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I will change next time that domain is about to expire. To help me remember I made a filter in gmail to apply the label "change registrar" to all email from GoDaddy :)
All my normal domains went to www.dyn.com and the few obscure country code ones I had went to www.eurodns.com. I've been happy as larry ever since.
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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]
I moved my few domains off Godaddy last month after the following occurred: 1) Godaddy left me a voicemail out of the blue saying they needed to talk about my account. 2) I called back and spent 5 minutes on hold, and another couple minutes digging up my PIN, only to learn that 3) They had noticed I was using Amazon EC2 and wouldn't I like to consider switching to Godaddy webhosting? I'm embarrassed that I chose Goda…
That's utterly unforgivable. Apparently not only do they consider customer time worthless, but they are actively tracking your usage for direct spam purposes. They're not even trying to hide it, and they're using the customer relationship as leverage (don't answer their BS calls and they'll probably just cut you off). If you haven't done it already, I'd recommend a blog post about this, for everyone's sake. The only…