Tag Archives: godaddy.com

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 2nd November 2012
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GoDaddy and AOL sued over email patents - Ziplink claims companies’ email services infringe its patents. A Connecticut company sued domain name registrar and hosting company Go Daddy yesterday in federal district court. Ziplink, Inc. alleges that Go Daddy’s email services infringe two of its patents. Go Daddy is in good company on this one. Ziplink also sued AOL yesterday. Its first patent infringement target was Microsoft, in which Ziplink argued that Hotmail violated its patents. The two patents in ... read more ...
Thu 18th October 2012
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Deutsch to furnish dual Super Bowl commercials for Go Daddy - Go Daddy to use ad agency for Super Bowl commercials for first time since 2005. Go Daddy announced today that ad agency Deutsch, which is hired earlier this year, will produce its two Super Bowl commercials for 2013. The domain name registrar and web hosting company hired Duetsch to change its image from just being about girls to showing its technology side. The first commercials Duetsch produced for Go Daddy ran during the Olympics. Go Daddy produced its early ... 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 ...
Tue 2nd October 2012
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Go Daddy Auctions sells 30,000+ domains in September - Another month of over 30,000 domain name sales in Go Daddy’s aftermarket. Go Daddy Auctions is reporting over 30,000 domains sold last month. The ticker shows 30,839; the number is typically adjusted upward as final tallies come in. The top reported sale for last month is CashLady.com at $36,000. The domain name was purchased by PDB UK, a payday loans broker in the United Kingdom. Other top sales include: safetygloves.com $22,000 chinaindustry.com $20,540 democraticcapitalism.com $20,000 82.net $17,905 startime.com $15,000 ... 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 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 ...
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 ...
Mon 30th July 2012
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Go Daddy CEO Warren Adelman stairs down - The world’s largest domain name registrar is seeking a new CEO. Warren Adelman Warren Adelman is stepping down as CEO of Go Daddy, the company announced today. He will remain with the company as Special Advisor for Strategy and Global Policy. Adelman was promoted to CEO of the company in December when Go Daddy closed its investment round with KKR, Silver Lake and Technology Crossover Ventures. He has been with the company for nearly a decade, previously as President ... 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 ...
Fri 6th July 2012
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Go Daddy Auctions Jun sales down (but that doesn’t meant a downturn in a market) - Aftermarket domain sales robust despite lower numbers on Go Daddy Auctions. Last month Go Daddy Auctions sold 31,896 domain names. That’s down from 35,094 in May. The number of domains sold on the platform has been on a downward trend for several months. I reached out to Paul Nicks, Director – Domain Name Aftermarket at Go Daddy, to find out what’s behind the decline: Seasonality is a factor during summer months. We’ve also seen a direct correlation with an ... 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 ...
Tue 5th June 2012
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Go Daddy sole 35,094 aftermarket domains final month - Go Daddy releases monthly stats about aftermarket domain sales. The Go Daddy Auctions Domain Market Report for May is out. Last month the company sold 35,094 domain names through its aftermarket platform. That’s down slightly from 36,103 in April. 54% of domains sold via auction while 45% were fixed price sales. 1% sold through negotiation. The top 10 reported sales were: businessreviews.com $58,000 looker.com $50,000 temi.com $30,000 smartcamera.com $29,200 mara.com $28,000 hugg.me $25,001 imena.com $19,000 wbl.com $18,000 instantly.net $16,995 allaboutdecks.com ... 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 ...
Tue 13th December 2011
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GoDaddy rocks on with Kid Rock (video) - GoDaddy party transforms Chase Field into amusement park. Every year Go Daddy spends millions of dollars on a holiday party for its employees at Chase Field in Phoenix. This year it expanded with a road show in Iowa and Colorado, but the big show in the desert was as big as ever. The company gave over $1 million in cash prizes to its employees and entertained them with performances by Kid Rock, Dierks Bentley and Trace Adkins. The pictures and video of the event ... read more ...
Mon 5th December 2011
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.Co to lapse to Super Bowl in GoDaddy commercial - .Co to be featured in GoDaddy Super Bowl commercial. The .co top level domain name will get heavy exposure at the Super Bowl for a second year in a row. Today domain name registrar GoDaddy announced that one of its two commercials in next year’s Super Bowl will feature .co. Last year’s .co/GoDaddy commercial tempted viewers to visit GoDaddy.com to find out who the new .co girl was. Despite the young Tabitha Taylor’s body in the commercial, the .co girl turned ... 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Tue 14th June 2011
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GoDaddy.com Goes Down for “Several Hours” Last Night - Domain name registrar’s web site goes down. [Updated story to reflect timeline as last night, not this morning. Note that if you still can’t reach GoDaddy.com it’s probably your ISP’s cache. You can test any site here to see if it’s just you. Also, if for some reason your Go Daddy hosting isn’t working, this is unrelated. You should call Go Daddy support.] Customers trying to register new domain names or manage their accounts at GoDaddy.com last night ... read more ...
Mon 13th June 2011
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Go Daddy Triples Auction Fees to 15% - Auction fees go up as domains get more exposure. Go Daddy Auctions has increased its sales commission three-fold from 5% to 15%. This change was noticed by Hybrid Domainer earlier today. The auction price increase makes sense given that auction listings now show up in the registration path when someone searches for the exact domain name on Go Daddy. A Premium Listing carries a 30% commission while the typical auction listing only cost 5% until now. This is steep ... 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 ...