How to move your domains off GoDaddy

This How-to is missing the first step (disabling the "domain proxy") which GoDaddy automatically configured if you registered the domain in the past few years.<p>- log in to GD and go to the domain manager. Go to each domain individually and check to see if the domain privacy proxy is turned on. If it is, it means that your whois info is being proxied by <a href="http://domainsbyproxy.com/" rel="nofollow">http://domainsbyproxy.com/</a> (it seems to be a sister site to GD). You need to find your account number for DBP which they would have sent to you when you reg'd the domain. You need to login to DBP and disable the proxy for all of your domains.

It is hard to believe the author because he uses a referral id in his link to Namecheap without a disclosure: "www.namecheap.com/?aid=88&#38;rid=136544"<p>Having saying that, I don't know if Namecheap is better or worse than Godaddy.

I spent a couple weeks moving all my domains off of GoDaddy last year. All the registrars I used ended up sucking even more. I then reluctantly moved them all <i>back</i> to GoDaddy. It was a painful experience I don't plan on repeating.

There are plenty of stories of registrars going out of business, killing websites in the process when their lookups die.<p>I have never had a problem with GoDaddy and use them for all of my own domain names as well as my clients'. I've never had anything but good experiences with them and I'm not worried that they'll shutter the place tomorrow.<p>If you feel good about registering your names with "NameCheap" and confident they'll be around, go for it. I wish you the best of luck.

i hate how godaddy's advertising. it is so in your face that even when your a customer it is a pain to get anything done. even if you purchased everything they offered you still see it all.

You can pretty much Google "[any company] sucks" and get a billion hits. It hasn't meant anything in roughly 5 years.<p>"Apple sucks" returns about 8x as many entries as GoDaddy. All it really means is that way more people use Apple products than GoDaddy.