21,000 Domains Transferred From GoDaddy in 1 Day

An anti-Go Daddy thread on social site Reddit led to the creation of Godaddyboycott.org, a site set up to let people amass their disapproval with the company's support of SOPA. Yesterday, Go Daddy actually reversed course and dropped its support for the controversial legislation. "Go Daddy will support it when and if the Internet community supports it," Go Daddy CEO Warren Adelman announced in a statement. SOPA, introduced in Congress this fall, would make it easier for the Justice Department to shut down sites allegedly dedicated to piracy.

GoDaddy Boycott Launched By Anti-SOPA

Opponents of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA) launch a boycott against domain name registrar GoDaddy, which expresses its strong support of the controversial legislation. The boycott movement basically asked their supporter to transfer their domains to another registrar. While Silicon Valley firms like Google, Facebook and Twitter overwhelmingly oppose SOPA on the grounds that it will usher in unprecedented censorship online, suffocate innovation, and endanger the domain name system (DNS) upon which the Internet is built, GoDaddy brushes aside all these arguments, and claims that the bill is needed to “identify and disable all types of illegal activity on the Internet.”

UK's New Cyber Crime Unit

UK government announces a new measure to tackle cyber crime as Britain's internet and electronic communications network comes under increased attack from hackers and foreign intelligence agencies. A Cyber Crime Unit will be formed alongside a team at the intelligence agency GCHQ which will fine-tune the country's military capabilities in the virtual world. According to the government, more than 20,000 malicious emails are sent to its networks each month, of which 1,000 are deliberately targeted. The GCHQ is expected to help by assisting private companies shore up their cyber defences.