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

76 points by terrellm 15y ago

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cloudwalking 15y ago
Looks like GoDaddy didn't actually withdraw their SOPA support: http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/npair/godaddy_has_not_withdrawn_its_official/ http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/npair/godaddy_ha...
science_robot 15y ago
in domains not dollars.
eps 15y ago
1. And their typical daily transfer-out rate is... 2. It'd be interesting to see where these domains went? Namecheap, Gandi, etc.
- yuhong 15y ago
  "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)."
- kayhi 15y ago
  I would imagine that Namecheap (et. al.) may be able to put up their influx of domains as a hot PR issue.
lewispb 15y ago
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.
- FreeKill 15y ago
  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.
  - yuhong 15y ago
    Not to mention many major sites are taking a while to transfer because they want to avoid downtime.
    - lewispb 15y ago
      When you transfer a domain and keep the nameservers the same, there will be no downtime at all.
- citricsquid 15y ago
  No, whois reports the registrar that manages the domain, the DNS is irrelevant. For example: http://whois.domaintools.com/citricsquid.com http://whois.domaintools.com/citricsquid.com switch to "Registration" profile, "ICANN Registrar:GODADDY.COM, INC." 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.
yummies 15y ago
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.
powertower 15y ago
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.
- kinkora 15y ago
  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 sales.
  - stock_toaster 15y ago
    Not to mention renewals. I hear of a few people with hundreds of domains that don't want to renew all at once. So they are going to let them near expiration and just transfer them away as they get closer to expiry, so as to spread the cost out.
- yuhong 15y ago
  This is only what was transferred so far though. Many major sites are taking a while to transfer because they want to avoid downtime.
  - RKearney 15y ago
    There is zero downtime when you transfer a domain.
agj 15y ago
Minus the mean of transfers out this week = 11800 total. That probably doesn't equate to very much profit loss. It's good that people are voting with their money, but we need to move away from the GoDaddy circlejerk -- there are plenty of other targets. Also, 21000 + 15000 = 36000, but that's besides the point.
jpdoctor 15y ago
Whether 37,000 is a big number or not: Kudos to the community for making themselves heard. However, godaddy is a pimple on the economy. Somehow, someway, this kind of activity needs to be multiplied 1000x.
mmatey 15y ago
Ok.. This is either just way off or I'm not reading this correctly. They had nearly as many transferred in than transferred out yesterday. Transfered In (20,034) Transferred Out (21,054) 1020 domains is nothing particularly comparing it to the total pointed there: 32,159,050
pokoleo 15y ago
how long until they realize that it's not spelled reditt?
jvandenbroeck 15y ago
if I interpreted the source of the article correctly, then the article makes a big mistake, they count the domains that change from godaddies nameservers. If you don't host with godaddy it wouldn't show in the statistics. Check the link to which the article refers.

76 points by terrellm 15y ago

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Looks like GoDaddy didn't actually withdraw their SOPA support: http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/npair/godaddy_has_not_withdrawn_its_official/ http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/npair/godaddy_ha...

science_robot 15y ago

in domains not dollars.

eps 15y ago

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

yuhong 15y ago
"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)."
kayhi 15y ago
I would imagine that Namecheap (et. al.) may be able to put up their influx of domains as a hot PR issue.

lewispb 15y ago

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.

FreeKill 15y ago
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.
- yuhong 15y ago
  Not to mention many major sites are taking a while to transfer because they want to avoid downtime.
  - lewispb 15y ago
    When you transfer a domain and keep the nameservers the same, there will be no downtime at all.
citricsquid 15y ago
No, whois reports the registrar that manages the domain, the DNS is irrelevant. For example: http://whois.domaintools.com/citricsquid.com http://whois.domaintools.com/citricsquid.com switch to "Registration" profile, "ICANN Registrar:GODADDY.COM, INC." 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.

yummies 15y ago

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.

powertower 15y ago

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.

kinkora 15y ago
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 sales.
- stock_toaster 15y ago
  Not to mention renewals. I hear of a few people with hundreds of domains that don't want to renew all at once. So they are going to let them near expiration and just transfer them away as they get closer to expiry, so as to spread the cost out.
yuhong 15y ago
This is only what was transferred so far though. Many major sites are taking a while to transfer because they want to avoid downtime.
- RKearney 15y ago
  There is zero downtime when you transfer a domain.

agj 15y ago

Minus the mean of transfers out this week = 11800 total. That probably doesn't equate to very much profit loss. It's good that people are voting with their money, but we need to move away from the GoDaddy circlejerk -- there are plenty of other targets. Also, 21000 + 15000 = 36000, but that's besides the point.

jpdoctor 15y ago

Whether 37,000 is a big number or not: Kudos to the community for making themselves heard. However, godaddy is a pimple on the economy. Somehow, someway, this kind of activity needs to be multiplied 1000x.

mmatey 15y ago

Ok.. This is either just way off or I'm not reading this correctly. They had nearly as many transferred in than transferred out yesterday. Transfered In (20,034) Transferred Out (21,054) 1020 domains is nothing particularly comparing it to the total pointed there: 32,159,050

pokoleo 15y ago

how long until they realize that it's not spelled reditt?

jvandenbroeck 15y ago

if I interpreted the source of the article correctly, then the article makes a big mistake, they count the domains that change from godaddies nameservers. If you don't host with godaddy it wouldn't show in the statistics. Check the link to which the article refers.