Bob Parsons - Godaddy CEO Shotting Elephants in Africa

1. Yea, what a coincidence.
2. What ever you do, somehow it will be connected with money, maybe not directly, but indirectly yes. Life depends on money....
3. I was referring to the elephant killed case. It is pointless to discuss anymore, what is done, is done. I believe you want to say "NameCheap can always compensate the money invested in all this" right?
4. That is up to you.

 

I've saved this week's GoDaddy stats from webhosting.info (# of domains, # transfers out to different registrars...). It'll be interesting to compare to stats in the next 2 weekly updates. Namecheap (reselling for Enom) transfers will show up under Enom.

 

Sure. One reality of life is it takes money to get things going.

You seem to find it hard to believe some folks are transferring mainly to tell Go Daddy up
yours rather than to take advantage of a commercially beneficial action. Sure it benefits
those users, but that doesn't have to be their main or overriding reason.

It's fine and arguably regrettable if you're still cynical about that. Some folks here, WHT
and other forums do "feel" the reason above or so when they transferred, some of whom
feel the inconvenience of having to transfer maybe 100 names or so individually.

Heh, that's exactly what I was going to eventually post here about. One catch is it can
be rather hard to tell apart which are eNom's and NameCheap's since other registrations
from other eNom resellers will also be taken into account, although one can extrapolate
from NameCheap's ByeByeGD site and make an educated guess.

 

Time decides whom you meet in life. Your heart decides whom you want in life..but your behaviours decides who will stay in your life..There comes a time when you walk away from all the drama and people who create it. You surround yourself with people who make you laugh, forget the bad, and focus on the good. Love the people who treat you right, pray for the ones who don't. Life is too short to be anything but happy. Falling down is a part of life, getting back up is living. Good luck man.

 

Namecheap extended their BYEBYEGD deal until Midnight tonight. domain.com is also doing a $4.99 transfer deal until 4/7. They're both donating $1 as well.

 

Bless you, son. Could never say that better myself.

 

I will stay with godaddy and if you move from godaddy and have unused gift cards, I can offer you my tech blog for a $75 godaddy gift card.

 

AMEN I couldn't have said it better myself. Elephants destroy the crops they have to live on. The villagers risk their own lives going out at night trying to chase the elephants away and protect what crop they do have.

 

What difference does it make if it has an effect upon our 'business or daily life' ? Personally I think that killing the elephant may have been necessary (it may not have), but it certainly isn't something that should be glorified and dressed up as some PR stunt to show how amazing godaddy is. Watching that video I certainly don't get the impression that it was a sacrifice that regrettably had to be made.

 

i think this is so funny, not because of the actual event, but how namecheap utilized it to increase to get customers. i got an email the day this was all hyped up for cheap domain transfers. cracked me up.

 

Well.....so much for Bob's defense on the reason he killed the elephant -To help the staving people, save the crops"

In this video He kills a Cheetah that does not eat crops and there's no starving people around to help. I didn't know this one existed but I guess it happened before the Elephant situation.
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[video=youtube;PGN0SUtZ3n4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGN0SUtZ3n4[/video]

 

How do you know that? Anyway he is doing worst.
I am curious, what will be the next coupon code at namecheap
GDKILLS? Or if the previews code was byebyegd, the next one might be more agresive, like F*CKGD? lol

 

Today I got an email by go daddy offering all people a 20%discount on hosting and domains. Related?

 

No doubt. Any of them for renewal, though?

Don't forget to read the fine print behind them. Heh.

 

>> GoDaddy has permanently lost all my business and

X2

 

Namecheap :

I guess that means ~20,433 people switched to Namecheap as a result of this..

 

20k out of... 1-2-3-4 millions? Just a drop in an ocean, really. Seems most people really have business to do, not jump up because Bob Parsons shot an elephant, a cheetah, a polar bear or Santa Claus!

 

Nope I moved everything off a few days ago. Its not like I have to keep a good reputation online, but I just don't want to be part of it.

 

Not exactly. One person could've transferred, say, 20 domains over.

One guess would be $20,433 divided by $4.99 per domain = 4094.78 or 4095 rounded off.
Unless my math's wrong (and I apologize for that if so) above, only roughly 4095 domains
transferred from Go Daddy to NameCheap.

Hardly a dent, though some people feel happy moving out anyway.

 

I wonder where they will go if bob takes over namecheap You can't run away from hunters