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GoDaddy CEO kills elephant and boasts cruel video : Twitter lashes back

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If the board of directors at GoDaddy inc. (Domain and Hosting Company) are planning to lay off someone, it’s surely got to be the CEO, Bob Parsons. Why?

He smartly killed an elephant and shot a video. Posted it online for the world to see. What’s even worse is that he appears quite happy and poses over the dead elephant, victoriously. He’s even included the part where the africans rip apart the flesh of the elephant and a stampede for it. This is ridiculous and disgusting, especially for me the fact being that I am a pure vegetarian.

Twitter is lashing out on the poor CEO and leaving no opportunity to make up for his mistake. I guess, he actually deserves it.

What PETA (People for Ethical Treatment of Animals) says,

I am writing to present you with PETA’s first-ever scummiest CEO of the year award (your certificate is on the way). You deserve the award for your egregious disregard for the life of the elephant you shot and killed for your personal enjoyment. Such behavior only shows a poverty of understanding and a deep insecurity, perhaps in your own masculinity. Nonlethal methods are available to protect crops from elephants left hungry because of their disappearing habitat.

What Bob Parsons replies in defence,

I stand by my decision to help African villagers. I believe elephant management is beneficial. I have the support of the people who really matter in this situation, the families of Zimbabwe — people who need help to survive. I have the support of tribal leaders and the government.

Do you think this was justified? Share it with us in the comments below.

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.XXX domains make it to the web but not India

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If you’ve been in the roll, most controversy surrounded domain .xxx got approved this week with lots and lots of complications and mixed reviews from all around the world.

India’s IT ministry has decided to block off all the .xxx domain’s right away after their release. India has constantly been trying to block porn in India, punishing porn viewers and publishers all over the country.

Two things, it’s good that .xxx could be a way to segregate all the porn and propose a “red-light” area online and just keep it away from the rest of the internet. Second thing is that even the the website, with a .xxx which isn’t a porn website will get blocked. That is sick, what if someone wanted a fancy name with xxx’s? Like for example, thefileswhichsaid.xxx or whatever?

From what we are hearing possibly many other Asian countries like Indonesia are planning to follow India’s move. Well, frankly I don’t think its really going to make any difference because the porn industry already is aware of such steps and that .xxx would merely be an additional name as they will continue operating on .com domains until ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers which manages Internet Protocols) makes it mandatory for all porn websites to shift to the new domain (which it wouldn’t).

Bigger Profits with .com Domain : True?

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If you are in SEO or have done some research on Google Search you might know that there used to be this myth earlier that links from .edu and .gov domains were of more value than general links. So, People spent huge sums of money to buy links from those domains. And later it was proved wrong. What? Waste of Money.

Recently i spotted some VeriSign ads at Ahemdabad, India at the Airport. I also found more such ads at many places. An Online campaign has also been put up.

Here is what it said,

Bigger Profits Possible with a .com Website

This Raised many questions in my Mind. Are they Bluffing? What is this possible? Does it Affect Search Rankings? So i go ahead to check out the their website – www.bealeaderwith.com

As far as what i know, Google treats all Domains extensions as the same (Please Correct me if I am wrong) and so, how could this be?

I dugg into their website and found the reviews,

“While it may not be possible to precisely measure the return on investment from the use of VeriSign .com and .net Domain Name Registry service, it has certainly enhanced our global visibility. It therefore made sense to go with a .com domain name for our new joint venture Company- OrschelnRemsons – as well.”

Mr. Rahul Kejriwal, Vice President – Marketing, Remsons Industries Ltd.

It Mentions that .com helped enhance their Global Visibility. But i don’t think so. If you are aiming for marketing your website, why just .com? Country domains are a better choice as they already do the work of showing the Companies Origin and also users a better experience, for example – There is a Indian user. If you compare his experience on a .com domain and .in domain, he would prefer going to a .in domain than the .com one because he would be interested in something more regional.

Well, Frankly Speaking today users are too lazy to type in the full address of websites (Me Included) and .com would be 4 characters including the “.” and if you are using “.in” or  ”.us” or “.ca” or “.cn” etc.. There are 3 Characters and so direct hits from such domains could affect your traffic in a positive manner. Although this may be applicable in some cases only.

Also, Uniqueness is something interesting. If thousand .com domains and one .ca domain. You would be somewhat curious to see whats behind that .ca domain. Again, you may have a different point of view.

What do you think? Do you Agree? No? Express your views in the Comments.