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came in here to post this although I won't be negging as it's not a valid reason.
An explanation or a link would help us understand better re SOPA and GoDaddy.
lol @ the 2nd link thats freaken hilarious. How do you do that? haha.
Oh come ONNNnnn, get real - I am not going to watch a 20 minute Youtube just to see what GoDaddy has to do with SOPA.
And your stupid and arrogant LMGTFY link (hidden via a bit.ly link) clearly shows thousands of pages that show that GoDaddy officially stated on 29th Dec that they DO NOT SUPPORT SOPA.
So… maybe try a bit harder, huh?
they withdrew their support (they did support it) when they realised that they may lose their customers… 20 minute video tells you about sopa. lmgtfy is there because you were to lazy to google it….
lmgtfy is there because you were to lazy to google it
SAY WHAT?
I certainly DID google it, hence my post. My Google efforts and YOUR LINK both proved that GoDaddy no longer supports SOPA.
And why do I need to watch a 20 minute video? The SOPA thing is old news.
Basic explanation is that GoDaddy put out a long article explaining why they supported SOPA, and then received a lot of flak for it along with people pulling their domains off GoDaddy. Soon after, they put up another article saying that the number of domains they lost were pretty insignificant and they weren't going to be bullied out of their support for SOPA. The very next day after that, they pulled out their support for SOPA.
So basically, even though they no longer support SOPA, it's pretty clear that they did so only once realising the full impact on their business, meaning in essence they do support SOPA but they don't want to admit it publicly.
GoDaddy didn't completely withdraw their support for SOPA. They've only ended their support of the bill for now until the time “when and if the Internet community supports it".
Company will never get my business, no matter how cheap.
Can't think of a way to write a a comment without using inappropriate language… Just want to neg.
Would be a good idea to take advantage of the $1 deal and then transferring the domain away. They're making a loss at $1
Good in theory, may be a tad more difficult in practice. Even before their SOPA faux pas, GoDaddy have long had a really bad reputation for making it as difficult as possible to leave them.
Not true at all. it's easy as to leave GoDaddy :)
Terrible Company.
Moots, are you a rep?
Noo, Definetely not. I've used GoDaddy for all my domain purchases. :)
No paypal option? Neg.
Interesting, Amazon doesn't take Paypal yet you don't neg their deals.
Have you been following all my posts, stalker?
SOPA. If you don't know what that is or what GoDaddy has to do with it, please research. I thoroughly recommend reading reddit too to understand the internet community's issue with it.
If someone doesn't know what SOPA is they have no business buying domain names
I read and found that GoDaddy doesn't support SOPA. They changed their mind after the threat of a "boycott" about a month ago.
So, perhaps you can point us to the research that you did? Any current stuff, rather than old history, would help.
NOTE: I am making a point of this because you are negging a deal, but the REASON for you negs is totally invalid for this site. SOPA is not relevant to this deal. At all.
Point is, changing your mind simply because of a boycott doesn't change the reason why people wanted to boycott in the first place. The managers/directors still support SOPA. If something else comes up like that again, it's entirely possible they'll choose to support it again. People still boycott them because they don't want to give potential power to people who are willing to support something like SOPA.
So yes. SOPA is still relevant to this deal.
An appropriate coupon code considering what the executive chairman gets up to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godaddy#Animal_rights
Yes, I think it is a piss take, eh?
Interesting how members pick and choose fights on OzBargain.
The negative voters in this thread have voted for Citibank (cases of dodgy business practice, contributor to the GFC through subprime loans) WP
or
Apple (at times inhumane/deadly practices at their Foxconn factories) WP
or
Paypal (money handling practices among other things)
etc, etc. Are we really going to make this OzPolitics?
And bananas… don't forget the banana deals! LOL
Just highlights how pointless the negative vote has become….
Do you work at Godaddy? :P
They helped create SOPA, they don't deserve business from people against it.
It shouldn't be any surprise that people pick and choose fights based on what's important to them. SOPA threatened the way a lot of people used the internet - it would have a direct impact on their lives. So it's really not that surprising they'd want to stop it. Meanwhile, most other things you mention either were either from everyone doing it, or wouldn't directly impact the people posting here.
I'm not saying it's morally right or justified that people do it, but it shouldn't be surprising. Either way, it doesn't make the SOPA reason any less valid for people to neg this deal.
