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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />[b]Wikipedia parent finally ditching Godaddy over SOPA support[/b]
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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />[b]Wikipedia parent: We're officially done with GoDaddy[/b]
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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />[b]Wikipedia is leaving Go Daddy because of SOPA[/b]
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By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols | March 9, 2012, 1:26pm PST Summary: Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales stayed true to his word and transferred the popular online encyclopedia's domain registry from Go Daddy to MarkMonitor because Go Daddy had supported SOPA.

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />[b]Wikipedia Editing War Erupts Over Obama's Connection to Radical Derrick Bell[/b]
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In light of video surfacing this week showing President Barack Obama fully embracing radical Harvard Professor Derrick Bell, the man who said he lived to "harass white folks," an editing war on the Derrick Bell Wikipedia page has erupted.

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Transfer of [b]Wikipedia sites from GoDaddy complete[/b]
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by Michelle Paulson After months of deliberation and a complicated transfer, the Wikimedia Foundation domain portfolio has been successfully transferred from GoDaddy to MarkMonitor. The portfolio transfer was formally completed on Friday, March 9th, ...

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />[b]Wikipedia Completes Transition from GoDaddy Hosting[/b]
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by Max Eddy | 12:00 pm, March 10th, 2012 The Wikimedia foundation has announced that the organization completed the transfer of popular online repository of all human knowledge Wikipedia from GoDaddy hosting this past Friday.

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />[b]Wikipedia gone daddy from Go Daddy[/b]
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by Edward Moyer March 10, 2012 12:11 PM PST Follow @edatnews The Wikimedia Foundation says it has completed the transfer of its domain portfolio away from Go Daddy, a move made in response to the registrar's position on the Stop Online Piracy Act. The ...

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />[b]Wikipedia Completes Transfer Of Sites Away From GoDaddy DNS[/b]
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Part of the long-running (and far from over) SOPA/PIPA battle was the drawing of lines in the sand by internet companies. While most recognized the danger of that irresponsible and short-sighted bill and took action against it, some companies supported ...

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />[b]Wikipedia ditches GoDaddy over SOPA[/b]
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by Dave Parrack SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) may be dead, but the fallout from it continues. GoDaddy has lost a rather important client as a result of its support for the bill. Last year ended on a sour note for GoDaddy. The Internet was up in arms ...

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The Wikimedia Foundation says it has completed the transfer of its domain portfolio away from Go Daddy, a move made in response to the registrar's position on the Stop Online Piracy Act.

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