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Re:Paul Graham: SOPA Supporting Companies No Longer Allowed ... by ceejayoz on Thursday December 22, 2011 @04:50PM (#3383453)
GoDaddy's official Twitter account is currently robo-replying with "We encourage you to visit our blog to view the details of our position on SOPA: http://x.co/c0q4, so I doubt they were "tricked".
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Re:Paul Graham: SOPA Supporting Companies No Longer Allowed ... by mekoka on Thursday December 22, 2011 @04:59PM (#3383483)
Of course not. I know enough of their business practice to know they were willing participants, but one has to wonder what they thought they would gain by enlisting. It looks kinda naive to me.
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Re:Paul Graham: SOPA Supporting Companies No Longer Allowed ... by marshray on Thursday December 22, 2011 @06:04PM (#3383744)
GoDaddy seems to be the official registrar of domain name seizure http://www.techspot.com/news/46481-judge-oks-private-domain-... :

ordering the registry to transfer domain names to GoDaddy and ordering GoDaddy to update the DNS records

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Re:Paul Graham: SOPA Supporting Companies No Longer Allowed ... by Steko on Thursday December 22, 2011 @05:25PM (#3383588)
The ability of easily kill websites would seem to benefit domain registrars in a fairly straightforward way.
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