Tag Archives: go daddy

Thu 16th August 2012
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Romney-Ryan domain names snapped adult in a hurry - Republican ticket follows patterns for domain name registration. Whenever there’s a big political announcement we tend to see people register related domain names. Mitt Romney’s announcement of Paul Ryan as his running mate is one example. Since June 2012, Go Daddy says more than 1,600 domain names were registered with the registrar containing Mitt Romney and or Paul Ryan. While many of these were surely registered in the past week when Ryan was named, someone ... read more ...
Wed 18th July 2012
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Go Daddy creates the initial “business” acquisition - Go Daddy acquires Outright. More to come? Go Daddy today announced the acquisition of Outright, a provider of online financial software for small businesses. This is only the company’s third acquisition in its history, and the first one that involves bringing over people from the acquired business. (It’s previous acquisitions were a technology acquisition for a root certificate and taking over the RegisterFly customer database when that registrar lost its accreditation.) Go ... read more ...
Tue 10th July 2012
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What Afternic’s stretched understanding with Go Daddy means for domainers - More eyeballs and more sales. This morning Afternic announced an expanded deal with Go Daddy to distribute its non-fixed price domain sales listings through the registrar. Here’s what this means for you… The Afternic deal will help you get more of your domain names on to the most valuable end user shelf space in the world: Go Daddy’s registration path. “Registration path” basically refers to the search results page when you search for a domain at GoDaddy.com. Before ... read more ...
Mon 9th July 2012
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GoDaddy.com adds dual cause authentication - New security option available to customers with a U.S. mobile phone number. GoDaddy.com has added two factor authentication capabilities for U.S. customers. The feature appears to have been added within the past couple days. The added security layer, also known as two step authentication, means that someone who gets control of your username and password will be unable to log in to your account. In addition to the usual login credentials, Go Daddy will send a one time ... read more ...
Tue 26th June 2012
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Go Daddy says ask to pierce Homelandsecurityus.com not about politics - Company says campaign committee and politics not at play in request to change web hosts. Last Friday GoDaddy.com sent a notice to the owner of Homelandsecurityus.com informing him that he needed to find a new home for his domain name and web site. Douglas J. Hagmann, founder of the site, tells his story here. He claims that one of the Obama campaign’s “truth teams” asked Go Daddy to give the site the boot. But Ben Butler, Network Abuse Director at Go Daddy, ... read more ...
Fri 15th June 2012
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Go Daddy eyes one month registrations for .home and .casa domains - Company may offer short term registrations if awarded domain names. Go Daddy is proposing a couple twists in its plan to offer .home and .casa domain names to the public. A big one: registrations as short as one month. “Why pay for a year if the domain name will not be needed for a year?”, the company asks in its application. This makes since for real estate domains. When I put my house on the market last year I registered our street address as a .com domain with ... read more ...
Tue 12th June 2012
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Go Daddy hires ad group as it changes the image - Company taps Deutsch to shift its image and advertising. For the first time since 2005, Go Daddy has hired an outside ad agency to manage its advertising. The company will formally announce tomorrow that it hired the New York office of ad agency Deutsch Inc. Deutsch’s first public work for the company will be its ads during the Olympics on NBC. Go Daddy and Deutsch plan to shift the company’s ads away from just good looking woman and more to what the company ... read more ...
Mon 4th June 2012
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Google creates domain corroboration easier with eNom and Go Daddy - eNom and Go Daddy customers can verify ownership from web based interface. Google has just introduced a speedier way to verify your domain ownership for use with certain Google tools. You have to verify that you own a particular domain name in order to use some Google services with the domain, e.g. seeing search queries for your web site in Webmaster Tools. Until now the process has been kind of difficult for people without technical skills. The new service allows ... read more ...
