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Tue 1st February 2011
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Go Daddy Releases Part of .Co Commercial - Who the heck is the new .co girl? Go Daddy has released 17 seconds of its Super Bowl commercial unveiling the new GoDaddy.CO girl. It’s a tease — you won’t find out who the Godaddy.co girl is until the commercial airs in the first half of the Super Bowl. But you can start guessing who it is. I’m personally at a loss. I’m not a big celebrity stalker, so this isn’t my sort of game. I wonder if she’s also wearing a wig in the shots below? ... read more ...
 
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Bob Parsons Tells His Story during DOMAINfest - Bob Parsons talks to a standing-room only crowd at DOMAINfest. He carries a rock star persona. And he’s definitely a rock star to the domain name industry. Monday afternoon Go Daddy founder Bob Parsons told his story — from his troubles in Catholic school to serving in the Marines to finally getting a breakthrough and turning Parsons Technology into a $64 million payday — to an enthusiastic crowd at DOMAINfest in Santa Monica. And after his talk, Parsons looked ... read more ...
Mon 31st January 2011
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Go Daddy Suggests Domain Sellers Use a Super Bowl Bump - Company touts Premium Listings ahead of Super Bowl commercials. On Super Bowl Sunday traffic will flood to GoDaddy.com as millions of guys decide they want to get teased by possibly naked pictures of Danica Patrick and Jillian Michaels. Some of them will buy domain names, and that’s good news for you. Today the company put out a press release touting its Premium Listings and suggesting that Super Bowl traffic will drive more premium listing sales. I’m a fan of ... read more ...
Tue 11th January 2011
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Go Daddy to Unveil First GoDaddy.CO Girl - Go Daddy says it will unveil GoDaddy.co girl in conjunction with Super Bowl commercial. .Co already scored a major coup by partnering with Go Daddy on its 2011 Super Bowl commercial. But the publicity train rolls on. The latest announcement from Go Daddy: it will showcase its first every GoDaddy.co girl in the commercial. Well, maybe. The company hasn’t decided it if will formally unveil the .co girl during the broadcast commerical or make viewers go to the the ... read more ...
Thu 6th January 2011
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DomainTools Turns on “Recent Whois” For Go Daddy Domain Names - Site begins showing older whois records. DomainTools has come up with a (perhaps interim) solution after Go Daddy started blocking some whois services from accessing its full records. Searches at DomainTools for domain names registered at Go Daddy now include a “recent whois record” with the note “We provide this record when data provided by the registrar is missing key information.” Here’s an example: It’s not clear how recent the whois records are and ... read more ...
Mon 13th December 2010
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Video and Highlights from Go Daddy’s $4M Holiday Bash - Scenes from a four million dollar holiday party. Go Daddy held its annual holiday party at Chase Field in Phoenix on Saturday evening. In this video you’ll see some highlights from the night. You’ll also wonder if the event really took place at Chase Field. It looks more more like an amusement park to me. Here are some highlights from the video: GoDaddy CEO Bob Parsons gave some interesting stats on what happens at Go Daddy every minute: -75 domain names are ... read more ...
Wed 8th December 2010
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Registrars Defend Domain Name Whois Privacy - by Kevin Murphy Domain registrars are fighting off critics of Whois privacy on multiple fronts at the ICANN meeting in Cartagena, Colombia this week. In the latest example, registrars led by Tucows CEO Elliot Noss today savaged an ICANN draft advisory that would hold affiliated privacy services accountable for cybersquatting customers. In May, ICANN said that as far as it is concerned proxy/privacy services are liable for how customers use their domains, under the ... read more ...
Tue 7th December 2010
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Go Daddy’s 2011 Super Bowl Ad Will Promote .Co - by Kevin Murphy Go Daddy’s 2011 Super Bowl ad is going to have one big difference – it will advertise .co domains. The registrar has made a deal with .CO Internet to share the cost of the big-money ad – exact terms have not been disclosed – in what will be the biggest marketing deal for .co to date. The news broke last night at a rooftop party held by the .co registry in Cartagena, Colombia, following the first day of the ICANN public meeting here. Go Daddy ... read more ...
