GoDaddy director refuses to revoke SOPA support

    GoDaddy has been boycotted this week by the online community for supporting the SOPA bill. Website owners massively transfer domains to other registrars.

    According to the DailyChanges monitoring service, in the last week the number of domains on GoDaddy's name servers (ns.domaincontrol.com) has been reduced by several thousand every day. With a total of more than 32 million, this is not very insignificant, but the management was still alarmed. The company began phoning customers who transfer domains to other registrars - and are trying to figure out why they are doing this. GoDaddy’s image has also suffered. To somehow rectify the situation, the PR department of the company issued a statement that GoDaddy is no longer “supporting SOPA”.

    But yesterday, the company’s chief executive, in an interview with TechCrunch , pushed against the wall, was forced to explain what “refusal of SOPA support” means. He explained that GoDaddy was not excluded from the list submitted to the US House of Representatives, and he did not agree to officially inform parliament that the company had changed its position. Like, GoDaddy just "backs down and lets others take leadership roles." According to the Internet community, this situation openly demonstrates the whole false essence of GoDaddy.

    Recall that GoDaddy is one of the Internet companies that has been included in the notorious list of organizations ( PDF) officially supporting SOPA. The list contains 142 companies and organizations, mainly representatives of the video and recording industry, as well as the publishing business, plus individual representatives of the fashion industry (Estée Lauder, L'Oreal, Tiffany & Co) and the pharmaceutical industry (Pfizer).

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