Whatever you do, don’t use GoDaddy
GoDaddy is one of the largest domain name registrars in the world and manages several million registered domains for its hundreds of thousands of customers. I’ve just come across a disturbing article which features a video showing the CEO of GoDaddy, Bob Parsons shooting and killing an elephant at close range.
I’ve used GoDaddy for domain name registration a few times over the years but I won’t ever use them again. Bob Parsons described the video as being “one of the most beneficial and rewarding things I do”. I don’t care how wealthy you are or how you think this benefits anyone (there are other ways of moving elephants away from village crops) but this is simply wrong.
So, if you’re planning on registering a domain name please do not use GoDaddy! If you have any domains currently with them I highly recommend that you move away from them immediately. As I understand it NameCheap is offering domain transfers at ‘less-than-cost’ prices of just $4.99, plus they’ll donate $1 per transfer to Save The Elephants.
Because of this I am no longer recommending GoDaddy to anyone for any of its services and will instead refer them to this thread each time their name is mentioned. If you have a web site or blog, perhaps consider writing a post similar to this one!
It’s just arrived, and this is the first time I’ve used it. Installation was quick and painless – plug in the tiny (ultra tiny) USB receiver, insert the two batteries and you’re good to go.

I’ve very recently upgraded nearly my entire computer with something a bit snappier. The older one, although not really all that old wasn’t holding up too well so I thought it was about time I spent a bit of money and get it sorted. I eventually settled on an AMD Phenom X4 (that’s a quad core) processor, accomodating ASRock motherboard, a new 1GB sooper-dooper graphics card, two 500GB HDDs (I had these already), 4GB of DDR3 RAM and something which is completely new to me, a solid state hard drive.



