I left GoDaddy earlier this year, when Bob Parsons made his childish Great White Hunter video killing that elephant.<p>With the stories I've heard since about how GoDaddy already handles copyright complaints and otherwise mistreats customers, not to mention Parsons' support of torture, and of course SOPA, I can't imagine why I would ever consider giving them money—especially with how well NameCheap has treated me since I joined them.
What surprises me is that it took the SOPA fiasco to get people to move their domains from GoDaddy. A while back, I bought one domain from them and it took less than a month for me to transfer it out. The service was just that bad.<p>Not only is GoDaddy a morally reprehensible company, but more disturbingly they're not even a good registrar. They constantly try to upsell you, they plaster your domains with ads. They don't even allow certain certain kind of DNS records… (their UI doesn't allow for a wildcard CNAME for example). I don't need elephants or congress bills to stay far away from GoDaddy, their crappy product is more than enough.
The thing that surprised me most about this whole situation is that so many tech-savvy people use Godaddy. Their spammy marketing and variable pricing screams bush-league to me. I'll forgive my dad for using them cause he doesn't know he had options, but for something so fundamental, how does anyone trust them?
No, but I will when the domains expire. The way I look at it, transferring all my domains now will just cost me more money for a service that I've already paid for. So part of the short term punishment is letting GoDaddy keep my money but no longer have to provide me with a service? There is the short term negative impact their SOPA support has reaped, and that's what everyone is focusing on. But there is also the long term impact, and I'll be part of that "movement".
I'e never directly given a dime to Go Daddy, for domains or anything else.<p>I don't give a rip about the low-brow ads or the elephant hunting - I just don't like supporting businesses that operate like Go Daddy, and I <i>certainly</i> have no interest in trusting one as skeezy as them for something as critical as domain registration.
I'll be moving them as they expire, because it would be a little expensive to move everything right away (plus some things I've already paid for years of registration).<p>I already moved a few that were close to expiry, but this whole thing started to feel like a witch hunt and a little hypocritical since I don't think I've heard anyone boycotting the Super Bowl because of NFL support or using AmEx because of Visa (two things that would be very easy to boycott).
You bet. We're even hosting a Leave GoDaddy Day workshop at Droplabs, our coworking space in Los Angeles:<p>> <a href="http://droplabs.net/events/2011/12/29/leave-godaddy-day" rel="nofollow">http://droplabs.net/events/2011/12/29/leave-godaddy-day</a><p>The plan is to help anyone who drops by to move their GoDaddy-registered domains and GoDaddy-hosted sites.
I'm still at GoDaddy, and I would like to leave, but I'm still doing research where I jump to. I'd rather not have to do this again for a long time, so I'm taking my time to make sure I get it right rather than jump on the first company that waves an anti-SOPA flag.<p>So "no" for today, but "most likely" in the near future.
I wish I could. I still have to wait a few days because all of my domains on GoDaddy are less than 60 days old. Yeah, I decided it was the cheapest and assumed they had changed since '08. Boy, was I wrong.
I tried to move a week ago but GoDaddy doesn't allow transfer when Whois-Privacy is enabled. Guess that means I'm locked in because I don't want my name attached to those domains.
"allegedly one or more of the domains some have purchased were removed for them or rather 'auctioned' elsewhere while they were still owned years ago to the very place[s] which were using their original birth given names as url re-direct to other companies already protected by the two year 'co. status'[this singular statement could be looked at neutrally] - ie: an 'upright above boards business or company should be able to own it's own intellectual property and name/domain name'. as 2011 some of these lost urls/domain names read as an internal error 404. this is the tip of a huge seemingly inanimate elephant in the iceberg room and if it [was me] i would have had nothing to do it. 'auctioned' would be a key word in this statement and nothing innocent 'auctioned off' unwillingly with 'possible' malice has ever been a good thing- even if the 1st to 3rd party is claiming simple ignorance or neutrality." however i am not really that smart and would have never seen any of this coming. lesson learned. things could have been worse fro some it wasn't for others. how to make things better is the question now. it is good to be alive. i have never worked for the co. mentioned in this poll, if it matters.
I'm still on the fence. (should this be a choice?)<p>They do have an exceptionally crappy web interface, and their marketing is distasteful.
On the other hand, I've called them several times over the last couple years for random support, and my experience with that has always been excellent.<p>So yeah, still on the fence. And all this Godaddy backlash has just a tad to much witch-trial feel to it. But man their web interface sucks...
My domain transfer completed today (interesting, since it said it would complete on Tuesday, but I'll chock it up to volume).<p>Immediately before the domain transfer, I received an e-mail indicating that GoDaddy was sorry to see my one sad domain go away. I replied asking if there is a way to completely eliminate my account with them.<p>As I don't expect a reply, does anyone know if GoDaddy provides a way to eliminate your account completely? I'm planning on removing saved Credit Card information and setting a random, max-length password. Far from bullet proof, but I expect I won't be doing business with them again and don't want some random hack to result in account disclosure and some troublemaker deciding to buy a bunch of services in my name. The probability is low, but the amount of anger resulting from this SOPA nonsense has to have made them a bigger target for such nefarious activities ... I'm thinking Sony from recent memory.
