Now GoDaddy Has To Contend With ByeDaddy

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Monday, December 26th, 2011
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Although GoDaddy’s new CEO, Warren Adelman, no longer supports SOPA (after supporting it), a mass movement (of critics is gathering pace.

Adelman notes he is now taking a step back to “look at the current legislation.”

Meanwhile the crowd has other ideas. Hence the appearance of Byedaddy.org where you can now handily check if a domain is registered with GoDaddy. Let’s just see… so it looks like wikipedia.org and wikibooks.org is still among them. Will we see ByeWikipedia.org appear? This story will run and run…