21000 domains transfer out of godaddy 1 day

[bxflow]

That's what they get.

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For all the people quoting dailychanges.com numbers for "GoDaddy lost 21k customers yesterday!" or equivalent, the numbers you are quoting don't actually mean a damn thing in relationship to how much business they have gained or lost.

The numbers that dailychanges.com reports are the number of domains that change Primary and Secondary Name Servers to/from GoDaddy's name servers. This essentially means that the numbers listed are only domains which GoDaddy hosts DNS for, and has absolutely nothing to do with management of the actual domain being transferred to or from GoDaddy's control.

To put this in context - every time a GoDaddy controlled domain is not renewed, they change the name servers to their own so it goes to their "parked domain" page. This will show up under dailychanges.com's "transferred in" statistic. Every time someone switches from using GoDaddy's hosted DNS service to providing their own DNS service (or using another provider) it will show up as a transfer out, without the domain actually transferring away from GoDaddy's control. This means that the statistics that they provide are almost entirely worthless for gauging (with any accuracy) how much business they have gained or lost in the mean time as the only people who will be reflected by the "transferred out" numbers are people who were using GoDaddy to host their domain as well. Sites like Wikipedia are not reflected in these statistics because they host their own DNS, and will not show up as ever having changed because dailychanges.com doesn't actually track who the registrar is that controls each domain.

This could mean that the numbers are actually quite higher. It could also mean that the numbers are quite a bit lower. Either way, the numbers provided do not accurately reflect how much business they have actually lost. It will take access to quite a bit more information before anyone can make a claim either way.

[ibby]

^ no one asked for an essay

[StyXoN]

And soon they're bankrupt

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^ no one asked for an essay

Well, those stats and the article that you have linked to are not 100% accurate.

[Myth?]

Let's see what more happens to GoDaddy. I never really liked them anyhow.

[Carbon]

Specifically, GoDaddy appears to be returning incomplete WHOIS information to Namecheap, delaying the transfer process. This practice is against ICANN rules.

GoDaddy is in trouble

[QuickSand]

They are Doing everything they can to hold on to clients,calling them and delaying transfers
lol pwnt

[Maniac_]

We are complying with SOPA... oh wait..

touche..

[devNULL]

http://venturebeat.com/2011/12/23/go-daddy-anti-sopa/

Domain and hosting site Go Daddy just announced that it no longer supports the recently proposed Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).

o.O