Fri 1st June 2012
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Go Daddy creates routine to discharge 60 day send lock - GoDaddy.com offers way to remove 60 day lock on domain transfers after certain registrant changes. Update: Read more about Go Daddy’s new transfer lock policy here. Ah, the dreaded 60 day lock. Go Daddy has taken quite a bit of flack over the years for rejecting transfers to other registrars if you changed certain registrant information within the previous 60 days. But under a new policy, customers will have a formal way to request the sixty day hold be removed. ... 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 ...
 
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DNW Interview: Go Daddy relates for .godaddy and dual other TLDs - Warren Adelman discloses new TLD applications and discusses the challenges of offering more domain choices to customers. Go Daddy, the world’s largest domain name registrar, has applied for three top level domains, CEO Warren Adelman told Domain Name Wire today. (News of the applications was first reported by Paul Sloan at CNET). The company has applied for its own .brand domain .godaddy, as well as two additional top level domains (TLD). That’s a lot less than ... read more ...
Thu 22nd December 2011
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GoDaddy’s obvious portfolio still growing, though no descent movement yet - Domain registrar continues to apply for patents but hasn’t gone on the offensive yet. Will GoDaddy’s patent strategy change now that it has taken an investment from three private equity giants? It’s an important question for the domain name and web hosting industries because of the size of the company’s patent war chest. A search with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office shows 65 issued patents for The Go Daddy Group and close to 200 pending. These patents ... read more ...
Tue 27th September 2011
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Go Daddy’s Real Number: 225 Million - Registrar has 50 million domains on the books. But how about over time? This past weekend Go Daddy topped the 50 million domain name mark. This number is kind of like a balance sheet: it means the company has 50 million domain names currently registered with it. But what about the longer view? I asked Go Daddy for some indication of how many domains it has registered over time. Since it became a registrar, Go Daddy has registered more than 225 million years worth ... read more ...
Thu 22nd September 2011
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Go Daddy Poised to Hit 50 Million Domain Milestone Next Week - A big milestone for the biggest domain name registrar. The Go Daddy Group, which includes domain name registrar GoDaddy.com, is likely to cross the 50 million domain milestone next week. The company hit 45 million domains registered just nine months ago in December. The 50 million domains number represents the total number registered at a point in time. If you add up all the domains registered over time the number would be much higher. As of the end of May GoDaddy.com ... read more ...
Thu 15th September 2011
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Go Daddy Responds Over Compromised Hosting Accounts - Redirects inserted into .htaccess files of 445 hosting accounts. Internet security company Securi wrote a blog post yesterday noting that a number of web sites hosted with Go Daddy’s had been compromised. According to Securi, the .htaccess file on these sites had compromised and a conditional redirect was inserted. Site visitors coming from a set of pre-determined search engines were automatically forwarded to a malware site. I reached out to Go Daddy to find out ... read more ...
Tue 12th July 2011
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Go Daddy Gets Gripe Site NoDaddy.com - Go Daddy gets control of NoDaddy.com domain name. GoDaddy.com now owns NoDaddy.com, Kevin Murphy reports for The Register. NoDaddy.com was set up as a gripe site after the domain registrar suspended the registration of security mailing list SecLists.org. Since then it has been a gathering place for customers and ex-employees of the world’s largest domain name registrar. They aired their grievances there, often times sending traffic to Domain Name Wire articles ... read more ...
Tue 5th July 2011
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In Case You Missed It, Friday Was Not a Slow News Day in a Domain Industry - Biggest domain name company transaction ever announced just before the U.S. holiday. The Friday before a holiday weekend is usually a slow news day. But I heard some whispers Friday that Go Daddy was going to make a big announcement, hence my tweet around noon. Indeed, a few hours later Go Daddy announced that it took an investment from KKR, Silver Lake, and Technology Crossover Ventures. I talked with GoDaddy founder Bob Parsons Friday evening. Since most of my ... read more ...
