-cost choice to move away from a company with a history of dubious ethics that you already know of, you do it. Or if you have an hour to spare, you can choose the single largest flexible expense in your life and improve your related decisions based on a little research. There's always low-hanging fruit. If you want to make your life (and the world) a better place, that's where you start.
- mekoka 15y agoJust because I am using a service does not mean I agree with whatever choices the provider makes. As long as those decisions don't affect me, I honestly don't care, because doing otherwise leads to a path of constant anger and depression. Don't need that, thank you. So you found solace in the notion that apathy is the exemplary path to happiness? I'm not religious, but I'll borrow a saying Lord grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. I find it unfortunate that more and more people are not granted that proverbial wisdom.
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- nixle 15y agoI have my SSL certificates with them. These are cheap multi-domain certificates. But I'm willing to pay the extra buck, any suggestions?
- elliottcarlson 15y agoGandi.net offers free standard SSL certificates with each domain name, however they don't have multi-domain certificates.
- simonswords82 15y agoSecret option number 5: I never used GoDaddy in the the first place as their marketing and UX are incredibly shoddy.
- Lucadg 15y agoThanks to the SOPA mess I started transferring to NameCheap. I am glad I won't have to deal with their annoying UI for much longer.
- ROFISH 15y agoI voted for "I don't have domains at GoDaddy" since I moved from GoDaddy years ago before all this mess.
- B-Scan 15y agoI was thinking to add option for people like you, but I think that "I don't have domains at GoDaddy" is enough.
- aslamnd 15y agoYes!
- gruturo 15y agoYes, 3 of them, I was just waiting until today to move them.
- borski 15y agoI wish I could. I still have to wait a few days because all of my domains on GoDaddy are less than 60 days old. Yeah, I decided it was the cheapest and assumed they had changed since '08. Boy, was I wrong.
- clemesha 15y agoI'm still on the fence. (should this be a choice?) They do have an exceptionally crappy web interface, and their marketing is distasteful. On the other hand, I've called them several times over the last couple years for random support, and my experience with that has always been excellent. So yeah, still on the fence. And all this Godaddy backlash has just a tad to much witch-trial feel to it. But man their web interface sucks...
- kermitthehermit 15y agoHere's a tip: SWITCH, they suck ass. Basically, the CEO hunts elephants ( http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/31/bob-parsons-godaddy-ceo-elephant-hunt_n_843121.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/31/bob-parsons-godaddy... ), they helped redact SOPA & support it, they are exempt from SOPA, have a bad attitude, refuse to respond to requests at random / throttle ( http://rscott.org/dns/GoDaddy_Selective_DNS_Blackouts.htm http://rscott.org/dns/GoDaddy_Selective_DNS_Blackouts.htm ). What else do you need to hear to not "be on the fence" any more? P.S.: I don't have domains at godaddy and never will. I also don't tell you or anyone else to what company to switch, just to switch from them.
- alexro 15y agoYour experience with their support was excellent because mine was very poor ... in the sense that they charged me money and didn't gave it back - they have auto billing enabled by default. So yeah, go enjoy on the expense of other people both money-wise and liberty-wise, support the damn bastard
- blurbytree 15y agoNo. But I think people should make up their own minds. The process of whipping up an internet hate mob with the aim of destroying <person>/<company> etc is one of the parts of the internet I detest the most. It's ugly bullying. It rarely concerns itself with facts, just how big the internet hate mob can grow to and whether they can succeed at destroying their chosen enemy.
- kermitthehermit 15y agoHello, GoDaddy employee. GoDaddy needs to learn their lesson for the mistakes they did in the past and for SOPA. I wish I could have downvoted you.
- blurbytree 15y agoI'm in no way affiliated or connected to GoDaddy. I don't have any domains registered with them. I dislike internet hate mobs, which as you say are designed to "teach them a lesson".
