The large domain name registrar, GoDaddy said initially, its support to the controversial proposal for the stop online piracy act, but hops back after the company a large number of customers threatened to lose, including Wikipedia.
Already in april, GoDaddy is known the sopa proposal to support. The proposal establishes, among other dns blocking of foreign sites as a means to auteursrechteninbreuk to fight. GoDaddy gave on his own website an explanation for the aid, where it said its responsibility as a hoster, because it as such a special look to the economic damage that foreign piraterijsites to be able to focus.
Meanwhile, GoDaddy, the declaration revoked, and notifies the host: “We have to our customers listened. GoDaddy supports the sopa legislation will no longer be.” In a supplementary statement supplements the concern that fighting online piracy is of great importance: “why does GoDaddy helped to help the legislation – but we can clearly do better.”
Many customers threatened the last time their sites elsewhere stables of dissatisfaction with the position of GoDaddy. These included, for example, the Wikimedia Foundation, which, in the words of co-founder Jimmy Wales announced that “their position on sopa is unacceptable to us.” The Wikimedia Foundation, told Computerworld pleased with the turnaround of GoDaddy, but still have to look at other hosting companies.