GoDaddy CEO Tramples Company's Public Image

No publicity is bad publicity, right?

It looks like GoDaddy.com CEO Bob Parsons decided his domain-listing company’s public image was not trashy enough.

The tech executive, whose company is known for it’s “racy” television ads that show models nearly losing their tops, decided to take it up a notch when he posted a video on his blog of his killing an elephant in Zimbabwe.

PETA went ballistic, competitors offered discounts if GoDaddy customers switched over, and Parsons adopted a “Who,

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