Wikipedia Hasn't Forgiven GoDaddy 190
netbuzz writes "The fact that a month and a half has gone by and Wikipedia still hasn't followed through on Jimmy Wales public threat to remove its domain name registrations from GoDaddy over the latter's early support of SOPA has some concerned that the online encyclopedia may have had a change of heart. After all, GoDaddy did withdraw its backing of the controversial antipiracy legislation, at least publicly. But fear not, SOPA foes, as Wikipedia says its days with GoDaddy are indeed numbered and that number is getting very small."
Re:SOPA isn't the only reason GoDaddy sucks (Score:5, Interesting)
and don't forget also:
The GoDaddy CEO publicly supports waterboarding [gizmodo.com.au]
GoDaddy already has an history of shutting down domains without requiring to see a court order
GoDaddy has a long history of getting its customer servers/accounts hacked and not saying anything about it to its customers
And during the SOPA exodus, which is still going on, it's been dragging its feet [washingtonpost.com] on domain transfers (a violation of ICANN rules and regulations).
Hopefully, they'll have their domain name registry privileges taken away by ICANN because of that last one.
Re:Have you ever tried to switch from GoDaddy?? (Score:5, Interesting)
Funny, I had a domain that was registered with GoDaddy for 9 years and I was swapped over to Gandi.net within an hour or less.
Re:SOPA isn't the only reason GoDaddy sucks (Score:1, Interesting)
Look... if you want people to stop using GoDaddy. Point out that: 1. They have shit customer service. 2. they are all too willing to serve up your information for marketing. 3. they support really obnoxious internet censoring legislation.
Do not: get all politically correct about their adverts (oh look... objectifying women... hate crime! HATE CRIME!!), or the fact that their CEO shoots elephants. Why... because no-one gives a fuck about those things, and it makes you look like a hissy-fit throwing faggot.