Wikipedia gone daddy from Go Daddy

The Wikimedia Foundation says it has accomplished the exchange of its website collection away from Go Daddy, a transfer created in reaction to the registrar's location on the Quit On the internet Piracy Act.

The Wikimedia Foundation has accomplished the procedure of moving its areas away from Go Daddy in reaction to Go Daddy's preliminary assistance for the Quit On the internet Piracy Act, the basis said this weeks time.

"As the company of the 5th most frequented Web qualities in the world, the Groundwork loves you greatly about who manages our areas. We had been deliberating a move from GoDaddy for some time--our legal office sensed the company was not the best fit for our website needs--and we started looking for other website control services in Dec 2011. GoDaddy's preliminary assistance of (SOPA)...reaffirmed our decision to end the connection," the basis said in a writing last night

The foundation's website collection is now being managed by San Francisco-based website registrar MarkMonitor.

In Dec, Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales tweeted that the website exchange would take position, saying Go Daddy's "position on #sopa is undesirable to us." That followed an anti-Go daddy position on digerati website Stumbleupon, and a vow by the designer of icanhascheezburger.com and other websites to transfer 1,000 areas presented by mother or father organization Cheezburger, Inc. to another website registrar if Go Father did not modify its location on SOPA.

The organization later denounced the legal guidelines in a more unequivocal style in reaction to a organized "Dump Go Daddy Day."

It's not once Go Daddy has misjudged a reaction to its activities. Previously this year, CEO Bob Parsons beautiful down when he published to his website videos clip of his elephant-shooting uses.

The Wikimedia Foundation said in its writing that the exchange to MarkMonitor had gone off without a problem.