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OK. This is just my perspective.

The article is "GoDaddy's SOPA Support Sparks Calls for Boycotts and Domain Transfers".

It's mainly about the phenomenon of people transferring their domains from GoDaddy and the boycott that's gaining momentum.

Reviewing your comments, you seem to be making the point repeatedly that basically "GoDaddy sucks under normal circumstances and no one should be using them anyway".

I will admit the same thought has occurred to me. But I didn't post it as a comment. Here's why:

1. It's negative and not in a 'constructive criticism' kind of way. More of like "aren't you dumb".

2. It doesn't seem like it will provoke any useful discussion. The main plausible answers are "OK, yeah" or "no they don't suck". In the first case the agreement is uninteresting. In the second case it becomes a simple disagreement about the quality of GoDaddy's service, which doesn't relate to the topic of the article anyway.

3. Your point that GoDaddy "repeatedly censored domains, Unilaterally, Voluntarily, for DNS around the World" could be adding something mildly interesting. But you've offered no references or links to back up this claim and you seem to be repeating it over and over more and more insistently.

4. A lot of HN readers probably do use GoDaddy. We needn't judge them for it as choosing a domain registrar is not supposed to be an act of great consequence under normal circumstances. Yet you seem to be basically accusing them of hypocrisy.

My impression of HN is that people are trying their darndest to see it not turn into another Slashdot. They're trying to be pretty selective so if your comment doesn't get the love you were hoping, just give it a rest. It's happened to me too.
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We are talking about different opennesses here. I'm not arguing that their browser is not open source. This thread is about bidding for the default search engine in Firefox and Mozilla's business decisions. Obviously, Yandex outbid Google in the Russian market. The switch from Google was based on money. The decision was not made in the open. I interpret this as "we value openness, but to keep this organization afloat to continue making open source browser we need to make _closed_ deals with search engines", which looks like an acceptable compromise to me. But it's nowhere near the complete openness as I understand it. If your goal is pure philanthropic -- to make the best free browser -- you base your decisions ONLY on what's best for users, not on an acceptable compromise somewhere inbetween [who gets you the most money] and [what's best for users].

PS I don't suggest that Yandex is not the best choice for Russian users (it may be), but we'll never know, because nobody asked them.
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"""The original poster who I'm responding to said, "the days of the wristwatch and one-function cell-phone are gone [. . .]," so I'm not sure how one can be simultaneously "trendy" and part of a declining trend (that is, watch-wearing)."""

Hipster culture is all about celebrating declining trends as trendy. It's precisely because watch-wearing is a "declining trend" that makes the hipster wear one to stand out. A hardcore hipster would probably sport a pocket watch, but check this out:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/apr/28/casio-f-9...

""" If you'd read the link, you'd know that I don't use Moleskine notebooks any more because their quality variability appears to have increased over time."""

Spoken like a true hipster. As if a non-hipster cares to measure the "quality variability of his notebooks".

Now, you might be totally ignorant of the hipster culture, I'll give you that.

But the prevalence of things like Moleskine notebooks are precisely because of that demographic. Check:
http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2009/02/24/122-moleskine-not...
I don't speak for everyone but personally, I'm not against all companies that are pro-SOPA, just the Internet firms who I think should know better. As for others like the music or motion picture industries, I understand and respect their support for SOPA.
If this was such a great money making deal for Google why did Microsoft not bid higher? They have similar monetization strategy for Bing and would have similar ROI for gaining searches. Plus, MS is flush with cash and have a great desire to compete with Google.

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If the "esoteric" definition is the one used by religious people, then it has a great deal of use in discussing the thought processes of religious people.
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2 days before SOPA vote I will shutdown my websites in protest. Will you?
In the interest of preserving free speech,

1) I hereby pledge to disable access to all (or most) of the content featured on my websites 48 hours before the full house vote (date unknown ATM) on SOPA in the U.S. Congress.

2) I pledge to keep access disabled until the vote is finalized.

3) Because SOPA's effects will be felt globally, I pledge to disable access to all users, regardless of geographical location.

