A) GoDaddy has nurtured a lot of ill will over the years, whether due to poor customer service, a sloppy user experience, or their absurd corporate culture of using bikini babes and right wing politics to sell, of all things, domain name registration and hosting.
B) Internet users can (relatively easily) transfer domain names. It's something they can go do right now, without much fuss and without having to police their own day to day purchasing habits.
C) GoDaddy, unlike the other businesses on the SOPA supporters list, is not a purveyor of intellectual property with a legitimate interest in preventing counterfeiting.
D) GoDaddy, as a technology business and self-proclaimed "innovator", should know better than the others, who have the dubious defense of being ignorant of how this stuff works.
The thing I can't help but wonder is whether the average NFL or ESPN viewer would just sit tight if they knew their internet was about to get a lot more limited and/or expensive?
My point is that if the law is really as bad as we think it is (and it is), then defeating it shouldn't be more than a problem of explaining the law to people. And the Gandhian in me can't help but wonder whether simply informing them is enough?
"Dear America. ESPN & the NFL are about to take away your free porn -- love, Google"
E) A large fraction of GoDaddy's customers know what DNS is and what SOPA would mean. If every Walmart customer who knew what DNS was walked out, Walmart wouldn't feel it. GoDaddy is noticing this.
A) GoDaddy has nurtured a lot of ill will over the years, whether due to poor customer service, a sloppy user experience, or their absurd corporate culture of using bikini babes and right wing politics to sell, of all things, domain name registration and hosting.
B) Internet users can (relatively easily) transfer domain names. It's something they can go do right now, without much fuss and without having to police their own day to day purchasing habits.
C) GoDaddy, unlike the other businesses on the SOPA supporters list, is not a purveyor of intellectual property with a legitimate interest in preventing counterfeiting.
D) GoDaddy, as a technology business and self-proclaimed "innovator", should know better than the others, who have the dubious defense of being ignorant of how this stuff works.