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You've got to bear in mind that this is domains moved off GoDaddy's nameservers, and I imagine a large percentage of transfered domains would already have non-godaddy nameservers.

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Exactly. This data is somewhere between uninformative to downright deceptive if we're trying to get a handle on how many domains were actually moved to different registrars. As a proxy, dns servers seems somewhat poor to me.

Agreed, this sort of thing harms any sort of boycott by making things look ineffective or perhaps less effective.

I know that for the 40 or so domains I transferred off of Godaddy none of them used Godaddy's nameservers. Indeed it's ill advised to use your registrars nameservers.

I would encourage you to take this analysis down less it get picked up by conventional media.

I agree - Namecheap reported over 32,000 domains transferred to them on the 29th Dec (http://www.namecheap.com/moveyourdomainday.aspx), but this isn't reflected in the chart. Since those are just numbers from one registrar, I'd expect the overall number of transfers out to be higher.

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