+Wildlife | April 4, 2011

GoDaddy CEO on Shooting an Elephant: I’m Not Sorry

By Bryan Walsh

GoDaddy CEO Bob Parsons ignited an Internet firestorm when he uploaded a video of himself hunting and killing an elephant in Zimbabwe. What video? That would be this one: So is Parsons sorry for the elephant hunt—or at the very least, sorry that he put it up on the Internet? Absolutely not, as an uncontrite [...]

+Wildlife | March 30, 2011

Shooting an Elephant: Why GoDaddy’s CEO Was Wrong

By Bryan Walsh

UPDATE, 3 p.m. Thursday: GoDaddy competitor Namecheap has launched a campaign to woo away offended GoDaddy customers. Our colleagues at Techland have the full story: Switch business now, and Namecheap is offering to make elephant donations on your behalf. We all shoot vacation videos, but most of us choose to keep them to ourselves — [...]