2 Days Loss From Transfers Out Of Godaddy.com: 37,000(thedomains.com) |
2 Days Loss From Transfers Out Of Godaddy.com: 37,000(thedomains.com) |
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
2. It'd be interesting to see where these domains went? Namecheap, Gandi, etc.
that being Monday (8,800), Tuesday (13,000) and Wednesday (14,500)."
However, godaddy is a pimple on the economy. Somehow, someway, this kind of activity needs to be multiplied 1000x.
Transfered In (20,034) Transferred Out (21,054)
1020 domains is nothing particularly comparing it to the total pointed there: 32,159,050
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.
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.
People using GoDaddy for both registration and DNS could find themselves in exactly the same predicament, so it makes sense that they'd want to do it carefully.
Other people have mentioned having to move Email as well, but I don't understand why people don't use Google Apps which is free and stops you from having to migrate your email all over the place when you switch hosts.
The person I replied to specified "major sites". How many major sites do you know that use GoDaddy to host their DNS?
The domains leaving are just the leading indicator. If they're going away, there's plenty of reason to believe that other customers, that will hurt them more, are working on the issue.