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:

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.

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.

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.

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.”

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]

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.

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.