Transferring may be less painful than you think. I'm doing it with zero downtime because my DNS is at Linode, not godaddy. If namecheap turns out not to be the place I want to permanently keep my domains, transfer out will be painless too.

Do it and I promise a high five at the next Salem build guild.

If your DNS is at godaddy see http://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx/...