- kermitthehermit 15y agoWhat they're getting is well deserved. If I go out and do bad things, I go to jail, people will hate me / dislike me and wish that I stay in jail for a long time because I'm a criminal. Why should people & companies who threaten important civil rights and liberties be treated differently? It's not OK to do crimes which affect 1-100 persons, but it's OK to affect the basic civil liberties & free speech of hundreds of millions, perhaps even billions? Any entity, a company or a number of individuals, which does something like this should suffer consequences. If it's a company, then it should really go away. A company is responsible for its image. People don't owe them anything, so that the said company deserves the money of their clients. They must have a good image and keep their customers happy. Either they do that, or they should go out of business. All in all, keeping customers happy means you must also uphold some moral values and protect civil liberties.
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- chippy 15y agoMy peer pressure / herd mentality / mob detection shields always get activated at times like this.
- kokey 15y agoIndeed, and I just got myself another domain Yesterday through Godaddy. They are really the Wal-Mart of domain name selling, disliked by snobs and hipsters but everyone will buy from them at some point.
- blurbytree 15y agoThey're cheap, they work, they're not going to go out of business.... Couldn't care less if their CEO likes hunting, or if they help the US government with its internet censorship agenda. Hate the US government for that, not random companies.
- darkane 15y agoI don't think you understand how the government works. Most dystopian legislation is written and paid for by those "random" companies.
- blurbytree 15y agoSo fix the bit that's broken - the government. Companies are just playing by the rules.
- zbuc 15y agoThey're both broken. HTH.
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- Karunamon 15y agoThank you for denigrating everyone who chooses not to do business with a reprehensible company as a "snob or hipster", jerk. Go read their ToS. They suck for more reasons than the one everyone is talking about now.
- nonototo 15y agoI already did when Bob Parsons killed that elephant
- mathias 15y agoHipster.
- uulbiy 15y agoYes, but not today.
- fuzzyman 15y agoIn the process of moving 24 domains.
- jaysonelliot 15y agoI left GoDaddy earlier this year, when Bob Parsons made his childish Great White Hunter video killing that elephant. With the stories I've heard since about how GoDaddy already handles copyright complaints and otherwise mistreats customers, not to mention Parsons' support of torture, and of course SOPA, I can't imagine why I would ever consider giving them money—especially with how well NameCheap has treated me since I joined them.
- rauar 15y agoExactly the same for me. Except that I went with name.com.
- eurohacker 15y agoquite happy with name.com also , also using enom.com and dynadot.com i have also used godaddy before , but did not like it too much
- cfontes 15y agoIt's amazing how much a person can bullshit to do stuff they want but they know it's not right... This Bob Parsons should be arrested.
- diminish 15y agoEvery time i hear the name Godaddy, i remember the elephant killing.
- olegious 15y agoMoved to NameCheap after the elephant story broke.
- mikiem 15y agoOh boy do I want to, but I need to figure out where to move them to! GoDaddy's support is in Arizona, clear, well trained, and answer the phone quickly, 24x7. Admittedly, I don't reedit often, but good/fast/easy support is important, and can be vital. I am not sold that the support will be acceptable with the others. I desperately want to move away from goDaddy, but don't know where to go to!
- iamandrus 15y agoNamecheap. They're running a promotion right now, use promo code "SOPASUCKS". Have fun!
- The_Sponge 15y agoI've heard excellent things about namecheap. I'm going to be moving a few less critical domains to them as a trial.
- techjacker 15y agomoving them as I speak...
- xinjiang 15y agoI moved all my domains when the former CEO shot and killed an elephant, then gloated about it on video. It was both shocking and saddening for me. Now the elephant killing is kind of a Voight-Kampff test I use. Anyone who isn't bothered with the elephant shooting wouldn't be my friend. I wouldn't want that type of person as a business partner or employee either. I don't think I could trust them. I certainly wouldn't want to do business with a company that endorses or associates itself with killing intelligent, peaceful animals. Personally, I want GoDaddy to GoDead.
- blurbytree 15y agoHe killed the elephant because it was destroying the communities crops, and the community got fed well from the meat. I don't think it's quite as one sided as you propose.
- cyrusshepard 15y agoHe killed it for sport, the rest is an excuse. If he were concerned about the community food supply he could have donated food. Anyone who hires "booth babes" for spokespeople and is a fan of 24 (a show I used to work for) hunts because he enjoys it. Bob Parsons does not spend thousands of dollars to kill elephants for humanitarian reasons.
