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Go Daddy Loses Over 21,000 Domains In One Day

Posted by samzenpus on from the reaping-what-you-sow dept.

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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  1. 20,034 transferred in the same day by sup2100 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Gotta love statistics

    1. Re:20,034 transferred in the same day by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      Mod parent up.

      21,054 transferred out, but 20,034 transferred in. (from TFA)

  2. Re:so uh why they'd support it? by Baloroth · · Score: 5, Informative

    GoDaddy got the seized domains from the last round of ICE seizures. I'll let you connect the dots.

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  3. Very good point! by Weezul · · Score: 5, Informative

    Also, GoDaddy has NOT withdrawn its official congressional support for SOPA, but they pretend they did when talking to the press.

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    1. Re:Very good point! by SomePgmr · · Score: 5, Informative

      Indeed, there were a few that ran specials for godaddy xfers with deal codes like SOPASUCKS.

  4. Misleading summary by SuperMog2002 · · Score: 5, Informative

    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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    1. Re:Misleading summary by klui · · Score: 5, Informative

      Here is more detailed info on these "losses."

      http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/npj2q/godaddy_lost_21000_domains_yesterday/c3ay6yu?context=3

      Daily changes http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/npj2q/godaddy_lost_21000_domains_yesterday/c3ay675

  5. Re:so uh why they'd support it? by 0100010001010011 · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.