"Our company regrets the loss of any of our customers, who remain our highest priority..."
If your customers had been your highest priority, you wouldn't be in this mess. I promise you that. How many of your customers asked you to draft and support a legislation which risks permanently damaging the Internet as we know it?
GoDaddy has served media-companies and politicians, and not their customers. And based on their weak "opposition", they are far from changing that today.
> "Our company regrets the loss of any of our customers, who remain our highest priority..."
That's probably the only true thing they've said here. They change their public face based entirely on what gets them customers. I don't want to do business with a company that changes their positions every time the wind changes.
>GoDaddy has served media-companies and politicians, and not their customers.
I don't understand this claim. Since the beginning of this whole fiasco, I've wondered exactly how SOPA would in any way benefit GoDaddy. But do you seriously believe their support of SOPA is from some special relationship with the recording industry? I don't see why that would be the case.
The Silver Lake connection may explain some of it, but GoDaddy has historically had a Rambo philosophy towards any content they deemed objectionable. When I was working on a startup that would use trademark law to shutdown phishers, 409s, botnets, and fake pharma, GoDaddy was eager to play in that arena, and was considered a good friend to law enforcement in general.
There's a difference between
"If you want to see our server logs, you're gonna need a warrant!" and
"If you want to see our server logs, you're gonna need a warrant; the Eastern District has pretty fast turnround and they know the landcape. Just bring that warrant back over here, and we'll get you the data you need."
I also read somewhere that GoDaddy (or as they put it, a group of websites of which GoDaddy is one) would be one of the websites exempt from censorship.
If your customers had been your highest priority, you wouldn't be in this mess. I promise you that. How many of your customers asked you to draft and support a legislation which risks permanently damaging the Internet as we know it?
GoDaddy has served media-companies and politicians, and not their customers. And based on their weak "opposition", they are far from changing that today.