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Due To Recent Boycott GoDaddy Drops Its Support for SOPA | P2P News!

An Internet boycott that started Thursday on reddit quickly gained success and spread across the web. Due to this event, domain registrar GoDaddy had decided to drop its support for SOPA, ArsTechnica reports.

“Go Daddy is no longer supporting SOPA, the “Stop Online Piracy Act” currently working its way through U.S. Congress.
Fighting online piracy is of the utmost importance, which is why Go Daddy has been working to help craft revisions to this legislation—but we can clearly do better,” Warren Adelman, Go Daddy’s newly appointed CEO, said.

“It’s very important that all Internet stakeholders work together on this. Getting it right is worth the wait. Go Daddy will support it when and if the Internet community supports it,” they announced in a statement sent to ArsTechnica.
Since the boycott took life on Thursday, GoDaddy’s competitors had started offering special deals with promo codes like “SopaSuck” to lure GoDaddy switchers. On the same day GoDaddy sent an email to ArsTechnica saying:

“Go Daddy has received some emails that appear to stem from the boycott prompt, but we have not seen any impact to our business.”

As such, their customers were not pleased with the response, and the impact on GoDaddy’s business proved to be significant.
According to GoDaddy’s claims during the negotiations over SOPA, the company “fought to express the concerns of the entire Internet community and to improve the bill” by pushing to make the bill’s provisions less aggressive.

However, they reconsidered the whole situation and stated:

“In changing its position, Go Daddy remains steadfast in its promise to support security and stability of the Internet.”