Making Godaddy a Crybaby

At last count I had 19 domains registered over at Godaddy. Some have corresponding Godaddy hosted websites. I am completely against SOPA and am alarmed at Godaddy's waffling on the subject and even the hint they might support it again. Moving 19 Urls and few websites would be a pain in the ass but may be necessary. Joining the 37000 and growing number leaving godaddy might be in my near future. It's easy to join a protest that affects me when the message is unified.

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It's time for me to renew my domain name... and move it to a different service provider.

There is quite a movement of people leaving GoDaddy over the SOPA nonsense. I hope all the companies supporting SOPA are facing similar pressure from consumers.

I'm happy with freehostia (their paid hosting plan) and namecheap for registration.

http://www.freehostia.com/
http://www.namecheap.com/

Wow! My 19 don't mean shit as a whole compared to imagur!

Sorry for the FOX News link but they were the only ones I could find with the imagur stats: FOX News - imagur

A few more domain registrars for those to follow the protest: PC News

Penny Arcade just showed the power of angry unified geeks. I'm very curious to see how this turns out for GoDaddy.

A few inquiries;

1. You can't be included on a mass pm but can reply to a post. Odd UBBthread coding?

2. Opinion: Will Anonymous target Godaddy?

3. Does Anonymous have the balls to target Paypal?

4. Do you prefer "geek" over "nerd"?

1. Not positive. Best guess- you probably can't PM someone who has blocked your user. I toggle your posts in some threads, like this one, and enjoy discussing with you. Others... well, suffice to say I don't. I'd be happy to unblock if you have something you want to discuss in PM, however.

2. Good question. GD is a power player, but Anon seems to be going after more political targets. But, they're also attention whores with a fetish for salting wounds, so they might like to take a cheap shot while the spotlight is still on. My bet would be no.

3. I don't think they have balls at all. I think they lack common sense and a big picture vantage point. They have targeted some heavy hitters and it will one day catch up with them in a bad way. But, they seem to be targeting the easily despised 1% type. PayPal is used by people from all walks. They would be harming a lot of the "little guy" they claim to have sympathy for by hitting PayPal. It would alienate a LOT of the people that are cheering them on. My bet is they won't.

4. Prefer geek. You?

1. Understandable. I can't stand half the things I say to myself. Went on a fishing expedition and tried to include you on a mass PM for assistance. No Worries. Seemingly LJ toggles too since I see him reading my posts sometimes and couldn't include him as well. Fishing was successful and fun. Maybe next time.

2. Can see the logic there. My bet leans negative as well. Thought you might see and angle I wasn't. Combining this with #3; I don't see them hitting people who could effectively hit back. wikileaks is a casualty to tech giants smacking hacker wieners.

3. Agree. My assessment of that situation couple with above comments.

4. Always prefer Nerd. Respect Geek. Pity Dweeb.

Occasionally I toggle. I don't always regret it.