If we stopped frequenting all businesses that make political decisions we disagree with, we'd have no businesses left. That's sort of the reality of it. I still shop at Target despite donations to a republican candidate for governor in Minnesota, I still eat at Chick-fil-A despite donations to groups against gay marriage.

Are you boycotting every company that supported SOPA, including many many book publishers, Nike, Ford, Nintendo, Disney, and Wal-Mart? Do you refuse to watch movies produced by members of the MPAA? Have you stopped purchasing music from record company members of the RIAA? If not, then "don't sell out," and more importantly, don't tell the grandparent commenter what to do.

You really find Chick-fil-a appetizing and support gay rights at the same time? I'm jealous of you - I once loved it, and now the idea of eating there makes me slightly ill.

It's your own personal decision about what you want to support in this world, but everybody gets to have an opinion about it esp. if you announce it on the internet.

Inertia because inertia is not an argument, it's just what inertia is. When you shop at companies that do things that are morally reprehensible to you, while avoiding a million other options, that just sounds like apathy.

I think my moral obligation ended when I stopped using Godday's services for my hundreds of domains. I boycotted Godaddy before SOPA, for their support of the Arizona immigration law. I put up banners on my site for that law and SOPA. Stopped directing traffic to them.

But really... my customers want to use Godaddy. If I can get a couple bucks per registration, who am I to tell them no?

I don't think it's selling out. I give my customers choices, and they pick Godaddy.

Your customers probably don't care as much as you like the increased referral money.

Actually, GP's site (HotNameList) seems to offer a choice between GoDaddy and NameCheap when you click "Buy".

With GoDaddy listed furthest to the left, which is the #1 spot in L-R languages..

True. But, I have other statistics to shed light on this:

Plenty of people get domain ideas from my site, but then don't click on my BUY link. I can determine this because I see multiple domains get registered on the same day as I list them by the same person -- highly unlikely otherwise.

So based on approx 20,000 listings that have been registered, around 40% of those registrations go to Goddady. But for the vast majority of those registration, I didn't get a referral. Or even a click.

So, people use Godaddy a lot more than any other registrar. And I put it on the left. Based on usage pattern mentioned above, I don't think it's because it's on the left.

Trust me, the site is truly just a hobby. :) Except that every once in a while, I make a bunch of money when I buy a domain myself that the site finds, and resell it.

I get to see the daily listings before anyone else, so ... I do feel a little bit bad about that, though.