#4. Nope, already did long ago, due to their stupid commercials.
Agreed; when a company spends enormous amounts of money to brand themselves as childish and unprofessional, I'm going to take them at their word and steer clear.
Poll: Did you transfer your domains from GoDaddy today?
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Re: Poll: Did you transfer your domains from GoDaddy today?
#92No. Boycotting GoDaddy will have no effect on SOPA, nor will it make them change their tune.
nor will it make them change their tune
Clearly this depends on how may customers leave. Trust me, if a third of their customers walked then, yes, they would change their tune.
Re: Poll: Did you transfer your domains from GoDaddy today?
#93Is there a list of anti-SOPA registrars anywhere? Haven't been able to find one.
Re: Poll: Did you transfer your domains from GoDaddy today?
#94I'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.
I could help with this, if you know of a site where it has lists of domains registered with godaddy let me know and consider it done, I already have an email harvester script I've been working on and can easily tweak it to do this, its multi-threaded so it can go to a lot of sites, crawl them and pull the emails in fast.
You could just get the .com zone file and scan them with a load of proxies for godaddy dns servers etc. Or write some Seti alike tool so more people can participate. [Place here spam warning]
Re: Poll: Did you transfer your domains from GoDaddy today?
#95Over the past year I have been slowly migrating my domains from GoDaddy to Hover. Best decision ever.
Re: Poll: Did you transfer your domains from GoDaddy today?
#96No, I transferred them away years ago.
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#97I'm still waiting to hear back from another registrar about transferring my domain - they don't yet support .de transfers, but are more than willing to take my money. :)
Re: Poll: Did you transfer your domains from GoDaddy today?
#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've been with them for 10yrs and they have never wronged me. The only reason I'm considering switching is the moral reasons with SOPA. When you have 30+ domains on a single registrar it is a little frustrating to go through each one individually and get the authorization code, unlock them, and request the transfer. Also, for me, I have domains that I did 5-10yr registrations on, so the transfer and getting 1yr free…
Just fyi, you can generate a csv of your domains and authorization codes by doing: Domain Management > Tools Tab > Exportable List > click Add New Export button > All your domains > and make sure to select "Authorization Code". As for locking or unlocking, in Domain Management you should be able to just click the select all checkmark, and click the Lock button to set the lock level on all of them. None of that should…
One slight irritation on GoDaddy -> Namecheap. One of these sites has a bug where it's either incorrectly generating ACs with embedded double quotes, like ABC"345"DE, or it's not storing them correctly. I did the bulk transfer yesterday, and this morning discovered that all such domains failed with a bad AC. I'm working with Namecheap support now to resolve it.
So it's still a constant-time operation, but the value of C is growing for me.
Re: Poll: Did you transfer your domains from GoDaddy today?
#99No. Boycotting GoDaddy will have no effect on SOPA, nor will it make them change their tune.
It is precisely this attitude that GoDaddy is counting on, BTW.
Re: Poll: Did you transfer your domains from GoDaddy today?
#100Poll 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).
Technically I should answer "no" on the poll, because I did not transfer my domains from GoDaddy today. I never had them registered at GoDaddy. Perhaps a typical HN reader is not as pedantic, but I expect some are, so surely having the "never used godaddy" option would have made the results more accurate.