Fri 1st July 2011
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Bob Parsons Explains Go Daddy – KKR Deal to Domain Name Wire - Investment makes 36 millionaires, will help company expand overseas and acquire complementary businesses. I just got off the phone with GoDaddy.com founder Bob Parsons, who explained the deal his company just struck with KKR, Silver Lake, and Technology Crossover Ventures. Contrary to reports in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, this was not an outright acquisition. Parsons remains the single largest shareholder in the company in what he terms a “partnership”. Before ... read more ...
Fri 24th June 2011
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NYP: KKR Looking to Buy Go Daddy for $1 Billion Plus - New York Post says web hosting and domain giant may be sold for over $1 billion. The New York Post is reporting that Henry Kravis’ KKR is leading a group that is trying to buy Go Daddy for over $1 billion in a leveraged buy out. Bloomberg BusinessWeek reports the deal is in the $2B range. A Go Daddy spokeswoman told the New York Post “”We’ve heard rumors like this before and when there’s something happening we will comment” and KKR said it doesn’t comment ... read more ...
Thu 26th May 2011
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Go Daddy Files Patent Apps for “Redirecting to a Book Web Site” - Registrar files two applications for ideas related to helping people find book web sites. Go Daddy has filed two patent applications related to helping web users connect to book web sites. U.S. applications 12/625892 and 12/625919 (pdf) provide for “redirecting a user to a book’s website after submitting a request for information about the book. The book’s website or a link to the website may be displayed to the user on a client browser.” For example, a user ... read more ...
Thu 19th May 2011
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Go Daddy Has Donated $4.2 Million To Charity Already This Year - Domain registrar tops last year’s donations, and it’s only May. Through just five months of 2011, domain name registrar Go Daddy has already donated more to charity than it did all of last year. Go Daddy’s philanthropic organization Go Daddy Cares has donated $4.2 million to charity so far this year, compared to $3.4 million all of last year, the company announced today. One of the biggest beneficiaries is Hope for Haiti, recipient of $1 million in donations ... read more ...
Fri 13th May 2011
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How to Avoid Go Daddy’s 60 Day Lock for Whois Changes - An explanation of exactly when Go Daddy puts a transfer lock on domains for making a whois change. It seems that every month someone emails me about how GoDaddy places a 60 day lock when you make certain changes to your whois information. The lock prevents you from transferring the domain name to another registrar. I also get a lot of search visitors searching for information about this lock based on previous stories I’ve written. Yesterday I caught up with ... read more ...
Wed 2nd March 2011
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Survey: Domain Name Marketplaces - Major domain marketplaces continue to innovate and grow. The number of domain name sales venues is expanding. More importantly, the way these venues syndicate sales listings is leading to a more fluid domain aftermarket. Domainers use a number of domain marketplaces beyond the usual suspects. Still, the big three dominate: Sedo received the most votes in this year’s Domain Name Wire survey with 39% of the vote. Go Daddy and Afternic received 12% and 9% respectively. ... read more ...
Mon 7th February 2011
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Joan Rivers Body Double is No Stranger to Go Daddy Commercials - Body double had key role in 2009’s most watched Super Bowl commercial. By now you’ve no doubt seen the GoDaddy.co commercial from yesterday that introduced Joan Rivers as the .co girl. Of course that wasn’t her real body, which is why so many people were “misled” by the body shots Go Daddy sent out before the commercial. So who does that body belong to? It’s Tabitha Taylor, who starred in 2009’s most watched Super Bowl commercial (according to Tivo). ... read more ...
Sun 6th February 2011
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GoDaddy.co Gets Ready and Network Solutions Piggybacks - Lots of mainstream attention on domain names today. We’re just hours away from Go Daddy’s Super Bowl commercials and a huge plug for the .co domain. I really have no idea who the GoDaddy.co girl is. My guess is it’s not someone from Colombia, but that’s about all I have at this point. I’m thinking that Go Daddy might not actually show who the .co girl is on the TV commercial and instead send viewers to their web site to see the revealing. This would ... read more ...