From the owner of Godaddy to yours truly...read on. Discussion Notes Office of the President Response Dear Scott, Thank you for your 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. We are also not supporting the PROTECT IP legislation and would like to provide you with the real history of our involvement with SOPA. Prior to the introduction of SOPA, Go Daddy published an op-ed (politico) commending the judiciary committee and supporting its efforts to protect IP and other American inventions and jobs. At its core, SOPA is a jobs bill, although members of congress who support it have done a horrible job of getting that message out. At or near the time the bill was introduced, Go Daddy submitted a "statement for the record" which supported the concept of the bill, but called for some improvements. We have worked tirelessly with the judiciary committee since the bill was introduced to implement improvements to the bill. Those changes are reflected in manager's amendments (which are available online), in the manager's amendment summary published by Chairman Smith (also available online), and in many of the approximately 50 amendments that were proposed at the December 15, 2011 mark-up (which is set to resume mid-January), some of which were adopted. While the common perception is that Go Daddy supported SOPA in its entirety, the reality is that, as we have testified and stated numerous times, the bill, as introduced, was a good start but had some fatal flaws that would need to be fixed. The version of the bill that exists today is a huge improvement over the original, and we are proud of the role we played in representing the interests of the Internet community (voluntarily and without compensation) when some of our friends in the ecosystem were not willing to engage in constructive discussions. Still, as of today, not all of the flaws we identified (both on our own behalf and on behalf of concerned providers, intermediaries, users, and others) have been cured, and therefore, we withdrew our support. We also participated in Wednesday's protest, on the lower portion of our homepage, www.GoDaddy.com, we showed a black banner that contained this message: "Go Daddy & many other Internet leaders oppose SOPA & PIPA - MORE" this linked to the following page that has more information, http://support.godaddy.com/godaddy/go-daddy-many-other-internet-leaders-oppose-sopa-pipa/?ci=56582 Thank you for your service to our country, should you have any further concerns please let us know. Regards, The Office of the President