Since villagers ate the elephant's meat, there isn't that bad at all........ Anyway, nothing will happen to godaddy,
It's funny how people judge companies purely based on their prices and nothing else, isn't it? Sure, Namecheap may be a little more expensive then GoDaddy for some TLD's, but their service is of much higher grade then GoDaddy. Let's review, GoDaddy: Absolutely horrid UI. It's bloated, laggy, annoying, and overall extremely obnoxious. Very spammy, you won't get through checkout without getting pop-ups in your face asking you to buy this or add that CEO kills elephants for fun NameCheap Very easy to use and navigate UI. Also still supports their old more simple classic design. Not really spammy at all. You get a free SSL certificate and free whois protection with every order. CEO does NOT kill elephants for fun * Disclaimer: These are only my opinions, everyone is entitled to their own, please don't take it offensively. Except that GoDaddy's CEO kills elephants.
I love elephants. I'm very disappointed. Anyway I've never liked the horrible web interface of this service. It looks like namecheap took action, well done: http://community.namecheap.com/blog/2011/03/30/elephants/
I can't believe that he's giving business advice and he doesn't know that anything against animals backfire on you for sure. there's plenty of organisations and people that dedicate their time protecting elephants and animals in general. I udnerstand that talking about your company is better than not talking, but not this kind of talk. He's a moron!
... he was a marine back in the 70s and was on a tour in Vietnam. Will you avoid doing business with all those who were in the military? As you probably know, the US military kills people - more or less for fun. That elephant was also destroying those people's crops. You simply talk without thinking, just like those who defend stray dogs in Romania - they're usually people from outside the country who have no fucking idea what's going on here (stray dogs kill a few people a year and thousands get bitten). Go there, live with those people who had their crops affected by elephants, understand the problem, then judge Bob. I am not defending him, I am just making a point - don't judge without thinking outside the box. P.S. I am a GoDaddy client, I hate that stupid Web interface, but I only use it when I buy domains, I use a different host. I won't switch just because Bob solved a problem with a gun. That's what the US has been doing for the last few centuries and nobody gives a damn about that.
I understand that there might be other reasons, but I just know that killing animals is not something to brag about, no matter what. There's million people defending such causes. It's just not because the elephants are destroying your place that make it okay to kill them. In fact, that's their natural habitat and those people that need to be exterminated not the elephants. Also those people has no purchasing value anyway, I bet you that all those people in the video don't know what is a domain name anyway. all what they want is meat, because they are starving and poor. If really Bob Parsons wanted to help them, I'm sure he could afford making a nice barbecue for them instead of killing elephants. Just like giving them Godaddy hats? don't you think they need more of shirts to cover their butts than hats? Seriously.
Unfortunately, the barbeque would also be the result of killing an animal. Unfortunately, man is now on top of the food chain, so without any natural predators... look, the US shamelessly invaded Iraq, now Libia is on the list and others to follow - yet, it seems more people care about an elephant. Don't you find this a bit strange? Well, if we leave GoDaddy alone and think about the food that China+US's military budgets could provide if used for really peaceful purposes... everything else becomes nonsense (to spare you from researching this, official military budgets of these two countries are - over $600 billion and about $70 billion, with the one having the smaller budget already experimenting with high power lasers and other toys. With only $5/day to feed the poor... and let's say, 100 million poor people for the start... that would be only ~180 billion needed yearly to make this world better for quite a few of them.
The WORST thing ever in this case is what namecheap doing. They are using this case just to steal godaddy's customers, they don't even care about animals.
This world's a jungle, so that's how it goes... people who really care about animals are really doing something to make the life of some animals better, not just switching from GoDaddy to other similar service provider.
I'm sure if he was handing out burgers nobody will care about what those burgers are made of. I personally don't care if he was after elephants or horses. My point was if you are giving business advice, you should know better that people love them and try to protect them no matter what. CheapNames are doing what any normal competition would do and that's taking advantage of the competition's failures.
it is good to see that most people care... sometimes I'm so disgusted with human beings in general and what they are capable of doing to each other and to other creatures... and other times, like this, it makes me have hope. most people here care and that's just really good. thanks all...
@AdamFL - you're right. He should have known that people would give a damn... and if enough people drop gd maybe it will put enough of a little dent on their profits this quarter that it would be noticed. And maybe it will be picked up by the news and be reported on; and maybe other CEOs will see that and be cautious of their behavior toward animals and the environment. Hey, every little bit counts, butterfly effect and all....
I guess the bottom line is that nobody is perfect, even those who claim know everything about business
Yeah, there's always something left to learn. In this case, it seems he's learning it the not-so-soft way (I can't say "the hard way" because I am sure GoDaddy won't go out of business or lose a significant slice of the market share it owns).