That is pretty crazy and I think Bob has fallen off the rocker. I am surprised the GoDaddy girls weren't there shooting guns topless at helpless animals as well. I would recommend you move your domains on over to Economical Domains and get a free year of registration with every transfer.
I guess I erred earlier. If the $20,433 amount represents the $1 or 20% for every $4.99 transfer to NameCheap, then that means about 20,433 domains indeed moved over as some of you might've said since then. And that's just over a week span so far.
Agreed. Anyway, namecheap can't be compared with godaddy, Namecheap is just s reseller, just like OrderDN.com is. I transferred only a .info domain from godaddy to namecheap, just because it was near to expire, but will turn it back to godaddy, or any other registrar, just to not sponsor namecheap's "way of marketing (lie)".
Why not be smarter and just go to domainsite.com or something with a clean reputation and fair prices all together.
Heh, off-topic a bit...DomainSite isn't exactly clean either. They allegedly engaged what was then called domain tasting, got sued by Neiman Marcus, and the parties settled. In fairness, they've stayed clean since then. Things have changed after that.
You should not make it a big deal. It's just a publicity stunt. Moniker has just also involved in Privacy Protection Scandal when one of their employees disclosed one of their customer's private data.
TDNAM is an awesome place for buying good domains in auction.. But I always prefer Namecheap & name.com for registering new domains... Thousands of webmasters hates godaddy. Here is an example: http://nodaddy.com/
Oh snap: "Domain registrar Namecheap said thousands of outraged customers transferred 20,433 Web domains to their service in the fallout over a graphic hunting video showing GoDaddy chief Bob Parsons shooting an elephant. A spokesperson for the small L.A.-based registrar said that a “majority†of the transfers were from GoDaddy, and that a special “Save the Elephants†deal rolled out after the scandal reaped $80,000 in revenue."
It's finally in: http://www.webhosting.info/registrars/reports/gain_details/GODADDY.COM/ Again, it's not necessarily authoritative. But if the numbers are right, Go Daddy posted a gain nonetheless from week 3/28-4/04 when the video was posted.
Yes, but then lost about 100,000 domains at April 4. See here. Net gain on March 28 is 114,033, then on April 4 the gain is only 19,864. The loss is almost 100,000. Very bad