noteworthy wrote:
So, 37K/32M = 0.00115625, or 0.1% of GoDaddy domains. Is that a trend?

Whatever it is, it has been enough for GoDaddy to respond and it has generated a lot of press that is likely visible to other supporters of the legislation.

The impact for GoDaddy is more significant than for, say, Walmart or Polo Ralf Lauren. First, people researching a registrar decision are liable to happen upon boycotts in Google searches. Second, people making registrar decisions tend to talk with technorati, who may now steer them somewhere else.

Unfortunately, I think their response is weasly. They are no longer officially supporting the bill so they can say that to try to talk customers out of transferring, but at the same time they haven't really acknowledged that they understand the negative consequences associated with creating centralized internet censorship infrastructure.

Maybe the difference between "We're going to let someone else take a leadership position" and "We were totally wrong about this" is a couple orders of magnitude larger boycott. I tend to think the difference has to do with spending a couple of hours thinking about the consequences of what we're talking about. But then, I guess none of the management teams's rich friends risk having any of their well known interests shuttered, so why should they care about the rest of us, right?

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