Its no secret now that Go Daddy supports SOPA. The news has been out all day today. It seems every registrar on the planet is offering a transfer special.
If we take a look at Go Daddy there is plenty of copyrighted content in the form of domain names on auction on their site. Besides it just being there, Go Daddy profits from the sales of these names.
Do you like Google Places ? Well Go Daddy has GooglePlaces.me being auctioned on their site
Do you like Microsoft Hotmail? Go Daddy has MicrosoftHotmail.com available on their site.
There are thousands of examples like that.
Hello Pot my name is Kettle.
So under SOPA just one complaint by say Microsoft could result in shutting down the whole Go Daddy site. Millions of customers affected.
So maybe just maybe Go Daddy should reconsider their support for SOPA.
Disclaimer: No one at Hybrid Domainer is giving a legal opinion but rather an opinion on common sense.
Great post man.
You think Microsoft will take things far enough that there will be the need for a court order issued by the Department of Justice to shut down GoDaddy based on some auction sales?
It’s a gross oversimplification and alarmist view.
I’d like the section of the bill that makes this scenario likely. The problem that most domainers have is that they are on the wrong side of the equation – how would you feel if I copied all your posts to my own blog? Would would you suppose the remedy to that is? No imagine your blog post was responsible for paying your bills and feeding your family.
IP is stolen every day. This is a remedy.
The Bill has problems – I’m sure – every bill written always does but I also think that the biggest detractors have the most to lose so any summary is one-sided. I wouldn’t be too hasty to just assume the basis of SOPA is bad (the document might be).
Nothing is straightforward. The internet should be free.. but there is a cost to that freedom. If the internet is closed there is a cost to our freedom. Needs are to strike a balance.
Have to love some idiot who labels himself unknown and then spouts off.
Try understanding SOPA as it is proposed and not sounding ignorant.
@unknown Microsoft would not need to do much to make that happen.
@Get A Clue
I suppose that’s a better name to use to post under.
It’s easy to blog and make statements about what can and can’t be done based on second hand analysis of a bill. Whose analysis are you taking? Or have you read the bill? And understood it in the context.
The problem I see is primarily a potential for abuse but I don’t think that court orders are going to be handed out just because Microshaft sends an email to someone complaining about a web page. Potential and actual abuse are two things.
It’s alarmist. A better approach would be to have constructive on line discussion to fix the problem without causing too many issues.
This SOPA will shut down the internet and break the infrastructure is bullshit. A lot of people quote people that fight for “freedom” without realizing that fight is as dangerous as the opposite end of the spectrum.
Fundamentalism is causes is dangerous no matter which side you’re on. Balance is almost always a better solution.
I asked a question unknown, and put a disclaimer that its not legal advice. I have read many articles some who do have legal background, stating that yes you can order something be taken down and it blocks the whole site.
@unknown: SOPA provides the government (and by extension media companies) a direct kill switch into the core DNS system. Read the bill.