Today the Internet and specifically Reddit.com made it very apparent that GoDaddy, the popular domain provider was in support of the Stop Online Piracy Act, other wise known as SOPA which the Internet has began to illustrate could mean: THE END OF THE INTERNET! But luckily, because of that horrid illustration websites like Reddit began to attack GoDaddy and thus, let us mark the day that the Internet changed GoDaddy.
Basically it started like this with a post going to the front page of Reddit relating to the information I’m relating to you now: GoDaddy supports SOPA. Now the Internet not appreciating this, went to the extreme and in some cases like this.
Even the Internet bigwigs like Ben Huh, owner of the Cheezburger Network tweeted out that they will be moving all 10,000+ of domains away from GoDaddy, just as founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales announced that they will be moving away from GoDaddy as well.
Thousands of Redditors pledged to transfer their domains, with December 29th set as the mass-move day. Sure enough GoDaddy released this statement.
GO DADDY NO LONGER SUPPORTS SOPA
Looks to Internet Community & Fellow Tech Leaders to Develop Legislation We All SupportSCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (Dec. 23, 2011) — Go Daddy is no longer supporting SOPA, the “Stop Online Piracy Act” currently working its way through U.S. Congress.
“Fighting online piracy is of the utmost importance, which is why Go Daddy has been working to help craft revisions to this legislation — but we can clearly do better,” Warren Adelman, Go Daddy’s newly appointed CEO, said. “It’s very important that all Internet stakeholders work together on this. Getting it right is worth the wait. Go Daddy will support it when and if the Internet community supports it.”
Go Daddy and its General Counsel, Christine Jones, have worked with federal lawmakers for months to help craft revisions to legislation first introduced some three years ago. Jones has fought to express the concerns of the entire Internet community and to improve the bill by proposing changes to key defined terms, limitations on DNS filtering to ensure the integrity of the Internet, more significant consequences for frivolous claims, and specific provisions to protect free speech.
“As a company that is all about innovation, with our own technology and in support of our customers, Go Daddy is rooted in the idea of First Amendment Rights and believes 100 percent that the Internet is a key engine for our new economy,” said Adelman.
In changing its position, Go Daddy remains steadfast in its promise to support security and stability of the Internet. In an effort to eliminate any confusion about its reversal on SOPA though, Jones has removed blog postings that had outlined areas of the bill Go Daddy did support.
“Go Daddy has always fought to preserve the intellectual property rights of third parties, and will continue to do so in the future,” Jones said.
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