It’s going to get worse before it gets better for domain registration company Go Daddy. Yesterday, we reported that Go Daddy had reversed its decision to support SOPA. Its customer service reps are even taking to the phones to beg you to keep your domains with the company.
It looks like these PR moves to save face, and business, are completely futile. According to TheDomains, 21,054 domains were transferred away from Go Daddy on Friday alone. At $6.99 a pop, that would make for a loss of $147,167, not taking future renewals into account. The day before wasn’t a good one for the company either, with 15,000 people taking their domains elsewhere. That means that even though Go Daddy changed its stance, people have had enough.
The stats from DailyChanges show that the transfers away from Go Daddy have been increasing all week. Here are the number of domains moving away from Go Daddy this week alone:
Monday (8,800)
Tuesday (13,000)
Wednesday (14,500)
Thursday (15,000)
Friday (21,054)
Just a suggestion, perhaps Go Daddy should write about SOPA and leave the comments open, that way customers can reply. I’m starting to run out of /facepalm photos, so it better do something to repair its relationship with customers.
Oh, and by the way Go Daddy…we know that you’re exempt from SOPA, and that you haven’t even officially changed your stance with Congress.
If you’re not sure what the Stop Online Piracy Act is, read SOPA For Dummies
SmartStartWeb.net is not operated by GoDaddy and does not support SOPA. That is why I switched 60 domains to them, they have great service period and cheaper than the rest with free services such as DNS control. Good luck with your transfers!
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LikePrior to the uproar about GoDaddy, i had a few domains with them. After i read what could happen with the SOPA act i transferred my domains. Low price domains is having a special if you transfer, you just need to use the Promo code: SOPA . It's cheap and customer support was there to help me with the transfer, cheaper prices than the rest as well! Happy to help!
here's the website in case you need it!
lowpricedomains.com/domains/domain-transfer.php
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LikeMicro King SmartStartWeb.net is a GoDaddy Reseller Account, White Label LoL, Nice Try.
Who's your Daddy NOW!!! :P
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LikeMicro Kingtheaymacgroup You are claiming that your SmartStartWeb is not operated by GoDaddy, you are trying to lie and mislead. Sort of what GoDaddy is doing, I guess you are working with the right company. Keep on Operating with Securepayment.net servers and their generic 480 642 2500 numbers....If anybody is an employee, of GoDaddy that is, its YOU.
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LikeNamecheap just released this statement on Facebook
"Namecheap.com Today is MoveYourDomainDay! SOPA is a bill that threatens the freedom of the internet as we know it. For any domain transferred to us today, we're donating $1 to EFF (the Electronic Frontier Foundation) when you use the coupon code SOPASUCKS. Read more @ namecheap.com/moveyourdomainday.aspx "
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LikeI have been transfer my domains this summer from go daddy to name cheap! Now I get WAY better features without the hefty price tag. Every dog has its day, Go Daddy needs to GO!!!
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LikeWow really bad news from godaddy, Bad company at last
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Likeworst. commercials. ever.
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LikeUrge your lawmakers to oppose censorship – and ask Senator Wyden to read your name during the filibuster.
http://www.stopcensorship.org/
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LikeProper order!... The very fact they decided to back SOPA in the first place deserves a spanking.... Now hopefully it's cusomers will thrash tem big time... The few will not overcome the masses... Not Now, Not ever... It's a futile war they're trying to wage here...Who will be the next great Hosting Power that Sopa cannot touch... ahem,,, read that as Nuclear so The US can invade....???
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LikeTwo frightening pieces of controversial legislation, SOPA and The NDAA only go to further stifle our Constitutional Rights without the approval of the Americans, just as the Patriot Act was adopted WITHOUT public approval or vote just weeks after the events of 9/11. A mere 3 criminal charges of terrorism a year are attributed to this act, which is mainly used for no-knock raids leading to drug-related arrests without proper cause for search and seizure. The laws are simply a means to spy on our own citizens and to detain and censor public opinion without trial or a right to council. You can read much more about living in this Orwellian society of fear and see my visual response to these measures on my artist’s blog at http://dregstudiosart.blogspot.com/2011/09/living-in-society-of-fear-ten-years.html
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LikeAgainst SOPA and Protect IP Act, there is one AWESOME solution, called: NAMECOIN! Alongside with Bitcoin, we can take down the FED and this fucking politicans that think they have any control over us, regular people. Bitcoin: Currency of Resistance!!!
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LikeRegister your domains without any Establishment knowledge: http://dot-bit.org/
Forget about FED, forget about Dollar or Euro, USE BITCOIN! http://www.bitcoin.org & http://www.weusecoins.com/
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LikeSOPA might be the beginning of something more terrible, like this: http://trendguardian.blogspot.com/2011/10/soft-war-modern-democracy-warfare.html
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LikeWell if I read this right and don't take this offensively, the most Americans are total dumb fucks when they elect total morons to either the House or the Senate.
When is the general population in the US going to wake up to the fact the democracy they hold so dear to their hearts is screwing them over on a grand scale and they keep putting up with it.
Americans scream and holler when some other country abuses individual rights but at the same time these same people are doing the same thing to their population and laughing about it.
