Tag Archives: GoDaddy.com
JotForm Now Back Up After Being Shut Down By Secret Service Without Explanation
JotForm.com is an easy form builder service that was shut down through a request to GoDaddy by the U.S. Secret Service. The suspension was ended, but no one at the U.S. government or GoDaddy explained why. After GoDaddy shut down the domain name, the management team at inquired as to what happened to their website. GoDaddy simply told them to contact the Secret Service. When they contacted the Secret Service, they were told this:
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GoDaddy.com Avoids Boycott And Stops Supporting SOPA Completely
Domain name registration and hosting company GoDaddy.com has been able to avoid a backlash for previously supporting the SOPA bill. Yesterday GoDaddy.com declared their full opposition to SOPA after there was an online uprising call-for-action that declared that December 29th should be “Leave GoDaddy Day.” GoDaddy CEO Warren Adelman issued an apology on Thursday night, which emphasized the company’s new opposition. This is what Adelman had to say about the issue:
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GoDaddy Says They Did Not Block Domain Name Transfers To Namecheap
GoDaddy.com has been at the forefront of controversy when they showed their support for the Stop Online Copyright Act (SOPA), but changed their mind after a call-to-action campaign launched from social news website Reddit.com. Users on Reddit asked the community to transfer domain names from GoDaddy.com to other domain name host companies on December 29th. GoDaddy started to panic and tried to convince their customers to stay by retracting their public support of SOPA and actually calling customers to convince them in staying. However Namecheap.com said that GoDaddy may have done something illegal to maintain their customers.
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GoDaddy.com Stops Supporting SOPA
Yesterday I wrote about how many GoDaddy.com customers would be switching away from the service because of the company’s support of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). A post on Reddit went viral that had a call-to-action to make December 29th the day for people to transfer domain names away from GoDaddy.
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Categories Christine Jones, GoDaddy.com, Warren Adelman
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GoDaddy’s Support Of SOPA Leads To Mass Customer Exodus
Earlier this morning, a post was submitted to Reddit.com that gained a lot of traction. The post was submitted that claims to be an IT director for a major American company. The company urged other people on Reddit to make December 29th the day to transfer domain names away from GoDaddy to protest the company’s support of SOPA (Stop Online Privacy Act). The IT director said that he had already transferred 51 personal domain names and 300 personal ones in his capacity. GoDaddy currently hosts over 50 million domain names.
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Categories Cheezburger Network, GoDaddy.com
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PETA Boycotts GoDaddy After Bob Parsons Hunts Elephants In Zimbabwe
A video of GoDaddy.com CEO and founder Bob Parsons hunting and killing an elephant in Zimbabwe was uploaded to the Internet. A number of people decided to boycott PETA as a result, including People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). This was Parsons’ second trip to Zimbabwe for getting rid of “problem elephants.” Problem elephants destroys the crops of local villagers. Parsons wrote “Of everything I do, this is the most rewarding.”
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Categories Bob Parsons, GoDaddy.com, PETA, SaveTheElephants.org
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GoDaddy.com Donating $500,000 To A Women’s Health Center
Aside from domain name registration and hosting, GoDaddy.com is best known for their commercials that feature scantily clad women. This is why I thought it was interesting that the company is donating $500,000 to a women’s clinic. The donation is going to the Southwest Center for AIDs in Phoenix, Arizona. The Go Daddy Women’s Health Center will be open in 2011 and it will provide HIV/AIDs prevention. [Jezebel]
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Tech Companies Working Together To Go After Illegal Internet Pharmacies
According to the National Association of Boards Pharmacy, there were about $75 billion in counterfeit drug sales. On average, about 1-2% of drugs sold in North America are counterfeit. Because of this, several tech companies are coming together to combat them.
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GoDaddy.com Putting Itself Up For Sale
Domain name registration and web hosting company GoDaddy.com is putting itself up for sale. GoDaddy could sell to a private equity firm for over $1 billion according to a report.
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Categories GoDaddy.com, Qatalyst Partners, Vector Capital
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GoDaddy.com Ceases Registering Websites In China
GoDaddy.com Inc. plans to announce today that they will no longer allow domain names to be registered in China in response to new government rules that require applications to provide an extensive amount of personal data including photographs. GoDaddy believes that this requirement for domain name registration could put individuals at risk. GoDaddy.com is the second major company to cease doing online business in China this week, Google being the first.
“GoDaddy is the first company to publicly follow Google’s example in responding to the Chinese government’s censorship of the Internet by partially retreating from the Chinese market,” stated Rep. Christopher H. Smith (R-N.J.). “Google fired a shot heard ’round the world, and now a second American company has answered the call to defend the rights of the Chinese people.” GoDaddy launched in 2000 and runs about 40 million registered domain names. [Washington Post]
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