Tag Archives: go daddy

Tue 9th March 2010
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Go Daddy Set to Hit 40 Million Domains Milestone on Wednesday - Go Daddy set to hit another milestone. [Update: Go Daddy hit the milestone earlier today.] About six months after crossing the 30 million domain name mark, The Go Daddy Group is set to surpass 40 million domains under management, most likely on Wednesday. So if you register a domain name tomorrow, you might get some extra notoriety if you time it just right. Ten years ago there were only about 17 million domain names registered, and now there is a single registrar ... read more ...
Sat 27th February 2010
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Go Daddy CEO Bob Parsons Buys Cher’s House - Bob Parsons buys house at auction for $8.72 million. According to The Wall Street Journal, Go Daddy founder and CEO Bob Parsons just bought a house in Hawaii owned by singer Cher. The house went up for auction, and Parsons was the winning bidder at $8.72 million. The house description isn’t bad, if I do say so myself: The Hawaiian property, at the Four Seasons’ Hualalai resort, includes a main house flanked by four one-bedroom bungalows. Singer-actress Cher bought ... read more ...
Tue 23rd February 2010
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How Go Daddy Can Court Domainers - Love ‘em or hate ‘em, a better partnership between domainers and the world’s biggest registrar would benefit the industry. GoDaddy is the most loved domain name registrar. Ironically, it’s probably the most hated registrar at the same time. Respondents to DNW’s annual survey have selected GoDaddy.com as the best registrar for five years running. But it’s also true that a lot of domainers avoid the registrar like the plague. It would be great if GoDaddy ... read more ...
Thu 28th January 2010
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GoDaddy Manages to Get SuperBowl Ad Banned - One ad banned, but others approved. Phew, that was a close call. GoDaddy’s media strategy around Super Bowl ads was almost thrown into the air as CBS approved some of its risque ads. Without a banned or censored ad, that would mean less pre-game media coverage. But thanks to “Lola”, a flamboyant ex-football player turned fashion designer, GoDaddy can live another day. The ad is somewhat humorous, in typical GoDaddy fashion. Unlike prior years, GoDaddy didn’t ... read more ...
Wed 20th January 2010
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Morality in Media Gives GoDaddy a Boost - Censorship organization asks parents to visit Go Daddy’s web site. Brilliant. Go Daddy made a name for itself with Super Bowl commercials. But it wasn’t just advertising in the big game that brought attention. The real value was in pre-Super Bowl coverage. At first it was “Hey look, here’s a ‘dot com’ company that is advertising in the Super Bowl after the tech bust”. Then it was all about the racy nature of its commercials. Last year the religious ... read more ...
Thu 7th January 2010
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Go Daddy Expanding in Iowa - Domain registrar expands footprint in Iowa. Domain name registrar GoDaddy is bulking up its customer service operations near Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The new customer service facility should be running by this spring. The company is looking to hire 60 people in the next eight weeks, but the facility has 50,000 square feet and can accommodate 500 employees. Cedar Rapids already houses a number of GoDaddy employees in marketing, development, legal and business intelligence. ... read more ...
Tue 15th December 2009
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Go Daddy Revenue Tops $750 Million - A look behind the numbers at the world’s biggest domain name registrar. Bob Parsons has more tosmile about than just theGo Daddy Girls. Yesterday I wrote about Go Daddy’s revenue for 2009, and I extrapolated that the company grossed $600 million this year. That’s an incredible number — but the real number is even higher. In his opening remarks at the Go Daddy holiday party this past weekend, CEO Bob Parsons announced that the company has topped $750 million ... read more ...
Mon 14th December 2009
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Go Daddy Goes Big with $3 Million Holiday Party and Record Donations - Go Daddy throws big party and makes major charitable contributions. Go Daddy CEO Bob Parsons certainly lives by the “go big or go home” mantra. As evidence, his company topped last year’s $2 million holiday party with a $3 million party this year. The event was held last Saturday night at Chase Field in Phoenix. Among the notable guests were boxer Muhammad Ali, a friend of Bob Parsons and Shane Tews, VP VeriSign Global Public Policy Govt. Relations. The ... read more ...
Thu 5th November 2009
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Go Daddy Scores Victory to Benefit Domain Registrars and Internet Companies - Court dismisses case with prejudice over jurisdiction. Go Daddy Group has scored a legal victory involving jurisdiction, which should be a sigh of relief for other domain name registrars, parking companies, and even the internet industry as a whole. uBid sued Go Daddy for allegedly including domain names that included uBid’s trademarks in both parked domains and for sale in Go Daddy domain auctions. The court didn’t rule on the validity of uBid’s claims, but ... read more ...
