Why you shouldn't support godaddy

[Firehorse]

Today I found out that godaddy supports the hunting of elephants, and it is just horrible.

Video (contains scenes upsetting to some and of animal being butchered)

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What do you think of this? I'll be moving the domain I have with them elsewhere, this is one of several reasons to.

[Stephen]

lol I think he shot himself with a truckload of karma

[xxMATTGxx]

Found this on twitter before: "Hey @godaddy - I own four hundred domains. Your CEO killed an elephant for "sport." Watch me "sport" my domains to another registrar."

[N!ck]

Use the coupon code "BYEBYEGD" to transfer up to 10 .com/.net/.org domains to namecheap.com for $4.99 each. $1 from each goes to save the elephants.

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[GommeInc]

GoDaddy have always come off as lousy before this ever happened anyway. He's pretty much just picked out the design for his coffin with these latest actions, next comes hammering him inside it (and so the analogy goes).

[Jordy]

Is the guy a complete moron or something? First of all why would you think for a minute that would solve the problem? The elephants will just keep coming back and there's far better ways to feed people than kill endangered species to feed villagers wearing GoDaddy.com hats...

And second of all why would you post a video of it on the Internet?

In a week or so, this firm's going to be near enough dead I reckon. For the light-hearted though, this Twitter account is nothing short of hilarious (it's not real!); http://twitter.com/GoDaddy_PR

[GommeInc]

Is the guy a complete moron or something? First of all why would you think for a minute that would solve the problem? The elephants will just keep coming back and there's far better ways to feed people than kill endangered species to feed villagers wearing GoDaddy.com hats...

And second of all why would you post a video of it on the Internet?

In a week or so, this firm's going to be near enough dead I reckon. For the light-hearted though, this Twitter account is nothing short of hilarious (it's not real!); http://twitter.com/GoDaddy_PR

In a way, it's good for those people in Zimbabwe so we shouldn't jump to conclusions and say it's morally wrong when those people do need food and work to survive - even if it is debateable shooting them will actually work. However, the problem here is that in Western society killing elephants (and most animals for that matter) and bragging about it isn't socially acceptable, especially when it's the Western civilisations that buy into your company and keep you afloat. It's stupid at a business level to admit to shooting elephants and bragging about it is doing good, when many people out there will strongly disagree.

It would be like Lord Sugar going out and hunting Whales with the Japanese - the Japanese find it acceptable to hunt whales in the way they do, but in the countries his business empire are founded and operated in, doing such a thing will literally cripple you.

[Jordy]

In a way, it's good for those people in Zimbabwe so we shouldn't jump to conclusions and say it's morally wrong when those people do need food and work to survive - even if it is debateable shooting them will actually work. However, the problem here is that in Western society killing elephants (and most animals for that matter) and bragging about it isn't socially acceptable, especially when it's the Western civilisations that buy into your company and keep you afloat. It's stupid at a business level to admit to shooting elephants and bragging about it is doing good, when many people out there will strongly disagree.

I guess that is true but I'm really struggling to see their point of view despite their desperation and possibly "culture". Killing endangered species to eat is very unsustainable and a very narrow-minded short term solution, there's other ways to move problem elephants away. And without getting all political I can't help pointing out... Zimbabwe used to have the best farms in Africa and sold it's produce all over the World, then the wonderful Mugabe drove away all the experienced white farmers and divided their land between clueless black africans.

[Janet Snakehole]

lol I think he shot himself with a truckload of karma

Hahaha couldn't of put it better.

Found this on twitter before: "Hey @godaddy - I own four hundred domains. Your CEO killed an elephant for "sport." Watch me "sport" my domains to another registrar."

Saw you RT this! I don't have any domains registered with them but if I did I'd totally be doing the same.

[GommeInc]

I guess that is true but I'm really struggling to see their point of view despite their desperation and possibly "culture". Killing endangered species to eat is very unsustainable and a very narrow-minded short term solution, there's other ways to move problem elephants away. And without getting all political I can't help pointing out... Zimbabwe used to have the best farms in Africa and sold it's produce all over the World, then the wonderful Mugabe drove away all the experienced white farmers and divided their land between clueless black africans.

You may have struck the nail on the head with this. It was one of the greatest, but simply isn't as great as it used to be. These farmers do not appear to be able to protect themselves and their crops from elephants, it's one of those issues where do you kill them, scare them away to only have them come back or give up? They cannot afford to erect security around the area to stop them, so they are limited in options it seems, despite elephants being endangered. I assume the government or any local government cannot assist them either. It's just one those situations where people could die or live in a seriously low quality area.

It does make you wonder if there are organisations involved in helping them protect elephants and helping them protect their crops from them at the same time, as you'd think animal and poverty charities would be getting involved :/