The great domain migration of 2011

In December my domains came up for renewal.  This happens every year, but 2011 was to be when I left GoDaddy.

You see I wasn’t that bothered by the ads, or even by the hunting. The real reason was it became so damn difficult to do anything. The continuous barrage of “upgrades” that were pushed, and multiple windows spawned every-time I clicked a link. But I only went in a few times  year so I was still dithering.

Luckily, GoDaddy’s involvement in the completely misguided H.R. 3261 bill (SOPA) was the final nail-in-the-coffin and, gave me a financial incentive with some companies offering transfer discounts.

Looking around I chose to go with hover.com, whom I heard about on a podcast (B2W I think). I can’t say enough good things about the service I got. Called them up and someone answered, no automated menu, and a couple of questions later they did the transfers for me. Awesome!

Hover still has a discount code of ‘SOPA’ which will get you a transfer for only $9 (until 1/31/12).