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GoDaddy Drops SOPA Support After Customer Revolt

Seeded on Fri Dec 23, 2011 3:42 PM EST
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Domain registrar and hosting company GoDaddy has dropped its support for the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). The change in position follows the protests of thousands of customers who threatened to transfer their domains to competitors. In a statement released today the company now says it “will support it when and if the Internet community supports it.”

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Michael Sautter

That was fast.

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Reply#1 - Fri Dec 23, 2011 3:42 PM EST
Tim Boothby

They got my email to drop their support or I'd find a new host, and I know a lot of others have done the same. There were even companies out there willing to shift users to other hosting free, even if the switchers didn't switch to their services. It was bow or take a serious hit.

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Reply#2 - Sat Dec 24, 2011 9:14 PM EST
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