Mon 6th December 2010
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The Week Ahead in Domain Names - A look at a busy week in the domain name industry. This is going to be a big week for domain names. Here’s some stuff to keep your eyes on: ICANN is meeting in Cartagena, Colombia. This is going to be a big meeting. On Friday the board will vote on its way forward for new top level domain names. There’s a lot of pressure — including input from the U.S. Department of Commerce — that could slow things down. But there’s also a lot of pressure to go forward. ... read more ...
 
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Go Daddy Sells Color.com for $350,000 - Go Daddy goes big with Color.com. Go Daddy has sold the domain name Color.com for $350,000. The buyer is using a whois proxy to protect their information. The seller appears to be Warning Management Services Inc. of Anaheim, California. This is the second big transaction from Go Daddy that I’ve become aware of in recent weeks. Go Daddy executive accounts manager Brad Larson recently brokered the sale of HomeownersInsurance.com for $570,000. I’ve heard that ... read more ...
Thu 2nd December 2010
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Brilliant: Bob Parsons to Keynote DOMAINfest - Go Daddy founder to give keynote presentation at DOMAINfest. I didn’t see this coming, but it’s brilliant: Go Daddy founder Bob Parsons will keynote February’s DOMAINfest Global conference in Santa Monica. DOMAINfest is run by Oversee.net, which owns Moniker. Go Daddy is certainly its #1 competitor for domain registration. Go Daddy is the biggest domain name registrar and manages perhaps 20 times as many domains as Moniker. But DOMAINfest is an industry ... read more ...
Wed 24th November 2010
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Queen Cancels Holiday Party, But Go Daddy Goes All In - Domain registrar to continue tradition of big holiday parties. The latest issue of Bloomberg Businessweek has a story titled “The End of the Office Holiday Party” that prominently features domain name registrar Go Daddy. The article starts off by mentioning that Queen Elizabeth II canceled this year’s Christmas Party, saying it wouldn’t be right to throw a lavish party while asking everyone else to cut back. But there’s one company that’s not cutting back, ... read more ...
Mon 25th October 2010
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WSJ: Go Daddy No Longer for Sale - World’s largest domain name registrar supposedly no longer for sale. The Wall Street Journal, which originally reported that domain name registrar GoDaddy was for sale, is now saying the company is off the market. The Journal reports that the sales process was cut off last week. A number of private equity companies were in the mix, and the story suggests a sale price of $1.5 billion to $2.0 billion was possible. So Bob Parsons will continue to control the company. ... read more ...
Sat 16th October 2010
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TheHill.com Covers Stearns’ Visit to TRAFFIC Plus Domain Lobbying - Influential political web site discusses domain name industry involvement in politics. The popular political site TheHill.com — which gets well over a million unique visitors a month — has published a post about Rep. Cliff Stearns’ (R-Fla.) visit to the TRAFFIC conference in Florida next week. The story mentions the types of people that will attend next week’s conference (including an optimistic 500+ attendee figure), as well as Stearns’ political ambitions. The ... read more ...
Thu 30th September 2010
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GoDaddy.com’s Size Comes Back to Haunt it in uBid Court Case - Court rules that world’s largest domain name registrar can face a lawsuit in Illinois. The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has dealt a blow to domain name registrar Go Daddy, deciding that Go Daddy should face a cybersquatting lawsuit filed by uBid in Illionis. uBid, which is based in Illinois, sued Go Daddy because some of the registrar’s customers registered typos of uBid.com and these domains were parked with advertisements by Go Daddy. Go ... read more ...
Tue 14th September 2010
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Go Daddy’s Patent Portfolio Could Be Big Draw in Sale - Company holds patents in e-commerce, domain registration, and internet spaces. I’ve written numerous times about Go Daddy’s patent applications. It seems like each time people chastise the company for filing its patents. But the company’s patent portfolio (and patent applications) could be a big part of the company’s value if it chooses to sell. The company has 24 approved patents under the Go Daddy name, ranging from humdingers such as “Systems and methods ... read more ...