4) I pledge to display a maintenance page directing people to more information on SOPA and how they can contact their representatives in Congress.

Who's with me?
I wondered the same. A guy was actually sued over this for his automated crawling/posting bots he was selling as a service. From what I've heard, their lawyers are pretty relentless.

I think he is also a reader on HN.
Would love to see that stat. I guess competitors could post about spikes, giving us a sense based on their numbers.
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I just xfered all 12 of my domains I had with godaddy. I know 12 isn't a lot but every little bit helps.
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Makes sense. We'll have fresher data up there in the very near term. Also, it's not super obvious, but you can use the left and right arrows in that lightbox to navigate the listings.
We experienced similar issues while making the iPhone app for http://www.playlookit.com. My partner wrote the same kind of blog post: http://tannerburson.com/2011/04/03/Thoughts-on-Appcelerator-...

Buggy, not very well documented, and an incredibly weak community.

I can't help but agree with you.
I just saw that the USTA (United States Tennis Association) supports SOPA. What a disappointment. This is the organization that manages the US Open and other pro tennis tournaments, but it's also the group that manages amateur leagues and tournaments.

I've been thinking about just playing ultimatetennis instead, maybe this is the time.
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SOPA is an attempt to fight copyright infringement by breaking the whole internet. It's crazy overkill, but that doesn't mean people and businesses shouldn't try to avoid becoming collateral damage.
Nice. It's interesting to see that pretty much the entire U.S. is opposite ocean. For the 50 states, the only exceptions seem to be the northernmost tip of Alaska, which is opposite part of Antarctica, a little bit of northern Montana, north of Great Falls, which is opposite the catchily named "French Southern & Antarctic Lands" island, and the islands of Hawaii, which are mostly opposite Botswana, with just a little bit being opposite Namibia.

BTW, a pedantic point: If you dig straight down, you end up at the center of the Earth. If you keep going from there, then you're digging up.

EDIT: The area just southeast of Lamar, Colorado is opposite a tiny island called "Ile Amsterdam". And southwest of Cheyenne Wells, Colorado, you are opposite an even tinier island called "Ile Saint-Paul".
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It's not making much sense to my tired mind today.
tl;dr version : Gee Google must be pissed at Amazon for using Android.

See? In the short version it doesn't make a whole lot of sense either :-). It seems to be part of proprietary lore that an example of someone (not you) taking technology you developed and running with it is failure. In the open source world that is defined as success.

So lets imagine for a moment that Google wakes up and decides to build their own e-reader (sort of along the lines they decided to make phones), what chance do you think Amazon has of suing them for 'patent infringement' do you think there is? Kind of hard to sue Google for copying (design details not withstanding) the Kindle if the Kindle is based on Android is it not?

Or to put it another way, lets say you had this nifty operating system that you could use for a variety of purposes. Now what would it cost to make an entirely new product with it, design a user experience, and release it to customers? Lets just say a lot. And if the customers thought your ideas were stupid and didn't buy it how would you feel? Like you wasted a bunch of money right? What if the person who did that wasn't you, spent their own money, and gave you a valuable data point about what customers want or don't want?

The field is littered with Android 'failures' (the Playbook, and Xoom come to mind) but what they represent to Google who doesn't need the revenue from Android is free research and development without any capital risk. I know for a fact that Google could, should they choose to, staff up and build a 'company' within their company to build any consumer device they chose, from phone to e-reader to television set. But why do that if RIM is willing to invest half a billion dollars testing the market with your stuff?

The openness of Android is allowing literally dozens of design ideas to be tried out simultaneously, how many variations on products can a closed OS vendor try out? One or two?
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Hunches aren't very useful without hard data. More practically, defensible logic is good practice on HN, because people try and build real businesses based on what they read here.

A month ago many people thought that Mozilla was going to be in financial trouble because "they couldn't re-sign the Google deal". That seemed to be based on little more than a hunch, which data showed that was clearly wrong (which I pointed out at the time).

Note that a donation to Wikipedia is very different (for tax purposes) to a business arrangement with Mozilla.

