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Wikipedia parent is still leaving Go Daddy

March 8, 2012 by Raymond Hackney

As reported by Paul Mc Namara of Network World:

The Wikimedia Foundation, making good on a Dec. 23 promise by Jimmy Wales during the height of the anti-SOPA firestorm, has publicly announced it is transferring all of its domain names from GoDaddy to MarkMonitor as punishment for GoDaddy's early support of the failed anti-piracy legislation.

A Wikimedia spokesman told me a month ago that they were still working on the shift. And buried deep within yesterday's post on the technology blog of Wikipedia's parent organization is this one line: "The Wikimedia Foundation has started to move its domain names from GoDaddy to MarkMonitor."

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About Raymond Hackney

Raymond Hackney has been involved with domain names since 1997. One of the most prolific writers in the domain industry and founder of TLDinvestors.com and 3Character.com

Comments

  1. David says

    March 8, 2012 at 7:14 pm

    Because they need that extra domain management service.

  2. John says

    March 9, 2012 at 9:12 am

    I may not move all of mine, but as GoDaddy starts looking more like Big Brother, I’ll be moving a lot of biz away from them.
    What GoDaddy did will affect them for a long time.

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