Everyone who didn't drop web hosting company GoDaddy during one of its many scandals—The sexist ads, the elephant-killing CEO, its support of SOPA—probably wishes they did now. GoDaddy's DNS service, which makes web addresses legible to humans, has crashed hard. Millions of websites are offline. It's a shame so many…
Insane GoDaddy CEO Bob Parsons was last seen in Internet Outrage Land killing and butchering an elephant in Africa. But that's nothing compared to the nerd backlash sparked by his company's support of the Stop Online Piracy Act.
Web domain name giant GoDaddy is reportedly in talks to be bought out for more than $2 billion. Who knows what kind of exploits GoDaddy's ridiculous elephant-killing CEO, Bob Parsons, will get up to with that kind of dough. He'll probably fly to a remote island and hunt the world's most dangerous game: tech bloggers.…
Domain registrar Namecheap.com raised $20,000 for elephant preservation by switching over customers from GoDaddy, whose CEO posted a graphic video of himself killing an elephant in Zimbabwe. Clever marketing. GoDaddy marketing, meanwhile, is expected to remain largely breast focused.
What kind of a guy goes on a safari in Zimbabwe to shoot "problem elephants," then makes a graphic video about it, set to a dramatic Animal Planet-style soundtrack? Bob Parsons: former Marine, self-made millionaire, GoDaddy CEO.
So you want to protest Arizona's stupid new immigration law by boycotting the state, like San Francisco did. Okay. Can you live without Sky Mall, P.F. Chang's, domain-name registration and internet pornography?
If you want to buy a .tv domain name, Bob Parsons's GoDaddy registrar will sell it to you. But not without a tsk-tsk lecture about how the island of Tuvalu, which owns .tv, is sinking.
GoDaddy writes in on our report of a customer fighting with the domain-name and Web-hosting service
While everyone agrees that GoDaddy.com shut down a police-rating site, the hosting service and the owner of RateMyCop.com can't agree on why. PR folk at Go Daddy say the site was a bandwidth hog, while the RateMyCoppers say they were shut down for "suspicious activity" — i.e. offending the police. In any case,…
After domain-name registrar Go Daddy charged him for an account he never opened, MessageCast CTO Dave Hodson looked into how it happened. He discovered Go Daddy doesn't ask customers for the three-digit code that appears on the back of their credit cards during the purchase process — a measure meant to assure…
