GoDaddy CEO helps with controlled thinning of population of dangerous animal while still managing to appear masturbatory, insensitive and self-aggrandizing.
Zimbabwe is home to over 100,000 elephants, when they state the eco-system can only handle half that many. The video even starts off with a "hunting problem elephants". I also wouldn't call it hunting for sport when the village eats every remaining bit.
Isn't this just a cheap shot? The video won't play on my computer, but I'm fine with putting down animals that are attacking humans or human civilization.[1]
Sure, sending Westerners over to do it is nonsensical, but presumably profitable. GoDaddy has lots of real issues (e.g. Google "godaddy fyodor"), but I don't think this private "sport" from their CEO is very relevant.
[1] You're allowed to disagree, but please keep a sense of perspective. Eating a couple hundred domesticated animals a year and telling a vegetarian not to kill one genuinely dangerous specimen is just silly.
Bob Parsons flew all the way to Zimbabwe and trekked into the wilderness to save the village's crops and do his small part in keeping down the country's elephant population? What a stand-up guy!
Here's a more likely narrative: Bob Parsons wants to kill elephants for sport. Bob Parsons finds out where in the world he can do so legally and with some semblance of morality. Bob Parsons goes there and has a hell of a good time shooting elephants.
Maybe they cut the scene where the other village were wearing Pittsburgh Steelers Super Bowl XLV Champions t-shirts. A tacky hat still blocks the sun better than no hat.
It doesn't really matter if it was ethical or not, it is a picture that will offend people and sounds like a good topic for pundits on 24-hour news networks to argue over. If you are a CEO, don't do this stuff.
But what about all their employees who rely on us continuing to buy domains from their company so they can have jobs? Are they all heartless?
So, you are against slaying a single elephant that jeopardizes an entire villages food supply AND you are for not giving money to a company that pays the salaries of hundreds of people.
CEO Bob Parsons' sickening behavior is reason enough to quit Godaddy, but by coincidence, I'd already decided to transfer my domains to Namecheap. Here's why 1) Godaddy's domain admin web site in almost un-navigable. Beyond being an awkward design, the site makes it difficult to avoid purchasing add-ons I do not want, 2) Godaddy's grossly sexist advertising, 3) namecheap is cheaper, even without this promotion, 4) namecheap has more features (e.g., mail forwarding) included in the basic fee, 5) Goddaddy robocalls me. It's possible to opt out of robocalling now, but that doesn't make up for all the robocalls in the past.
Done. Checkout on namecheap is slow. I wonder if they are getting a lot of new customers.
I feel sorry for Bob Parsons being so ignorant. Of course, I am ignorant too. May everyone become less ignorant.
I use namecheap for all my domains, but this sort of pandering crap may well be enough for me to transfer everything elsewhere. Don't know if I'm willing to use godaddy or not, but I must may.
fyi the discount code is BYEBYEGD and it's a discount on domain transfers. I just transfered my domain from enom to namecheap. So you don't have to be leaving go daddy to take advantage of this.
Really? Because I am sure it cost a lot more money to fly over and shoot the elephant himself than if he had just donated it to hungry people to buy the food or means to protect their food supply.
So you are arguing that the part of the money was wasted?
By that order of thinking, its always better to send monies to the native population than to transfer even one Westerner to the area since the cost of their ticket would have been better spent on actual resources.... right?
No!
This is not a humanitarian mission---its a vacation in disguise.
The man clearly wanted to kill elephants. Why he wanted it is of no consequence. It's better to allow him to exorcise this bloodlust when there is a positive benefit to humanity than it to either fester or be released via investment into illegal poaching.
I think you misunderstand my point. I was trying to say that if he was concerned about the amount of good he was doing, just sending the money would have almost certainly been greater than traveling over himself. The point being, he didn't do that, he wanted to shoot an elephant and used this as an excuse.
I wouldn't call it a trap: they don't claim renewals are taken at a loss (and I wouldn't expect them to).
They charge $10.16/year to renew a .com (including the ICANN fee). Pretty reasonable to me, plus they let you specify your own nameserver for the domain.
I've been very happy with NameCheap: I was originally on GoDaddy (I was young and stupid), moved to 1&1 (still young, still stupid), and I've been with NameCheap ever since (~4 years).
Oh, I meant NS record delegation (I think, terminology might be wrong, it's been a while since I futzed with low-level DNS stuff), so that you could use ns1.mydomain.com as your nameserver, even if you registered mydomain.com through namecheap.
They all allow it - just they don't all make it a simple control panel process. Either email support, or do a search and it can be taken care of on all registrars.
Search "register domain GoDaddy" on Google and click on their sponsored links. They contain an embedded coupon code bringing down the .com price under 8 USD (the ad is targeted for most countries).
well, thats how most places work, including godaddy. but i notice you didn't say that godaddy is a trap.
plus, calling them a trap is rather disingenuous when the world is full of snail mail spammers who try and trick people who have expiring domains, and their ilk
(wow the godaddy ceo is a jerk, killing elephants for sport - for anyone thinking of defending it as a necessary evil, note how he went out of his way across the world to "help out" by killing it)
Obviously if he wanted to "help out" he would have just donated the money to some good cause in the area, and this was all just a thinly veiled vacation. However, in certain areas of Africa (namely Zimbabwe and Botswana, I've spent time in both), they have more elephants than the ecosystem can really take. Hunting elephants in Botswana is all but encouraged (as long as it is done with proper permits of course), because they need help to control the population.
Elephants are not a threatened species everywhere, even though they struggle in some parts of Africa / the world.
GoDaddy CEO helps with controlled thinning of population of dangerous animal while still managing to appear masturbatory, insensitive and self-aggrandizing.