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20,000 customers leave GoDaddy.com in response to CEO's elephant-shooting video
Rival Namecheap.com donates $20,000 to Save the Elephants, $1 for each customer who transfers from GoDaddy.com to the rival web-hosting service.
Wed, Apr 06 2011 at 10:08 AM
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Many customers of web host GoDaddy.com have jumped ship after CEO Bob Parsons posted a video of himself shooting an elephant in Zimbabwe last week. More than 20,000 former GoDaddy users have transferred their accounts to rival Namecheap.com, which promised to donate 20 percent of the revenue raised to the nonprofit Save the Elephants.
After the video was released, NameCheap offered to transfer accounts for $4.99 and donate $1 for each new customer to the nonprofit. As of April 5, NameCheap says it has raised $20,433 to help African elephants.
The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) decried Parsons' hunt and video last week. The organization closed its account with GoDaddy and encouraged others to do the same.
GoDaddy founder Parsons traveled to Zimbabwe earlier this year to hunt what he called "problem elephants," animals that destroy local villagers' crops, calling it the most rewarding thing he does in his life.
Parsons has brushed off criticism and does not plan to apologize. He told Time magazine that he is not sorry about the hunt or the video, and he plans to do it again because it is a service to the people of Zimbabwe.
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I'm one of those customers who left. I have been using them for more than 5 years and now use namecheap.com - they're cheaper and don't have that whole nascar elephant killing thing going.
So I am confused....a guy killed an elephant that was subsequently used to feed dozens of starving people, and we're MAD about it? I suppose it's better to let the elephants destroy the crops and let the people starve. Good plan.
Dear bleeding heart groups. If animals effect the lives of humans the majority of the time they are put down. You don't like it? then tear down the house you own make it a wild life sanctuary for whatever you can and go live in the forest. First World Country Problems 'nuff said
that and peta actually puts down more animals than any organization.
If you go to elephants.com they have a really interesting article about elephants suffering from PTSD. You can also send donations to help reserve the Sanctuary.
Go Daddy's president shot this elephant to get a sick rush. Period.
Any animal that is behaving in a varmint manner NEEDS to be shot!
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/varmint
Noun 1. varmint - an irritating or obnoxious person
vermin
bad person - a person who does harm to others
2. varmint - any usually predatory wild animal considered undesirable; e.g., coyote
varment
animal, animate being, beast, creature, fauna, brute - a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-2008 Princeton University, Farlex Inc.
I vote we add you to the list.
You obviously didn't see the video of the kill with the baby elephant watching the slaughter and crying loudly. They say the elephant is one of the closest to the human in emotional characteristics of the animal kingdom. So, not only was an animal brutally slain and its baby left motherless but another animal was added to the list of those that are inhumanely slaughtered by humans every day. God is going to make man answer for what he has done on Judgement Day!
If you know so much about Afrika Adam, do everyone a favor and go live there and take your racist stereotypying ways with you. Probably been living here for 10 generations now, but someone who acts so insightful, you're probably just a loser and a hypocrite.
Why is that everytime there is a problem with an animal "invading human territory" the answer is to kill it. There are other ways. Why didn't he donate money to move the elephants, put up fences etc, but no it's easier to just kill it. What a crock. Killing for fun is sick.
Since when has that ever happened? Can you imagine a poor african farmer putting up acres of fencing around there farm. Or is it just cheaper to buy a single bullet and shoot the elephant? Think about it.
Since when was he a poor farmer?
YOU make ME sick. I don't give a rat's petootie about Africa, or their "communities." Africa has so many rich natural resources, and what do they do? Kill each other over them, and are still poor. The elephants are smarter than the residents, not to mention more social. You are a sick feck.
He was doing a favor because Elephants are terrible over there where you have to actually live near them.
Fucking white people.
So what your saying is that people should let animals eat all there crops and die of hunger rather than shoot the elephant and have farms to feed there children? You live in a Western society with lots of food and health care. You will never die of hunger or know it so stop commenting on a third world nation and there way of surviving. Your a spoiled child of the world telling the poor kid how and what to eat. STFU
Let me guess, you are a hunter? That was just too easy...you hunt and take slack about it from your wife...and probably get nothing much else judging your pent up hostility...you sound like a bit of a bully, Matty. Name calling...STFU...hmmmm...is it that yoy donate your money to these people for their kids & their farms that you depleted your education fund? Send em some seeds, Matty, which will be
more fruitful than your comments.
Let me guess, you are a hunter? That was just too easy...you hunt and take slack about it from your wife...and probably get nothing much else judging your pent up hostility...you sound like a bit of a bully, Matty. Name calling...STFU...hmmmm...is it that yoy donate your money to these people for their kids & their farms that you depleted your education fund? Send em some seeds, Matty, which will be
more fruitful than your comments.
Has made them a self reliant nation/continent. Am i right? Because decades of western medical, food, and financial aid to the poorest regions of the african continent have made there children healthier and less of a starving people. Oh wait, seeds dont grow in the desert. But elephant meat does. Hear that? Its the dinner bell.
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