GoDaddy loses 72,354 domains this week alone

Even if this was all the lost accounts (it isn't).. this article is irrelevant. Last year during the same 7 day span, 88,401 left. 12/17/2010-12/23/2010<p><a href="http://www.dailychanges.com/domaincontrol.com/2010-12-17/" rel="nofollow">http://www.dailychanges.com/domaincontrol.com/2010-12-17/</a><p>Also a month ago, between 11/10-11/16 110,278 domains left.

Relevant comment on reddit as to why this isn't exactly accurate:<p><a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/npj2q/godaddy_lost_21000_domains_yesterday/c3ay6yu" rel="nofollow">http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/npj2q/godaddy_lost...</a>

It seems everyone is just too trigger happy to try to report success with the GoDaddy boycott.<p>The reality is that everyone need to be patient to get any real numbers. The domain registration transfer process is not immediate, it typically takes 3-5 days to complete, so it's improbable to actually know that exact number (unless you work at goDaddy and are pulling raw transfer request data). The real numbers on the success or failure of the boycott campaign will be seen in the upcoming weeks.

And registered more than that.<p>New Domains (32,437)<p>Transferred In (20,034)<p>Transferred Out (21,054)<p>Deleted Domains (31,047)

Listen, no matter how large or small a domain is - it is still a <i>single</i> entity. Wikipedia moving off of GoDaddy is the same as thisisthebestdomaineverwtf.com moving off of GoDaddy.<p>Unfortunately, it is going to take a lot more to make an impact on GoDaddy. For GoDaddy, this is a fart in the wind.

Note: This is a repost from a previous thread.<p>This is great and all but I don't really see a boycott as being such an effective solution.<p>The problem with boycotts is they are based on the following things:<p>1) The spending power of the boycotter. 2) The potential spend of the boycotter on the relevant service/product. 3) The amount of influence you have over others to boycott.<p>So whilst you can move your handful of personal domains that you were using for your hobby website or small startup elsewhere, the biggest spenders on domains I would imagine are going to be medium-large businesses.<p>These are much more cautious to join a boycott unless there is obvious PR benefit (e.g fairtrade or animal testing free products spring to mind) because they are beholden to shareholders and are generally conservative when it comes to changing suppliers unless there is a clear cost-benefit. The only people in the organization that are likely to care about this will be the techies who unless they are the CIO/CTO do not have the influence to affect domain purchasing decisions.<p>The conversation probably goes approximately like this:<p>Boss: Good day underling! Please secure us the following list of 100 domain names from the great godaddy, lord of the DNS!<p>Techie: But sir , we shouldn't use godaddy. There is an active boycott because of SOPA, how about company X instead?<p>Boss: What is this SOPA of which you speak?<p>Techie: <i>explains SOPA</i><p>Boss: Damn hippies! I neither understand nor care for their plight, godaddy is cheaper and we already have an account with them. I know not of this company X, do they advertise at the superbowl?<p>Techie: but...<p>Boss: Please do as I command and grace godaddy with our pieces of silver.<p>Techie: <i>enters company credit card details at godaddy.com</i>

That's just a list of domains that left their name service. A lot of domains that used different name servers probably transferred away too.

Funny.. the site shows how 72k domains means nothing against 32 million domains and the new/leaving ratio is nearly 1:1. I am wondering why godaddy even cares... they could think "ok, some domains will leave, but nobody will talk about it in 2 weeks". :(

Sadly, at the very same time they have registered more than that, and above all, they are still managing 32,142,859 domains.<p>In other words, they make at least $350MM a year from domain registration only, let alone their other <i>services</i> such as php/asp hosting and POP3.<p>But there is no doubt there was an impact for that move-out-from-godaddy call.

How does that compare to a normal week for them?

Also, is it possible for GoDaddy to register a bunch of domain names for themselves so to make it look like the difference (outgoing - incoming) is not that much? This will certainly cost them a lot but feels like right now they are more concerned about saving the brand name than the money. Also, in the long run they can sell those domain back (or even better for them - put the domains on auction).

How exactly is that number being calculated?

That's…not that many.

Maybe we'll stop seeing super bowl ads from these guys if people keep pulling their domains.<p>I am happy to say I moved my domains away from them 2 years ago.

If SOPA passes and you've moved your domain to namecheap, you're still stuffed. Suddenly all those Libya domains(.ly) doesn't sound to stupid!

This is so inspiring.