2 Days Loss From Transfers Out Of Godaddy.com: 37,000

http://www.thedomains.com/2011/12/24/2-days-loss-from-transfers-out-of-godaddy-com-37000/

by terrellm • 15 years ago

76 29 15 years ago

Looks like GoDaddy didn't actually withdraw their SOPA support: http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/npair/godaddy_ha...

science_robot• 15 years ago

in domains not dollars.

eps• 15 years ago

1. And their typical daily transfer-out rate is...

2. It'd be interesting to see where these domains went? Namecheap, Gandi, etc.

yuhong3• 15 years ago

"It should also be noted that for the three days prior to the call for the boycott on Thursday, Godaddy had this amount of transfers out:

that being Monday (8,800), Tuesday (13,000) and Wednesday (14,500)."

kayhi• 15 years ago

I would imagine that Namecheap (et. al.) may be able to put up their influx of domains as a hot PR issue.

lewispb2• 15 years ago

This is surely just tracking nameserver records (pointing to the Go Daddy domaincontrol.com domain), the actual number of domains transferred in or out may be higher.

FreeKill• 15 years ago

Also, unless people are on top of it, it takes more than 5 days usually to transfer a domain. I'd imagine most people who transferred will be waiting through that window of time rather than digging for the hidden confirm quickly option.

yuhong3• 15 years ago

Not to mention many major sites are taking a while to transfer because they want to avoid downtime.

citricsquid• 15 years ago

No, whois reports the registrar that manages the domain, the DNS is irrelevant. For example: http://whois.domaintools.com/citricsquid.com switch to "Registration" profile, "ICANN Registrar:GODADDY.COM, INC."

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.

yummies• 15 years ago

Not a very useful statistic considering they must process thousands of transfers a day due to regular business activity. A better stat might be % increase or at least the number of transfers above the average. Admittedly, that would make for a far less catchy blog post.

powertower• 15 years ago

Seriously misleading title.

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.

yuhong3• 15 years ago

This is only what was transferred so far though. Many major sites are taking a while to transfer because they want to avoid downtime.

RKearney2• 15 years ago

There is zero downtime when you transfer a domain.

gerggerg• 15 years ago

I seriously doubt that GoDaddy gives a shit about this.

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.

noahc• 15 years ago

In general you don't want to piss off your best customers. The type of person who owns 20+ domains is the type of person you want as a customer (lower support costs, lower cost per customer acquisition).

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.

kinkora• 15 years ago

you forget to factor in future sales.

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.

stock_toaster• 15 years ago

Not to mention renewals. I hear of a few people with hundreds of domains that don't want to renew all at once. So they are going to let them near expiration and just transfer them away as they get closer to expiry, so as to spread the cost out.

nonce34234• 15 years ago

If a company turns a profit of $20,000 a day, and then suddenly it turns a profit of $1 a day, do you think that is not going to catch their attention, despite not being a loss in absolute terms?

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.

jpdoctor• 15 years ago

Whether 37,000 is a big number or not: Kudos to the community for making themselves heard.

However, godaddy is a pimple on the economy. Somehow, someway, this kind of activity needs to be multiplied 1000x.

mmatey• 15 years ago

Ok.. This is either just way off or I'm not reading this correctly. They had nearly as many transferred in than transferred out yesterday.

Transfered In (20,034) Transferred Out (21,054)

1020 domains is nothing particularly comparing it to the total pointed there: 32,159,050

pokoleo• 15 years ago

how long until they realize that it's not spelled reditt?

jvandenbroeck• 15 years ago

if I interpreted the source of the article correctly, then the article makes a big mistake, they count the domains that change from godaddies nameservers. If you don't host with godaddy it wouldn't show in the statistics. Check the link to which the article refers.

2 Days Loss From Transfers Out Of Godaddy.com: 37,000

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