GoDaddy, a site likely closed under SOPA, supports SOPA

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Article: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/201110 ... bill.shtml

While the article is completely biased, I suggest not buying domains from GoDaddy if you do not support this legislation. If you are interested in stopping such legislation, write to your congressperson.

If you don't know what SOPA is, Google it. It's poorly written legislation that gives companies and the government the right to shut down infringing and non-infringing websites.
 
lololololololol alright you know what I actually really hope this s**t passes. So many Americans will lose jobs, just furthering our sh**ty economy, while congress will continue taking bribes from the entertainment industry until the average joe finally gets sick of his oppressors and does something about it.
 
I have a godaddy domain.

I really hope this doesn't pass. It would ruin the internet. 🙁

Even FP could get shut down because of the images posted in signatures and in posts.
 
SOPA is just unbridled censorship in disguise. In a way it is good. This will accelerate the growth of an alternative to the web. There are already many ways for computers to network all over the world without going through the web. All it needs is something like SOPA to make it reach critical mass.
 
I have one GoDaddy domain, but no more. I have 4 Namecheap domains, but sadly the domain I use the most is the one registered on GoDaddy. I highly support anti-SOPA.
 
GoDaddy is a huge company that sells domains. I can understand most of the reasons why they support SOPA, believe it or not. Anybody can put 50/50 together and understand that, but eh, for one thing I know is that SOPA has about a 90% chance not to pass with all the people sharing their opinions, not just GoDaddy.....
 
Victor Leigh said:
SOPA is just unbridled censorship in disguise. In a way it is good. This will accelerate the growth of an alternative to the web. There are already many ways for computers to network all over the world without going through the web. All it needs is something like SOPA to make it reach critical mass.
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But, the RIAA, MPAA, and companies/groop who believe in over censorship will go after people who use different methods of communication to share files, data, and content which they categorize as piracy, or indecent.

I think even if people find a way to share content without a computer like with the mind to mind via Telepathy (a communication between minds by some non-technological means other than sensory perception. — telepathist, n. — telepathic, adj.,) http://www.thefreedictionary.com/telepathy

or secondary player, companies and some government will try to find a way to stop the sharing of copyrighted content, or find a way to tax, or sue people for a lot of money.

I heard the Print press, VCR, Tape recorders, CD-R, photo copiers, and other devices are frowned upon by content holders because they can be used to share content for free.

Canada has a CD-R tax which pays 29 cents per CD to the canadian music industry because people can use them for burning Music CDs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_co ... evy#Canada
 
froggyboy604 said:
I heard the Print press, VCR, Tape recorders, CD-R, photo copiers, and other devices are frowned upon by content holders because they can be used to share content for free.
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They might as well think about banning cars since bank robbers use cars to get away.
 
Actually from what I read around the internet over a few thousand domains were transfered from godaddy to other registrars xD. True godaddy is huge, and they could just go to a hosting only business once they die in the domain registration portion of their website. (Or just die if SOPA does pass :|)

Apparently some guy on reddit is doing a transfer your domains from godaddy on Dec 29th (Funny thing is almost everyone that read that reddit post is/have moving/ed)

http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/commen ... /?sort=new
 
It is strange that Blogspot and Google Apps are still using GoDaddy as their domain partner according to https://www.google.com/a/cpanel/domain/ ... er=godaddy

since GoDaddy is Pro-Sopa while Google is anti-SOPA. I wonder if Google just create its own domain registrar company or buy a domain registrar, so they used their own services which don't support SOPA rather relying on Pro-SOPA GoDaddy.
 
froggyboy604 said:
It is strange that Blogspot and Google Apps are still using GoDaddy as their domain partner according to https://www.google.com/a/cpanel/domain/ ... er=godaddy

since GoDaddy is Pro-Sopa while Google is anti-SOPA. I wonder if Google just create its own domain registrar company or buy a domain registrar, so they used their own services which don't support SOPA rather relying on Pro-SOPA GoDaddy.
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Ok I don't get the bold part of that, could you explain?

Seems like a old link, when I remove providers and the rest after it, it goes to there new create page.
 
Hitakashi said:
froggyboy604 said:
It is strange that Blogspot and Google Apps are still using GoDaddy as their domain partner according to https://www.google.com/a/cpanel/domain/ ... er=godaddy

since GoDaddy is Pro-Sopa while Google is anti-SOPA. I wonder if Google just create its own domain registrar company or buy a domain registrar, so they used their own services which don't support SOPA rather relying on Pro-SOPA GoDaddy.
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Ok I don't get the bold part of that, could you explain?

Seems like a old link, when I remove providers and the rest after it, it goes to there new create page.
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The link is very old since GoDaddy is Blogspot official blogspot domain company for many years before SOPA.

I meant I wonder if Google might want to start their own domain registrar company, or do business with a domain company which does not support SOPA instead of using GoDaddy as a domain registrar partner for Google Apps and Blogspot.
 
froggyboy604 said:
Hitakashi said:
froggyboy604 said:
It is strange that Blogspot and Google Apps are still using GoDaddy as their domain partner according to https://www.google.com/a/cpanel/domain/ ... er=godaddy

since GoDaddy is Pro-Sopa while Google is anti-SOPA. I wonder if Google just create its own domain registrar company or buy a domain registrar, so they used their own services which don't support SOPA rather relying on Pro-SOPA GoDaddy.
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Ok I don't get the bold part of that, could you explain?

Seems like a old link, when I remove providers and the rest after it, it goes to there new create page.
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The link is very old since GoDaddy is Blogspot official blogspot domain company for many years before SOPA.

I meant I wonder if Google might want to start their own domain registrar company, or do business with a domain company which does not support SOPA instead of using GoDaddy as a domain registrar partner for Google Apps and Blogspot.
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ohhhh, Hopefully they will. Although I doubt they would go into domain registration, but hopefully they switch soon.
 
I agree Google probably won't go into domain registration, but I think Google might earn a lot of money if they do since they have Blogspot, YouTube, Google Plus, Sites.Google.com, picasa, orkut, gmail, and many other user generated content sites which can be modified to use custom domain names rather then GoogleOwnedWebsite.com/subpath like how you can use a custom domain name for Tumblr.com.

Hopefully, someone working at Google or Blogspot notices GoDaddy is still being partnered with Blogspot for domains, and change to Namecheap or a company which opposes SOPA.
 
Hitakashi said:
ohhhh, Hopefully they will. Although I doubt they would go into domain registration, but hopefully they switch soon.
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I recall google offering domain registration in the past, most likely reselling but yeah dunno what happened to that.
 
Gimgak said:
Hitakashi said:
ohhhh, Hopefully they will. Although I doubt they would go into domain registration, but hopefully they switch soon.
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I recall google offering domain registration in the past, most likely reselling but yeah dunno what happened to that.
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I remember Geocities offering free websites in the late 90's/early 00's but yeah dunno what happened to that.
 
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