Godaddy lost 72,000 domains this week in protest of their support in SOPA.

[BrandonG]

http://www.techi.com/2011/12/godaddy-lost-72354-domains-this-week-its-not-enough/

I hope not to bring the controversial debate here to Namepros, considering a large majority of members here use GoDaddy, but this is quite an interesting read.

The link doesn't describe it much, but basically what occurred was that people found out about GoDaddy's supportive stance on SOPA. Protest spread all over the web and people are largely transferring their domains off of the company. Large websites such as wikipedia, pastebin and a few others have also publicly announced their transfer off the registrar. It's interesting because Godaddy claimed they would stop their support of SOPA publicly, but then behind closed doors it was found out they were lying and had actually refused to support anti-SOPA and agreed to continue supporting SOPA. The company lied, but I'm still enjoying my $6.99 domains and transfers.

 

[neroux]

I wonder how many animal lovers completely forgot about Bob killing that elephant (or whatever it was) a few years ago. ppl were gonna stop using GoDaddy because of it. Gee, that turned out well.

I just recently found out about that.
http://www.examiner.com/pet-rescue-in-national/go-daddy-ceo-bob-parsons-shoots-elephants

It is a shame that I have already transferred my domains from this company a few months ago, because now would be the perfect time.

Never ever again will this "person" see a single cent from me!

 

[RJ]

100 something of those outbound domains were mine... I'm just left with a couple recent domain purchases in my GoDaddy account (stuck in the 60 day no transfer window) and a few .TV's that need a new registrar since Fabulous doesn't do .TV.

SOPA sucks!

 

[Dave_Z]

Not to toot my horn, but I recently blogged about this as well. Feel free to have a look.

I also quoted from TheDomains since they mentioned some numbers from RegistrarStats, which also tries - as accurately as possible - to track domain registration stats among registrars. Namely:

http://www.thedomains.com/2012/01/0...-transferred-out-117k-domains-transferred-in/

The final tally:

100,000 domain names were transferred away from Godaddy

117,000 domain names were transferred into Godaddy.com

(Note: RegistrarStats is a paid service, though I'm sure it costs money to keep track of stats anyway. There's likely a portion there preventing paid members from exactly quoting from them, so TheDomains probably had to quote a give-or-take figure instead.)

 

[Lakshan]

SOPA sucks for sure. But where I transfer my domains? hmm...
Prices, Interface, Habit etc...