GoDaddy Drops SOPA Support After Boycott. Power + People Et Cetera.

GoDaddy was one of a pantheon of corporations that have been riding the SOPA bill like gangbusters, until recently. Peoples of the Internets got word of it, and a boycott was beginning to mount. The thundering thunders grew and now GoDaddy is dropping support.

Ars Technica:

Under intense pressure from an Internet-wide boycott, domain registrar GoDaddy has given the open Internet an early Christmas present: it’s dropping its support for the Stop Online Piracy Act. The change was announced in a  statement  sent to Ars Technica:

Go Daddy is no longer supporting SOPA, the “Stop Online Piracy Act” currently working its way through U.S. Congress.

“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,” Warren Adelman, Go Daddy’s newly appointed CEO, said. “It’s very important that all Internet stakeholders work together on this. Getting it right is worth the wait. Go Daddy will support it when and if the Internet community supports it.”

GoDaddy’s embarrassing climbdown took barely 24 hours. The boycott  started on Thursday  on reddit (an Ars sister site), but it quickly spread to the broader Internet. GoDaddy’s competitors began offering special deals with promo codes like “SopaSucks” to entice GoDaddy switchers.

Is GoDaddy winking, or do they have something in their eye? Color me skeptical they’re dropping anything but their overt weight from behind this.