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Poll: Did you transfer your domains from GoDaddy today?

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Re: Poll: Did you transfer your domains from GoDaddy today?

#22
I'll be switching the first thing tomorrow morning.. all 100 or so of my domains. Will be spreading the word to all my internet marketing friends as well.

I'm tempted to write a scraper script that finds sites registered with Godaddy (using public registration info/searching for "registered with Godaddy"), harvest emails, and tell them all about switching.

Re: Poll: Did you transfer your domains from GoDaddy today?

#23
post #4

Poll is missing option: "I never used GoDaddy to begin with because of their bad track record"

I certainly understand your point but the point of the poll is to find out if GoDaddy users are actually taking actions (to find out if there will be a mass exodus).

Re: Poll: Did you transfer your domains from GoDaddy today?

#26
post #3

Their service has always been poor, so I never used them in the first place.

Their DNS/domain service is nothing to complain about, and their support is in fact excellent. I had to call support several times, to revert "accidental" auto-renewals and what not and the support people do their best to compensate for the bad impression created by GoDaddy's sales tactics. Zero hold time, settled all issues just as I asked no questions asked.

That being said I still switched two dozen domains from them to Gandi over a year ago. One can tolerate their obnoxious sales pressure only that much.

Re: Poll: Did you transfer your domains from GoDaddy today?

#28
post #8

I transferred to namecheap.com over Bob's Elephant hunting controversy some time back. Now that doesn't seem like as big a deal in retrospect.

That's when I did it too. Otherwise I would have done it over this. Seems like an all-around shitty company.
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