Thu 10th June 2010
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GoDaddy Files Patent App for Generating Domains Based on Current Events - System would make it easy to register domains based on current events such as oil spills, earthquakes, etc. The Go Daddy Group has filed two concurrent patent applications for a system of generating domain name ideas based on current events. In the applications, the company notes that a number of people register domain names related to current events, such as earthquakes. Although one of its examples (below) is someone registering a domain for good purposes, it ... read more ...
Tue 1st June 2010
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$100k Go Daddy Commercial Winner Pulled Ad Together in 19 Days - Team pulls together winning TV commercial in 19 days. 19 days. That’s how much time the winners of Go Daddy’s TV commercial contest had to pull it all together once they heard about the domain name registrar’s contest. But for producer Jessie Ottolini, director Francis De La Torre, and writer Lisa Waugh, it was worth the stress — they’re now a hundred thousand dollars richer and have been pushed onto the national television commercial stage almost overnight. I ... read more ...
Thu 29th April 2010
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GoDaddy Files Patent App for “Jointly Auctioning Expiring Domain Names” - Registrar files patent applications related to helping owners of expired domains sell them. Domain name registrar Go Daddy has filed two patents describing a system for jointly selling an expiring domain name in conjunction with the current owner of the domain name. United States Patent publications 2010/0106650 and 2010/0106616 describe a system whereby a deal is struck between the owners of expiring domain names and a domain seller to sell the domain names and ... read more ...
Mon 26th April 2010
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Go Daddy Sells 778.com for $23,000 - Go Daddy cracks the five figure mark with three digit domain. Go Daddy Auctions, still often referred to as TDNAM in domainer circles, is known for selling a high volume of domains but rarely very valuable ones. This past week was an exception as 778.com traded hands on the platform for $23,000. Unlike many domains that sell at GoDaddy, this wasn’t an expired domain auction. It was an offer/counter-offer transaction. Many of the domains at Go Daddy sell for ... read more ...
Fri 9th April 2010
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How to Lock Down Your Domains during Go Daddy - How to protect your domains from theft. Continuing on a theme of security related posts this week, I reached out to Director of Go Daddy Domain Services Camille Ede to find out what its customers can do to prevent domain theft. Specifically, I wanted to know more about the company’s Protected Registration and added protections for customers with Executive Accounts. Ede’s response was very thorough, so I’m publishing it in full here: “Go Daddy offers Protected ... read more ...
Thu 25th March 2010
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.Cn Pullout is a Business Decision, Not Political [Updated] - Public misunderstands reasons for .cn pullout. [Update: see comments from Go Daddy Group Executive Vice-President and General Counsel Christine Jones.] I really don’t think Go Daddy was trying to pull off a publicity stunt yesterday with its testimony before a Congressional Commission yesterday. GoDaddy announced it was no longer offering China’s .cn domain name, and clearly laid out the hassle it would have to undertake to continue offering the domain name. But ... 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 ...
Tue 23rd March 2010
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The Worst Domain Name Promotion of All Time - Whatever happened to the Dotster Dots? There have been a lot of bad stunts, publicity attempts, and ads put out by domain name registrars. But one of them stands out as perhaps the worst of all time: The Dotster Dots. Dotster was one of the first discount domain name registrars, but has languished through the last decade while watching Go Daddy take home the crown. In 2006, Dotster took a look at what had happened in the domain name industry since 2000 and saw that ... read more ...
Wed 17th March 2010
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Fact Check: UK Registrar World’s Largest New Domain Name Supplier? - Reviewing the numbers behind DomainMonster’s claim. Yesterday domain name registrar DomainMonster.com sent out a press release “UK Company Confirmed as World’s Largest New Domain Name Supplier“. According to the release, Measured by the largest number of domains registered in the first month of public door opening at a domain registry, the closest retail competitor was US based Go-Daddy, some 36% behind Domainmonster.com. It may come as a surprise that a ... read more ...