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Comment by bryanh | Hacker News Reader

I find it interesting that there is no way for GoDaddy to get out of this one. They withdrew their support and... now what? I didn't think the mob was going to let them off the hook anyways, and it looks like they won't.

Not that I mind, I should have moved my domains a long time ago for dozens of different reasons besides the SOPA charade and won't use them again regardless of their stance on any legislation.

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Here's my view of it:

    Supporting SOPA: -10 reputation
    Ceasing support of SOPA (but not opposing it): +5 reputation
    Helping write SOPA: -100 reputation
    Having a special exemption from SOPA: -100 reputation

    Total reputation: -205.

Once they get back "in the black" (by, say, lobbying against SOPA), I would maybe consider using them again, if they had a significant product value-add over whoever I'm using at the time.

Flippant disregard for customers and their intelligence: -100 reputation

GoDaddy has not demonstrated any concrete steps that they're taking to prevent this from happening again, and it could be said to be executive malpractice for the company not to work to prevent this trap from ever occurring to the company again. GoDaddy can't be trusted not to support these things, so they must work to help pass laws that eliminate the risk. Otherwise, the GoDaddy executive team is leaving the company open to further problems due to policy ignorance and/or malice.

The way for them to get out of it was to not help write legislation that their customers would consider completely toxic. In general, this is rarely a wise business move.

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