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Comment by amitagrawal | Hacker News Reader

Actually, it will. What if a 1000 customers like you who own 10 domains do it at the same day?

They sure HAVE to notice it. I've already transferred my domains and I'll make sure I won't buy any from GoDaddy again.

GoDaddy already has one of the scammiest UIs I've ever come across (with a possible exception of, maybe, MySpace) and the recent elephant killing was the last straw!

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It's a private company, run by a very opinionated individual with a demonstrated lack of concern for the feelings of others.

He might notice, but he's making so much money that I really doubt he cares.

Well, you're right - he might not care but next time he'd think a million times before killing yet another helpless creature and posting a shameless video of it.

But where to transfer to? NameCheap? 1&1?

I have had my domains with Name.com as well as NameCheap for more than half a decade.

Name.com's interface is a little confusing and NameCheap have great customer service!

Gandi.net seems to have a good reputation here on HN, and I like them myself.

I liked Gandi.net's attitude but I couldn't get over their prices. I ended up at dynadot.com which has a fairly busy home page but a pretty clean UI when dealing with your account. It's prices are more in line with what I expect and they seem to have a good reputation.

Gandi is slightly more expensive than GoDaddy on domains with no extras, but if you want to anonymize your whois data, the combined price of the domain + the anonymization is cheaper with Gandi than with GoDaddy.

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