GoDaddy director refuses to revoke signature in support of SOPA

GoDaddy this week has been boycotted by the Internet community for supporting the SOPA bill. Site owners bulk transfer domains to other registrars.

According to the DailyChanges monitoring service, the number of domains on GoDaddy servers (ns.domaincontrol.com) has decreased by a few thousand each day in the last week. With a total of more than 32 million, this is not very irrelevant, but the management is still alarmed. The company started calling customers who are transferring domains to other registrars - and trying to figure out why they are doing this. Image GoDaddy also suffered. To somehow remedy the situation, the company's PR department published a statement that GoDaddy no longer "supports SOPA."

But yesterday, the executive director of the company, in an interview with TechCrunch , being pressed against the wall, was forced to explain what it means to “refuse to support SOPA”. He explained that GoDaddy is not excluded from the list submitted to the US House of Representatives, and he does not agree to officially inform the parliament that the company has changed its position. Like, GoDaddy just "retreats and gives others to take leadership roles." According to the Internet community, this situation frankly demonstrates the entire false essence of GoDaddy.

Recall that GoDaddy - one of the Internet companies, which fell into the notorious list of organizations ( PDF ), officially speaking in support of SOPA. The list contains 142 companies and organizations, mainly representatives of the video and recording industry, as well as the publishing business, plus individual representatives of the fashion industry (Estée Lauder, L'Oreal, Tiffany & Co) and the pharmaceutical industry (Pfizer).