Hi @mhannigan- (Disclosure: I work at GoDaddy.) Per Ben Fox's message over on the Sidekick blog, yes, there is an agreement in place between GD and Sidekick. No backroom conspiracy, simply a business agreement to make Sidekick available free of charge to customers who are working with us. As Ma.tt notes above, we are committed to supporting the community and investing significantly in the WordPress ecosystem in 2015. Oftentimes this means partnering with other organizations as we get away from the old "not-invented-here" mentality. As has been stated upthread, we learned a lot from this incident and we will approach these kinds of rollouts more thoughtfully going forward.