GoDaddy CEO helps with controlled thinning of population of dangerous animal while still managing to appear masturbatory, insensitive and self-aggrandizing.
Zimbabwe is home to over 100,000 elephants, when they state the eco-system can only handle half that many. The video even starts off with a "hunting problem elephants". I also wouldn't call it hunting for sport when the village eats every remaining bit.
Isn't this just a cheap shot? The video won't play on my computer, but I'm fine with putting down animals that are attacking humans or human civilization.[1]
Sure, sending Westerners over to do it is nonsensical, but presumably profitable. GoDaddy has lots of real issues (e.g. Google "godaddy fyodor"), but I don't think this private "sport" from their CEO is very relevant.
[1] You're allowed to disagree, but please keep a sense of perspective. Eating a couple hundred domesticated animals a year and telling a vegetarian not to kill one genuinely dangerous specimen is just silly.
Maybe they cut the scene where the other village were wearing Pittsburgh Steelers Super Bowl XLV Champions t-shirts. A tacky hat still blocks the sun better than no hat.
It doesn't really matter if it was ethical or not, it is a picture that will offend people and sounds like a good topic for pundits on 24-hour news networks to argue over. If you are a CEO, don't do this stuff.
But what about all their employees who rely on us continuing to buy domains from their company so they can have jobs? Are they all heartless?
So, you are against slaying a single elephant that jeopardizes an entire villages food supply AND you are for not giving money to a company that pays the salaries of hundreds of people.
CEO Bob Parsons' sickening behavior is reason enough to quit Godaddy, but by coincidence, I'd already decided to transfer my domains to Namecheap. Here's why 1) Godaddy's domain admin web site in almost un-navigable. Beyond being an awkward design, the site makes it difficult to avoid purchasing add-ons I do not want, 2) Godaddy's grossly sexist advertising, 3) namecheap is cheaper, even without this promotion, 4) namecheap has more features (e.g., mail forwarding) included in the basic fee, 5) Goddaddy robocalls me. It's possible to opt out of robocalling now, but that doesn't make up for all the robocalls in the past.
Done. Checkout on namecheap is slow. I wonder if they are getting a lot of new customers.
I feel sorry for Bob Parsons being so ignorant. Of course, I am ignorant too. May everyone become less ignorant.
I use namecheap for all my domains, but this sort of pandering crap may well be enough for me to transfer everything elsewhere. Don't know if I'm willing to use godaddy or not, but I must may.
fyi the discount code is BYEBYEGD and it's a discount on domain transfers. I just transfered my domain from enom to namecheap. So you don't have to be leaving go daddy to take advantage of this.
Really? Because I am sure it cost a lot more money to fly over and shoot the elephant himself than if he had just donated it to hungry people to buy the food or means to protect their food supply.
I wouldn't call it a trap: they don't claim renewals are taken at a loss (and I wouldn't expect them to).
They charge $10.16/year to renew a .com (including the ICANN fee). Pretty reasonable to me, plus they let you specify your own nameserver for the domain.
I've been very happy with NameCheap: I was originally on GoDaddy (I was young and stupid), moved to 1&1 (still young, still stupid), and I've been with NameCheap ever since (~4 years).
well, thats how most places work, including godaddy. but i notice you didn't say that godaddy is a trap.
plus, calling them a trap is rather disingenuous when the world is full of snail mail spammers who try and trick people who have expiring domains, and their ilk
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GoDaddy CEO helps with controlled thinning of population of dangerous animal while still managing to appear masturbatory, insensitive and self-aggrandizing.
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Sure, sending Westerners over to do it is nonsensical, but presumably profitable. GoDaddy has lots of real issues (e.g. Google "godaddy fyodor"), but I don't think this private "sport" from their CEO is very relevant.
[1] You're allowed to disagree, but please keep a sense of perspective. Eating a couple hundred domesticated animals a year and telling a vegetarian not to kill one genuinely dangerous specimen is just silly.
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So, you are against slaying a single elephant that jeopardizes an entire villages food supply AND you are for not giving money to a company that pays the salaries of hundreds of people.
Hmm.
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Done. Checkout on namecheap is slow. I wonder if they are getting a lot of new customers.
I feel sorry for Bob Parsons being so ignorant. Of course, I am ignorant too. May everyone become less ignorant.
[+] [-] Sindisil|15 years ago|reply
I use namecheap for all my domains, but this sort of pandering crap may well be enough for me to transfer everything elsewhere. Don't know if I'm willing to use godaddy or not, but I must may.
[+] [-] gk1|15 years ago|reply
Gregory: Hey Asia
Asia K.: Hello Gregory, you've contacted Live Support! How can I help you today?
Gregory: I heard you have a discount for people wanting to transfer domains from the scumbags at GoDaddy. Is this true?
Gregory: ...
Gregory: Wake up.
Gregory: ... Nevermind. With "support" like this, I don't think I want to use Namecheap.
No thanks.
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They get you in cheap but there is NEVER a discount on renewals, always full price.
So be ready to transfer again in a year.
[+] [-] bkrausz|15 years ago|reply
They charge $10.16/year to renew a .com (including the ICANN fee). Pretty reasonable to me, plus they let you specify your own nameserver for the domain.
I've been very happy with NameCheap: I was originally on GoDaddy (I was young and stupid), moved to 1&1 (still young, still stupid), and I've been with NameCheap ever since (~4 years).
[+] [-] noodle|15 years ago|reply
plus, calling them a trap is rather disingenuous when the world is full of snail mail spammers who try and trick people who have expiring domains, and their ilk
[+] [-] Polat|15 years ago|reply