When the story first broke about the Godaddy boycott or "move your domain away" movement to protest Godaddy's support of SOPA, it was two weeks ago on December 22nd. A few days later, we released numbers based off of DailyChanges.com which we acknowledged were only a best guess based on changes made to Godaddy's default servers of DomainControl.com and promised as soon as we had actual numbers … [Read more...]
Moniker.com Falls To Number 11, As FastDomain.com Passes Them
According to RegistrarStats.com, Moniker.com just fell to the 11th largest domain name registrar being passed by FastDomain.com During 2011 FastDomain.com picked up around 800,000 registrations while Moniker which was the 7th largest registrar at the beginning of 2011. During 2011 Moniker.com lost about 8o0,000 domains under management and sits right over 2 Million domain names. I don't … [Read more...]
BigRock Tells Its Customers Verisign’s Price Increase Is A LOT Higher Than It Is
BigRock.com is an ICANN Accredited registrar, that is one of the major tags used by SnapNames.com to catch domain names on the drop. I just received an email from them today about the Verisign's price increase which goes into effect January 15th. ""Dear Customer, As your account manager, I would like to inform you of an imminent change in Verisign Registry pricing." "From early January … [Read more...]
1&1 Takes a Stand Against SOPA & PIPA & Asks Customers To Join The Fight
1 and 1, one of the largest hosting companies in the world, and a domain name registrar, this morning sent an email to it current customers telling them why they oppose both the Protect-IP (PIPA) and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and why customers should join the fight against the current bills. Its a much different tactic taken than other registrars that have taken Godaddy former support … [Read more...]
UPDATE: Godaddy Loses 28,000 More Domains On Saturday
Yesterday we reported on the two day loss from domain names transferred out of Godaddy.com to other domain name registrars in like of their former support of the SOPA Bill. As a quick update DailyChanges.com reported an additional 28,656 domain names transferred out of Godaddy.com. It should be noted that this figure only includes domain names that use Godaddy.com default servers and does … [Read more...]
2 Days Loss From Transfers Out Of Godaddy.com: 37,000
On Thursday as you probably know by now, a poster on Reditt.com called for people to move their domain names away from Godaddy calling December 29th as the day to do so. Yesterday Godaddy.com reversed it position in the early afternoon EST pulling its support for the SOPA Bill. So the remaining question is how many domain names got transferred on Thursday and Friday. We can tell you over … [Read more...]
Facing A Boycott Godaddy Caves In On SOPA & Now “No Longer Supports It”
Wow that was quick. One day after a post on Reddit called for a boycott of Godaddy.com due to its support of the "Stop Online Piracy Act" (SOPA), Godaddy.com just issued a statement saying it no longer supports it. """Go Daddy is no longer supporting SOPA, the "Stop Online Piracy Act" currently working its way through U.S. Congress. "Fighting online piracy is of the utmost importance, … [Read more...]