Tag Archives: godaddy.com

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 ...
Tue 15th February 2011
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Go Daddy Devises “Pay for Placement” Idea for New gTLD Operators - Patent describes system where new top level domain operators can bid for preferred placement registrar sites. Want to get your new top level domain name positioned well on GoDaddy? Prepare to pay. That’s the idea behind a pay-for-placement approach for TLD placement on registrar web sites that Go Daddy has devised. Oh, and it has a patent on it. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued U.S. patent 7,890,602 (pdf) to Go Daddy today for “Tools enabling preferred ... read more ...
Thu 16th December 2010
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My Sales Results from One Year of Go Daddy Premium Listings - The future of SMB domain sales is in the registration path. It’s been about a year since I first start using Go Daddy’s Premium Listings option for selling domain names. This option lists your domain names for sale in Go Daddy Auctions, but more importantly in the registration path on GoDaddy.com when someone wants to register a domain name you own: I currently have about 250-300 domains with Premium Listings at Go Daddy, although for most of the year it was ... 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 ...
Mon 18th October 2010
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GoDaddy Sponsors Its Own College Bowl Game - Domain name registrar sponsors a college football bowl game. After years of advertising in the Super Bowl, GoDaddy is upping its football ante by sponsoring its own college football bowl game. The company will be taking over what was the GMAC Bowl, and it will now be known as the GoDaddy.com Bowl. The game takes place January 6, 2011 in Mobile, Alabama, and features teams from the Mid-American and Sun Belt Conferences. It’s a smaller bowl game (last year Troy ... 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 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 ...
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 ...
Thu 13th August 2009
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GoDaddy’s 2008 Revenue Nearly $500M - Company’s revenue up 2.5x in three years. [Update: 2009 revenue was about $750 million.] The Go Daddy Group, parent company of domain name registrar GoDaddy, generated nearly a half billion dollars in revenue in 2008 according to the recently released Inc. 5000 list. Inc. magazine reports the company pulled in $497.9 million in 2008 compared to $139.8 million in 2005, a growth of 256%. That’s good enough to earn it spot number 1,241 on Inc.’s list for revenue ... 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 ...
Mon 2nd February 2009
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GoDaddy Charges Own Customers with Cybersquatting - Domain name registrar files UDRP complaints for its trademarks. You won’t believe where the domain names are registered. Domain name registrar GoDaddy.com and its parent company have filed 4 UDRP cases with World Intellectual Property Organization this year. What’s interesting isn’t that a domain registrar is protecting its brands. It’s that many of the domains it is trying to get are registered at GoDaddy. Of the four cases, two involve domain names at ... 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 ...
Tue 18th November 2008
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GoDaddy Increases Default Registration Period to 5 Years - Be careful as you click through checkout on GoDaddy. If you’re used to quickly clicking through the GoDaddy checkout process to register domains, be warned: the default registration period has changed to 5 years. The graphic below shows the default when I tried to register the domain RegisteringDomainsForMultipleYears.com. Most domainers already stop at this step to change the default from two years to one, and it’s likely that you’ll catch the change when ... read more ...