WebCommons transferring domains away from GoDaddy in protest of their support of SOPA
Posted on December 30, 2011 by Steve Magruder in Internet/Web Issue Advocacy, WebCommons AnnouncementsDue to GoDaddy’s recent support of the anti-Internet, anti-free-
speech, pro-entertainment-industry-greed legislation called SOPA (PIPA in the Senate), and their abrupt but lackluster and unconvincing reversal, WebCommons today started transferring its domains to other registrars.
For starters, today, WebCommons.biz (this site) and MetroIssues.com (Louisville History & Issues) were transferred to gandi.net, a French registrar that is being recommended by many in the Internet community for its hard anti-SOPA stance and its quality of service. It also doesn’t hurt that they’re offering $8 transfers with free whois privacy and a 1-year SSL certificate. It especially doesn’t hurt that the U.S.-based Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has its domain registered there — to me, this is a great vote of confidence!
If you have domains registered at GoDaddy, will you join me in transferring away and sending a message to GoDaddy and all other past and present supporters of SOPA that this sick, unAmerican legislation needs to be destroyed, buried and the earth salted where it lays? At the last link above, the EFF makes registrar recommendations.
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