GoDaddy supports US ban on Internet piracy Act

Absrtact: The world's largest domain name registrar godaddy has issued a public statement in 2012, saying it will begin supporting the US ban on Internet Piracy Act (the Stop Online Piracy Act, SOPA). As almost all internet companies have formed the United Front to oppose the

GoDaddy, the world's largest domain name registrar, has made a public statement in 2012 that it will begin supporting the US ban on Internet Piracy Act (the Stop Online Piracy Act, SOPA). As almost all internet companies have formed the United Front to oppose the controversial bill, GoDaddy this move undoubtedly caused widespread concern in the industry and many netizens and webmaster dissatisfaction.

GoDaddy user said will be in the "Domain name Transfer Day" transfer 51 domain name Webmaster Home map

The main purpose of the SOPA is to curb internet piracy, that is, when there are pirated content in the website, or there is a culture of piracy, the site can be legally controlled by copyright owners, censorship, and even the copyright owner can through the process, so that the site is blocked in the United States. In addition, the search engine also has the obligation to cooperate with the Government to exclude relevant links from the search results. On a general Web 2.0 site, a large amount of content generated by the user (user generated content), such as Facebook's dynamic messages, photo albums, and so on, must also be monitored, censored, and may be the reason for the site being blocked. In such a vague definition, almost all of our daily use of the site will be affected, which is the main reason to encounter internet companies against.

GoDaddy is not only a domain name registrar, but also the only Internet company on the list of 142 sopa companies that have been released by the House Judiciary Committee. For the reasons for supporting SOPA, GoDaddy said the company denounced today on the Internet, such as sales of counterfeit drugs, the sharing of copyright and other illegal acts, opponents think Sopa to the government and private companies "unprecedented reasons for the removal of the site's power", GoDaddy is of the view that this bill cannot reasonably be equated with a rigorous censorship system, but helps to promote the effectiveness of pre-existing criminal and civil law actions.

However, GoDaddy this move did not get the majority of netizens support, netizens oppose and resist the sentiment spreads quickly, many foreign stationmaster community all in out the tutorial to tell the user how to transfer the GoDaddy domain name, avoids sopa. It was even suggested that December 29 be designated as "Transfer your domain Day", and this proposal has been supported by more than 1500 GoDaddy customers. Cheezburger chief executive Ben Huh said it would transfer more than 1000 domain names from GoDaddy, and Y Combinator the founder of the SOPA company will no longer be invited to participate in the incubator's demo day and other events.