December 29th is Dump GoDaddy Day • Hacker News Board

Re: December 29th is Dump GoDaddy Day

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Post by oozcitak » Tue, Dec 27, 2011, 9:10 AM UTC

raphael_lee wrote: post #3

joejohnson wrote: post #2

Can anyone point me to a relatively easy walkthrough on transferring my domains away from GoDaddy (to namecheap, I guess)?

I used this: http://blog.jeffepstein.me/post/14629857835/a-step-by-step-g... from one of previous HN post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3383097

Don't skip (as I did) steps 15-19. Otherwise, you'll wait a week before GoDaddy releases the domain to your new registrar. When you manually accept the transfer as described in the blog post, the process should complete in a few hours.

Re: December 29th is Dump GoDaddy Day

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Post by wccrawford » Tue, Dec 27, 2011, 11:32 AM UTC

I dumped before I heard about this, but I'm glad I didn't wait. It would have been a chance to just not bother.

Re: December 29th is Dump GoDaddy Day

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Post by wccrawford » Tue, Dec 27, 2011, 11:32 AM UTC

joejohnson wrote: post #2

Can anyone point me to a relatively easy walkthrough on transferring my domains away from GoDaddy (to namecheap, I guess)?

Make sure you have your DNS entries written down BEFORE you start the transfer.

I didn't. It was a pain to recreate it from memory. GoDaddy deletes it immediately.

Re: December 29th is Dump GoDaddy Day

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Post by freejack » Tue, Dec 27, 2011, 2:24 PM UTC

joejohnson wrote: post #2

Can anyone point me to a relatively easy walkthrough on transferring my domains away from GoDaddy (to namecheap, I guess)?

Shameless Plug: Here's a complete tutorial for moving to Hover - https://www.hover.com/help/godaddy-complete-transfer-prepara...

Let me know if we can help with anything.

Re: December 29th is Dump GoDaddy Day

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Post by a_a_r_o_n » Tue, Dec 27, 2011, 3:34 PM UTC

veyron wrote: post #6

Is there a comprehensive solution like godaddy? I've seen people talk about solutions involving stringing together registrar, DNS, SSL certs, hosting, email, etc but I (and I imagine a lot of godaddy customers) would like a single point. In fact, I'd venture to guess that there would be strong demand for such a solution, even if it used AWS or google apps in the backend and even if it costs more than the sum of the i…

pairnic.com (registrar) and their sister company pair.com (hosting) are reasonably well integrated.

Re: December 29th is Dump GoDaddy Day

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Post by x3c » Tue, Dec 27, 2011, 4:24 PM UTC

Joe Wilcox started his post by saying: "My idiots of the year award almost certainly will go to Netflix and Go Daddy, which tarnished their brands through nothing more than sheer stupidity (there are still five days in the month for your organization to royally screw up and claim the honor)." It seems Ocean Marketing rose to the occasion. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3395411

Re: December 29th is Dump GoDaddy Day

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Post by joejohnson » Tue, Dec 27, 2011, 7:39 PM UTC

wccrawford wrote: post #13

joejohnson wrote: post #2

Can anyone point me to a relatively easy walkthrough on transferring my domains away from GoDaddy (to namecheap, I guess)?

Make sure you have your DNS entries written down BEFORE you start the transfer. I didn't. It was a pain to recreate it from memory. GoDaddy deletes it immediately.

Ok, thank you.