- the-cakeboss 15y agoSo you are offended by the intention? Plenty of people enjoy hunting. Does that make them bad people worthy of contempt? This whole elephant thing is ridiculous.
- zbuc 15y ago> Plenty of people enjoy hunting. Does that make them bad people worthy of contempt? If they kill animals for fun, yes. He paid $70,000 to shoot the elephant. He's sick.
- chj 15y agoNo, I have more important things to worry about.
- dutchbrit 15y agoWe need a "Maybe" option, eventually, maybe today - only have a few domains at GoDaddy, most are already at Namecheap.
- rdl 15y agoI've run an OpenSRS reseller/affiliate registrar thing for years. I've never understood why people don't do that.
- jaysonelliot 15y agoI've never heard of OpenSRS. Can you elaborate on what it is, and the benefits?
- gargalatas 15y agoCompanies are not political parties and therefore they cannot express political thesis. If they do, then they loose, it's simple. Music, Cinema and all these forms of Art are signs that we are civilized. Civilization means that the civilized person copies the behavior of another civilized person and customize it with his own way. So this is a similar situation like maths, and physics and science. Every scientist helps building the science by putting his own piece of stone to the great miracle of science. If you want people to copyright your Stigma of Civilization or "Intellectual property" (you call it like this) first you must pay your debts to Shannon, and Babbage and Euler and many many other great persons who passed leaving their signs for ever and not just for 1 month.
- SeoxyS 15y agoWhat surprises me is that it took the SOPA fiasco to get people to move their domains from GoDaddy. A while back, I bought one domain from them and it took less than a month for me to transfer it out. The service was just that bad. Not only is GoDaddy a morally reprehensible company, but more disturbingly they're not even a good registrar. They constantly try to upsell you, they plaster your domains with ads. They don't even allow certain certain kind of DNS records… (their UI doesn't allow for a wildcard CNAME for example). I don't need elephants or congress bills to stay far away from GoDaddy, their crappy product is more than enough.
- dangrossman 15y agoTo be fair, editing DNS records has nothing to do with being a registrar. Free DNS servers aren't even a service all registrars provide, and they're one most customers don't use -- they use their web host's. For anyone building a tech business, you have no excuse for tying your DNS service to your choice of registrar.
- SeoxyS 15y agoMost people running a tech business use an unmanaged VPS or dedicated server. Running your own DNS server is kind of a pain—so, when all registrar run their own DNS servers and most have pretty good UI for record management, why not use them? For what it's worth, I use domainsite.com. They're a solid and cheap registrar, and though their UI isn't the prettiest, managing domains and DNS records is fantastic. I use them for everything.
- cbs 15y agoWhat surprises me is that it took the SOPA fiasco to get people to move their domains from GoDaddy Yeah, they suck, but in the last 5 years I've logged into godaddy exactly 5 times to renew all my domains and then forget about them for the next 11 months. Its easier than transferring.
- jfoster 15y agoNot today, but within the next few days. Looking forward to joining NameCheap.
- notyourwork 15y agoPossibly add option for Yes but not today due to Holidays? I plan on moving mine but won't until I settle back in at home after Holiday travels.
- moe 15y agoI tried to move a week ago but GoDaddy doesn't allow transfer when Whois-Privacy is enabled. Guess that means I'm locked in because I don't want my name attached to those domains.
- pilgrim689 15y agoI'm in the same boat same as you for one of my domains. I'd love to find a way around!
- pilgrim689 15y agoI'm in the same boat same as you for one of my domains. I'd love to find a way around!
- iamichi 15y agoCan you transfer to another internal GoDaddy account in a different name (that you create) and then transfer them out?
- profitbaron 15y agoIt would have to be to someone that you know and don't mind being exposed to said domain as in accordance with ICANN you can't use fake whois information.
- tytso 15y agoJust disable the Privacy and unlock the domain before you do the transfer. See this tutorial: http://hover.screenstepslive.com/s/hover/m/927/l/7788-GoDaddy-Complete-Tutorial http://hover.screenstepslive.com/s/hover/m/927/l/7788-GoDadd...
