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A Step By Step Guide to Transfer Domains Out Of GoDaddy
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Re: A Step By Step Guide to Transfer Domains Out Of GoDaddy
#62The tutorial took about 10 minutes to complete for my domains. I've been on the look out for an easy way to leave GoDaddy for a while now. Thank you!
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#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
First, manage the dns with a third party dns service. This cannot be emphasized enough. Do not use your registrar's DNS. Do not use your registrar's hosting. Do not use your host's DNS. The three elements -- domain registration, DNS, and web hosting -- should be segregated. That way, if you have problems with one, through chance, malice, or incompetence, you can exercise the other two items to work around the issue.…
How realistic is it for these things to actually happen though, the only seemingly realistic thing is the DOS attack. I'm not saying it isn't smart I am just wondering if you have any examples of the others actually occurring.
Depends on what you mean by realistic. All of the examples I gave were things that have happened, or could plausibly happen.
Police Raids: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/04/data-centers-ra/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/22/fbi_data_centre_raid...
Shutdown Registrars: http://domainnamewire.com/2009/10/12/directnic-picks-up-red-... http://blog.domaintools.com/2007/03/registerfly-terminated-b...
You can never know what the company executives or managers might be getting up to, so -- as basic risk management -- you should prepare for catastrophic events.
Re: A Step By Step Guide to Transfer Domains Out Of GoDaddy
#64The site seems down for me, but Google has a cache:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:1BOfAgm...
Re: A Step By Step Guide to Transfer Domains Out Of GoDaddy
#65The site seems down for me, but Google has a cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:1BOfAgm...
It's down. I'm working on it...
Re: A Step By Step Guide to Transfer Domains Out Of GoDaddy
#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
First, manage the dns with a third party dns service. Such as http://zoneedit.com/pricing.html or similar. Don't use the dns of the registrar. But if you are talking about moving over just dns servers (not the records that are in those dns servers) that is automatically ported over when you change registrars. But if the dns servers are the dns servers of the registrar that isn't what you want. Which is one of the rea…
First, manage the dns with a third party dns service. This cannot be emphasized enough. Do not use your registrar's DNS. Do not use your registrar's hosting. Do not use your host's DNS. The three elements -- domain registration, DNS, and web hosting -- should be segregated. That way, if you have problems with one, through chance, malice, or incompetence, you can exercise the other two items to work around the issue.…
I established a DNS Made Easy account about 5 years ago exactly for this reason. Registration, DNS and hosting independence is an important consideration. Separating these concerns is a big win when you need it.
Re: A Step By Step Guide to Transfer Domains Out Of GoDaddy
#67Huge believer of voting with your pocket. We have just submitted to have the last 247 GoDaddy domains transferred.
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#68Re: A Step By Step Guide to Transfer Domains Out Of GoDaddy
#69I just transferred my 47 domains out of GoDaddy. I've been meaning to do it for awhile --- primarily because the price keeps inching up and because I find their advertising and use of spokeswomen sort of distasteful. Seeing Jillian Michael's face when I'm buying a domain or setting up DNS records for a client is pretty much the last thing I want to see. I guess you could say SOPA was the last straw. Transferring 47 d…
For those curious about prices, I just transferred 42 domains (mostly .com's but a few .org's, .net's, and .mobi's) to NameCheap for $367 with discount code.
And if you have any domains that still have a few years left in their registration, that is supposed to transfer with the domains.
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Same, but I think it was 46 for me ;) Big relief having finally gotten off my butt to do that. Well worth the $200+ and at least that renews them all for an extra year at the same time, so it's not like I wouldn't have spent it anyway (just not all at once).
Knowing that I would need to pay to renew them anyway made it slightly less painful. It's tough to cough up $300+ at once, but SOPA is a horrible idea and GoDaddy apparently has no clue who their customers are. I'd be very curious to see some stats on how many transfers happened because of this effort.
Would love to see that stat. I guess competitors could post about spikes, giving us a sense based on their numbers.