Wikipedia: No GoDaddy
By Bala Shah

GoDaddy is the world’s No. 1 domain name registration company.  In 2010, it registered one third of all new domain names.  Coincidentally, its 50th million domain name, which was signed on in Sept 2011, was registered by an Indian Kranthi Kumar.

Wikipedia is among the top 10 websites in the world and is the product of hundreds of millions of hours of voluntary work and goodwill.  Wikipedia has turned its back on tens of millions of dollars of potential advertising because it does not want to be compromised in any way.

GoDaddy made the mistake of supporting the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) currently before the US Congress.  The SOPA is a terrible law and would give inordinate power to big business (software, music, publishing, movies companies) to shut down any blogger / website they feel has violated their IP or copyright.  SOPA allows for someone in USA to cut off your advertising if they feel that you in Bangalore have violated their copyright.  There are stiff jail sentences for downloaders.

GoDaddy’s support of SOPA triggered off an internet backlash.  On Reddit forums, the idea of a Dump GoDaddy Day on Dec 29 was launched.  Thousands of websites have left GoDaddy.

Wikipedia founder and its moral voice Jimmy Wales blogged that Wikipedia would also dump GoDaddy because of GoDaddy’s support for SOPA.

GoDaddy got the message this week.

GoDaddy made it clear early this week that is no longer supports the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) Act.  If that wasn’t clear enough, GoDaddy announced today that it actually opposes SOPA law.