In my last letter I described some of my efforts to make WorldLightASP a Green service. I built this service with the belief that if I could create win-win-win opportunities that WorldLightASP would thrive.

On April 1st of this year I read an article in the Huffington Post about GoDaddy Founder and CEO Bob Parson killing an African Elephant and publicizing the event. I was really hoping the whole thing was a sick April fool's prank but unfortunately this really happened. Bob Parson's describes the event as a humanitarian mission to aid African farmers.

GoDaddy is the backbone of many of the services that I currently offer; so that leaves me with a dilemma; to go or not to GoDaddy?

I am personally outraged enough to move. I think that advertising the killing of Elephants as a company sponsored humanitarian act is a sham and shameful and I personally do not want anything to do with a company run by a man who thinks such a publicity stunt is a good idea.

As the founder of WorldLightASP I am only one member. Any change to the backbone of the system has cost. Can WorldLightASP and all supported websites be moved away from GoDaddy to another provider? Yes. What will it cost? Time and money. I estimate that it will require approximately a 20% price hike to support moving all of our websites to a similar backbone provider.

In the next few days I will be emailing WorldLightASP members and asking them to weigh in on the issue and to make a final vote of 'Go' or 'Maintain the Status Quo.' If you are not a member but would like to voice your opinion feel free to send me mail at raja@worldlightasp.com and let me know what you think.

In this together,

Raja Afrika
Founder
WorldLightASP.com

Related:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/31/bob-parsons-godaddy-ceo-elephant-hunt_n_843121.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42356709/ns/business-us_business/