Go Daddy's CEO has confirmed that the internet did in fact follow through on its promise to stop using the popular domain hosting site, moving their domains elsewhere after the company's initial support for the Stop Online Piracy Act
Details of Go Daddy's history of supporting the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Thursday's planned boycott against the surface have been all over the news lately, and it only makes all non-SOPA Go Daddy news seem all the more rage-inducing.
Christmas passed without a fallen snowflake at Go Daddy's Arizona headquarters, as the former supporter of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) watched tens of thousands of customers flee its business.
Faced with a Reddit-powered boycott, Go Daddy, the domain registrar and maker of sexy television commercials, will no longer support the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) -- but Wikipedia is going to boycott Go Daddy regardless.
Private equity firms KKR and Silver Lake are looking at the domain registrar
The greatest PR failures of one simple domain registration company
Have a story we missed? A link we have to click? A sharp opinion about the news? Instead of waiting for us to post it, tell us on the Open Wire.
Submit your news and ideas | See all reader postsThe Atlantic Wire is your authoritative guide to the news and ideas that matter most right now. Our team tracks newsmakers and opinions across the entire media spectrum: newspapers, web sites, television, radio and magazines.
But we do more than just collect information. By synthesizing, analyzing and summarizing what’s out there, and adding new information when we can, we are a news engine that gives you a quick and valuable account of the issues of the day.
Get Five Best Columns in your inbox each morning (preview)
Have a hot tip? A story we missed? Tell us on the Open Wire
How to send us editorial or technical feedback
