(Emailed to GoDaddy CEO and GoDaddy PR earlier today as an Open Letter)<p>Dear CEO,<p>You're under attack and the only reason I am not moving my domain names because of a salesman name "Ron" (and the fact that nobody else can host domains below 8$).<p>You can look up my customer number (wbienek@gmail.com) and see that I have about 250 domain names. If NameCheap.com gets smart and gets their domain name renewals at or below $8 dollars a year.. You're toast!<p>You may not remember this, but AltaVista used to be king of the hill before Google came along.<p>--- --- --- --- --- --- --- ---
Godaddy may be the new "AltaVista"
--- --- --- --- --- --- --- ---<p>You really seem to be trying to screw the people that hold the keys to your kingdom! IE : Your customers!!<p>You guys have actively decided to be a part (support SOPA) of people who are against your customers: The RIAA and MPAA<p>I can appreciate your CEO and top brass wanting to rub elbows with the beautiful "Maxim"/Hollywood crowd, but the geeks who have elevated you will crush you pretty quickly if you go against them - a la Alta Vista!<p>It seems you have decided to go against their core interests!! Simply releasing a letter saying you're not for SOPA is not enough since you helped DRAFT] SOPA! You should FIRE the lawyer who helped draft SOPA and run COMMERCIALS against it!<p>You seem to like super bowl commercials..<p>This is a GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR YOU!<p><i></i> Run a Super Bowl Commercial against SOPA! <i></i><p>January Super Bowl is Coming..<p>You'll reverse your fortune in one fell swoop!<p>Here is my story:<p>I created a real estate website that has zebra stripes. http://www.kendallsellsmore.com<p>Another web design company used a different set of zebra stripes<p>I bought mine from IStockPhoto--Completely legit..<p>My client's website was taken down for about seven days while I disputed the DMCA takedown notice because one of my competitors had a different set of zebra stripes on their website!<p>What you're doing/supporting is making it so that anyone, for any reason, can complain and take down a website that they don 't like!<p>You're adding to the problem, which is the DMCA, which is already bad enough as it is!<p>Regular people (web designers) are already affected by these stupid a<i></i> laws that are already on the books, and you want to add MORE?!?!!<p>It is not only about movies and music - It's about anyone filing a complaint for any reason for anything and then putting us web designers out of business!<p>We can't afford to fight people complaining that they don't like competition..<p>Here you go..<p>www.kendallsellsmore.com vs www.lynnekelleher.com<p>My site : KendallSellsMore was taken off line! This is what you have to look forward to!<p>We WebMasters are the reason why you are in business!! recourse<p>Here is the actual letter I used ( Feel free to use this as you're template ) to have the site re-instated! This is BS that I had my client's website pulled down over this!! Jealous competitors can have your site pulled down on a whim!<p>http://www.webcontentsolutions.com/bs-dmca.jpg<p>Wayne Bienek
Owner of : www.webcontentsolutions.com
#1 Google for : Real Estate Web Design<p>Designing Real Estate Sites for over 11 years!