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2 Days Loss From Transfers Out Of Godaddy.com: 37,000

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Re: 2 Days Loss From Transfers Out Of Godaddy.com: 37,000

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post #5

1. And their typical daily transfer-out rate is... 2. It'd be interesting to see where these domains went? Namecheap, Gandi, etc.

"It should also be noted that for the three days prior to the call for the boycott on Thursday, Godaddy had this amount of transfers out:

that being Monday (8,800), Tuesday (13,000) and Wednesday (14,500)."

Re: 2 Days Loss From Transfers Out Of Godaddy.com: 37,000

#8
Not a very useful statistic considering they must process thousands of transfers a day due to regular business activity. A better stat might be % increase or at least the number of transfers above the average. Admittedly, that would make for a far less catchy blog post.

Re: 2 Days Loss From Transfers Out Of Godaddy.com: 37,000

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post #6

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.

Also, unless people are on top of it, it takes more than 5 days usually to transfer a domain. I'd imagine most people who transferred will be waiting through that window of time rather than digging for the hidden confirm quickly option.

Re: 2 Days Loss From Transfers Out Of Godaddy.com: 37,000

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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 "loss leader" operation that costs them about a dollar of loss on each domain they sell.

Hosting accounts is where it counts the most for them and I can tell you few, if any, people will be transferring hosting accounts out as it's a complete pain in the ass.

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