This really ticked me off today
I used to have a domain with GoDaddy because if you sign up with Google Apps for your domain there was an option to buy a domain at GoDaddy (I hope Google will remove this option soon now that it is known that the CEO killl elephants for fun)
Today I found the following email in my inbox from my current registrar Namecheap
Hi Jaap
It’s not often that we would disagree publicly with a competitor, but we at Namecheap are very disturbed by this video of a competitor killing an elephant for sport. Check out the ABC News Report (Warning: Very Graphic!)
We’ve decided to throw our support behind our Elephant friends by offering domain transfers at a price where we actually lose money.
Show your protest by saying BYEBYEGD again and transfer your domains to Namecheap for $4.99 for the next 24 hours through 11:59pm EST on 3/31/11 (limit 10 per user, valid for all com/net/org domains).
On top of that, we’ll donate $1 for each transfer to Save The Elephants at http://www.savetheelephants.org/
Use coupon code BYEBYEGD and let’s help the Elephants together!
Regards,
Team Namecheap
Many people are outraged about the video showing Bob Parson spending his holiday in 2011 shooting elephants as you can see in the comments of the video that are linked to in the above email. It’s actually weird that this now is in the news.
I clicked around on the video.me site and actually found this video which shows Bob Parsons killing Elephants in his holidays in 2010. It does not have that many views and the comments on it are even disgustingly positive. Bob is defending himself that these elephants are real problem and that he’s helping the locals with this, but if you listen to him in the videos you notice that he does it purely for himself because he is getting a rush of it. He’s even saying “Each year I go to Zimbabwe and hunt problem elephant. It’s one of the most beneficial and rewarding things I do”
If this is the most rewarding thing he does, ……
In case you are not convinced yet about boycotting GoDaddy go to the NoDaddy site, because also their service sucks
I might be confused here, but it seems like the elephant was killed pretty quickly, without too much suffering, seems to have lead a pretty good, unrestricted life beforehand, and was used for meat afterwards, so this wasn’t a pointless killing. I mean, that’s a gazillion times better than the treatment of animals at factory farms, and it seems to be on par even with “humane meat” farms. I wish all animals used for meat could lead an unrestricted life and be killed quickly.
Even as a de facto vegan*, I don’t see how this is so bad. I don’t care whether the people that killed the animal enjoyed the killing: IMHO, it’s better to enjoy it a bit rather than to force yourself to do it and then face the psychological consequences of breaking your morals. To me, it would make more sense to boycott all the companies that allow factory-farmed animal products at their cafeteria.
* I’m not opposed to humanely-raised animal products, but I haven’t found the motivation and time to actually research and go out and buy these products. A vegan diet is actually more accessible and cheaper to me right now.
I was about to write exactly the post Mirek did. Thanks, Mirek!
tl;dr: If you eat animal products from factory farms and complain about this, that seems more than a little hypocritical to me.
to Mirek and Chis
I eat animal products, and I am disturbed by this, why? because what I eat are animals that are being raised for food, hunting like this to indiscriminate kill, there is no control of the numbers you are killing, the population can go down, and many other things.
So both of you agree to allow the Japanese hunt whales too? I say one thing, If yout want to eat Whales, of Elephants, grow them in farms, not easy or cheap? , do not go the easy way and kill anything you see in the forest
I left GoDaddy for its ads. I’m surprised I did it since I’m no angel. But, I feel better for it.
Animals raised for food, bull* Every animal is a living being so stop trying to find excuses.
You don’t kill elephants for the same reason bald eagles were not killed…
From 1979 to 1989 Africa lost half of its elephants from poaching and illegal ivory trade, with the population decreasing from an estimated 1.3 million to 600,000.
This led to the transfer of the African elephant from threatened to endangered status in October 1989 by CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species).
Did you guys read the full story? It probably wont change anyone’s mind but I’ll post a link just the same: http://mashable.com/2011/04/01/bob-parsons-elephant-story/
I’m not able to judge the truth in his story or anything like that. I’m not trying to convince anyone here.
“I eat animal products, and I am disturbed by this, why? because what I eat are animals that are being raised for food [...]”
Are you serious about this? Are you really saying that morally it is better to produce billions of animals than to hunt single animals that have had some sort of life already? Because you can’t say that for instance about the average chicken with its thirty-day life, the entire of which it is severely crippled.
Oh brother. Bob Parsons isn’t killing animals for sport. That is called poaching, and the video clearly shows that the elephant died quickly, was skinned, and the carcass picked clean for food for the villagers. Watch the video. This is standard hunting. You make it sound like he’s out on an elephant killing rampage, leaving them for dead where they drop. Oh brother.