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December 26, 2011

Moving domain name away from Go Daddy.

Previously on the 37prime, the internet and real life:

Go Daddy supports SOPA.
“Move Your Domain Day”, boycott against Go Daddy.
Go Daddy says it no longer supports for SOPA.
People don’t believe that Go Daddy truly dropped its support for SOPA.
Go Daddy insists that it does not support PIPA.

Are Go Daddy’s intensions pure or just damage control?

Well, I have been wanting to move the only domain I have away from Go Daddy for a long time. I registered the domain name through Google Apps and at that time Go Daddy was the only option given. Go Daddy is one of two Google’s domain registration partners, the other one is eNom.com

So I went to Hover.com to transfer the domain name. Hover opposes SOPA, as the blog says.

Tutorial on moving your domain from Go Daddy to Hover.

Disclaimer:
This post is not a commercial endorsement of Hover.com.

December 24, 2011

This lump of coal is for Go Daddy.

As reported before, Go Daddy says that they no longer supports SOPA. Reddit user benbread doubts that Go Daddy truly drops SOPA support. Now another hammer drops on Go Daddy’s real stance on SOPA.

From Reddit: Go Daddy has NOT withdrawn its official congressional support for SOPA as linked in Hacker News.

Go Daddy’s statement on no longer supporting SOPA is a damage control. A PR move to convince their customer from leaving. At this point based on what people had found, Go Daddy still supports SOPA just not publicly.

On the other hand, there is still this Protect IP Act we all have to worry about.

Go Daddy, you might find lump of coals in your stocking tonight.

December 23, 2011

Stopping the bleeding.

Previously on the Internet and real world:

Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) bill was introduced.
SOPA is proved to be unpopular.
GoDaddy supports SOPA, faces boycott.
Reddit user(s) boycott Go Daddy.
Cheezburger’s Ben Huh supports the movement to boycott Go Daddy.
Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales is moving Wikipedia domain names away from Go Daddy.
The boycott continues.
Go Daddy say that they no longer supports SOPA.
Reddit user benbread doubts that Go Daddy truly drops SOPA support.

Go Daddy’s announcement of dropping support SOPA is clearly a move to stop the bleeding. There will still be a lot of people moving their services away from Go Daddy. I apparently have one domain name for Google App registered through Go Daddy, not by choice. So who should I move it to?