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For those who somehow missed it: after GoDaddy publicly stated their support for SOPA yesterday morning, a colossal chunk of the Internet read: the chunk that understands how the Internet works began to rally. There were no torches or pitchforks here; the only weapons here were wallets, all being carried off in another direction. Our industry needs effective remedies to address this specific problem, and we support the House and Senate proposals to achieve this objective. S House of Representatives and Senate, respectively.

Neither is law yet. Both are designed to choke non-U. In a statement explaining its change of heart , GoDaddy boss Warren Adelman said: "Fighting online piracy is of the utmost importance, which is why GoDaddy has been working to help craft revisions to this legislation - but we can clearly do better.

In an interview with tech news site Gizmodo , Mr Adelman took a neutral stance on SOPA but said the company might support it if there were a consensus among net firms on its wording. Despite this change, many were expected to go through with their decision to transfer their domains and websites away from GoDaddy. On discussion forums and comments section on blogs, many said they would still transfer away from GoDaddy.

GoDaddy provides servers on which many people upload their websites and it also act as a registrar for internet domains - the familiar web addresses ending in. The idea for the boycott originated on the Reddit chat board and several sites have collected pledges from domain owners to stop using GoDaddy.

Hundreds of people have pledged to take action on 29 December. It is not clear how much impact these the pledges will have on GoDaddy, which claims to be the world's biggest domain name registrar and oversees more than 50 million domains.