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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. so uh why they'd support it? by gl4ss · · Score: 5, Interesting

    a banned domain = customer has to buy another?

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    1. Re:so uh why they'd support it? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Interesting

      ... 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... why aren't non-commercial domain servers exempt?

      Remember that universities are almost always accused of being breeding grounds for socialism (by the Right Wing), since they often teach subjects like history, biology and the social sciences. Since these subjects often implicitly contradict the religious right wing ideology of intelligent design, the importance of human suffering through original sin, the "white man's burden" to civilize the world, etc., it is natural for these corporations and politicians to want to have the ability to shut down the communication systems of universities. Universities are a place of education afterall. If people are educated about things like SOPA, then they pose a great threat. Censorship and the threat of censorship helps to mitigate that threat.

      It is in the fundamentalist conservative tradition that universities be places to train MBAs and football stars, than to be places that breed controversy and critical thinking.

      Of course these people would not want universities to be exempt from shutdown. Go Daddy is no threat to the 1-percenters (and their followers and sycophants), but an educated population is.

    2. Re:so uh why they'd support it? by Phanatic1a · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Do you think government is corrupting Wall Street, or is Wall Street's money corrupting government?

      That's a false dichotomy; the interest swings both ways.

      But the fundamental problem is that the government has the power to do this sort of thing. So long as it has that power, it will be attractive for corporations to influence it in order to seek rents. Doesn't matter whether you make the money train more opaque, doesn't matter what limits you set: if buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first thing that's going to be bought and sold are the legislators.

    3. Re:so uh why they'd support it? by Stradenko · · Score: 2, Interesting

      The recipe for getting corporate influence out of government is to reduce governmental power in corporate behavior. I'm sorry you hate Rand, but that's the gist of it. If the business isn't controlled by government, then business has no interest in government and we can all go about our lives. If you don't like what company does, please found company and change the industry, or at least your small part of it. The problem with regulation and subsidy is that it obfuscates the costs of delivery, so nobody can tell what makes sense and what does not.

    4. Re:so uh why they'd support it? by cavebison · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Established business will support something that gives them that kind of edge.

      Good point. And because the law says shareholders come first, they would practically be required to support it (the same way you're forced to defend patents or lose them), even if the CEO didn't like it.

      Try convincing shareholders that you don't want to do something which protects their investment merely because it's unethical. Your choice is do it, or lose the confidence of the board and possibly lose your company.

      This is the root problem with *everything*, and I mean everything, that goes wrong in business - from pollution to safety to employment - it affects every part of our lives. The law which says shareholders come first.

      Nothing will change if that law isn't changed. I feel this is what the Occupy movement should have concentrated on. You can't ask corporations to "play fair" when the law itself says otherwise.

  2. Significant? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    How significant is this? I don't know how to read this data, but TFA itself seems to note that almost as many domains transferred in on the same day, and it says here that they manage some 32 million domains, so that really doesn't seem like much. Can't find any historical data, though, so I don't know if it's outside the norm for daily activity... is it?

  3. A successful boycott by J'raxis · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Serves them right.

    On the one hand, this is a great example of a successful boycott: GoDaddy committed an egregious action which generated so many complaints, threats of monetary loss, and now 21,000 examples of actual loss, that GoDaddy did a complete about-face and dropped support of SOPA.

    On the other hand, this company has committed so many egregious and unethical actions over their lifetime (anyone else remember NoDaddy.com?) that I would rather see them lose so much business that they go out of business. If I hadn't already moved my domains off of them after one of their earlier outrages, I'd still move them off now, even though they turned around on SOPA. Let their flaming wreckage be an example to other domain registrars.

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  4. Looks like Godaddy is gaming the numbers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    1) If you take a look at godaddy New domains, they are mostly spam, malware or ad pages, and most are registered by one or a small number of people in China.
    2) Transfers into godaddy are mostly bulk transfers from Chinese registrars.
    3) Transfers out are also mostly spam/malware/ad pages, and are going to Chinese registrars.

    The chinese connection is not a coincidence. I will bet money that those Chiese registrars are either controlled by Godaddy or have a sweetheart deal with them to either game ICAAN or the numbers.

    Either way those numbers are misleading at domaincontrol and cannot be trusted.

  5. Re:Democracy. by lightknight · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If you want a larger turnout for the elections, you need to offer better candidates; many people stay at home because they despise the choices offered to them.

    There should be a constitutional amendment that states if less than 50% of eligible voters show up to vote, the election cannot be held as valid; elections must be held again, 3 months later, with an entirely new slate of candidates.

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  6. Re:Compared to whom? by foniksonik · · Score: 3, Interesting

    1&1 is fine with me. I've still got a free DEV package with unlimited domains (register for $6) and 300 MB of space. More than enough to host prototypes. Comes with sudo access so again works.

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  7. Re:Democracy. by TheGratefulNet · · Score: 3, Interesting

    sorry, but while you are correct; its not effective anymore.

    people (especially in a down econ) are mostly going to be voting for the CHEAPEST short-term solution they can find for the problem they are solving.

    no one invests for long-term. no one buys higher quality today when they can buy walmart chinese shit for 'so much less'.

    go to a coupon/deals site like slickdeals or fatwallet. see the mentality of 'todays youth'. see how the near total lack of morality in shopping is abundant in their consumer group. point out how evil a company is and you are made fun of. point out how an item will break so shortly after you buy it and they reply 'yeah, but its only a few dollars!'.

    they don't get it.

    we are so screwed....

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  8. Re:Very good point! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You have a 100 hours work week because you have to manage your domains with the atrocious GoDaddy interface.

    And because you post on slashdot on work hours.

    But seriously, businesses are made of people and if you still trust the people at GoDaddy, that's fine, but that trust as been lost for a lot of people who have domains with them on which they make a living. My domains are mainly with Tucows, but if I used GoDaddy, I would probably consider moving out soon as a purely practical matter, to secure the huge financial interest I have in my domain names.

  9. Re:Google uses Godaddy as a registrar partner by M.+Baranczak · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Google is pretty open-minded about that "evil" thing. But more importantly, they have a strong financial interest in not breaking the internet.

  10. Plugin to boycott GoDaddy's remaining customers? by Kogun · · Score: 5, Interesting

    So where is the browser plugin to allow me to boycott the websites STILL using GoDaddy for their domain hosting?