Tag Archives: Christine Jones

Wed 27th August 2014
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Christine Jones’ gubernatorial bid ends in primaries - Former GoDaddy exec places third in Republican primary. Christine Jones, former general counsel for GoDaddy, lost her bid to become the next governor of Arizona in the Republican primary yesterday. Doug Ducey, current Arizona treasurer and former CEO of ice cream franchise Cold Stone Creamery, took 37% of the vote in the primary. Jones finished third with 16.7% of the vote. GoDaddy founder Bob Parsons contributed over $1 million to fund attack ads against Ducey. ... read more ...
Thu 7th August 2014
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GoDaddy owner Bob Parsons spends $1M on Christine Jones’ run for governor - Parsons paying for attack ads against former employee’s competition for Governor. GoDaddy founder Bob Parsons is lending a helping hand to his former employee Christine Jones. Jones, who was GoDaddy’s general counsel, is now running for governor of Arizona. Parsons said he has already spent $1M funding Better Leaders for Arizona, which is running attack ads against competitor Doug Ducey. He might spend more. Parsons’ role in the ads was suspected after one of ... read more ...
Mon 12th August 2013
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Former GoDaddy General Counsel to run for Arizona Governor - Jones jumps headfirst into politics with gubernatorial bid. Christine Jones, former General Counsel Corporate Secretary for GoDaddy, announced that she will run for Governor of Arizona. Jones left the company last year after a decade in high profile roles at the fast growing domain name registrar and web services firm. Having a leading role at a company that created thousands of jobs in the state will no doubt help her bid. Jones and other GoDaddy executives have ... read more ...
Tue 18th December 2012
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2012 Impact Stories: changing of a ensure during Go Daddy - Major changes at the top of the world’s largest domain name registrar. In late 2011 Go Daddy closed on an investment from KKR, Silver Lake, and Technology Crossover Ventures. We all knew changes would result, but how they manifested themselves in the C-suite was a big story this year. When the investment closed last year, Go Daddy founder Bob Parsons stepped down from the CEO position and tapped longtime Go Daddy president Warren Adelman to fill his shoes. The first ... read more ...
Wed 9th May 2012
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General Counsel Christine Jones withdrawal Go Daddy - A long time fixture at Go Daddy is moving on. Christine Jones, General Counsel Corporate Secretary for Go Daddy, will leave the company Friday after 10 years. Jones managed all legal affairs for the company and frequently represented the company as a witness at congressional hearings. She was a key player at the company and the industry given her role in lobbying in Washington. She even had a cameo in GoDaddy’s 2009 “enhancement” Super Bowl commercial. During ... read more ...
Wed 24th March 2010
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Go Daddy Dropping .Cn, But Not China - Go Daddy drops .cn, but Chinese can still register domain names at the registrar. In a hearing before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China today in Washington, Go Daddy Group Executive Vice-President and General Counsel Christine Jones explained that the company will no longer offer .cn domain names under strict requirements imposed by China. On January 5, .Cn registry CNNIC announced without warning that non-Chinese registrars were no longer allowed to ... read more ...
Thu 4th June 2009
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Congress Beats Up ICANN (Part 3) - Question and answer period at hearing gets testy. In part 1 of our coverage of today’s U.S. House of Representatives hearing on ICANN, DNW covered committee member’s opening remarks. Part two covered witnesses’ opening testimony. The real fireworks started when the committee members asked questions of the witnesses. Committee chairman Rick Boucher (D-Virginia) started the questioning by following up on Verizon’s comments about cybersquatting. (Verizon ... read more ...
Wed 3rd June 2009
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Domain Names a Topic on Capitol Hill Thursday - Hearing to discuss ICANN’s future will be held Thursday. Domain names, specifically ICANN, will be discussed tomorrow in Washington. The House Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet will hold a congressional hearing tomorrow about the future of ICANN and the U.S. government’s involvement. ICANN has already garnered the support of Al Gore and former ICANN chairman Vint Cerf that the joint project agreement should be concluded, effectively ... read more ...
Wed 17th December 2008
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Go Daddy To Shut Down Standard Tactics, LLC - Standard Tactics and 60-day lock discussed on Radio Go Daddy. I just concluded my interview with Go Daddy CEO Bob Parsons on his internet radio show. It is available for on demand listening RadioGoDaddy.com. Perhaps the biggest news that came out of the interview is that GoDaddy is effectively shutting down Standard Tactics. Parsons said it had about 33,000 domains in the subsidiary and 8,000 that made most of the money. This is lower than I privately estimated ... read more ...