For those who believe Go Daddy didn’t eat enough humble pie for backing the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), the company’s taken further measures to backtrack on on its earlier support of SOPA. Go Daddy’s president issued an apology Thursday evening pledging to repair relationships with domain holders who bolted to competitors over the issue and to reiterate its oppostion to the proposed legislation.
“We have observed a spike in domain name transfers, which are running above normal rates and which we attribute to Go Daddy’s prior support for SOPA, which was reversed,” Go Daddy CEO Warren Adelman said in a statement delivered to media outlets via email.
“Go Daddy opposes SOPA because the legislation has not fulfilled its basic requirement to build a consensus among stake-holders in the technology and Internet communities,” he added. (…… more from PCworld)
