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Re:Move Your Domain Day: Support EFF by snowwrestler on Wednesday January 29, 2014 @01:14PM (#7145661)
Or you could just donate directly to EFF and cut out the middleman.

Maybe I'm too cynical, but I tend to be very skeptical about "buy things and help a good cause" promotions. People like to buy things, and people like to feel they're supporting a good cause. This satisfies both impulses, but the vast majority of the revenue goes to the company not the nonprofit.

Re:Move Your Domain Day: Support EFF by MPetitt on Wednesday January 29, 2014 @11:57AM (#7145074)
Ok, so I have a bunch of domains on Godaddy pointing at a bunch of sites on Digital Ocean and DreamHost. Is it really worthwhile transferring all of them over to Namecheap and setting everything back up? Besides not being Godaddy, i'm curious what the upsides are?
Re:Move Your Domain Day: Support EFF by FreeKill on Wednesday January 29, 2014 @01:21PM (#7145703)
Whether it's a pain or not depends on how you have the domains setup. If you use Digital Ocean and Dreamhost for your DNS, it won't be a problem at all, you just transfer and it copies the correct DNS with the transfer. If you are using Godaddy as your DNS as well, then you'd probably first want to transfer the DNS to Dreamhost/Digital Ocean before initiating the transfer.
Re:Move Your Domain Day: Support EFF by Ruska on Wednesday January 29, 2014 @01:04PM (#7145586)
That depends if the domains are valuable to you. For example, see this post, which could have been prevented by a registrar that was more secure.

https://medium.com/p/24eb09e026dd

Re:Move Your Domain Day: Support EFF by MAGZine on Wednesday January 29, 2014 @11:58AM (#7145080)
I really wish that Namecheap would stop reselling under ENOM. It's the one thing that I don't like about them.

Why isn't Namecheap their own registrar? Namecheap IS a valid registrar, but they're still reselling domains from ENOM...

Re:Move Your Domain Day: Support EFF by FreeKill on Wednesday January 29, 2014 @11:52AM (#7145025)
I love the added incentive to move. With domains, it's so easy to just stick with the status quo since you only have to think about it at max once a year, and transferring is actually a bit of a PITA.
Re:Move Your Domain Day: Support EFF by shravvmehtaa on Wednesday January 29, 2014 @02:07PM (#7145996)
This is awesome! Love NameCheap. Network solutions is totally screwing me right now by charging me $15 randomly for customer support and things I'm not ordering. And I can't get a refund after 6-7 hours on the phone...
Re:Move Your Domain Day: Support EFF by gamegoblin on Wednesday January 29, 2014 @11:55AM (#7145056)
I use namecheap for all dozen or so of my domains and I recommend them to all of my friends who get domains. I've always been very pleased with the No-BS service they provide. This is just icing on the cake.
Re:Move Your Domain Day: Support EFF by brink on Wednesday January 29, 2014 @01:16PM (#7145672)
I use them for everything except .io domains. Gandi is $20 cheaper. I'm still waiting for Namecheap to reduce their price.