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Bye Daddy: Search who hasn't fled GoDaddy yet

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I don't like it :

* SOPA isn't mentioned on the page.

* The reason of " hate " isn't clear. Hating someting just because it's hip is nonsense.

* "Top searched domains list" is useless, you have to list the domains that gave promise but doesn't act.

* Again, in a clear text : It's not about GoDaddy, it's about SOPA.

Actually, it's very much not about SOPA and all about GoDaddy. All this hate for GD has been simmering underground and has just been waiting to explode. Even before SOPA people been have been talking about leaving GoDaddy.

Click on the link "Why ByeDaddy?"

I still don't get how a few thousand lost domains hurt when godaddy has over 32 million..

Idea: Wouldn't it make sense to build a website that lists SOPA supporters, how to cancel subscriptions step-by-step (in case of godaddy) or listing competitors (in case of L'Oreal, etc.)? Something easy enough for the non-techies. Something that describes in small bulletpoints how evil SOPA/PROTECT-IP is (and thus the supporting companies).. Most people probably don't care about godaddy, but i'm sure more people care about L’Oreal, Tiffany&Co, Pfizer. I'm not american so it's hard to tell how much attention those companies and SOPA gets in general.. on HN it's all about godaddy and nothing about the rest, though.

In short, i'm wondering if the resources to build such websites couldn't be used better (pointing out companies that the general public knows about).. just saying..

"I still don't get how a few thousand lost domains hurt when godaddy has over 32 million."

Probably never hurt them financially. What they may not like is the idea that leaving GoDaddy is a thing, and not using GoDaddy is a thing.

Wow, so we are making McCarthy style blacklists now? This seems a little too far.

My thoughts exactly. Witch hunting season generally leads to poor discourse.

It's only a witch-hunt when the accusations aren't true.

Careful, folks, it takes a while to transfer domains. The ones I transferred are still with Go Daddy. It's probably the same deal for wikipedia and stackoverflow.

I have one domain still registered under Go Daddy. It was originally registered through Google Apps, which at that time only offered Go Daddy as their "partner" Domain Registrar.

Currently Google offer eNom, inc. as the alternative to Go Daddy, which I'm not too fond of.

I'd like to move this one domain to another registrar without causing troubles to my Google App service.

As long as your DNS settings are correct when it's transferred, you won't have a problem.

Most registrars and DNS providers also have a checkbox to auto fill out Google Apps details. I know name.com and PowerDNS do.

I find it amusing that godaddy.com is the second most searched for domain.

Are there really people on HN who do not know how to use whois?

This means nothing. I initiated transfers away from Godaddy a week ago, and they still haven't gone through. See:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3393263

doesn't seem to work. I still have one domain that is not pointing at anything at the moment but is registered with godaddy (will move it soon!) and byedaddy says it "doesn't appear registered with GoDaddy"?

Same with one of mine. I'm wondering whether the site is merely checking to see if the domain is using godaddy's name servers (mine don't) rather than lookup and parse the Whois info (the only way to really tell).

I can confirm that. Try for example: stackoverflow.com or github.com

fixed, now it's reliable

"The domain "boxsocial.fm" doesn't appear registered with GoDaddy."

Another one to test against as I've not moved it yet.

A better way to fight GoDaddy other than a boycott: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3393177

To the people who don't want to click through an another HN submission, then again to a google+ status update (c'mon...):

Google bomb them by including a link to namecheap on all of your web pages.

The archlinux.org transfer is in progress. I'd imagine the domain-transfer tubes are a bit clogged right now, given the mass exodus from GoDaddy.

But GoDaddy reversed their stance on SOPA. Did the makers of this site miss that news?

You're kidding, right? They didn't reverse anything - that "reversal" is PR chaff at its finest. Their congressional support for SOPA (the only thing that actually matters) has not been withdrawn.

Wikipedia! and XKCD?! That's disappointing...

I tested this with a few domains which are registered at GoDaddy and it says they are not registered at Godaddy.

It looks like this is pulling the GoDaddy DNS (since none of my domains use the GoDaddy DNS) rather than if the domain is actually registered at GoDaddy or not.

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