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On December 22, Go Daddy, one of the world's largest domain name registrars, stated that it supported SOPA. [107] Go Daddy then rescinded its support, its CEO saying, "Fighting online piracy is of the utmost importance, which is why Go Daddy has been working to help craft revisions to this legislation—but we can clearly do better.
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In 1999, a group of employees at Jomax Technologies were brainstorming a new company name, with "Big Daddy" being a popular suggestion. However, finding this domain name already taken, "Go Daddy" was purchased instead. [9] Parsons believed this to be a simple and memorable name. [9] Jomax Technologies rebranded to GoDaddy in February 2006. [10]
PeerTube is a free and open-source, decentralized, ActivityPub federated video platform. It can use peer-to-peer technology to reduce load on individual servers when videos get popular. Started in 2017 by a programmer known as Chocobozzz , development of PeerTube is now supported by the French non-profit Framasoft . [ 4 ]
In late 2012, Namecheap relaunched the initiative and set the date for the second Move Your Domain Day as 22 January 2013. On that day, Namecheap announced that domain transfers would be greatly discounted, and between $0.50 and $1.50 per domain transferred would be donated to the EFF (depending on the total number of transfers). [16]
The term Fediverse is a portmanteau of federation and universe. [4] The majority of Fediverse platforms are based on free and open-source software, and create connections between servers using the ActivityPub protocol. Some software still supports older federation protocols as well, such as OStatus, the Diaspora protocol and Zot.
GoDaddy Inc. is an American publicly traded Internet domain registrar and web hosting company [1] headquartered in Tempe, Arizona and incorporated in Delaware. [ 2 ] Acquisitions
On January 24, 2007, GoDaddy deactivated the domain of computer security site Seclists.org, taking 250,000 pages of security content offline. [9] The shutdown resulted from a complaint from Myspace to GoDaddy regarding 56,000 usernames and passwords posted a week earlier to the full-disclosure mailing list and archived on the Seclists.org site as well as many other websites.