Wikipedia To Dump GoDaddy Over SOPA

Reader jampola points out that Wikimedia's Jimmy Wales last week said clearly what was only hinted at earlier in the month; now "It's not only imgur (among many others) who are giving GoDaddy the flick; it also appears Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikimedia, will be making the change. While unsure to what effect Wikimedia utilizes the services of GoDaddy, I imagine this could very well be another public blow for GoDaddy in the wrong direction over their decision to support SOPA."

Re:[citation needed]

[Bill, Shooter of Bul]

What do you mean by "big"?

Do you mean:
"big"==" well known companies who use godaddy"
Or
"big"==" companies that have a large number of domanis and related services from godaddy" ?

Because there are people/companies with thousands of domains, which they could pull from godaddy and make a noticible dent in their profits instantly by making the switch, but they wouldn't inspire anyone else to do the same.

However wikimedia, may only have a few domains and services, but inspire others to do the same.

Re:[citation needed]

[skids]

Wikipedia and imgur leaving GoDaddy isn't going to make them fold like Bear Sterns

I don't think anyone expects GoDaddy to go belly up over this. There will always be bottom-feeding morons who only care about prices and nothing else. The question is how much business will no longer be absorbed by the GoDaddy sponge and will be available for smaller competitors, and the significance of Wikimedia leaving is that their prestige may inspire fence sitters to follow suit.

Re:GoDaddy Reversal

[Anonymous Coward]

GoDaddy didn't reversed their stance on SOPA. They simply stopped actively supporting it in public. There is a big difference.

Re:Coupons!

[CanHasDIY]

No, it was "Hey, you were a customer once and we'd like to milk you some more. Here's a not-very-good incentive to buy more services from us."

Unless they're sending Danica over to do the milking, I'm not interested.

Re:Use Namecheap

[Dzimas]

Learn to interpolate. Sometimes words get unintentionally dropped.

Donate to Wikipedia

[Doc Ruby]

Now donating money to Wikipedia [wikimediafoundation.org] is especially powerful. It supports a public benefit org that sticks to its principles of openness, and takes money from GoDaddy which is a scumbag operation. And gives that money to GoDaddy's competitors, which sticks it to GoDaddy some more.

Want to help kill SOPA and the rest of the slaver culture working against us? Give to Wikipedia now. And help pay for all those articles you've been reading, too.

Re:GoDaddy Reversal

[rtfa-troll]

Can someone explain why GoDaddy would support SOPA in the first place?

http://GoDaddy-is-the-son-of-Satan.org/ [godaddy-is...-satan.org]

I would have modded AC up, but that link wasn't clickable, so instead FTFY. It took me a couple of seconds, but once you get it, it is an excellent explanation why Go Daddy would love SOPA and it's ilk.

Re:Use Namecheap

[spintriae]

I assume you're from Hacker News. I'd be very weary of Namecheap. I personally wouldn't touch them with a ten foot pole. They have been very dishonest in their dealings with GoDaddy in order to make themselves out to be some David fighting Goliath. In particular, accusing GoDaddy of noncompetitively restricting their whois access. Experts have already confirmed that that's standard practice in the industry to prevent abuse, and honestly, even I, a nonexpert, already knew that. Their making an issue out of it public reeks of dishonesty. As most /.ers will gleefully tell you, no-name domain registrars can be as crooked as a barrel of snakes. If you look in the comments sections of most anti-GoDaddy stories, you'll see plenty of them spamming their SOPASUCKSALLCAPS coupon codes.

My advice to anyone looking for a new registrar is not to go with whomever screams "Screw SOPA! Screw GoDaddy!" the loudest. Do some actually research on who provides quality service and has a long established reputation of not being a snake. I personally like eNom, but there may be better ones out there.

Re:Use Namecheap

[jc42]

Verbing weirds language.

So you should intentionally the verb out.