- aeden 15y agoThe issue is that exposes the OP's identity in Whois for a bit of time during the transfer.
- Nogwater 15y agoMaybe put in fake whois information for the day that the transfer is happening. Once it's moved, re-enable the privacy. The info doesn't even need to be fully fake, you can use a throwaway email address so that you're still reachable.
- ry0ohki 15y agoI'll be moving them as they expire, because it would be a little expensive to move everything right away (plus some things I've already paid for years of registration). I already moved a few that were close to expiry, but this whole thing started to feel like a witch hunt and a little hypocritical since I don't think I've heard anyone boycotting the Super Bowl because of NFL support or using AmEx because of Visa (two things that would be very easy to boycott).
- jamesrom 15y agoI could be wrong, but I had the impression that when a domain is transferred the date that domain is valid until stays the same, however you need to purchase another year on top of the existing expiry date.
- loumf 15y agoNameCheap is $6.99 for the transfer + 1 year on the expiry. Most include a year, I think, or else it would be hard to get transfers.
- aeden 15y agoThe purchase is automatic, at least for most, if not all, gTLDs. When you submit the request to transfer to the registry, and it successfully completes, the domain is automatically extended 1 year.
- darkane 15y agoI don't think those are proper analogies. The reason everyone is so outraged by GoDaddy's stance is because they claimed there are no moral or technical downsides to the bill, and being so intimately involved with DNS, they should know that's simply not true. So they either: don't understand their own business, they don't care about their customers, they have no ethical standards, or all of the above. Whichever it is, it's clear that they're run by truly horrible people.
- profitbaron 15y agoWhen you transfer your domain to another provider, the existing time is still on the domain and they are extended by another year.
- plusbryan 15y agoThe thing that surprised me most about this whole situation is that so many tech-savvy people use Godaddy. Their spammy marketing and variable pricing screams bush-league to me. I'll forgive my dad for using them cause he doesn't know he had options, but for something so fundamental, how does anyone trust them?
- phzbOx 15y agoFor me, it's because it's a one time deal. I buy the domain, set the nameservers and never go back. But I'll still move them to name.com later on.
- rjbrock 15y agoI had my ~10 domains registered with them for a while because they were the cheapest registrar around (with the abundant coupon codes). Now that I am no longer a broke college student I moved right over to namecheap which has been an awesome experience
- nhebb 15y agoIt's because tech-savvy people are smart enough to click the "No Thanks" link. ;-)
- swalsh 15y agoI never really put much thought into my registrar before. Godaddy had everything I needed at a good price. They were also big enough that I was confident they wouldn't go belly up leaving me with a problem.
- ereckers 15y agoA long time ago Network Solutions was the place to register domains for something like $30 a year (I can't remember), and Godaddy was the cheap, fast, up-and-comer. That's when I moved onto them, and everything after that was just an afterthought. I even got really good and completely ignoring the upsells and could navigate around pretty quickly. Some of it is legacy and if I was in the market for a first time registrar today, I may have chosen differently.
- odilontalk 15y agoYes
- miles_matthias 15y agoYes, if I get to them today.
- christefano 15y agoYou bet. We're even hosting a Leave GoDaddy Day workshop at Droplabs, our coworking space in Los Angeles: > http://droplabs.net/events/2011/12/29/leave-godaddy-day http://droplabs.net/events/2011/12/29/leave-godaddy-day The plan is to help anyone who drops by to move their GoDaddy-registered domains and GoDaddy-hosted sites.
- kingofspain 15y agoThe only domain I have left with Godaddy (moved all mine a year ago) is one I set up for an ex-girlfriend so you'll have to forgive me for putting my own sanity ahead of the greater good :) I have noticed a few promo emails from Godaddy in recent days though. More than usual I couldn't say - this whole situation may make them stand out.
- hessenwolf 15y agoI will just throw http://nametoolkit.com http://nametoolkit.com in here, for those looking for a more simple, less upsold alternative.
