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Re:Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com by 1123581321 on Thursday September 17, 2020 @09:53PM (#24512165)
Would you consider the ability to export a zone file? I realize you may be withholding it because it aids transferring it out, but we often wish we could do that instead of taking screenshots or manually copying each record before we make a major DNS change.
Re:Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com by offmycloud on Thursday September 17, 2020 @11:37PM (#24512727)
Export a zone file? Namecheap can't even export a text or CSV file of all of my domains and their expiration dates. This is a long-standing open issue that Namecheap support has dodged several times with us. I'm still a customer right now, but I'm looking for another registrar.
Re:Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com by ted0 on Thursday September 17, 2020 @11:57PM (#24512839)
Dodged? Just not currently a feature in our dashboard but it's straightforward and we know there's demand for it. We have some major updates in the works. Happy to manually provide an export for you in the meantime.
Re:Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com by offmycloud on Friday September 18, 2020 @01:58AM (#24513411)
Yes, I was offered a manual export of my domain list. By "dodged", I mean that the request for an export feature in the same ticket was ignored, sort of a passive-aggressive "wontfix". I would have just scraped the HTML table, but at the time it just didn't work in Firefox/Chrome, and there was a weird interaction between filtering and showing more than 25 domains on a page. This might be fixed now, but was very frustrating at the time. I felt like support ignored all of that and just offered a manual export, without understanding how much more time it takes for me to write up a ticket (and wait for response) vs implementing a proper export feature.
Re:Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com by WarOnPrivacy on Friday September 18, 2020 @03:12AM (#24513836)
> We have some major updates in the works.

Will one of those updates be the ability to export domains & expiration dates, from the dashboard?

If so, then say so; otherwise your response feels, well, dodgy. If not, why are you mentioning them in response to offmycloud's issue?

Past that, we appreciate your time here.

disclosure: I'm a 15 year Namecheap customer

Re:Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com by ted0 on Thursday September 17, 2020 @10:23PM (#24512307)
Certainly something we can look into.
Re:Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com by 1123581321 on Friday September 18, 2020 @11:14AM (#24517808)
Thank you!