Go Daddy and the SOPA
December 24th 2011 Posted at Domains, Websites
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The famous domain name registration company, Go Daddy, had made a lot of people angry because of their support of the SOPA.
According to Wikipedia, SOPA is
“The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), also known as H.R. 3261, is a bill that was introduced in the United States House of Representatives on October 26, 2011, by Representative Lamar Smith (R-TX) and a bipartisan group of 12 initial co-sponsors.”
Because of this, about 21,054 domains moved out of Domaincontrol.com, which is managed by Go Daddy. Then in a not-so-surprising turn of events, Go Daddy CEO Warren Adelman announced in a statement that they will only support the controversial legislation if and when the “Internet community supports it”.
A lot of people got furious with the online company after an anti-Go Daddy thread on the social site caled Reddit became very popular. Because of that, Godaddyboycott.org was born. It is a site that was set up to let people know of happenings regarding this issue and also show their disapproval with Go Daddy’s support of the SOPA.
Anyway, on the same day, it was also reported by Dailychanges.com that 20,034 transferred to Go Daddy in the same day. If you ask me what this means, then my answer would be, “I don’t know.”