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GoDaddy Boycott Fizzled

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It looks like the GoDaddy boycott was a wash. Even though thousands of people deleted or transferred domains away from GoDaddy...twice as many people brought their business to the company. :(

Even though the company notes that it saw "a spike in domain name transfers," it looks like the actual "boycott" day fizzled out. Looking at the results from DailyChanges shows that GoDaddy actually had a strongly positive day, netting 20,748 more domains at the end of the day than the beginning. On transfers alone, there were nearly double the number of transfers in as out (27,843 in to 14,492 out) as well as more new registrations than deleted domains (43,304 new registrations compared to 35,907 deletions).
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While they may have netted more than they lost, I would imagine it was a very low period for them.
 
Exactly. They didn't say what type of business they lost or what type they gained.

If they lost 1000s of people paying for monthly website maintenance, and only gained 1000s of people parking domain names... well... we will find out at the end of quarter statements. Maybe.
 
Maybe Bob Parsons purchased bobparsons1.com all the way through bobparsons25000.com :p
 
numbers are a sham. I've seen so many different numbers from lots of sources, go daddy just wants to muddle the waters.
 
Advil said:
Exactly. They didn't say what type of business they lost or what type they gained.

If they lost 1000s of people paying for monthly website maintenance, and only gained 1000s of people parking domain names... well... we will find out at the end of quarter statements. Maybe.
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GoDaddy is a private company. They do not have to publicly disclose their quarterly statements.
 
It is all the people who want their domains protected since go daddy is exempt from soap
 
The other aspect to consider is that GoDaddy's been caught trying to block domain transfers. How many of those domains staying ended up TRYING to transfer to somewhere else but could not?
 
caught blocking transfers?

You mean that company which posted saying they were blocked, without contacting godaddy to see why, and without trying to resolve the issue, just putting it out there to create more buzz for their own company with sensationalist news?

Godaddy put the olive branch forward and unblocked all the IP's they knew of from that company.. and posted openly they unblocked them from the spam protection, and if any IP's are still blocked let them know

They still need to burn for supporting SOPA, but they were not blocking transfers.
 
LordCalin said:
caught blocking transfers?

You mean that company which posted saying they were blocked, without contacting godaddy to see why, and without trying to resolve the issue, just putting it out there to create more buzz for their own company with sensationalist news?

Godaddy put the olive branch forward and unblocked all the IP's they knew of from that company.. and posted openly they unblocked them from the spam protection, and if any IP's are still blocked let them know

They still need to burn for supporting SOPA, but they were not blocking transfers.
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http://community.namecheap.com/blog/2011/12/26/godaddy-transfer-update/

Slight gotcha. They didn't do anything about it until they were publicly called out on it.
 
I'll quote the 3rd comment:
Meanwhile, over at NameCheap, they've gotten over 30K domains transferred in to them from GoDaddy, resulting in a contribution of over $60k ($2 per domain) to the EFF.

[url]https://www.namecheap.com/moveyourdomainday.aspx[/url]

There were about 10K domains transferred before yesterday, which means about 20K were transferred on the day of the boycott itself. Since NameCheap can't be the only registrar people were transferring their domains to, I have to assume that more went elsewhere. That doesn't jive with GoDaddy's figures of 15K transferred out. Someone is fudging somewhere.
 
All the newbys with new computers for Christmas and hadn't read of this Go Daddy article might of had an impact.
 
Forgot to mention that 35,907 deletions is that much less for Go Daddy.So they still took a hit, nothing to sneeze at.
 
Godaddy is just playing damage control by fudging their numbers.

I know of many many people that transferred domains away, including myself.
 
The post also misses the point. The boycott wasn't about hurting GoDaddy, but about eroding support for SOPA. What matters is keeping the issue in newspapers. This just shows that that many people cared enough about the bill to do something.

Companies like EA, Sony and Nintendo (IP holders that would theoretically stand to gain) withdrawing support goes to show that the boycott, as part of an overarching strategy to show the displeasure the bill causes, was effective.
 
The boycott for just one day was stupid. Really most people that have domain names they want to keep register it for multiple years. And none of them are going to jump ship and lose $10-Whatever dollars Godaddy already has from them.
 
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