- joshmanders 15y agoDon't have any domains at GoDaddy, although I do have an account... Just to transfer any domains I buy from people that are on GoDaddy to NameCheap. I use NameCheap only, have for 6 years.
- captaincrunch 15y agoToo lazy.
- reduxredacted 15y agoMy domain transfer completed today (interesting, since it said it would complete on Tuesday, but I'll chock it up to volume). Immediately before the domain transfer, I received an e-mail indicating that GoDaddy was sorry to see my one sad domain go away. I replied asking if there is a way to completely eliminate my account with them. As I don't expect a reply, does anyone know if GoDaddy provides a way to eliminate your account completely? I'm planning on removing saved Credit Card information and setting a random, max-length password. Far from bullet proof, but I expect I won't be doing business with them again and don't want some random hack to result in account disclosure and some troublemaker deciding to buy a bunch of services in my name. The probability is low, but the amount of anger resulting from this SOPA nonsense has to have made them a bigger target for such nefarious activities ... I'm thinking Sony from recent memory.
- Karunamon 15y agoShort answer: No. Long answer: The best you can do is delete all services on your account, delete your payment information, and trash the registered name and address.
- squarecat 15y agoFor legal reasons, there is likely an ICANN policy regarding retaining of customer records for a period of time.
- fredleblanc 15y agoI'm still at GoDaddy, and I would like to leave, but I'm still doing research where I jump to. I'd rather not have to do this again for a long time, so I'm taking my time to make sure I get it right rather than jump on the first company that waves an anti-SOPA flag. So "no" for today, but "most likely" in the near future.
- brlewis 15y agoTransferring may be less painful than you think. I'm doing it with zero downtime because my DNS is at Linode, not godaddy. If namecheap turns out not to be the place I want to permanently keep my domains, transfer out will be painless too. Do it and I promise a high five at the next Salem build guild. If your DNS is at godaddy see http://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx/582 http://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx/...
- mdirolf 15y agoWe're moving 8 domains over right now.
- bradfriedman 15y agoI'd love to, personally, but does anyone else feel like they're too busy working on their product to worry about this? Maybe in a month or two when our codebase is more stable.
- varikin 15y agoI have one domain that I manage at GoDaddy, but actually belongs to the restaurant that my in-laws own. I will be moving it soon, but I don't have the time at the moment.
- paulhauggis 15y agoI won't because GoDaddy no longer supports SOPA.
- paulhauggis 15y agonot sure if people are just mis-informed or just don't read the news: http://mashable.com/2011/12/23/breaking-godaddy-no-longer-supports-sopa/ http://mashable.com/2011/12/23/breaking-godaddy-no-longer-su...
- cheap 15y agothat doesn't matter to the immature mind that craves anarchy for the sake of pleasing the social status quo
- rbanffy 15y agoDid they convince you?
- jtheory 15y agoThis wasn't a threat -- "you'd better stop supporting SOPA or we'll move our domains". That's fairly useless, because the damage is already done (and anything they put now in a press release is obviously -- even to senators -- just GoDaddy's PR folks "managing" those excitable internet users and their cause du jour (secret: say whatever you have to today, let it blow over, and go back to business as usual next month). Instead, it's more worthwhile to watch the history of decisions, lobbying, etc. by a company, and avoid them as needed based on that. A company can change, to be sure, but not through vague press releases -- only through building up new history.
- Sindisil 15y agoI'e never directly given a dime to Go Daddy, for domains or anything else. I don't give a rip about the low-brow ads or the elephant hunting - I just don't like supporting businesses that operate like Go Daddy, and I certainly have no interest in trusting one as skeezy as them for something as critical as domain registration.
- brudgers 15y agoNo. Because I do not confuse consumerism with political action. Time spent moving domains from Godaddy in hopes of some indirect impact on SOPA would be better spent upon swaying my congressional representatives directly...despite the popular wisdom, they represent me within our political system, not various corporations. To put it another way, moving domains as a way of expressing displeasure over SOPA legitimates the very logic which created it; that internet users in the US are merely consumers, not citizens. Move your domain day id premised on the idea that consumer choices are our most effective political act and accepting that premise is done at the peril of losing our legitimate political power. supreme executive authority derives from a mandate from the people, not some farcical shopping ceremony to paraphrase Dennis.
