Dear Nodaddy community -- I would have loved to have found this earlier! I bought some new hosting space, and then started looking for the community.
I was halfway through setting up a "Yodaddy" -- and then it dawned on me that someone might have called it NoDaddy.
I haven't had the experience that Fyodor has (who has?), and have had the fortune of working with a competent technician when I needed to, but I have a bit of queasiness about the service, and Bob Parsons' stewardship. So I wrote
Service not Supermodels: an appeal to Bob Parsons and Go Daddy.
This wouldn't be complete without a little campaign. Perhaps you can take part. Take a picture of yourself with your shirt off, and your chest covered by a sign something like "Service not Supermodels." (I added nodaddy.com at bottom in honor of this website). Upload it to Flickr (or your favorite photo-tagging services) and tag it
godaddy.
Certainly, and if there are enough folks, this can possibly get to some consumer-power bloggers I know by Wednesday, and then to the merry pranksters at BoingBoing on Thursday, and maybe WeekendJournal and BusinessWeek by Friday...
By Sunday, a good chunk of a hundred million folks will be searching Google for GoDaddy, and wouldn't be nice to have them run into results & articles that aren't wholly devoted to the commercials.
Jon Garfunkel
Boston, Mass.
http://civilities.net/