I can't imagine SOPA affects people more than GFC, i.e. @neil's Citibank link. Besides, there's a large number of other companies supporting SOPA, and I don't see people opposing them here. What neil said was that we can be choosy when we vote against a company. Should GoDaddy support SOPA? No, and they have already dropped their support (and Congress has dropped SOPA/PIPA on 21 Jan). However should GoDaddy be singled out, becoming the focal point of Reddit-fueled punishment? I don't think so.
My personal theory is that GoDaddy is just the "easier target" than the music/movie/book publishers on the SOPA supporting list. There are other registrars so you can always register or transfer to others — no real loss for those boycotting GoDaddy. Now, how about those who voted -1 because of SOPA also make a statement that you will not watch a Hollywood movie again?
As of elephant shooting incident, I thought Bob Parsons has already stood down as CEO of GoDaddy last year.
People can still dislike GoDaddy for many other reasons. Too much upselling for example (so is Citibank!) or sexist advertisements. I personally don't and won't use GoDaddy, but I don't think "SOPA" should be used as the reason.
"I can't imagine SOPA affects people more than GFC"
Their circumstances are completely different. I don't think you understand just how big this will be if sopa is passed.
Bang on, SOPA threatens the very existance of the internet as it is today and sets a precedent for global internet sensorship. We as the internet community have to step up and protest because we are the ones who can see the impact it can have.
And yes godaddy may have been unfairly targetted but quite frankly if it provides a point of unity for SOPA protesters so be it, thats a sacrifice thats neccesary in order to stop the bill. And note that as a tech firm they should be firmly squared up with reddit google facebook twitter and all the other companies who OPPOSE SOPA, given their clientelle is predominantly those who share that view. They are NOT innocent.
As I said, with Citibank it was a case of all the banks doing it, and it wasn't something that was easily predicted to cause such massive problems. SOPA was a very different situation, and even in the face of knowing the implications, GoDaddy still chose to support SOPA. It was only once it started to directly affect them that they changed their tune.
And yes, GoDaddy is an easier target because there are alternatives. But that alone doesn't make the motivation behind it less justified. GoDaddy is still run by a management that is willing to sacrifice world-wide public freedoms for the sake of their own profits, and I don't see any problem with people choosing not to support them because of that.
Scotty, Godaddy helped create SOPA.
There is a HUGE difference between supporting something and helping to create it.
You can revoke something you once supported because it sounded like a good idea in a nutshell, you can't revoke something you have created, at that point its too late.
Supporting godaddy is like supporting the idea that China can create a nuclear bomb with intention to bomb Australia, and then because of the backlash they decide they don't want to and be forgiven for it overnight.
Everyone knows China would likely be doing something in secret or waiting for the right time to strike etc, you don't just decide something that huge and then become a different person overnight.
You have to remember that most people who supported SOPA didn't fully understand it specifically because they didn't help write it.
The thing to remember, there are other places offering .com domains, You can't decide you don't want to support Hollywood and go and watch the same Batman somewhere else. So the least we can do is not support anything where identical services are offered elsewhere.
I think we are having 2 arguments here. I don't think anyone here is supporting SOPA. It's crap, everyone knows that. I think we all understand the effects of it.
The issue is selectively choosing to neg a deal based because they shortly supported a now defunct US proposition. Sticking to the SOPA argument, those companies who still actively support the bill should have their deals even more negged.
How about Mastercard and Visa deals or any credit/debit cards attached to them (Citibank cards)? Thus we should only pos vote AMEX deals. News Corp deals, ala Herald Sun subscription deals. Personally, I think the death of Chinese workers outweighs SOPA. Some may disagree and that's fine but once we start attaching causes/negative votes to every company then this site is no longer about finding bargains.
Neil, my point is that Godaddy are still actively supporting SOPA or something like SOPA, we just don't know about it.
As I said, they helped create it, they will be actively supporting the idea of this until the people who do leave the company, or the company closes down.
There is no other way out of it.
Don't you think if they didn't support SOPA they would have blacked out their site and told everyone not to support it?
I would bet money that Godaddy are secretly supporting SOPA.
OK. Let's say your assumption is correct, which makes no difference to the argument, then we should neg all mastercard, visa, and Herald Sun deals? And if later on, any other company has a cause attached to it we should negative vote that?