Fri 25th September 2009
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Go Daddy Files Patents for Enhanced Whois and DNS Records - Go Daddy files three patents for whois and DNS. Go Daddy Group, Inc., parent company of domain name registrar GoDaddy, has filed three patents related to interactive and enhanced whois and DNS records. The three applications were published by the United States Patent and Trademark Office on Thursday. The applications cover various aspects of how to add additional information to whois and DNS records, such as information about whether the domain name is for sale and ... 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 ...
Fri 15th May 2009
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Woman Sues GoDaddy for Alleged Discrimination - Former employee alleges company ignored complaints about harassment. A former GoDaddy employee has sued the company in U.S. District Court, alleging it discriminated against her after she complained of sexual harassment. In the lawsuit, Rachel Pearson alleges that a co-worker engaged in “many offensive, hostile, and threatening acts” such as staring at her and touching her inappropriately. She claims that GoDaddy did not respond properly to her allegations, ... read more ...
Fri 17th April 2009
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Go Daddy Takes Different Approach to Apps - Go Daddy develops its own hosted applications. Go Daddy recently released a customer relationship management (CRM) application. The news isn’t that Go Daddy launched a web-based CRM app. It’s that Go Daddy continues to offer more online software applications and could easily become a small business hub for software-as-a-service. A captive audience According to Compete.com, GoDaddy.com is one of the top 400 trafficked web sites. Most visitors to the main GoDaddy.com ... read more ...
Wed 18th March 2009
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Go Daddy Awarded Three New Patents - Go Daddy gets three new patents, bringing total to five. The Go Daddy Group, Inc, parent company of domain registrar GoDaddy, has been awardedthree new patents this month. Based on a search of “Go Daddy” with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Go Daddy now has five patents. Its previously issued patents include one for private domain registration (whois privacy) and a server based spam filter. The three patents granted this month relate to web design and ... read more ...
Sun 1st February 2009
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GoDaddy Promotes Its Own Service When Switching Nameservers - Domain registrar offers its own competing service when changing nameservers. Domain name registrar GoDaddy.com is promoting its own domain parking service “Cash Parking” to customers who attempt to change a domain’s nameservers to a competing domain parking company. If you have a domain name on GoDaddy’s name servers (which is the case whenever you register a new domain name or use forwarding) and try to switch to the nameservers of a domain parking company, ... read more ...
Fri 30th January 2009
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GoDaddy.com Purchases Second Super Bowl Commercial - Company to air two commercials during Sunday’s Super Bowl. One of the last remaining advertising spots in Sunday’s Super Bowl was snapped up by domain name registrar GoDaddy. The commercial will air near the two minute warning in the fourth quarter of the game. GoDaddy, a perennial Super Bowl advertiser, asked the public to select which of two commercials to run during the company’s first quarter 30 second spot. The company settled on a Danica Patrick spot ... read more ...
Mon 19th January 2009
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Go Daddy Thwarts Cyber Criminal, 1,000 Accounts Locked - Go Daddy’s security team stops perpetrator; about 1,000 accounts affected. GoDaddy.com, the world’s largest domain name registrar, has thwarted an attack by a person who gained access to customer information. The company discovered that someone gained access to certain customer information through a vulnerability in its systems. The information accessed included names, physical addresses, and customer IDs. Passwords and other sensitive information was not ... read more ...
Fri 16th January 2009
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GoDaddy Takes on eBay, Amazon.com, and Yahoo - GoDaddy plans to open online selling site. In direct competition with eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY), Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN), and Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO), domain registrar Go Daddy is launching a marketplace dubbed “Go Daddy Marketplace” for people to buy and sell goods online. Users can set up stores and upload products. GoDaddy will handle all payments and notify sellers whenever a product is sold. Marketplace will integrate with other GoDaddy products, such as allowing ... read more ...
Wed 14th January 2009
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NBC Approves Two Go Daddy Ads for Super Bowl - Approval comes well in advance of big game. Domain registrar GoDaddy has a history of butting heads with networks over its Super Bowl commercials. This year is no different, although NBC has given the green light for two GoDaddy ads well in advance of the big game. GoDaddy is asking customers to vote on which ad should show during the Super Bowl. During my radio interview with Go Daddy CEO Bob Parsons, he mentioned my criticism of the company for becoming to institutionalized. ... read more ...
Tue 30th December 2008
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GoDaddy Donates $1.7 Million to Charity - GoDaddy tops last year’s giving by $300,000. With all of the negative news I’ve written about Go Daddy this year, it’s nice to end the year on an up note. Today the company announced that its total philanthropic giving for the year is $1.7M, topping last year’s $1.4M in giving. That’s about $1,000 per employee, a very respectable number. Go Daddy supports a number of non-profits from local (Phoenix Children’s Hospital) to international (Make A Wish ... 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 ...