The Us is headed down the same road as the Mid East and we all have seen what they have gone through over the past year.
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Likekootenayredneck shut up, reading comments like yours is what makes going on the internet annoying.
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LikeREM and comments such as yours are equally inane.
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Likekootenayredneck I would be willing to bet that the ones affected by this did vote for the right people. It's the rest who don't understand/care about technology/real-issues who voted the dumb asses in.
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Likekootenayredneck Enjoying "don't take this offensively" and "total dumb fucks" in such proximity.
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Likekootenayredneck Well . . . what actually happens is that most of the voters turn complacent and fail to vote in the next election cycle. Then the people who elect the morons are the people who turn out to vote . . . and then the morons get voted to represent everyone.
I've always said that if each and every person who is eligible to vote would get themselves out and actually vote on election day, we would live in a far better place.
There are also people who feel disenfranchised because the state that they live in is filled with moronic rather than progressive people. (That would be me.) But I keep on voting anyway - just to let other progressives know that there's at least one more of us out here.
So that's why you see this oscillation from conservative to liberal to conservative to liberal throughout history.
I hope this helps you understand what's going on in America with regards to electing the morons.
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Likekootenayredneck Well . . . what actually happens is that most of the voters turn complacent and fail to vote in the next election cycle. Then the people who elect the morons are the people who turn out to vote . . . and then the morons get voted to represent everyone.
I've always said that if each and every person who is eligible to vote would get themselves out and actually vote on election day, we would live in a far better place.
There are also people who feel disenfranchised because the state that they live in is filled with moronic rather than progressive people. (That would be me.) But I keep on voting anyway - just to let other progressives know that there's at least one more of us out here.
So that's why you see this oscillation from conservative to liberal to conservative to liberal throughout history.
I hope this helps you understand what's going on in America with regards to electing the morons.
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Likekootenayredneck Hey guy, the US is not a democracy, as most people might think. Its more along the line of a Capitalist Nation in the Early republic. As far as the abuse, you are comparing the middle east terror to what? Political disagreements in the US?
If you actually read and educated yourself, you will see that the rest of the world, including the EU is going thru the same thru the same set of issues. Terror is as big of a fact here in the US, as its in the UK and Asia.
The economy is as bad here as the rest of the world.
Who is planning to bail out the EU out of bankruptcy? The United States! Who is willing to start taking on terrorist organizations? The US! So be glad that someone is willing to do it so that people like you would have their freedoms.
Everyone is entitled to their opinion as their entitled to have an a** hole to sh**.
Get your facts straight before you go off on your rants.
Happy holidays!
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Like@egyptclass As you thought. Go Daddy is losing a lot of domains due to their support of the SOPA bill
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LikeThe simple answer is - stop SOPA !!
Join the campaign:
http://www.nosopa.org/2011/12/10/sign-the-avaaz-petition/
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LikeConversation from Twitter
Timcast Pt2 of #SOPA- the Trojan Horse of #Censorship http:\/\/t.co\/mos0TkgF Please Retweet #du1 #njp #p2b
AnonCircle GoDaddy serves them right, assholes!
Peanut1one summify Saccaparami Anne_R_u_Ok GoDaddy also owns Domains By Proxy to hide owners of sites. THEY ARE NOT EVIL!
AnonCircle Awesome. absolutely brilliant.
codesailor 4 of them were mine. Disliked GoDaddy for some time, but lacked impetus to pull the trigger on moving. Until SOPA...
malawto We LoticFactor left #GoDaddy for arvixe this year. Their Web console alone was sufficient to leave but arvixe is great.
admutum thinking of doing so, but i think it's currently blocked..
ikram_zya blocking customers from leaving is going to hurt their reputation even further.
justinpirie do we know how many GD lost in total since their #SOPA announcement ?
ospero_jasonc last I heard it was 45k
justinpirie wonder if that's allot?
ospero_jasonc not enough. Great PR disaster...
nikkelin Jag är imponerad över hur snabbt det gick.
nikkelin 22542 igår http:\/\/t.co\/qHKPc53G #SOPA
internetsweden vart går folk då? Flyttar de utanför USA?
KeladaCreative #GoDaddyBacklash: power of the people ... IMHO. (As strategically applied.). Love it.
arnteriksen that is horrible. I'm with BlueHost
arnteriksen No worries. They can easily make up those lost customers next month with their always-PC Super Bowl ads.
FreeTheFeross
http:\/\/t.co\/E1bXBX2N
itsmrwave just read somewhere they have lost over 750k domains...karma...i like your blog on tracking down photos. #win
rimbui 750? Wawawawa ... niKUBAYA! Lakini that vibe is just messed up. SOPA for dummies > http:\/\/t.co\/VZS2BBNx
CassandraMadeIt - thanks for the RT! ;-p
petezin De hecho, según http:\/\/t.co\/JD8BBsvR, ¡la cifra superaba el día 24 los 72 mil dominios! > http:\/\/t.co\/o3sAPmbl
RockTique a pleasure :)
marcoscopic sounds like Go Daddy could take some lessons from Netflix about underestimating their customers!
caravia158 thank you! cc summify RockTique