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godaddy is the world’s largest registrar, with 50,000,000 domain names. as they grew, they became shameless hucksters, with incessant (and probably successful) attempts to sell un-needed additional services to those who don’t know better, and blatantly sexist marketing, featuring “godaddy girls”. i’m not even going to go into their ceo posting a video on youtube of his trip to africa and killing of an elephant (rock on, dude!).

their recent support of SOPA (the Stop Online Piracy Act, supported by the large media companies and panned by everyone fond of civil liberties) and subsequent unconvincing backtracking in the face of massive negative response was the straw that broke the camel’s back for 10’s of thousands of people… like me… who finally said enough, and transferred their domain names away from godaddy, to other registrars.

namecheap.com reported 27,0000 incoming domain name transfers (away from godaddy) during one day of the protest… a drop in the bucket, but still a loss of face, and revenue.

godaddy sucks. namecheap rocks. caveat emptor.