Decius wrote:

“Not only is there no First Amendment concern, but the notion that we should turn a blind eye to criminal conduct because other countries may take oppressive steps in response is an affront to the very fabric of this nation.”

I guess thats the final nail in the coffin - I've got to switch registrars.

I'll join you. Got any picks on a replacement?

edit: I'm liking the looks of easyDNS. They seem to be taking a principled stand against SOPA:

If this becomes law, it's a short stretch from SOPA to NODA (No Online Dissent Anywhere) and if you think I'm a nutcase for saying so, I'd like to remind everybody what happened just over a year ago, when US politicians were tripping over themselves to shut down wikileaks (a royal fiasco in which this company was embroiled) and to this day, they have not been charged with a crime anywhere.

Many of the "dirty tricks" employed against Wikileaks would be enshrined in law under SOPA (and someday, NODA):

A requirement that service providers block access to offending domains, including that they stop resolving their DNS
Search engines to purge search results for offending domains
Payment processors to sever ties to offending domains

And they added an extra provision that it will be an offense to knowingly create a service or system to provide a workaround to a banned domain or host. So for example, they would no longer have to hassle Mozilla to remove that firefox plugin that lets you reach ICE blocked websites, it would be illegal to make it or distribute it.

Hijexx wrote:
edit: I'm liking the looks of easyDNS. They seem to be taking a principled stand against SOPA:

Thanks. I do like the look of EasyDNS.

I've been hoping that Rattle would chime in here and tell us what he has been using...

EasyDNS wrote:
If this becomes law, it's a short stretch from SOPA to NODA (No Online Dissent Anywhere) and if you think I'm a nutcase for saying so, I'd like to remind everybody what happened just over a year ago, when US politicians were tripping over themselves to shut down wikileaks (a royal fiasco in which this company was embroiled) and to this day, they have not been charged with a crime anywhere.

I totally agree with this sentiment and I still think that the Wikileaks fiasco a year ago was both totally inappropriate and a sign of what is to come with SOPA, its worth pointing out that Wikileaks is actually guilty.

In another chat, dated March 8, 2010, Manning asked “Nathaniel Frank,” believed to be Assange, about help in cracking the main password on his classified SIPRnet computer so that he could log on to it anonymously. He asked “Frank” if he had experience cracking IM NT hashes (presumably it’s a mistype and he meant NTLM for the Microsoft NT LAN Manager). “Frank” replied yes, that they had “rainbow tables” for doing that. Manning then sent him what looked like a hash.

Cracking an NTLM hash for somebody who you know intends to gain unauthorized access to a computer system is not "journalism" - its a crime. Someone at Wikileaks, possibly Assange, offered to do this for Manning. Whatever happens in court, it seems clear that Wikileaks was not just a drop box for information.

Now, that doesn't mean its OK for the US Government to use all kinds of extralegal measures to go after them by hook or by crook, but there is no reason that anyone should withhold judgement about them anymore.

Decius wrote:

Hijexx wrote:
edit: I'm liking the looks of easyDNS. They seem to be taking a principled stand against SOPA:

Thanks. I've been kind of hoping that Rattle would chime in here. I do like the look of EasyDNS.

I've been hoping that Rattle would chime in here and tell us what he has been using...

I use Namecheap, but I have nothing against EasyDNS.

I'm engaged in a project right now to move several hundred domains off GoDaddy. It started long before the SOPA boycott. It's going to take awhile for numerous reasons. I'm sure many organizations and individuals are in the same situation, and I'm sure many of them have far more domains than my team does. The rush out of GoDaddy is a very slow thing... The big numbers being seen now are just the tip of the iceberg.