GoDaddy, with 50,000,000 domains, has lost almost nothing, about 1000 domains, when you factor in new registrations and new transfer-ins.
We would need the historical records to see more into this.
Hell, it might even look like their registrations and transfer-ins are up due to being in the news.
I seriously doubt that GoDaddy gives a shit about this.
Their domain business is a complete "loss leader" operation that costs them about a dollar of loss on each domain they sell.
Hosting accounts is where it counts the most for them and I can tell you few, if any, people will be transferring hosting accounts out as it's a complete pain in the ass.
If by this you mean literal outflow of domains, then I agree. But if you mean public relations impact their support of and then half ass retraction of support for SOPA then I disagree. I think the long term effects of all this calamity are something they very much care about.
The person who owns 20+ domains is the type of person who probably is someone who cares about SOPA.
I don't think these numbers, really mean anything, to be honest. But I do think that pissing off the people who are the cheapest customers to acquire and support and the people who people are going to ask where to register their domains at is probably not the best business strategy long term.
It is a huge loss in terms of day over day profits. This is attention grabbing for a business.
GoDaddy looks at day over day sales and sees a drop. It is probably the most important event that's happened to that department in months. We already know it has gotten their attention because now they are doing damage control, however disingenuous or mitigated by overriding concerns it may be.
It may be true that GoDaddy still has loads of domains but I can bet ya that a lot of it are shady websites. If GoDaddy is seen to support something that may lead to their websites shutting down, you can be sure they (and future customers) are looking elsewhere.
In other words, GoDaddy does give a shit. Is not about what they have now, is about whether they can get anymore future sales.
The one flaw with this is that it takes "up to" 7 days to transfer depending on the registrars in question. I moved a domain to godaddy 4 days ago and it still doesn't show that it's with Godaddy.
edit: Nevermind, you meant in this specific case where it's using DNS. You're right, although it can be done via the whois data.
2. It'd be interesting to see where these domains went? Namecheap, Gandi, etc.
that being Monday (8,800), Tuesday (13,000) and Wednesday (14,500)."
However, godaddy is a pimple on the economy. Somehow, someway, this kind of activity needs to be multiplied 1000x.
Transfered In (20,034) Transferred Out (21,054)
1020 domains is nothing particularly comparing it to the total pointed there: 32,159,050
