Portland company benefits from GoDaddy exodus


Portland-based Canvas Dreams LLC has successfully lured away customers from GoDaddy after the company’s CEO was caught in a scandal.

Share this article!

Portland-based Canvas Dreams LLC has successfully lured away customers from GoDaddy after the company’s CEO was caught in a scandal.

Video of the GoDaddy CEO shooting an elephant in Zimbabwe was leaked online, upsetting animal rights activists and conservationists.

The certified Benefit Corporation, which advertises its use of wind power to keep its servers running, offered a coupon code to potential customers offering to transfer Web domains from Arizona-based GoDaddy — the first one at no cost.

Several hundred domain names have come over to Canvas Dreams as a result with more change requests coming in every day, said David Anderson, principal of Canvas Dreams.

Read more at Sustainable Business Oregon.

{biztweet}canvas dreams{/biztweet}