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144 of the Biggest Websites using Godaddy

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18 pointsohashi6 comments

Interesting that Scribd's on that list.

Something about not throwing stones when your house is made of glass comes to mind.... (Only kidding, PG, only kidding ;)

It's by no means the only YC company using Godaddy.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3384984

Heh, could use that newer site history exploit hack to show users which sites they have visited (by regularity?) via GoDaddy?

xkcd? Come on, Randall...

Why is this necessary? Is this a call to boycott these companies? It is a call to put pressure on them? Are these companies run by witches? Communists?

Why go after third parties, when we could be going after the congress people who are supporting the bill, the companies offering funds, and trying to persuade those currently in support of it?

Why continue this PR witch hunt, while Godaddy has already recanted, and the only thing it will cause is further distraction from SOPA itself, and fueling the angry single-minded Godaddy hate mob?

Why the hate for Godaddy? It probably starts with them being on the wrong side of so many issues which are connected to SOPA and abusing their power as an infrastructure provider.

Examples:

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20070125/102430.shtml

http://slashdot.org/story/06/06/17/1319233/GoDaddy-Holds-Dom...

http://www.slyck.com/story1053.html

http://domainnamewire.com/2007/02/27/godaddy-deletes-domain-...

As a registrar they are not supposed to be actively doing anything to their customers. They should be responding to court orders. They take it upon themselves to act as judge and jury quite frequently. Just because they've recanted their position on SOPA doesn't mean the company has turned a corner in the slightest. There is a clear pattern to their behavior and that is one reason why so many people dislike the company.

There are a bunch of other reasons such as their marketing tactics, their former ceo/primary stakeholder's behavior, and their UX to name a few I've seen commonly cited.

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