(I do agree that Google is good to the web though)
I am moving all my domains to DNSimple.com now... I have hated GoDaddy for so long, and started registering all new domains at DNSimple but hadn't taken the time to transfer all my old domains... Finally doing that now... They have a nice API.
Maybe a library with a webcam-equipped computer? Friend with a camera phone? Volunteer somewhere for a few hours in exchange for using their equipment?
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I would say there is a 99% chance that the moment he requests to have the money transferred to his bank account, his PayPal account will be limited. In the screenshot it shows that there are already 43 disputes. While this is a small percentage, PayPal will use this to point to the possibility of many more chargebacks arising in the future.

Granted, he will eventually receive it (after 180 days). But, he will not receive it before then. This is a matter of standard operating procedure for PayPal.
I see no evidence to indicate this is the popular working definition of faith for the religious.
Good catch, I didn't know about that.
GODADDY is acting like we're bluffing and basically challenging us to try and make a dent in their business. Read this!

Update (6:18 PM): GoDaddy seems unimpressed by the boycott so far. They made the following statement to Ars Technica: "Go Daddy has received some emails that appear to stem from the boycott prompt, but we have not seen any impact to our business. We understand there are many differing opinions on the SOPA regulations."
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Profit how? From your search engine?

99% of FF users would just switch to Google as soon as they install it. It's not like anybody has made a competent enough search engine yet...
GoDaddy will stay in business while ad syndicates continue to accept their money. Is there an ad syndicate that allows you to specifically black-list companies? Some kind of 'ethical ad' startup?
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I remember that some seized domains were transferred to GoDaddy by the law enforcement agency. Maybe they have (or intend to have) a deal with them? For example, when the domain is taken down, it's transferred to GoDaddy, they setup nameservers and show something like this: http://torrentfreak.com/images/seizedservers.gif
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You made some very valid points in your replies and I was with you as long as you presented them as reasonable hypothetical motives for the fashion industry to support this bill.

However, when you say stuff such as In fact, it’s that kind of one-sided ad hominem bullshit that’s actually the problem, you presume that the point about them being greedy or immoral is invalid. That also sounds a bit naive and one-sided.

We've all observed how artistic rights, copyrights, patents are used by corporations to turn unscrupulous profits. Can you guarantee that executives leading corporations in the fashion industry are exempt of such practices? Would you vouch for their integrity if we decided to observe their various operations under the magnifier? Can you say with certainty that no questionable corners have been cut to turn up a buck or two?
GoDaddy supports the bill because they love taking a contrary positions on an given issue. They see most of the industry taking X position on SOPA and so they take Y position. Corporate wise, they just seem to get off on it.
Does namecheap have free DNS? I have 25 domains on godaddy and thinking about moving them, but I will need to be able to manage nameservers through whoever I switch to since right now thats all done through godaddy.

Also, whats the cost of transfering?
Tried that one earlier and it didn't work for me. YMMV
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Excellent response. A couple more of these, and the facade might really start to crumble. Support for this thing is non-existent outside of a few very wealthy organizations, and the more reversals we have like this, the easier it's going to be to make the case against it.
Isn't that exchanging bundle exec command for ./bin/command ? Still not as convenient as just using command
I don't know about the transfer cost, but I know they do have free DNS as I use it myself.
>Most sane people support sane IP legislation.

Sane IP legislation is no IP legislation. I don't know why we are still clinging to the ridiculous concept of being able to own abstract concepts. The true insanity is IP in the first place.
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> The fact that Cheezburger didn't dump GoDaddy over any of the scandals in the past, from their rampant sexism to elephant slaughter, bothers me.

SOPA is urgent; sexism isn't. You're right, there are many other reasons to drop GoDaddy, but this is the only one that has clear incentive to be done right now.

> If they were to recant their support now, the Congressmen in favor of SOPA could just dismiss it as folding under economic pressure, and still cite GoDaddy's original support as relevant.

The fact that they pulled out because their customers blackmailed them over hatred for the bill seems relevant, especially since they're trying to make the argument that SOPA helps business. But, I'm not a congressmen and don't think like one.
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Microsoft would love to, but they can't afford it. Bing is already losing huge amounts of money, and doing yet another deal for market share isn't going to be popular within MS unless it is profitable.

