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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."
Only pirates oppose SOPA. They know it'll completely stop them from downloading copyrighted material (magically)! Anyone who says that it will be abused is just a conspiracy theorist.
Filthy, filthy copyrapists!
Strong words from an anonymous coward.
I don't doubt for a second that they still approve of the legislation.. but if they stop supporting it, then I just don't care. I have a lot of other stuff to do (like my 100 hour work weeks) than search around for a new registrar and transfer my domains. If you refuse to do business with everyone you disagree with, you'll never get anything done. And at the end of the day, godaddy still works. So if they're willing to stop supporting SOPA, then it's fine with me.
When you move out of your parents basement, get a life and a job.. then you can talk to me about ethics.
The GOP would never go for it though, and unless the Democrats get enough votes for cloture they couldn't get it through the Senate. Not that the Democrats are necessarily any better, but the GOP is primarily in charge of looking out for the rich regardless of what it does to the country.
You are an ignorant fool, regurgitating the propaganda the Democrats have fed you. It's the DEMOCRATS who are the party of the rich. Who got more BP money than any other politician? Barack Obama! What party gets more than 2-1 share of contributions from Wall Street? Democrats! What party does Jon Corzine, former Chairman of Goldman-Sachs, former Senator and Governor of New Jersey (having spent over $100 million of his personal Wall Street fortune to purchase those offices), and now in trouble for "losing" $1.2 BILLION in investor funds? That's right. Not to mention all the Wall Street power players and tax cheats that Obama staffs his regime with.
These are the inconvenient truths, hedwards. The Democrats are the party of the rich, not the GOP. Look at all the rent-seeking by unions and bogus green energy scams like Solyndra that converted their campaign contributions to Obama into billions of grift from the taxpayers fisc. Meanwhile, proven safe energy like the Keystone XL pipeline is being blocked as a sop to the environmental crazies at the cost of tens of thousands of jobs.
The reason there's so much money pouring into our government is because the government is a parliament of whores, dispensing advantage to the highest bidders. It's a bipartisan scandal, but for idiots to pretend that only the Republicans are out for the rich is a flat out lie. If you want the money out of politics, then you must reduce the amount of power government has to sell and the hell are politicians going to go for that. As a friend of mine said, "You will never hear a politician says, "Oh, no, that is far too much power for me to have."