{"id":24773,"date":"2011-12-22T23:24:26","date_gmt":"2011-12-23T06:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/22\/go-daddy-go.html"},"modified":"2011-12-23T22:27:31","modified_gmt":"2011-12-24T05:27:31","slug":"go-daddy-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/22\/go-daddy-go.html","title":{"rendered":"Go, Daddy, Go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#39;ve felt mildly sketchy over using GoDaddy as my domain registrar.  Service-wise, they&#39;ve been fine, but policy-wise they&#39;ve been a growing nightmare (<a href=\"http:\/\/kottke.org\/11\/12\/the-internets-go-daddy-issues\" >http:\/\/kottke.org\/11\/12\/the-internets-go-daddy-issues<\/a>).  Their support for SOPA is the last straw for many, probably myself included.<\/p>\n<p>So here&#39;s a guide for transferring domains from GoDaddy to someone else. The example uses NameCheap, but does anyone else have a domain registrar to recommend? #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.tumblr.com%2Ftumblr_lwmg9daJTY1qatzm3.png' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/blog.jeffepstein.me\/post\/14629857835\/a-step-by-step-guide-to-transfer-domains-out-of-godaddy'>livin&#39; the dream \u00b7 A Step-by-Step Guide to Transfer Domains Out Of GoDaddy<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tA Step-by-Step Guide to Transfer Domains Out Of GoDaddy Follow these step-by-step directions to transfer all of your domains from GoDaddy to NameCheap. I\u2019m Boycotting GoDaddy because they are&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#39;ve felt mildly sketchy over using GoDaddy as my domain registrar. Service-wise, they&#39;ve been fine, but policy-wise they&#39;ve been a growing nightmare (http:\/\/kottke.org\/11\/12\/the-internets-go-daddy-issues). Their support for SOPA is the last straw for many, probably myself included. So here&#39;s a guide for transferring domains from GoDaddy to someone else. The example uses NameCheap, but does &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/22\/go-daddy-go.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Go, Daddy, Go&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,55,28,9],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-24773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-blogging-technical","category-media-moguls","category-politics-law","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24806,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/24\/some-alternatives-to-godaddy.html","url_meta":{"origin":24773,"position":0},"title":"Some alternatives to GoDaddy","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 24-Dec-11 11:08am","format":false,"excerpt":"Apparently a lot of registrars are offering some special no-SOPA switch-from-GoDaddy offers to take advantage of GoDaddy's SOPA gaffes. 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