- jessedhillon 15y agoThe basic premise is to deny capital to the companies whose policies you oppose. In a system where economics and politics so thoroughly mix, I can't see how you can draw such a line as the one you claim to draw. It would make you indistinguishable from an uninformed buyer. And essentially that's what you're saying: you make purchases as if you had no information as to how the money might be used, even when you know it may be applied to goals that you feel would limit your freedom (or however a person might phrase this.) Your only concern when making a purchase is getting the best value. Moreover, registering a domain is hardly "consumerism", unless you want to conflate the term with any act of purchasing.
- aroberge 15y agoWhat about non-U.S. citizens who will be affected by SOPA and do not have a congressional representative to lobby? This boycott is much larger than you seem to think - and, because of its global scope, should be given more thoughts.
- nhebb 15y agoNo, but I will when the domains expire. The way I look at it, transferring all my domains now will just cost me more money for a service that I've already paid for. So part of the short term punishment is letting GoDaddy keep my money but no longer have to provide me with a service? There is the short term negative impact their SOPA support has reaped, and that's what everyone is focusing on. But there is also the long term impact, and I'll be part of that "movement".
- tonyb 15y agoIt doesn't cost you more money at all. When you transfer a domain the expiration date is increased by at least a year (more if you chose so). You do not double pay for the time that is remaining. It is basically renewing just with a different registrar.
- websirnik 15y agoJust did it. Thanks to this thread for remembering.
- ereckers 15y agoI actually moved a friends hosting from Godaddy to my own servers just last night (he was about a week past expiration on a 2 yr contract). One thing I haven't seen out of the hundreds of comments about moving off of Godaddy the last few days is any mention of Email. Call me stupid, but I was using Godaddy's email service for really simple email accounts (ie. catchalls on personal domains). I'm using Google Apps to manage some of my email, but I found just going with Godaddy to be much simpler on non mission critical stuff. Was nobody at all, not one person using Godaddy's email service? Also, I'm on Name.com which I like a lot, but they use Google Apps for email, I've got some dumb domains that I want to run email through (as I described above). Can anyone tell me if Namecheap approaches email the same basic way that Godaddy had (ie. free email credits with each domain registered, pop3/imap, etc..).
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- greyfade 15y agoI've been trying, but no one supports domain transfers on .de.
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- tokipin 15y agoi won't move my domains since i don't have any domains. but the domains i'm setting up next month aren't going to be with them in the first place
- jordonwii 15y agoHey, everyone who's moving or has moved: add the number of domains you transferred/transferring to http://www.boycott-godaddy.com/ http://www.boycott-godaddy.com/ I'd like to see how high we can get that total.
- dextorious 15y agoSo, despite all the surprised comments from earlier posts, of the type "Surely no HN guy would ever use with GD", etc, almost 1/2 of those responding to this HN poll use/used GD. Sure, it's not 100% representative, given that people that have/had GD accounts are more likely to even opt to read the poll than people without those, but still, a large number of HN readers use GD.
- nipper88souper 15y ago"allegedly one or more of the domains some have purchased were removed for them or rather 'auctioned' elsewhere while they were still owned years ago to the very place[s] which were using their original birth given names as url re-direct to other companies already protected by the two year 'co. status'[this singular statement could be looked at neutrally] - ie: an 'upright above boards business or company should be able to own it's own intellectual property and name/domain name'. as 2011 some of these lost urls/domain names read as an internal error 404. this is the tip of a huge seemingly inanimate elephant in the iceberg room and if it [was me] i would have had nothing to do it. 'auctioned' would be a key word in this statement and nothing innocent 'auctioned off' unwillingly with 'possible' malice has ever been a good thing- even if the 1st to 3rd party is claiming simple ignorance or neutrality." however i am not really that smart and would have never seen any of this coming. lesson learned. things could have been worse fro some it wasn't for others. how to make things better is the question now. it is good to be alive. i have never worked for the co. mentioned in this poll, if it matters.