SOPA: GoDaddy Was an Easy Target | K-Squared Ramblings<\/a>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWhen people found out that GoDaddy supported SOPA, they organized a boycott and got them to change course. But why the focus on them and not the other ~150 companies on the list?\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Because they stood out, were an easy target, and were already pretty much disliked. Versus trying to find an alternative to watching movies from Paramount or not buying software from Microsoft. Which isn't to say that moving your domain registration (and hosting, if you have it there) from GoDaddy isn't a good idea, for a … Continue reading “Targeting GoDaddy”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,35,3],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-24943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-big-business","category-blogging","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24806,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/24\/some-alternatives-to-godaddy.html","url_meta":{"origin":24943,"position":0},"title":"Some alternatives to GoDaddy","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 24-Dec-11 11:08am","format":false,"excerpt":"Apparently a lot of registrars are offering some special no-SOPA switch-from-GoDaddy offers to take advantage of GoDaddy's SOPA gaffes. 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