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Monday, December 26, 2011

GoDaddy... Breaking the law to keep their business.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-57348511-281/godaddy-accused-of-interfering-with-anti-sopa-exodus/


Oh Goodness.


Looks like GoDaddy dun goofed yet again. GoDaddy had been an open supporter of the SOPA bill since it had gone in for voting, and due to it, have now lost over 70,000 domain names to competitors in the process. GoDaddy attempted to reduce the amount of transfers by returning incomplete WhoIs information to competitors, delaying the transfer process. As it is, this is an illegal practice under ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), and as such eventually gave in to releasing the information that was supposed to rightly be released.

7 comments:

  1. Damn that SOPA bill, now following!

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  2. wow! thanks for the information, I used them for a domain name.. won't be doing that again
    following! thanks!

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  3. Oh wow, such unpatriotic behavior!

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  4. Oh wow. Not surprised, just disgusted.

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  5. http://www.godaddy.com/newscenter/release-view.aspx?news_item_id=378&isc=smfb2

    They stopped.

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  6. @Mochi: I don't know. From what I heard they haven't withdrawn support for SOPA yet, only said they did. I transferred all of my domains to namecheap yesterday.

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