Comments on: Go Daddy and Danica Patrick are the opposite of awesome

By: O-Perez

O-Perez — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 00:58:12 +0000

First Danica Patrick and now Joan Rivers? Wow. Why the exploitation?

What’s in GoDaddy’s ads, I call showing/doing stuff other than what you’re made to do in the first place. Oh, and by the way, it’s .com, NOT .co!

By: JackBauer

JackBauer — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:33:10 +0000

Just imagine being a Nascar fan when she races. Its like shes the second coming to the greatest women drivers of all time. During a race in which she finished 6th the lead color guy was practically masturbating all over the microphone.

If Danica is so great, how come the racing series she races for (IZOD Indycar Series) is such a piece of shit.

By: JP Paulus

JP Paulus — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 04:18:33 +0000

I wish i had $3 million bucks to spend for an ad that says “if you’re running a porn website,go to GoDaddy. If you’re a normal person, go here.

OK..this’ll sound like an ad, but can i convince you Jammer, to switch? Dreamhost.com has good pricing, and they have a laid back appraoch that i think you’d appreciate (check out their e=newsletters, always publiushed a month late).

There’s no reason for you to encourage those guys and/or give them money.

By: poltargyst

poltargyst — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:21:21 +0000

I’ve always been a bit puzzled why the other hot girls in the commercials are stripping for Danica Patrick. Do they think she’s a lesbian? She doesn’t seem all that impressed either. Just kind of a mild “sure, you could be a godaddy girl”.

By: Dan L.

Dan L. — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:36:55 +0000

Jammer, I completely agree with you about the inanity of these godaddy.com ads.
If I wanted see an example of how an inferior product is successfully marketed using big boobs, I’d switch the TV channel to Fox News.

By: Jammer

Jammer — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:49:51 +0000

Sam: Yes, I did once use a voluntary ICRA rating long ago. I dropped it because it was simply unnecessary. And it strikes me that an organization like the former ICRA (now the Family Online Safety Institute) is probably more likely to be some sort of political lobbying group. (NOTE: I have not investigated the validity of that feeling, which could very well be false. It just SEEMED more likely, and I didn’t feel like investigating it further, so I instead dropped it.)

Rating content online through a third party is fairly pointless. Since there’s no consistent arm to apply it to everyone (which I would not for one second endorse) there’s really no advantage in being a part of it. Essentially, you are self-rating your content and then having that self-rating endorsed by a third party (with its own possible agenda). If you’re doing that, you might as well leave the third party out of it.

By: Sam

Sam — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 05:52:00 +0000

I don’t know if you carried this over to Jammer’s Reviews/Blog, but didn’t Star Trek Hypertext have a (probably self imposed) “rating” from one of those online content things?

By: Rachael

Rachael — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 04:49:05 +0000

I’m glad you wrote this, because after I saw this ad during the Super Bowl, I turned to my friend and said “I think I just lost all my respect for Danica Patrick.” I admire her helping to break the glass ceiling for women and all, but whatever admiration I might have for her being a woman in a “man’s” field was lost when she promptly decided to capitalize on her femaleness in the most base, objectifying, and cliched way possible.

By: Chris L

Chris L — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:38:43 +0000

Jammer,
I agree, those commercials are really stupid. I’m not sure who they are meant for exactly. I mean is there a sane business person around who will choose a domain name service based on the hot women in their commercials? I don’t think so, but apparently the folks at GoDaddy.com do.

On a personal note, I’d like to thank you for taking the hit for the rest of us by actually going to their site and checking out the “unrated” stuff. While I suspected the truth about them, I admit to having been curious about it. Thank you for saving me the indignity of discovering just how pathetic I can be.