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Is the data collection methodology described somewhere? I'm questioning the accuracy given an error on our data (GoDaddy is not our registrar, namecheap is).

It's also a bit suspect that namecheap is not listed as anyone's registrar after so many fled GoDaddy for namecheap a few weeks back.

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If you're talking about custora.com from my check (which only a registrar can do) you transferred registrar to namecheap at this time:

2012-01-03T05:16:42.0000Z

So yes the data was run before that date.

OK -- the data is definitely out of date for at least one company (ours, custora). I wonder how common this is? Perhaps the cache was not cleared before generating the output?

I forked the repo, ran it on custora.com, and eNom was (correctly) listed as the registrar.

I'm re-running the full ycombinator list now, and will update when finished.

The results are in, and there isn't a very dramatic difference.

Looks like 8 companies have switched away from GoDaddy since the data was collected.

I've issued a pull request to jf for the updated stats.

Merged, thanks!

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