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GoDaddy Backs SOPA
redletterdave writes "Website hosting company GoDaddy has officially voiced its support for the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) Bill in 2012, which is designed to thwart movie and music piracy on the Internet by empowering copyright holders to effectively shut down websites or online services found with infringing material. If passed, the U.S. government could blacklist any website it deems in violation of copyright, which could range from a few posts in a Web forum to a few links sent in an e-mail. GoDaddy supports SOPA for 'protecting the intellectual property of hard-working Americans, U.S. business and the American public from the harm that necessarily flows from the purchase of counterfeit products.' Yet, of the 142 companies that support the SOPA bill, GoDaddy is the only Internet company on the list."
i have all my domains hosted with them, if this bill gets passed i'm moving them.
i live in Australia but this bill is rediculous.
It's not a typo if you understood the meaning!
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Sox slows down productivity of mega corporations by a factor of 10.
What took 4 days in 2000 takes 40 days today.
We had a production emergency with a huge client today... it took FOUR HOURS to get permission for a programmer to debug the problem in production.
A few years back we had a 1 line change to a program. It took 47 days.
Both of these used to be much faster and easier.
I agree big companies can afford to pay the legal costs.
But they suffer invisible massive productivity costs.
And it does NOTHING to stop massive fraud (see MF Global).
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
Namecheap. They currently have a coupon code SOPASUCKS for domain transfers.
I can happily confirm that all of my godaddy domains have been successfully transferred to namecheap (eNom) without any noticable downtime. The geeks have spoken.
For anyone managing a large amount of domains, an SRS Plus partner account from Network Solutions would be the way to go. There are two benefits:
1) The prices are cheaper.
2) They are not GoDaddy
With a partner account you have access to change contact information, DNS servers, request auth codes, etc...
Oh, and like xombo said about internet.bs below, SRS Plus also has an API.
I started boycotting GoDaddy earlier this year when their CEO, Bob Parsons, went to Africa to get his rocks off killing an elephant for sport.
And no, I'm not anti-hunting, but I am anti-hunting endangered animals, especially if there is no cultural norms involved, and I am definitely anti-hunting if your sole motivation is just to kill something for fun.
because it affects companies in a sort of inverted U shape: small businesses owned by fewer than 500 shareholders are completely exempt
Perhaps by the letter of the law they are exempt but they still feel the pain. My small employer (60+ employees) is privately owned but our accounting costs almost doubled after SOx. I'm willing to bet the bottom line hit from this represents a higher percentage of our income than it does for random mega-corp.
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
Was too lazy to transfer domains, but now I moved my 3 domains away from GoDaddy, to Gandi.net.
Now I don't understand how I managed to ever use that horrible GoDaddy interface, aargh.
P.S.
it does this on new account registrations (sending all profile data unencrypted) but after i logout and when i try to log back in i am presented with a checkbox to enable ssl for all requests.
first time users don't get that checkbox though, all their data is sent via plaintext on registration :(
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Why do GoDaddy support this? Interestingly they have somehow pre-negotiated a legal exemption from SOPA, should it come to pass, perhaps in return for their support.
http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/12/sopa-hearing-will-never-end.php (search for GoDaddy, their name will be written into the proposed law)
Notice that GoDaddy has this magical get-out-of-jail-free card while e.g. libraries, universities, schools, hospitals and many branches of government do not. They've stolen a life jacket and are now set on scuttling the ship. There are historical parallels:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quisling
I'm moving my domains away, of course, and I should have done so sooner by the sounds of things. To support SOPA is not merely evil, it's also an indication that the guy doesn't understand the technological consequences, and I don't hire such people to run my internets.
stop thinking so rationally!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6091334.stm
In southern Africa, countries have followed the philosophy of sustainable use. They have issued permits to sport hunters to kill a limited number of elephants that are pre-selected according to factors like age and sex. They cannot shoot breeding animals...
The result is that in Namibia, South Africa and Botswana, elephant populations are well-stocked and healthy, while incidences of poaching have been kept to low levels.
this is not just random poaching with no goal.
i think people who dont hunt might not realize how much paperwork is involved.. its a lot of thought out work by conservation programs to make sure populations are kept in balance with their environment and other species..
While elephants are endangered globally, they are not always endangered locally if you see what I mean.
Some areas of Africa, have good conservation and wildlife management programs, and actually have too many elephants for their local environment to support. The funds they pull in from rich foreigners who want to kill something for fun, are used to sustain the management programs.
Supposedly they could move the elephants to areas where they are low in numbers, but this is not always sensible. Firstly, it costs money, which they don't have much of. Secondly, there is a reason why some areas have low elephant populations, usually lack of management programs or high numbers of poachers, in which case moving elephants to that location is non-productive, as they will be killed by poachers.
I know it is counter-intuitive, but sometimes killing elephants for fun, actually helps the elephant population to survive.
One way of looking at it, is that sport hunting attaches a monetary value to an elephant, turning it into an asset for people to whom an elephant is usually a liability. (They destroy crops, and large areas of vegetation). People tend to look after their assets.
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