Tag Archives: go daddy

Wed 10th April 2013
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Video: how to set adult and use two-factor authentication during GoDaddy.com - Video gives step-by-step instructions for increasing security in your Go Daddy account. Two-factor authentication is one of the best ways to make any online account more secure. Go Daddy introduced two-factor authentication for its United States customers last year. Once you set up the service you will receive a text message every time you log in to your account. In addition to your username and password, you need to enter a six digit code from the text message in ... read more ...
Wed 6th March 2013
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Breaking: Go Daddy to repel applications for .Home and .Casa tip turn domains - Domain registrar abandons plans for its own top level domains. Go Daddy is abandoning its applications for the .home and .casa top level domains, the company announced today. Go Daddy CEO Blake Irving announced the news at its Registry Days conference in Phoenix today. The event is designed to start a dialogue with new top level domain applicants that may wish to sell their domains through Go Daddy — including applicants that have rival bids for the .home and .casa ... read more ...
Thu 21st February 2013
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.Org Project 94 kicks off subsequent month - Short .org domains go on auction block beginning next month. Next month .org registry Public Interest Registry (PIR) will begin auctioning off domain names as part of Project 94. Project 94 is the marketing name for releasing 94 one and two character .org domain names that have been reserved since the top level domain was introduced in 1985. A handful of the 94 domain names have already been allocated to users (such as country code owners) and the remaining 85 will ... read more ...
Mon 18th February 2013
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The Go Daddy lick that keeps on giving - This year’s Go Daddy commercial may have been its most effective yet. One thing Go Daddy founder Bob Parsons figured out a long time ago, before GoDaddy.com was a household name, was that the 30 seconds you buy during a Super Bowl is only part of what you’re buying when you advertise in the big game. If the only time people see or hear about your advertisement is during that 30 seconds, you got ripped off. Parsons was the master of getting press before and after ... read more ...
Fri 1st February 2013
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Wow: a Bar Refaeli Go Daddy Super Bowl commercial - People will be talking about this commercial Monday morning. Wow. I have a feeling this commercial will be more talked about than many of Go Daddy’s previous Super Bowl commercials. That’s despite this ad not having any nudity or suggestions that you can “see more” if you go to GoDaddy.com. It’s got enough of that “ewww” factor and chock value that people will react to the commercial. I’ve got to wonder how much they paid Bar Refaeli for this one. ... read more ...
Wed 30th January 2013
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This time Canada wants to bury Go Daddy Super Bowl commercial - Government unhappy with alcohol in commercial. We’re used to the U.S. government “censoring” GoDaddy Super Bowl commercials. And much of the time, the censoring is manufactured to get publicity. But this time it’s Canada that doesn’t like the GoDaddy.co commercial that will air this weekend. Seriously. According to The Globe and Mail, the YourBigIdea.co ad slated to run in the first half of Sunday’s Super Bowl runs afoul of Canadian advertising laws that ... read more ...
Thu 24th January 2013
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Go Daddy revamps Executive Accounts, splits into 2 tiers - Registrar renames Executive Accounts as Premier Services and makes program more exclusive. Go Daddy’s Executive Accounts program is getting a makeover. The department will be renamed Premier Services while setting new minimum guidelines and managing customers on a tiered system. Previously, customers with about 300 domain names were part of the Executive Accounts program. These customers were assigned a dedicated account manager and given other benefits, such as ... read more ...
Tue 8th January 2013
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Go Daddy starts display smallest offer cost alongside unpriced Afternic listings - Andrew, I had 40 offers via Godaddy/Sedo $60 special, closed 0 (ZERO). I followed up on a few of the domains, and saw some recent reg’s in lessor extensions, found out these were the people making the offers. They were clueless about the aftermarket process, and thought they could pay a premium of $60 instead of $10 to get the domain. I managed to close 3 deals on my own, each in the 4 figure range. If I had not followed up, most likely those inquiries may have sat idle for years, ... read more ...
