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This is surely just tracking nameserver records (pointing to the Go Daddy domaincontrol.com domain), the actual number of domains transferred in or out may be higher.
The one flaw with this is that it takes "up to" 7 days to transfer depending on the registrars in question. I moved a domain to godaddy 4 days ago and it still doesn't show that it's with Godaddy.
edit: Nevermind, you meant in this specific case where it's using DNS. You're right, although it can be done via the whois data.
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This is only what was transferred so far though. Many major sites are taking a while to transfer because they want to avoid downtime.
There is zero downtime when you transfer a domain.
1. When you re-point your domain at non-NetSol servers, they momentarily point toward a server that in turn says your A record is their "business profile" default landing page. It takes a few minutes before pointing correctly at your new name server
2. Many large caching nameservers don't obey TTL; our SOA's TTL was 7200, or 3 hours, but we saw servers at RCN, BellSouth and Cox serving our old SOA nearly 24 hours later.
Together, that means that for 24 hours, some people got this lovely page: http://www.vttcorp.com/ instead of our server.
Seriously misleading title. GoDaddy, with 50,000,000 domains, has lost almost nothing, about 1000 domains, when you factor in new registrations and new transfer-ins. We would need the historical records to see more into this. Hell, it might even look like their registrations and transfer-ins are up due to being in the news. I seriously doubt that GoDaddy gives a shit about this. Their domain business is a complete "l…
you forget to factor in future sales. It may be true that GoDaddy still has loads of domains but I can bet ya that a lot of it are shady websites. If GoDaddy is seen to support something that may lead to their websites shutting down, you can be sure they (and future customers) are looking elsewhere. In other words, GoDaddy does give a shit. Is not about what they have now, is about whether they can get anymore future…
Seriously misleading title. GoDaddy, with 50,000,000 domains, has lost almost nothing, about 1000 domains, when you factor in new registrations and new transfer-ins. We would need the historical records to see more into this. Hell, it might even look like their registrations and transfer-ins are up due to being in the news. I seriously doubt that GoDaddy gives a shit about this. Their domain business is a complete "l…
I seriously doubt that GoDaddy gives a shit about this. If by this you mean literal outflow of domains, then I agree. But if you mean public relations impact their support of and then half ass retraction of support for SOPA then I disagree. I think the long term effects of all this calamity are something they very much care about.
The person who owns 20+ domains is the type of person who probably is someone who cares about SOPA.
I don't think these numbers, really mean anything, to be honest. But I do think that pissing off the people who are the cheapest customers to acquire and support and the people who people are going to ask where to register their domains at is probably not the best business strategy long term.
Transfered In (20,034) Transferred Out (21,054)
1020 domains is nothing particularly comparing it to the total pointed there: 32,159,050
Seriously misleading title. GoDaddy, with 50,000,000 domains, has lost almost nothing, about 1000 domains, when you factor in new registrations and new transfer-ins. We would need the historical records to see more into this. Hell, it might even look like their registrations and transfer-ins are up due to being in the news. I seriously doubt that GoDaddy gives a shit about this. Their domain business is a complete "l…
It is a huge loss in terms of day over day profits. This is attention grabbing for a business.
GoDaddy looks at day over day sales and sees a drop. It is probably the most important event that's happened to that department in months. We already know it has gotten their attention because now they are doing damage control, however disingenuous or mitigated by overriding concerns it may be.
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There is zero downtime when you transfer a domain.
That's absolutely not true if you also use the registrar for DNS. We transferred a domain away from Network Solutions a few weeks ago, and got bit by the combination of: 1. When you re-point your domain at non-NetSol servers, they momentarily point toward a server that in turn says your A record is their "business profile" default landing page. It takes a few minutes before pointing correctly at your new name server…
Here's the correct recipe: a) Tell new registrar about incoming domain transfer, make him already set up nameservers. b) Set the new nameservers for your domain. c) Actually transfer the domain.
If either your old provider is nice enough to not shut down your name server as soon as he receives the transfer request (which won't benefit him in any way, because he is just helping an already leaving customer) or you follow the recipe from above, you will have zero downtime.