GoDaddy changes mind on SOPA.
[Update: Read my interview with Go Daddy CEO Warren Adelman about his company’s changed stance on SOPA]
A growing call for a boycott of GoDaddy over its support of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) has achieved its goal — GoDaddy just announced it no longer supports the bill.
GoDaddy general counsel Christine Jones had been steadfast in her support of the bill, and GoDaddy had posted her commentary on the bill on its web site. That post has been removed.
Although the company came out in support of the bill a couple months ago, no one seemed to notice until a list of supporting organizations was released this week. That lead to a movement on Reddit for people to transfer their domains away.
Domain registrars such as Name.com and Hover offered coupon codes for transfers to people who wanted to join the movement. The movement echoed a similar outcry earlier this year after video surfaced of the company’s founder Bob Parsons shooting an elephant.
Mike says
Sometimes GoDaddy forgets who their customers are and what is important to them.
Kudos to GD on the reverse!
Sole Designer says
If you checked out the twitter stream, you would see the immense amount of Go Daddy customers planning to move. Some already moved their domains to places like Name.com. I have ALOT of domains and websites hosted with Go Daddy and it would suck to move everything to protect my investments.
Steve M says
… but let’s be complete about Bob “shooting” an elephant.
He shot AND killed the elephant.
Murdered is more like it.