If you watched this year’s Super Bowl, you probably noticed one thing: Madonna looks good for a 53-year-old. Oh, and also, the commercials sucked. Screw Brady and Manning, where the heck is the creativity, ad people? You guys are boring me. I need something more than King Elton John and moonwalking dogs.
If you own a website, it’s probably a good idea to renew your domain name right now. In fact, it’s probably a good idea to renew your domain name for as long as is fiscally responsible for you. Three years? Five years? Whatever, go do it! We don’t want your website ending up like The Bay Citizen, which currently routes to an embarrassing GoDaddy landing page.
It’s about .co domain names! It has girls in it! Danica Patrick! Jillian Michaels! Bodypaint! And… it predictably teases you into going to GoDaddy’s website to “see more”. Oh yeah, and it predictably sucks.
It’s been a rough holiday for GoDaddy. First the domain registrars were outed for supporting that vile SOPA bill. Then, after an online uprising, they said they no longer supported it, but weren’t quite against it. But as of yesterday, GoDaddy has finally, officially declared its full opposition to the internet-killing legislation.
When the internet gets upset about something, it doesn’t sulk alone in IRC, a single felt-pen tear static on its cheek. No, it goes all-out. At the moment, it has GoDaddy in its sights, and with Jimmy Wales’s decision to find a new, non-GoDaddy home for Wikipedia, the internet has just fired one of its bigger weapons at the under-siege registrar.
GoDaddy CEO Warren Adelman has had his job for a week. Not exactly a great week to start! But I chatted with the guy for his take on the company’s SOPA surrender. Is he against SOPA? No.
Wow, GoDaddy finally does the right thing. They’ve just announced that they’re no longer supporting the awful, US anti-internet bill known as SOPA because though ‘fighting’ online piracy is important, GoDaddy feels they “can clearly do better”.
GoDaddy, proud supporter of internet censorship bill SOPA, has responded to those questioning its motives. Surprise! They’re bullshit, just like the rest of the company.