While MS could make money on a Firefox deal, they can't nearly make as much as Google can simply because Microsoft can't monetize the users as well as Google can.

You can see this on the demand side - many people try out new keyword advertising campaigns on Bing because they are so much cheaper than on Google.

Once they are confident they have a good set of keywords, they switch straight to Google (and at best keep the Bing campaign going). They'll pay more at Google, but get so much more traffic it is worth it.
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1. Heh, maybe you're right, people just don't like the hypocrisy or irony that I'm pointing out, but, either way, I'm tired of this moral aggrandizing with everyone acting like SOPA is a cut throat issue when GoDaddy has a history of not giving a shit about their customers' rights in regards to censorship.

2. Again, everyone wants to boil my comments down to GoDaddy sucks, even though that was not even featured in the post you're replying to. It's extremely straight forward about the hypocrisy of this moral crusade everyone is on.

3. The other subthread I commented in has a Google search result page for "site:news.ycombinator.com godaddy". There are pages and pages of horror stories and the top three involve DNS backlisting of legitimate sites unilaterally by GoDaddy. I don't know how everyone "forgot" these as they're usually commonplace in discussions of GoDaddy, but I suppose I could cite my sources better. At this point I'm just burnt out and want to clarify my position.

4. I again refuse to accept this excuse of "normal circumstances". The last several batch of them that have been posted on HN have even acknowledged that they thought, "Well I was just sure it couldn't happen to little ole me!!" and then it did. It takes so incredibly little effort to transfer domains to someone else who is as cheap or a whole dollar a year more expensive. I dunna.
I generally agree. However, I'm not going to categorically state that matters can't be improved, so I don't think that it's correct to always associate "IP legislation" with "RIAA/MPAA power grab".

I firmly believe that the issues of content and software piracy are distribution issues, rather than legislation issues. I also believe that it would be silly to say "Welp, things are good enough, no more changes needed ever". To say "We will never support IP legislation" is an untenable position, and I'd be wary of any company that would make such a broad statement. Namecheap made the right one by saying "We support internet freedom".
Cost of transfer is 1 year fee, so $9.95 for .com domains
A blacklist of unacceptable legislation seems like a losing battle, long-term. Much like writing a malware scanner based on virus signatures, it only works against known threats. We need a whitelist of acceptable legislation, instead. Oh, wait, we have one; it just doesn't actually get enforced.
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No, that seems like the second-worst part. The worst part: the people paying the people trying to pass it know exactly what they're doing.
In this context, I mean IP to encompass non-tangible goods like software and music, as well as things like brands (half of SOPA is levied at people who produce counterfeits of popular brand items). Is there a better term I should use?
Most people aren't easily offended. Also, I don't think a woman voluntarily choosing to be paid for being in an ad qualifies as misogyny, unless the women are self-loathing.

Godaddy's objectification of women isn't unique in the industry or world as a whole, and there are many other reasons to hate Godaddy.
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It's cool that they published this letter. All that stuff about counterfeiting is not just an abstract concern. Here's a forum thread from early this year about counterfeit biners and ascenders:

http://www.supertopo.com/climbers-forum/1409671/Attention-Pe...

This stuff has been popping up for a while. It's scary as a climber since your gear failing so far below rated strength could get you killed.
I have no problem with it if their political stance actually lines up with the marketing move. If folks are mad that your competitor likes to kick puppies, it's totally fair game to say "Hey, we provide the same thing, and you don't have to finance puppy-kicking if you use us."
But I think nothing short of a Constitutional amendment will stop future laws like these, though. But I agree after we stop SOPA and PIPA, we'll need to focus on bills that can ensure nothing like SOPA can even be proposed again.

I expect nothing short of endless vigilance and occasional internet smackdowns of bills like these will prevent them from becoming law.

You can amend the Constitution and pass all the laws you want, but those are just inconveniences that can be overcome with a big enough advertising and legal budget.
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