One more bladant lie from GoDaddy
Yesterday, Bob Parsons (GoDaddy’s owner and CEO) put one more entry to his web blog: http://www.bobparsons.com/VeriSignRespongs.html. The thing is that he lied to the community once more, writing in particular about how GoDaddy passed on savings to it’s customers for .net pricing decrease:
Mr. Sclavos (CEO of Verisign - SM) also said the eight registrars were only “acting in their own interests” because when VeriSign cut their prices to retain the .NET agreement, none of the registrars passed the price reduction on to their customers. From Go Daddy’s perspective this statement is simply not true. I offer up the following:
1. GoDaddy.com used the price reduction to implement $1.99 domain names and lower hosting and email prices.
2. ICANN, also as a result of the new .NET contract, received an additional 50-cents per domain year in revenue. None of this was passed through to the customer. This happened solely as a result of competitive bidding. Mr. Sclavos makes no mention of this whatsoever. This funding was critical to ICANN and would not have materialized were it not for competitive bidding.
3. It’s painfully obvious that Mr. Sclavos thinks VeriSign is entitled to huge profits. This “we are entitled to huge profits” type of thinking is what has repeatedly put Mr. Sclavos and VeriSign into difficult situations with ICANN and the Internet community.
Ahem… If *ANYONE* remembers GoDaddy cutting prices on .net, let me know. Otherwise, this would be one more bladant lie from the redneck.
