GoDaddy Desperately Reaching Out To Try To Win People Back
from the too-little,-too-late dept
Via Tim Lee, we learn that, in the wake of the capitulation by GoDaddy, some of those who transferred domains to other providers are now receiving calls from GoDaddy customer service folks trying to win them back. Chris Heald explains what happened to him:I just got a call from #GoDaddy. The rep said he noticed that I'd transferred my 60+ domains away... and wanted to know if I'd tell them why. I got to tell them that it was because of their #SOPA support, and that I couldn't in good conscience give my money to a tech company that would support legislation like that. I told him I was aware that they had reversed their position, but that their explicit support of it in the first place had cost them my confidence in them, as it is at the best viciously ignorant, and at worst, malicious. The rep was quite sincere in his apology to me, asked if there was anything they could do to win me back. He had a "We support IP protections, and now realize that support of SOPA is too broad" song-and-dance routine that probably came in from a PR memo today. I told him "no thanks", and that was that. I'm impressed by the customer service hustle, but it shows that this little incident really spooked them.It really makes me wonder if GoDaddy will ever be able to win back the confidence of many who joined this boycott. Perhaps not.
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Leaving for good
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I wonder if Chris Heald then admitted that he does not support IP protections...
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Now you have. I haven't had a single problem with them. When I used their hosting, they never gave me any problems. I use their DNS, no problems. Their support was nice and quick when I asked for them to add a MIME type. In fact, before this SOPA thing, I would have recommended them.
Now, I will also be moving my domain. Anyone have a suggestion of who I can go to?
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Still Waiting
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Why is one kind of moral outrage OK but another is not?
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how Chris Heald should have responded
If you could cut out the cancer in your company via "organ transplant", then I would maybe consider trusting you again.
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Note well: GoDaddy has NOT reversed itself on SOPA
It's pretty obvious that GoDaddy is just lying, lying, lying in a desperate attempt to keep customers from leaving.
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Who was it that said that SOPA was about protecting jobs and the economy?
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GoDaddy might be the only ones spooked.
The sad thing is that this seems to be the only tangible instance where support of SOPA has lead to customers taking their business elsewhere. Box office grosses from Xmas weekend were still $125.5M, and the MPAA practically wrote this bill. There hasn't been any news of a mass exodus of Comcast subscribers, either, and... well, I didn't exactly boycott Monday Night Football last night.
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Be careful with that and make sure the auto-renew is disabled.
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Godaddy outright ignored their customer base before they decided to back such a legislation - it was a pretty key indicator that they don't know what's going on around them.
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I suppose I could invest in a pair of tin cans and a ball of twine but otherwise it's dial-up for me (and I'd still be buying my phone service from either AT&T or Comcast).
I realize I'm just one subscriber, but I'm sure I'm not the only one with such limited choices.
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Loosing contact with the internet and multiple media sources leaves you adrift in a world where OTA "News" programs pimp themselves out offering "dating" subsites, If it bleeds it leads, if we don't cover it - it didn't happen. Want to learn more about the tax hike? Well we only had 15 seconds to cover that, but here is 2 minutes of a cute cat video that went "viral".
The corporations want what the corporations want, the people we elected are letting them have it.
I find fault with them just giving into whoever pays them enough money.
We all want change, but we are all so petty and worried someone else might "win" that we keep electing those people who keep us focused on "what is important" rather than admitting the country is completely screwed up, its no ones fault and the more time we spend assigning the blame the worse it gets.
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150 years ago believe it or not African Americans used to overwhelmingly support Republicans, and never Democrats. Republican president Lincoln freed the slaves after all. But eventually Republicans screwed up and overwhelmingly lost the African American vote.
A few things caused this to happen.
1) Republicans decided to go after the ultra conservative (and very racist back then) southern white conservative voters, then the democrats base of support.
2) In the 60's the Democrats decided to get serious about winning the African American vote, so Democrat Lyndon Johnson helped passed the civil rights act of 1964, knowing full well that he was turning Southern White Conservative voters against his party for at least a generation.
So if GoDaddy wants to get serious about getting their customers back then they need to do more then just revoke their support of SOPA. They need to do something that'll clearly anger the Pro-SOPA people in order to win support back from Anti-SOPA people. Something like arguing the OPEN act has similar problems to SOPA and encouraging people to oppose it and SOPA to would probably be helpful (I'm not sure if that's true or not though about the OPEN act, so they might need to think of something else).
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This is horribly incorrect. There was, essentially, no African American vote in 1964. Passing the Civil Rights Act was an incredibly brave move by LBJ that was done because it was the right thing to do, not because of any political gain.
The Democrats lost the next Presidential election, btw.
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CEO Parsons is an AssHat
Not only does Parsons think SOPA is a good thing, he thinks killing elephants is a good thing too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXVH4OsfapI
(He claims the encroaching people need the space, so the elephants need to be killed to make room for the people).
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You know how many millions of people on the other side of the globe think the same thing of you every time you eat a burger.
And those cows were intentionally put in that pasture.
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http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-elephant-in-the-room
So endangered that Zimbabwe (where Mr. Parsons bagged his) is about 60,000 over capacity.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2011-12/13/c_131303692.htm
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You guys read too much into it.
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no business can afford to lose customers and i think, as stated above, they are simply trying to keep that going.
i am waiting to see what happens if SOPA is defeated, how the attitude changes when it is re-introduced with minor alterations, just to make people and companies think it is better than before. i hope it will still be seen by all as an atrocious Bill and never happens. those in Congress that backed it should lose all votes and be investigated to find out how they were going to benefit from giving that backing
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too late, too little
http://gizmodo.com/5870920/brave-godaddy-ceo-says-hes-neither-for-nor-against-sopa
Their position on DMCA is the worst also - delete and ask questions later.
I will move my domains just before they expire during the next year. Server to follow.
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too late, too little -- they're lying anyway
So let's just say GoDaddy doesn't support them till the heat comes off and then they'll support them again and be honest about it. Or maybe continue to fib about it.
Reading Mr Adelman's comments is painful at best cause he just can't get the right spin going or an outright lie at worst.
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Clearly their CEO still welcome SOPA provided someone else is in the driving seat. In other words no change.
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"Desperately" ?
Give it a rest.
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It's likely it's the inexpensive plans that are joining up while the people talking about leaving are at the other end of the scale in the money GoDaddy gets from them.
And I don't know when the 50% off sales started but it's looking at the moment that they're practically giving the low end hosting away. If not "desperate" they seem to be trying to attract business as fast as they can. To make up for the high end sites transferring out?
(It might be coincidental because of the time of year, of course.)
Of course the number is incidental, to use your wording but we'll have to wait and see what happens as time moves on.
It appears that they've received the message but have they understood it? To read Mr Adelman they don't seem to understand it yet.
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No surprise...
Now... boycott Hollywood [et al movies and TV shows] in any way that will send money to their undeserving coffers. Let the entertainment industry dry up and fade away.
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In the early days GD was great. But see what money can do to a susceptible mind(less). This backlash should have happened a long time ago to steer the child in the right, non-abusive direction.
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so..
I sure hope so.
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