GoDaddy gained more domains than it lost on Move Your Domain Day, a reaction to the company's former support for the Stop Online Piracy Act. According to DailyChanges (via TechDirt), the combined domain transfers in and new registrations outstripped transfers out by a large margin. Still, the numbers were big enough for GoDaddy: the company went on record as opposed to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) midway through the day.

The GoDaddy boycott began December 21 on reddit (Ars' sister site) in the face of GoDaddy's support for SOPA, an act that has been derided by opponents for its potential to infringe on First Amendment rights. GoDaddy backed off its support of SOPA on December 23, but refused to make any statements actively opposing it. Midday Thursday, the company officially announced its opposition of the act in response to "a spike in domain name transfers," said Warren Adelman, CEO of GoDaddy.

But the movement appears to have made fewer people think "I need a new domain host" than "that reminds me, I need to make a website": 43,304 new domains were registered with GoDaddy (domaincontrol.com) in the 24-hour period preceding 1am PST on December 30, while 14,492 were transferred out. 35,907 more domains were deleted, and 27,843 domains were transferred in, for a net gain of 20,748 domains. GoDaddy is listed as the primary nameserver for over 32 million domains, so the gain represented only a 0.06 percent change.

Assuming a $10 per year registration fee, the deletions and transfers out constitute a yearly revenue loss of over $500,000 for GoDaddy. Of course, not all of the movement can be attributed to Move Your Domain Day. In an attempt to keep the customers (and cash) flowing in, GoDaddy has launched a new ad campaign over the last week, featuring a nearly-nude Danica Patrick.

Update: A couple of things to keep in mind, as pointed out by our commenters: domain transfers can take upwards of a day to process, and CNET reported that GoDaddy has been delaying customers trying to leave. Further, one domain transfer registered by DailyChange doesn't necessarily equate to a customer beginning or ending business with GoDaddy—a DNS change from GoDaddy's domaincontrol.com nameserver to another of its smaller nameservers like internettraffic.com would count as a transfer for and against each server, but not as a change in business.

Lastly, Namecheap provides another estimate for transfers. Namecheap received over 32,000 domain transfers on December 29 that used its Move Your Domain Day coupon. Other services that participated in the event include DreamHost, Name.com, and HostGator.