YoDaddy

Service over supermodels -- a Go Daddy users group

Because people should choose an Internet service for better reasons than cleavage.

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  • Jon Garfunkel
 

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Jon Garfunkel

Why a Yo Daddy community?

Most leading tech companies have thriving online communities -- either set up by the company, or by customers/users. Go Daddy, the leading Internet registrar, has neither.

By all appearances, Go Daddy is engaged. CEO Bob Parsons has a blog, but it's generally one-way communications on the marketing campaigns. They have a "Go Daddy Connections" Community, but it's not linked to from their main website. The… Continue

Posted by Jon Garfunkel on February 3, 2009 at 10:30pm

Jon Garfunkel

Can we really call it a "debacle" or a "backlash" at this point?

A couple of blog posts today on the reaction to the Super Bowl.

• Jorge Escobar: (Yet Another) Social Backlash on GoDaddy
• Paul Chaney: Interview with Shashi Bellamkonda regarding Network Solutions' response to GoDaddy ad debaucle

I still think it's a… Continue

Posted by Jon Garfunkel on February 2, 2009 at 10:00pm

Jon Garfunkel

You don't have to take your shirt off

I took my shirt off for GoDaddy. For a very simple reason: a mere text message, let alone an 1100-word "blog post," is not going to get any big shot's attention.

A "photostream", collage, quilt, and PostSecret, are successful as art for many reasons. They are unique visually; they illustrate many… Continue

Posted by Jon Garfunkel on February 2, 2009 at 9:40pm

Jon Garfunkel

Welcome Go Daddy Users

Did you know that Go Daddy has a social community website (Go Daddy Connections) -- which nobody uses?

Or that there is an existing site, NoDaddy.com to protest the company's business practices? ("The goal is for GoDaddy to either improve their policies and customer service, or suffer continued loss of market share to their customer-focused competition.")

You may have your own issues with GoDaddy.… Continue

Posted by Jon Garfunkel on February 2, 2009 at 1:04am — 1 Comment

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Twitter users dropping from GoDaddy in protest 7 Replies

Started by Jon Garfunkel in Business. Last reply by Jon Garfunkel Feb. 4, 2009.

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Be that I was not offended...

Started by Jon Garfunkel in Business Feb. 2, 2009.

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