Go Daddy Loses Over 21,000 Domains In One Day 356
First time accepted submitter expo53d writes "CNET reports that yesterday 21,054 domains were pulled off Domaincontrol.com, a subsidiary of GoDaddy. While this maybe a coincidence, it is likely to be caused by GoDaddy's controversial support for SOPA. It seems that GoDaddy's attempts at remedying the problem were of no use."
20,034 transferred in the same day (Score:5, Informative)
Maybe (Score:5, Informative)
This might have something to do with the fact that Go Daddy sucks as a registrar. The whole SOPA thing was just the last straw.
It is actually more than 21,000 domains (Score:5, Informative)
This # doesn't include any domains transferred away from GoDaddy that were delegated to non-GoDaddy nameservers. The 21,000 number is only for domains that used GoDaddy's nameservers for DNS. So the actual # was higher than 21,000.
The question is what is the real number of transferred away domains? I don't know if any of those statistics are available publicly.
Re:so uh why they'd support it? (Score:5, Informative)
Very good point! (Score:5, Informative)
Also, GoDaddy has NOT withdrawn its official congressional support for SOPA [reddit.com], but they pretend they did when talking to the press.
Misleading summary (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Total control (Score:4, Informative)
If they continued to support SOPA it would have really hurt.
They DID continue to support SOPA. They just released some damage-control PR saying they weren't supporting it as strongly.
Re:so uh why they'd support it? (Score:5, Informative)
GoDaddy helped write the legislation such that they are exempt from it.
Rep. Jared Polis (D-CO), the only member of Congress present at the hearing with any tech experience, having founded several web companies, introduced two amendments: one to exclude universities and non-profits from being subject do having to shut down their own domain servers if accused of piracy under SOPA, and the other to exempt dynamic IP addresses, such as those found on web-enabled printers. Both were voted down.
Polis pointed out that SOPA and Smith’s amendment already excluded certain operators of sub-domains, such as GoDaddy.com, from being subject to shutdowns under SOPA.
“If companies like GoDaddy.com are exempt, why aren’t non-commercial domain servers exempt?” Polis asked.
Re:Misleading summary (Score:5, Informative)
http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/npj2q/godaddy_lost_21000_domains_yesterday/c3ay6yu?context=3 [reddit.com]
Daily changes http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/npj2q/godaddy_lost_21000_domains_yesterday/c3ay675 [reddit.com]
Google uses Godaddy as a registrar partner (Score:5, Informative)
Announced in 2010 [thedomains.com] Found on Reddit. [reddit.com]
It's probably time to remind Google what "Don't be evil" is. Breaking the Internet is definitely a no-no.
I wonder how many other companies need to be reminded of this. Anybody got a list?
Re:Democracy. (Score:4, Informative)
I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it. ~Alexander Woollcott
This is the first most important thing to remember about democracy. The second most important thing to remember is that it's not anywhere near enough to just vote once every few years. Votes are not blank cheques for politicians. You have the right to check up on your elected representatives and the right to complain loudly if they misappropriate government money or do evil. Your duty as a citizen is to use both of those rights.
25,000 is laughably low (Score:5, Informative)
GoDaddy accounts for 30% of all domain registrations, and there are, on average, 27K .com domains registered PER DAY.
Re:20,034 transferred in the same day (Score:5, Informative)
Mod parent up.
21,054 transferred out, but 20,034 transferred in. (from TFA)
Re:so uh why they'd support it? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Very good point! (Score:5, Informative)