 
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Afilias and Go Daddy to reason second .info auction - Second “sunrise” auction features 135 .info domain names. Afilias and Go Daddy are teaming up for a second .info auction consisting of domain names originally reserved in the .info sunrise period in 2001. The auction includes 135 .info domain names that were claimed as trademarks in the sunrise period, but the sunrise applications were later deemed invalid. The previous auction of over 100 domain names included cancer.info (which sold for $16,005 to an Arizona ... read more ...
Fri 4th January 2013
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Model and .me user Bar Refaeli to star in Go Daddy commercial - Israeli model is also a .me fan. Israeli model Bar Refaeli will star alongside Danica Patrick in one of Go Daddy’s Super Bowl Commercials this year, the company announced today. A press release from the company doesn’t mention a connection Refaeli has to Go Daddy: she’s a .me user. Go Daddy is a partner in the registry that runs .me. In 2011 Refaeli teamed up with former model Dudi Balsar to launch under.me, a line of underwear sold online. (That’s where ... read more ...
Wed 19th December 2012
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.Co earnings to Super Bowl in Go Daddy commercial - Danica Patrick to start in GoDaddy.co commercial in Super Bowl XLVII. .Co will be featured in a Go Daddy Super Bowl commercial for the third year in a row this coming February, Go Daddy and .Co Internet announced today. The .co commercial will featured NASCAR star and Go Daddy girl Danica Patrick. Last year’s .co commercial starred lingerie model Natalia Velez being body painted by Jillian Michaels and Danica Patrick. The first .co Go Daddy commercial teased viewers ... 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 ...
Tue 11th December 2012
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Interview: Blake Irving, Go Daddy’s new CEO - Longtime Go Daddy customer now at its helm. This morning I talked with Blake Irving, who was just named Chief Executive Officer of Go Daddy, about why he chose to join the company. It turns out Irving is no stranger to the domain registration and web hosting giant. “I’ve been a Go Daddy customer for five years,” he said. “I host 45 domains with them, and I’ve been a fan of the company since I acquired my first domain.” Irving said he’s also helped friends ... read more ...
Mon 10th December 2012
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Video: Go Daddy holiday celebration featuring B-52s - Go Daddy distributes millions in donations and prizes at annual holiday party. Go Daddy held its annual holiday party in Phoenix this weekend. As usual, it was a bit over the top. It opened with a Psy impersonator who’s Gangnam Style performance was apparently good enough to fool some in the audience. The headline band this year was the B-52s. Go Daddy and The Bob and Renee Parsons Foundation presented the Semper Fi Fund with checks totaling $2 million, some of ... read more ...
Wed 28th November 2012
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Go Daddy to auction .info “sunrise tentative reallocation” domains - Auction features domains originally reserved during 2001 sunrise. Domain name registry Afilias is working with Go daddy to auction off over 100 domain names claimed in the .info sunrise that were later deemed ineligible. The 106 domain auction runs December 4 through December 14. The domains were originally requested during the .info sunrise in 2001. This was one of the first ever “sunrise” periods for a top level domain launch that gave trademark holders first ... read more ...
Tue 27th November 2012
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Have we enabled two-factor authentication on GoDaddy.com yet? - Two-factor authentication reduces changes of being phished. Last week a “small number” of Go Daddy customers were affected by a DNS attack. The company suspects the affected accounts were subject to phishing accounts or the users’ computers were infected. The simple solution to avoiding this from happening in the future is to use Go Daddy’s two-factor authentication. With two-factor authentication, when you sign in to your account you’ll get a temporary ... read more ...
Fri 16th November 2012
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Go Daddy creates speedier payments for Premium Listings, adds new remuneration options - Premium Listings will now be paid faster and by more than just checks. Go Daddy’s Premium Listing service, which lets you offer domains for sale in the registration path — is a big part of many domainers’ business models. The big drawback has been slow payments, which can take up to 45 days to arrive. Go Daddy is finally speeding up payments and offering more payment options. You can now get your payments by ACH, PayPal, your Good as Gold account, or old fashioned ... read more ...
