Just trasferred all of my domains out of Godaddy a few days ago into Namecheap. The timing couldn't have been better.
GoDaddy supports SOPA, redditor proposes "Move your Domain Day"
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Re: GoDaddy supports SOPA, redditor proposes "Move your Domain Day"
#132Earlier quoted context omitted.
While I understand your sentiments towards SOPA, are you really going to distance yourself from all of these companies? http://judiciary.house.gov/issues/Rouge%20Websites/SOPA%20Su...
It's good to be distanced from this kind of crowd ;)
Both MasterCard and VISA are there. What to do? :(
Re: GoDaddy supports SOPA, redditor proposes "Move your Domain Day"
#133Even if domains are just a loss leader for GoDaddy, they surely look at their numbers, so this is a way to send them a message they'll hear. Maybe it will work, maybe it won't, but no one who still has a domain at GoDaddy will be entitled to complain about SOPA if it passes.
While I understand your sentiments towards SOPA, are you really going to distance yourself from all of these companies? http://judiciary.house.gov/issues/Rouge%20Websites/SOPA%20Su...
I'm sure going to try.
I only have dealings with GoDaddy and Comcast; and while I can't get away from Comcast, I'm going to do my damnedest to get away from GoDaddy.
Re: GoDaddy supports SOPA, redditor proposes "Move your Domain Day"
#134To put it frankly, godaddy don't give a shit. Their domain business exists as a way to get people into their other products, hosting, whois privacy etc. the ones that actually make money (nobody makes money on domains nowadays, savvy customers use coupons which godaddy provides a lot of). This won't do anything to Godaddy as a business, they'll be losing customers they don't care about -- unless people shutting off t…
Even with their extreme coupon usage, from what I can tell they are still not using them as loss leaders (if we ignore all costs besides registry/icann). You also neglect to see the effect of thousands or tens of thousands of savvy people actively changing their mind about a company and NOT recommending it to people or bad mouthing the company. My suspicion is, the kind of people reading HN/Reddit are also the type o…
-> My suspicion is, the kind of people reading HN/Reddit are also the type of people that get asked 'computery' stuff quite a bit.
This happens to be correct for me, I'm a computer technician (to pay the bills) And I supervise several other technicians. I know for certain that no one will be recommended to go to godaddy if they come to us. And thought it's a local thing I can see it being reasonable that many of the same local shops like mine have employees that visit reddit and HN. It's obviously too early to tell but I think it's going to trickle down until they (godaddy) feels it.
Re: GoDaddy supports SOPA, redditor proposes "Move your Domain Day"
#135Even if domains are just a loss leader for GoDaddy, they surely look at their numbers, so this is a way to send them a message they'll hear. Maybe it will work, maybe it won't, but no one who still has a domain at GoDaddy will be entitled to complain about SOPA if it passes.
I'm going to piggyback on your comment here, since it's at the top of the comment thread. From the Reddit link: "Name Cheap messaged me with a special discount code for reddit users: BYEBYEGD I'm not taking any positions i'm just reporting it. I asked him to give reddit users a better deal." I'm not affiliated with NameCheap at all, but if you're going to move your domain, this might make things easier.
Yeah I'm moving mine too. That, or code SOPASUCKS, I believe. Extends domain for another year so it's decently cheap.
Re: GoDaddy supports SOPA, redditor proposes "Move your Domain Day"
#136Here's a helpful article I used to move my domains off of GoDaddy:
http://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx/...
Re: GoDaddy supports SOPA, redditor proposes "Move your Domain Day"
#137Re: GoDaddy supports SOPA, redditor proposes "Move your Domain Day"
#138I've been thinking of moving away from GoDaddy for a long time, and this was the last drop. It is crazy how they design the webpages to make it as hard as possible to cancel anything. In the email I got, there were two (identical) links telling me how I could cancel the transfer-request, but no link to accept it. It took me a couple of minutes of poking around in my account before I figured it out.
Re: GoDaddy supports SOPA, redditor proposes "Move your Domain Day"
#139Even if domains are just a loss leader for GoDaddy, they surely look at their numbers, so this is a way to send them a message they'll hear. Maybe it will work, maybe it won't, but no one who still has a domain at GoDaddy will be entitled to complain about SOPA if it passes.
While I understand your sentiments towards SOPA, are you really going to distance yourself from all of these companies? http://judiciary.house.gov/issues/Rouge%20Websites/SOPA%20Su...
So glad I'm only seeing Marvel Comics and not DC. I don't think I could give up my Vertigo graphic novels.
Re: GoDaddy supports SOPA, redditor proposes "Move your Domain Day"
#140Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's good to be distanced from this kind of crowd ;)
Both MasterCard and VISA are there. What to do? :(
Discover? I've been a happy customer of theirs since the 90s, and their coverage has gotten near total within the US. Sparser in other countries, though.