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Go Daddy Loses Over 21,000 Domains In One Day
First time accepted submitter expo53d writes "CNET reports that yesterday 21,054 domains were pulled off Domaincontrol.com, a subsidiary of GoDaddy. While this maybe a coincidence, it is likely to be caused by GoDaddy's controversial support for SOPA. It seems that GoDaddy's attempts at remedying the problem were of no use."
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This might have something to do with the fact that Go Daddy sucks as a registrar. The whole SOPA thing was just the last straw.
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This # doesn't include any domains transferred away from GoDaddy that were delegated to non-GoDaddy nameservers. The 21,000 number is only for domains that used GoDaddy's nameservers for DNS. So the actual # was higher than 21,000.
The question is what is the real number of transferred away domains? I don't know if any of those statistics are available publicly.
GoDaddy got the seized domains from the last round of ICE seizures. I'll let you connect the dots.
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Also, GoDaddy has NOT withdrawn its official congressional support for SOPA, but they pretend they did when talking to the press.
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According to the article, GoDaddy lost 21,054, but they also gained 20,034, for a net loss of 1020. Given their scale, that doesn't exactly sound like a massive exodus. Also, without any further information, for all we know, this is just a regular day of churn that happened to end negative.
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If they continued to support SOPA it would have really hurt.
They DID continue to support SOPA. They just released some damage-control PR saying they weren't supporting it as strongly.
GoDaddy helped write the legislation such that they are exempt from it.
Rep. Jared Polis (D-CO), the only member of Congress present at the hearing with any tech experience, having founded several web companies, introduced two amendments: one to exclude universities and non-profits from being subject do having to shut down their own domain servers if accused of piracy under SOPA, and the other to exempt dynamic IP addresses, such as those found on web-enabled printers. Both were voted down.
Polis pointed out that SOPA and Smith’s amendment already excluded certain operators of sub-domains, such as GoDaddy.com, from being subject to shutdowns under SOPA.
“If companies like GoDaddy.com are exempt, why aren’t non-commercial domain servers exempt?” Polis asked.
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It's probably time to remind Google what "Don't be evil" is. Breaking the Internet is definitely a no-no.
I wonder how many other companies need to be reminded of this. Anybody got a list?
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GoDaddy accounts for 30% of all domain registrations, and there are, on average, 27K .com domains registered PER DAY.
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It's not always about money. It could also be blind party loyalty. GoDaddy has an strong track record of donating to republican candidates including Ted Stevens who was a long time friend of Big Media. It would not surprise me to find that leadership of GoDaddy doesn't understand the technical flaws of SOPA.
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