Please Consider Boycotting GoDaddy!

[findrskeep]

DU'ers, please forward this link to anyone and everyone you know. I accidentally saw this story on CNN and it is one of the most disgusting things I have ever seen. I went to godaddy and made a profile just so I could post something about this. In their community forum there was one thread about this but with only 7 comments and all people were saying they were moving their accounts because of what the founder of godaddy, Bob Parsons did in the killing of this poor elephant. I thought that was an awfully low amount of complaints given the heinous act this man commits and then boasts about it. Well now I know why. My post went off into nowhere land. They are censoring the forum. I'm sure there must be thousands of complaints about this. People like this need to be hurt the only place they obviously have ANY feeling, in their wallets. Here's the link to the story and video, but fair warning, it's extremely graphic. I wish I would have never seen this.



godaddy founder kills elephant

[seabeyond]

1. no surprise. the willingness and desire to treat a group bad shows the people they are

no conscience

[Poll_Blind]

2. Wow, that dude is one messed up fuck. Thanks, had used Godaddy a few years ago.

Will not do business with them again.

PB

[Horse with no Name]

3. Since I have no idea what or who godaddy is

I guess I am already boycotting!

[elocs]

7. I was going to post exactly the same thing.

It's easy to boycott what you don't use or even know what it is.

I wonder, does anyone have an exhaustive list of everything that we are supposed to be boycotting here at DU?

[joeybee12]

4. Definitely will boycott although to be honest, I'd have to look them

up to figure out what they do.

[sasha031]

5. I've been forwarding this story for a couple of days, many are on twitter

the cruelty of humans, :-(

[no limit]

6. Damn, I host all my domains there. This asshole needs to resign or he will lose lots of business

[Puzzler]

8. I've seen the annoying GoDanny ads for a couple of years...

... and still don't know what the f**k it exactly is.

(not that I've ever bothered to find out)

[jeff47]

9. What they do:

Web hosting. You buy a domain name (say, google.com) and they provide the servers that hold your web pages, forums, email, etc.

[lonestarnot]

10. k & r!

[Xithras]

11. Most sub-Saharan African countries offer permits to hunt big game...including elephants.

People may want to yell about the CEO of GoDaddy doing it, but the reality is that people do this every day. The poorer countries in sub-Saharan Africa are largely dependent on the fees generated from those licenses to fund their park systems and other protected habitats. In essence, they sell permits to allow the hunting of animals OUTSIDE of the protected areas, so that they can afford to preserve the animals INSIDE the protected areas.

It's a pretty crappy system, but people aren't exactly rushing forward with open checkbooks to offer them an alternative.

[Cherchez la Femme]

16. Modern safari's, with photo/video trophies instead of heads on the wall,

has been a huge source of tourist money to African nations.

& you need lots of live animals for that.



edit: typo

[RC]

12. When I was researching web providers,

Godaddy didn't really impress me. We went with Startlogic. Except for some minor start-up problems, mostly due to my ignorance at the time, we have had very little problem with them. They are quite helpful with any inquiries we had.

[Terry in Austin]

13. GoDaddy is just plain sucky anyway

And now this -- they're creeps, too.

In my experience as a web developer, I'm keenly aware that GoDaddy's hosting service sucks major suckage.

For the same money, you can get service elsewhere that doesn't suck. For a buck or two more, you can get something that's actually good.

Why anybody would be suckered in by GoDaddy, well that just sucks.

Did I mention that they suck?

[jberryhill]

14. Other Registrars Are Offering Discounts, Wildlife Donations For Transfers

In response to the masses of users looking for a new provider, two companies, DomainIt and NameCheap have both stepped up to offer deals to any clients looking for a quick alternative.

DomainIt.com is offering a 50% discount on all 1 and 2 year hosting plans PLUS $10 of every plan will be donated to the WorldWildLifeFund.org.

Use coupon code “DomainitCares” to get the deal.

NameCheap.com sent out an email to customers today saying:

“We at Namecheap are very disturbed by this video of a competitor killing an elephant for sport.

“We’ve decided to throw our support behind our Elephant friends by offering domain transfers at a price where we actually lose money.”

“Show your protest by saying BYEBYEGD again and transfer your domains to Namecheap for $4.99 for the next 24 hours through 11:59pm EST on 3/31/11 (limit 10 per user, valid for all com/net/org domains).”

On top of that, we’ll donate $1 for each transfer to SaveTheElephants.org



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[InvisibleTouch]

15. K & R for visibility.

They're a cheap host, so I've considered using them in the past, but I'm glad I didn't.