Semi-OT: Go Daddy and SOPA

[Christopher Browne]

On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 10:19 PM, Alex Gabriel
<alexgabriel-Nmj6Sl6vboSovDFt+AQlJdBPR1lH4CV8 at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Hmm, forgive me if my knowledge is a bit out of date by a few months, but Afilias is a registry provider, similar to VeriSign.  They're, as far as I know, not a registrar directly.

Yep, just so.  Registrars are our customers, and there are obligations
to deal with them equitably.

> If that's the case, there's no vested interest for them to recommend any particular registrar, although I can certainly understand the capacity for a conflict of interest.

It would be a conflict of interest for me to recommend a registrar, as
substantially all of them are customers of my employer.
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