Thank you, Stephen Douglas. It’s refreshing to see a man who gets that women should not be treated as objects but treated as equals and praised according to their achievements and abilities, not a g-string and a purple painted body.

Soon enough, Danica Patrick’s boobs will droop south, and she’ll just be another has-been hag, at least in the minds of some male domainers who think with their Johnsons and not with their minds.

Can’t say that I have much respect and sympathy for such women who rent out their bodies to the highest bidder.

I have even less respect for some well-known male domainers who plaster public service ads: “Stop human trafficking” and then on the same page advertise tawdry events that encourage the very thing they pretend to want have stopped. What hypocrites!

Puerile and ignorant!

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http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2010/02/08/go-daddy-ad-drives-huge-traffic-spike/

I don’t like the ads – but I can’t deny the fact that they work.
If I were the people @ GoDaddy, I’d keep doing the same thing until it stopped working.

However, for domainers, there is one important question we first must ask:

HOW MUCH MONEY HAS GODADDY POURED INTO PROMOTING DOMAIN VALUES AND SPONSORING DOMAIN CONFERENCES/EVENTS IN THE LAST FIVE YEARS? Probably not more than one day’s profit for them in 2010.

How sad it is for all domain professionals to have to rely on the LARGEST REGISTRAR in the world to promote the value of domaining as an IMPORTANT BUSINESS INVESTMENT? Are all guys so gullible, and hard-up that they get “excited” when some pretty girl responds to a successful woman in man’s world (Danica Patrick – race car driver) by ripping open her shirt to show a skimpy spaghetti string tshirt announcing “GODADDY”?

Danica isn’t doing her fellow woman any favors by accepting the money GD pays her to belittle her accomplishments and lure her natural feminine nature into happily “performing” as the “pretty monkey girl”. Danica is the “pretty monkey girl” because she has sold her looks to a sad and old-man-pervert commercial that tries to seduce the viewer to visit Godaddy for the chance to see… what…? boobs?

Danica won races to end up doing this? I don’t know what’s more embarrassing: the fact that Danica has prostituted a proud image she had as a racing winner to GoDaddy, or that any man would buy into visiting Godaddy hoping to see something akin to objectifying women instead of learning about the value of owning a great domain name?

I’m all for the right to look at porn, but only in the privacy of Chef Patrick’s kitchen!

My point, seriously, is that GoDaddy used, very smartly, their ten page upsell to sell people what they didn’t need, or convinced them they did, and built a lot of reseller sites for cheap to keep those domains coming in. I admit I was a “paying” reseller for Godaddy for three years. However, to show you how valuable GD views their reseller accounts, I stopped paying for the $99 reseller annual price back in 2007. However, my site is still up and operating. I just don’t get the payouts from any domains I sell on my GD seller site.

I have more to focus on than that site, but now that I’ve reminded myself, I’m off to change my nameservers to Whypark. Anything I can do to disconnect myself from GD, I will do. This is the albatross around the domain industry’s neck: GoDaddy ruling the roost, making us look sleazy, failing to support the domain community, and acting as if it’s an island.

However, history shows us that the little chinks in the armor will become big cracks, and the little leaks will become big holes that tear down the foundation of what was once the BIGGEST, MOST COCKY, ARROGANT, and DISMISSIVE. I say “DISMISSIVE” to mean that GoDaddy ignores the lords, princes, earls, kings and queens of the land they think they rule.

In time, this strategy will trap them into an outdated business concept that will cause their fortress to collapse in on them…

I’m first in line to say “GoDaddy – I advise that you spend your money towards educating consumers and business owners to understanding why domain names are valuable to their online endeavors. We can go elsewhere for the porn come-on.”

Google Ad Gets Lots of Love and Godaddy Jumps the Shark with Super …: Now that the Super Bowl game’s Brand Bowl … [link to post]

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Super Bowl. Yawn.

Being overseas, I totally forgot about it. My colleagues at the university asked, “What’s a super bowl?”

Priceless.

GoDaddy ads: Always a bore.

Maybe viewers are growing less stupid.

:)

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