Does mastercard, visa, and Herald Sun have duplicate services offered by other companies?
If so, then probably (especially if they helped create it), but I have a feeling the answer is no.
Not sure I understand what you said. What does "duplicate services" mean?
Duplicate services mean you can go to another company that doesn't support SOPA and get the same service you would get from the SOPA supporting company.
You can get a .com domain elsewhere and it will work the same.
You can't do that with many services normally.
@samfisher5986 and co — I am well aware the implication of SOPA and the history of the GoDaddy case. You are making it sound like it's GoDaddy who created SOPA/PIPA, whereas the main driving force behind those acts are still the media/publishing companies and the US senates affiliated with them.
You have to remember that most people who supported SOPA didn't fully understand it.
The same can be said of the opposition side.
there are other places offering .com domains, You can't decide you don't want to support Hollywood and go and watch the same Batman somewhere else. So the least we can do is not support anything where identical services are offered elsewhere.
Which is what I have concluded. People are bashing GoDaddy because it's an easy target. All the redditors and 4channers must be proud of their bullying!
I think you guys missed my point. For the future of the Internet, yes, SOPA needs to be stopped. However I don't think it is right by just picking on GoDaddy — an insignificant company on the list of entities that support the bill, especially when the act of boycotting is pretty much painless. To me it just feels hypocritical to stop using GoDaddy because of SOPA, and yet continue to use services from other companies that are on the supporters' list.
You can't do that with many services normally
So people are happy to keep using those SOPA-supporting companies because they can't find a replacement? Double-standard much?
Sam, AMEX "duplicates" VISA and Mastercards services. Are you stating that you will no longer be using any debit or credit cards that utilise either because they support SOPA (thus switching to EFTPOS/AMEX/other network)?
Fair enough scotty.
Its why I didn't vote negative myself, but I do still support those who did.
Neil, AMEX is not the same as Visa/Mastercard for many reasons.
28 degrees mastercard is required for online purchases, a lot of places are Visa/Mastercard only etc.
You require a 28 degrees Mastercard to purchase things? The majority of retailers who don't take AMEX will take EFTPOS, PayPal or bank transfer.
I'm not having a go at you but it seems your stance is that you are against SOPA unless it inconveniences you.
Then why have an AMEX? The downsides make them useless at least to me.
"I'm not having a go at you but it seems your stance is that you are against SOPA unless it inconveniences you."
Correct :)
If anyone actually inconvenienced themselves life would be pretty horrible.
Yes SOPA is bad, but don't need to NEG the deal, what's wrong with people not following guidelines! I find it ironic that people jump and snap at people who NEG a deal cause of the company and when it's a sensitive issue they don't follow the guidelines and NEG it to suit their opinion.
^^ this, this and more of this.
At least follow the voting guidelines
Taken from the Voting guidelines
No Vote
If the deal doesn't apply to you, you don't like the company, you want to leave a warning for people about > the business or deal, you might want to leave a comment and then not vote.
Largely an irrelevance these days, unfortunately. Mods no longer revoke negs…
I am not a fan of their business practices or their politics but 1 buck is a bargain. I would register that for a dollar.
Assuming that's a robocop reference, I'll + your comment.
Neg. Unethical, and an absolute pain to deal with. A mistake I'll never make again.
They must be trying to claw back all the business they lost from SOPA. My guess is they withdrew public support for SOPA but I doubt they have actually changed there opinion. GoDaddy is pretty dodgy regardless.
It's a pity, I would consider it if they did not support SOPA
The CEO of the company hunted, shot & killed an elephant. This company are evil, they will never ever get my support even if they paid me to have a domain name.
Everyone should boycot this company & drive them out of business.
Even if their CEO wasn't a complete twat, their offensive misogynist ads and their long history of appalling service are enough reason to not give them any money, even if it is just a $1.
Bad. Very bad.
Sorry to the OP, this goes beyond price.
their domain management tools are atrocious..
ive hosted with them and it was slow and crap
Moved all my domains from GoDaddy about 2 years ago…not a good company to deal with at all. I only user Hover for my domains now.
all i can say is, namecheap (godaddys domain management panel is more an upsell system then a customer tool!)
SOPA=neg