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Namecheap Hits 25,000 Transfers In A Day
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, namecheap.com . Published on January 7th, 2012. Written by Anthony West.
The backlash from SOPA has hit high gear with opponents to the bill like Namecheap seeing massive support from its webmasters and internet users across the web. The company, which sponsored a ‘Move Your Domain Day’, has seen massive support, having pledge to donate matching funds to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) for every domain transferred out from SOPA supporters.
Namecheap’s CEO chimed in heavily on the matter making the pledge that: ”if we hit 25k transfers today, we’ll double our donation to EFF. That milestone was surpassed with little effort has thousands of webmasters, fed up with big-registrars like GoDaddy, transferred out their domains in thousands. In the past days, Namecheap has enjoyed more than 25,000 transfers a day, prompting its CEO to double the pledge to the EFF at a whopping $2 per transfer. All told, the EFF will now receive at least $50,000 from Namecheap.
In the ensuing mass transfer of domains a few interesting things have happened. Most notably, GoDaddy revised its stance on SOPA and made an official declaration of the fact. This move was seen as a triumph for democracy and ‘people power’ and many are hoping that this message of solidarity will spread all the way to the corridors of power in Washington.
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This post has the honor of being on the same screen of data as the announcement that 75% of US Internet users are on Facebook and they spend an average of 14% of their time on Facebook. Why does any big brother need sopa? They can just go on FB and get the confessions of users.
The RIAA’s attempt to sue file sharers out of existence cost them more than they can ever hope to recover. This bill will not improve their chances and WILL allow big brother to spy where the constitution says they should not. SOPA is a bad idea. It’s worse than a bad idea. It’s a bad idea that will cost tax payers dearly and achieve nothing that there is not already laws for. The only reason to create a new law is to add unconstitutional caveats. This bill needs to die horribly at the cost of several supporter’s reputation. GoDaddy should be simply the first to suffer. Yes, people power like anonymous and the 99% should be crushing bad ideas in ways that are painful to those who support them. That’s life. When government protects bad ideas with tax payer dollars it is no longer a government of the people, by the people, for the people.
SOPA needs to die.