Tue 23rd October 2012
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Lawsuit claims Go Daddy illegally available phone calls - Two California men claim domain registrar recorded calls without permission. You know the line… “This call may be recorded for quality or training purposes”. Well, according to two California men, their phone calls with domain name registrar Go Daddy were secretly recorded in violation of California law. The lawsuit they just filed (pdf) seeks class action status and $5,000 per recorded phone call for all California residents who had a phone call with the company ... read more ...
Wed 17th October 2012
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Google Offers has 50% off during Go Daddy - “Daily” deal offers half off at Go Daddy. Google Offers — Google’s answer to Groupon — has a deal going on right now that will be interesting to domainers. I just got an email from the service about an offer for Go Daddy. You can see it here. The offer is $10 for $20 toward domain names, hosting, and other services at Go Daddy. The 50% discount offer must be purchased within the next 10 days. It can be redeemed anytime between now and April 1, 2013 and must ... read more ...
Fri 12th October 2012
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Poll: How most will 1 and 2 minute .org domains sell for? - What will domains sell for at auction? This week Public Interest Registry, the non-profit that runs .org, announced auctions for 85 one and two character .org domain names. The domains will be auctioned through Go Daddy and eNom in what the company dubs “Project94″. Although basically anyone can bid on the domains, PIR’s pitch to ICANN to release the short domains said that bidders will have to be “committed to building out the domain name with a sound marketing ... read more ...
Mon 1st October 2012
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Top 5 domain name stories of Sep 2012 - Patents, the Go Daddy outage, and the French. Here are the top five stories from Domain Name Wire last month, ranked based on page views. Go Daddy patents “announcing a domain name registration on a social website” – Go Daddy got a patent on a way to announce your latest domain name registration on a social networking web site, such as Twitter. (And this post got a lot of traffic from Hacker News.) On day of iPhone 5 announcement, iPhone5.com sits dark – despite ... read more ...
Wed 26th September 2012
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Sedo expands placement partnership with Go Daddy - “Make Offer” domains now distributed to Go Daddy through SedoMLS. Sedo announced today that it has expanded its distribution partnership with Go Daddy to include “make offer” domain names. In January Go Daddy joined the SedoMLS network. That meant that fixed priced domains at Sedo that were opted into SedoMLS would show up in the registration path at GoDaddy.com. Go Daddy customers could purchase the domains by following a link to Go Daddy Auctions. The expanded ... read more ...
Tue 25th September 2012
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Go Daddy patents “announcing a domain name registration on a amicable website” - Patent describes way to announce your latest domain name registration. Last year I wrote about Go Daddy’s patent applications related to announcing a domain name registration on a social network. Today the United States Patent and Trademark office granted the domain name registrar a patent for “announcing a domain name registration on a social website”. U.S. patent number 8,276,057 (pdf) describes a way in which a domain name registrar account could be connected ... read more ...
Tue 18th September 2012
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Go Daddy gets obvious for SEO and hunt engine submission - Patent covers method and systems for SEO suggestions and search engine submission. The United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued a patent (pdf) to Go Daddy for “method for improving a web site’s ranking with search engines”. U.S. patent number 8,271,488 describes a system for helping web site owners edit their web pages for better search results and then automatically submitting the sites to multiple search engines. If some of this seems outdated, ... read more ...
Tue 11th September 2012
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Why we won’t leave GoDaddy over yesterday’s outage - Go Daddy web hosting still makes sense for me. Yesterday Go Daddy suffered a major outage that appears to have involved its DNS services. The outage lasted about four hours. Back in May I switched from a small web host to Go Daddy, which means that Domain Name Wire was offline yesterday as a result of the outage. Let me start by saying that downtime for your web site sucks, and yesterday was a frustrating day. But does it make sense for someone like me to change hosting ... read more ...