Bob loves his work, and has passion extends to the rural farmer of Zimbabwe and Bob's there to help. With video. It's about four minutes long and pretty graphic; here's a summary and some stills from it. I'll skip the butchering footage.

At this point in the video they've been stalking around in the dark through a sorghum field looking for elephants and at around 10 they find them and turn on their flashlights. And there's an elephant staring them head on. If he was moving before you can't tell, but if he was the light stopped him literally dead in his tracks. And then he very quickly does the other way.

Notice in these three frames, by the time the first gunshot goes out the elephant has already turned it's considerable mass around, this happens quickly, about as fast as an elephant can go when seriously motivated - it's terrified. Of a flashlight.

... as soon as that flashlight goes on, the elephants run away. Then the shooting begins. Bob gets off about 6 (or more) shots... aimed at allegedly three elephants... as kills one.

That's right, he's shooting elephants in the butt who are running away from him, and misses at 45 feet. Now, I've seen kids nail a groundhog at 120 feet. Is there something special about elepants? Do they have a force field or something. Or did he just shoot them in the ass and only manage to get one in a spot that would kill it?

But I suppose the larger question is, since the elephants are endangered, then rather than kill them, why doesn't he just give the farmers flashlights? That seemed to be doing a find job before all that shooting started.

Of course, given the share of the .com market that Bob enjoys it seems like there's a more than fifty fifty chance that if you buy a .com domain you're contributing in some small way to the death of an elephant. Several actually.

Boy was PETA shocked: " PETA closes GoDaddy account after CEO kills elephant" (Reuters).