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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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    world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
    1. 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.

    2. 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. 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.

  4. 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?