Go Daddy lost 21,054 domains yesterday in wake of SOPA PR disaster

Go straight to the source[1], this post has made several convenient omissions.

According to The Domains, yes GoDaddy lost about 21,000 domains but they also gained roughly the same number of domains from other registrars on that day (and that trend held for other days this week where they "lost"). In other words, they don't have any significantly fewer customers today than they did a few days ago.

[1] http://www.thedomains.com/2011/12/24/2-days-loss-from-transf...

This is a terrible article. The number of people moving away are people moving away from GoDaddy's DNS servers, which does not necessarily have anything to do with the number of people using them as a registrar.

Convenient omissions from the article indeed. The reporter appears to have been in haste to be the first to make a timely report of the 'success' of the GoDaddy boycott.

You will need to be patient to get any real numbers. The domain registration transfer process can take 3-5 days to complete, so it's improbable to actually know anything right now! Real facts on the success or failure of the boycott campaign will be seen in the upcoming weeks.

Also for better tracking of how many domain registrations may or may not have lost keep an eye on webhostinginfo's charts. Specifically the market share percentage: http://www.webhosting.info/registrars/reports/GODADDY.COM

New Domains (32,437)

Transferred In (20,034)

Transferred Out (21,054)

Deleted Domains (31,047)