I’m a pretty loyal customer. Once I find a service that does well by me, I tend to stick with it for quite a long time.

I’ve bought exclusively from Dunlop when I need guitar picks for 14 years now. I started with them. I’ll end with them. Same with Mesa Boogie for guitar cabinets, Schaller for straplocks, Sperzel for locking tuners. Lifetime customer.

I stayed with the same mom n pop video store, even when Blockbuster came into town, until their ultimate closure due to said stores moving into town. Something like 20 years I was a customer. I still have fond memories of that place.

I’ve always eaten Utz chips, Lance crackers, and frequent the same deli. I almost live at the Dogfish Brewpub.

You may have noticed though, that during the last 48 hours my site has been unavailable. I sure as hell noticed.

It’s Transfer Time

Today I’m breaking connection with a domain shop who I have used since 2002. I won’t call them out, since it’s not worth getting into. I am transferring my 41 domains over to NameCheap who seem to be decent and are mentioned a lot on Reddit and LifeHacker.

They’ve been mostly good, but a recent DNS mixup (their fault) caused all my personal sites, my fathers site, and domain pointers to go offline for 24 hours, which is not the first time a mistake like that has happened. Not only does that knock websites offline, it also knocks email and other things out, too. I simply do not want to have that happen again. They aren’t a huge registrar, but I gave them my business. This time I am going to step it up.

So far, the process has been painless. NameCheap has really good transfer pricing and makes it pretty easy to do. Each domain will cost me roughly $8 which isn’t bad. I’ve seen higher.

I hope to have this done by February. The only slow part is the move between registrars, which typically takes 5-7 business days.