I actually moved a friends hosting from Godaddy to my own servers just last night (he was about a week past expiration on a 2 yr contract).<p>One thing I haven't seen out of the hundreds of comments about moving off of Godaddy the last few days is any mention of Email. Call me stupid, but I was using Godaddy's email service for really simple email accounts (ie. catchalls on personal domains). I'm using Google Apps to manage some of my email, but I found just going with Godaddy to be much simpler on non mission critical stuff. Was nobody at all, not one person using Godaddy's email service?<p>Also, I'm on Name.com which I like a lot, but they use Google Apps for email, I've got some dumb domains that I want to run email through (as I described above). Can anyone tell me if Namecheap approaches email the same basic way that Godaddy had (ie. free email credits with each domain registered, pop3/imap, etc..).
No, for multiple reasons:<p>* I never had problems with it.<p>* I registered my domains via google, I have no idea how to move to a different registrar, and I'm not motivated enough to find out.<p>* If I started to stop using services where I don't agree with either the company's decisions, or whatever their prominent staff members chose to do, I would have to stop using all such services, not only one. I would have to go offline and live in a cage, pretty much.<p>Just because I am using a service does not mean I agree with whatever choices the provider makes. As long as those decisions don't affect me, I honestly don't care, because doing otherwise leads to a path of constant anger and depression. Don't need that, thank you.
Don't have any domains at GoDaddy, although I do have an account... Just to transfer any domains I buy from people that are on GoDaddy to NameCheap.<p>I use NameCheap only, have for 6 years.
I will just throw <a href="http://nametoolkit.com" rel="nofollow">http://nametoolkit.com</a> in here, for those looking for a more simple, less upsold alternative.
Oh boy do I want to, but I need to figure out where to move them to! GoDaddy's support is in Arizona, clear, well trained, and answer the phone quickly, 24x7. Admittedly, I don't reedit often, but good/fast/easy support is important, and can be vital. I am not sold that the support will be acceptable with the others. I desperately want to move away from goDaddy, but don't know where to go <i>to</i>!
The only domain I have left with Godaddy (moved all mine a year ago) is one I set up for an ex-girlfriend so you'll have to forgive me for putting my own sanity ahead of the greater good :)<p>I have noticed a few promo emails from Godaddy in recent days though. More than usual I couldn't say - this whole situation may make them stand out.
Hey, everyone who's moving or has moved: add the number of domains you transferred/transferring to <a href="http://www.boycott-godaddy.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.boycott-godaddy.com/</a><p>I'd like to see how high we can get that total.
I'd love to, personally, but does anyone else feel like they're too busy working on their product to worry about this? Maybe in a month or two when our codebase is more stable.
I have one domain that I manage at GoDaddy, but actually belongs to the restaurant that my in-laws own. I will be moving it soon, but I don't have the time at the moment.
I moved all my domains when the former CEO shot and killed an elephant, then gloated about it on video. It was both shocking and saddening for me.<p>Now the elephant killing is kind of a Voight-Kampff test I use. Anyone who isn't bothered with the elephant shooting wouldn't be my friend. I wouldn't want that type of person as a business partner or employee either. I don't think I could trust them.<p>I certainly wouldn't want to do business with a company that endorses or associates itself with killing intelligent, peaceful animals.<p>Personally, I want GoDaddy to GoDead.
No. But I think people should make up their own minds.<p>The process of whipping up an internet hate mob with the aim of destroying <person>/<company> etc is one of the parts of the internet I detest the most. It's ugly bullying.<p>It rarely concerns itself with facts, just how big the internet hate mob can grow to and whether they can succeed at destroying their chosen enemy.
So, despite all the surprised comments from earlier posts, of the type "Surely no HN guy would ever use with GD", etc, almost 1/2 of those responding to this HN poll use/used GD.<p>Sure, it's not 100% representative, given that people that have/had GD accounts are more likely to even opt to read the poll than people without those, but still, a large number of HN readers use GD.
Companies are not political parties and therefore they cannot express political thesis. If they do, then they loose, it's simple.
Music, Cinema and all these forms of Art are signs that we are civilized. Civilization means that the civilized person copies the behavior of another civilized person and customize it with his own way. So this is a similar situation like maths, and physics and science. Every scientist helps building the science by putting his own piece of stone
to the great miracle of science.
If you want people to copyright your Stigma of Civilization or "Intellectual property" (you call it like this) first you must pay your debts to Shannon, and Babbage and Euler and many many other great persons who passed leaving their signs for ever and not just for 1 month.
No. Because I do not confuse consumerism with political action. Time spent moving domains from Godaddy in hopes of some indirect impact on SOPA would be better spent upon swaying my congressional representatives directly...despite the popular wisdom, they represent me within our political system, not various corporations.<p>To put it another way, moving domains as a way of expressing displeasure over SOPA legitimates the very logic which created it; that internet users in the US are merely consumers, not citizens. Move your domain day id premised on the idea that consumer choices are our most effective political act and accepting that premise is done at the peril of losing our legitimate political power.<p><i>supreme executive authority derives from a mandate from the people, not some farcical shopping ceremony</i> to paraphrase Dennis.