Since our press release regarding GoDaddy and their position on the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), we are pleased to announce that GoDaddy has retracted their support for SOPA (GoDaddy Changes Mind on SOPA).
The Pirate Party of Canada is pleased to see GoDaddy start listening to its customers, however we will still be moving our domains from their service to avoid any future conflicts.
This change in policy is concrete proof that we all have a voice, and when used it is a force to be reckoned with.
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“The way Godaddy wrote SOPA, they are specifically exempt from the law. All their competitors on the other hand get saddled with a huge burden of policing their domains, following takedown requests, etc, and for a number of smaller companies this would put them out of business. Godaddy was pretty much writing a law that would grant itself a virtual monopoly on hosting/registrar services. They could afford to lose a million customers as long as their reputation wasn’t too severely tarnished.
Considering most of the people transferring away from them were only using their registrar services (like ten bucks a year), they weren’t exactly losing out on much. The bad publicity is what really hurt them.“
GoDaddy is doing this out of callous self-interest just like everything they do. Please everyone, never use them again.
They haven’t reversed their position to Congress, they’re just sad about the thousands of domains people are transferring.