Well, things keep getting more and more out of hand for Go Daddy today. Not only might it lose a huge customer in Ben Huh’s Cheezburger, it published its official stance in support of SOPA and shut the comments off. I was talking to Ben Huh and he suggested in jest that someone come up with a counter to track everyone who is pledging to leave Go Daddy. He agreed, so I tweeted it.
One awesome reader of The Next Web, Michael Schade, responded and came through with NoDaddy:
@thatdrew Done: rawr.mschade.me/nodaddy/
— Michael Schade (@sch) December 23, 2011
The site asks you for your email address, and counts you as someone pledging to yank your domain names from Go Daddy. You’re listed on the right hand side with your gravatar:
Head on over to NoDaddy and support the cause against SOPA and Go Daddy’s stance in support of the act with your pledge.
Hey Michael, maybe should let people list how many domains they’ll take away from Go Daddy so you can show a running tally? We know that Huh’s 1,000 is a good start.
The Drupal community (in LA at least) held a "Lets Leave GoDaddy" Day: http://groups.drupal.org/node/199063 Even if you love SOPA, you should probably still switch your domains away from GoDaddy (their shared hosting is crap too, honestly, especially for running Drupal).
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LikeThere's also another site tracking it: http://latersgd.com/ (It shows more than 14,000 domains transferred)
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LikeWe are moving all ours
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LikeHmm, that's a great idea about listing the number of domains. I was worried that some could troll it by putting in false numbers, which would then invalidate the authenticity of the pledges.
Thoughts from people? I'm happy to change it to the community's suggestions.
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LikeDue to popular demand from people on Twitter, I've added a tally of domains GoDaddy will lose.
If you've already pledged, just use the same email address to pledge again.
Thanks all for the feedback and support!
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LikeConversation from Twitter
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glynmoody whats up baby we should chat. hit me up on yahoo at outrageousat or aim at celsaelane
glynmoody GoDaddy soon to be DaddyGone!
jrodwyer <\/fingers crossed>
glynmoody The power of the internet and the people:)
jrodwyer let's hope
jrodwyer hey cutie lets chat. msg me on yahoo at naughtypeaceful or aim at celsaelane
OriginalSignal nodaddy that's very funny lmao