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Wow. Just wow. Having been to Africa and seen elephants in the wild up close, among other animals, I simply can't stomach that I'm supporting a bunch of fat wh
by run4yourlives 16y ago
Wow. Just wow.
Having been to Africa and seen elephants in the wild up close, among other animals, I simply can't stomach that I'm supporting a bunch of fat white Americans flying half way around the world to destroy a magnificent animal simply because they can.
I'll be moving my domains away from GoDaddy asap.
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- malvim 16y agoI've been thinking of moving for some time now (even before I watched this video). My question is: how? They kind of own my domain names now, how can I simply change registrars?
- elliottcarlson 16y agoTransfer to: Gandi: https://www.gandi.net/domain/transfer https://www.gandi.net/domain/transfer 1and1: http://order.1and1.com/xml/order/DomaininfoMove http://order.1and1.com/xml/order/DomaininfoMove NameCheap: http://community.namecheap.com/blog/2011/03/30/elephants/ http://community.namecheap.com/blog/2011/03/30/elephants/ Basically go to any registrars home page and either search for "Transfer" on the page itself or in their search box if provided. They will all offer it together with easy how to steps - and I am sure their support team will help as well. They want your business and will make it as easy as possible.
- ericmoritz 16y agoI've been slowly transferring my domains to Gandi as they expire, you have to love their tag line.
- tnorthcutt 16y agoI'd encourage you to avoid 1and1. Horrendous customer service, crippled control panels, etc.
- adamcw 16y agoI've also had horrendous customer service from 1and1. Minor billing problems for several months on end, which would have likely been easily remedied if they had competent phone support. (This was about 3 years ago, so maybe they've gotten better since then. They have already lost my business, and they'd be hard pressed to win it back.)
- lwhi 16y ago1and1 are quite simply the WORST company I have ever done business with. Avoid them like the plague. I've been using namecheap for a couple of years, and I'm very happy with them.
- friendstock 16y agoRegarding 1and1 --- agreed! We had a bit of trouble with them on credit card billing... Also, we found it hard to use their interface to change configuration settings.
- Smrchy 16y ago100% agree on that. I had a DSL contract with them in Germany and moved to another town where i had internet via cable included. They insisted that i have to keep paying for another 18 months with no way to cancel the contract early. I paid and will avoid 1and1 for the rest of my life.
- elliottcarlson 16y agoWe use them at work - not a fan but haven't had any issues. Personally I use Gandi and love them. Another one to avoid like the plague imho is dotster - lost a domain via dotster, even though my payment was accepted and then returned a week later. Domain briefly showed up with whois information of the CEO, and then it changed.
- wazoox 16y agoI hereby confirms that 1and1 stinks.
- ErrantX 16y agoI happily recommend Gandi myself; ben switching all my domains there for the past year or so and couldn't be happier.
- nas 16y agoAnother vote for Gandi. I've been using them for about 6 years. No bullshit.
- mitjak 16y agoHere is a step-by-step guide on how to transfer the domain away from GoDaddy. It's to a registrar unknown to me but the instructions will work for any registrar, and the guide is new enough to use the current version of GoDaddy's craptastic UI: http://support.tigertech.net/godaddy.com http://support.tigertech.net/godaddy.com
- Refringe 16y agoI just moved all of mine to Hover.com They have great customer service.
- jtheory 16y agoGoDaddy doesn't own your domains at all, and they'll be more than happy to help you transfer away to a competitor. It's simple! Just find the place in the GoDaddy UI to unlock your domains, then the other place to request the authorization code required to transfer the domains (you need to request this in an email per domain), then disable private registration if you have that enabled (but don't change your personal info, or you'll have to wait another 2 months), then wait for the correct registration info to propagate (wait a day to be safe, because if you do this wrong it really gets tricky), then start the transfer process at the competing registrar, and follow similarly byzantine steps with them. At some point, GoDaddy will send you an email telling you that you can confirm the transfer, but they don't mention how. Instead, they give you the steps how to cancel the transfer. Follow those steps, if you can (make sure to click on the correct "My account" link or you'll never find the right forms) and just change the last step to say "confirm" rather than "cancel". A few days will pass, and then your domain will be transferred! Now, was that so hard?
- __david__ 16y agoI've been moving my domains one by one away from godaddy as they expire, and I can confirm that this is the general procedure. The only thing different for me is that it all seems to happen in about 30 minutes. I'm using dynadot.com as my new registrar and the domains seem to transfer very quickly. So quickly that I've tempted luck a couple times and transferred on the day the domains expire. I know, I know, but it all worked out O.K. But I'd recommend doing it a couple weeks early, just in case.
- aeden 16y agoI put together a step-by-step guide on how to prepare domains for transfer out of GoDaddy: http://blog.dnsimple.com/post/3167427271/preparing-domains-in-godaddy-for-transfer-out http://blog.dnsimple.com/post/3167427271/preparing-domains-i... Naturally I'd love if you used DNSimple, but this will work for transferring out to any other registrar.
- joshmanders 16y agoYou should move your domains away for reasons like constant up sales and other crappy tactics to keep you from your domains, not because the CEO shot a elephant in a different country.
- malvim 16y agoAnd that's exactly why I want to move, I just didn't know how and saw the opportunity in this thread to get some help (also, OP, sorry for the small hijacking). I've never seen an elephant in the wild and don't know Zimbabwe nearly well enough to know how much of a problem elephants in general (and this one in particular) are. The whole attitude, though... Something akin to "here I am to save the day", or something like that... That I don't like, and it adds to the poor customer experience. So, there. :)
- aridiculous 16y agoAgreed. There are millions of people getting scammed and ruined by fat-cats everywhere, and an elephant is what it takes for people to get mad? Wake up, everyone. I hate asshats like the GoDaddy CEO just as much as you do, but this self-righteous indignation is at The View levels right now.
- mitjak 16y agoPerhaps some of us care more about endangered species than those getting scammed around the world? Just a thought.
- cookiecaper 16y agoAfrican elephants aren't an endangered species.
- mitjak 16y agoMaybe not technically, but the African Bush Elephant going down from 300,000 in 1970 to 10,000 today is a very significant drop.
- jhancock 16y ago>> I'll be moving my domains away from GoDaddy asap. I moved all my domains, ~30, from GoDaddy about 18 months ago. It was a slog. There was no "asap" to it. It took about 2 months to get them all moved over to namecheap. Transfers gets curtailed for various reasons and the current registrar is usually little help in solving the mysteries. I'm telling you this not to take the wind from your sails but to prep you for a bit more effort. The reason for my move was the full-on "retail experience" of GoDaddy. It just didn't work for me anymore. I wanted a more spartan registrar.
- d_r 16y agoI also transferred all my domains from GoDaddy to NameCheap in the past year and never looked back. I was tired of having to navigate a maze of circa-1995-UI pages filled with upselling. Want to change your DNS settings? Oh, look for that teeny tiny link in the corner. Want to turn on domain privacy? That'll be another $9.95, and you have to log in to a different site with a different username+password to manage that. Admittedly, GoDaddy has a genius business model IMO. The confusing UI is what probably makes them their bucks.
- capstone 16y agoI've moved about a dozen domains away from GoDaddy over the last year. The time savings (less spam, cleaner interface) well exceeded the effort involved.
- shiftpgdn 16y agoI just got done moving 100 domains over to ResellerClub from GoDaddy. The API really sold it for me and it makes it was easier to manage them all.