Tag Archives: GoDaddy

Wed 24th July 2013
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Judge Says Godaddy Is Not Entitled To Safe Harbor Protection On Parked Pages Program - In a 29 page ruling a California Federal Court denied Godaddy’s motion to have the case filed by the ACADEMY OF MOTION PICTURES ARTS AND SCIENCES, (the Oscars) which was filed in 2010, thrown out, denying Godaddy.com the Safe Harbor that domain name registrars typically enjoy. DomainNameWire.com reported last week that Godaddy was testing out some new parked landing pages, but this ruling might explain why Godaddy made the change removing pay per click traditional parked page advertising. Of course ... read more ...
 
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Royal baby domain name registrations spike - GoDaddy reports increase in domain registrations related to baby. I have to admit, I don’t really get this royal baby nonsense. But it’s still the top news story today, even on the U.S. version of CNN.com. Punters* are lining up to cash in on the name of Prince William and Catherine Middleton’s baby. GoDaddy reports that, as of yesterday evening, it had seen a spike of 2x-4x (in the previous 24 hours) in domain names registered that included possible names of ... read more ...
Mon 22nd July 2013
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GoDaddy lets business “watch” new TLDs - Domain registrar creates watchlist for new domain names. GoDaddy is now allowing customers to add particular new top level domain names to a “watchlist”. The company’s updated new TLD landing page includes 700 categorized to level domain names. A blog post announcing the new watchlist feature was careful not to call it pre-registration, or even expressions of interest: NOTE: Keep in mind, we might not sell all of the gTLDs listed on the landing page. The “watch” ... read more ...
Thu 18th July 2013
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.Info and .LA auctions finish this morning - Sedo and GoDaddy auctions end today starting at noon EDT. Two top level domain name-specific domain auctions end today. Sedo is auctioning off 50 .info domain names, all with reserve prices under 500 euros. The auction ends at noon EDT today. At the time of posting (10:30 AM PDT) 42 domains have bids and seven domain names have hit their reserves. The top domains so far are: Survival.info 605 EUR Reseller.info 559 EUR Nuts.info 499 EUR Souvenirs.info 499 EUR Grooming.info ... read more ...
Wed 17th July 2013
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GoDaddy gets obvious for Geo Domain tool - First patent related to system for generating geo domain names is granted. Back in 2009 GoDaddy released a geo domain tool that allowed you to find domain names specific to a location, e.g. AustinAllergists.com. Last year I reported that GoDaddy filed three patent applications related to the tool. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has now granted a patent to GoDaddy covering the technology. U.S. patent 8,489,746 is titled “Systems for suggesting domain names ... read more ...
Tue 16th July 2013
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GoDaddy triples space in Sunnyvale, now over 80 employees in Silicon Valley - Domain name registrar leases 40,000 square feet in key Silicon Valley location. GoDaddy is opening a new office in Sunnyvale, California as it rapidly increases its headcount in the area. The new 40,000 square foot office more than triples the company’s current space in the city. 40 GoDaddy employees were in Silicon Valley as of February, and the press release about the expansion says that number has “more than doubled” since then. The space is in Moffett Towers ... read more ...
Mon 15th July 2013
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GoDaddy: First Major Registrar to Sign ICANN’s New Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) - According to a press release we received, GoDaddy, announced today it was the first major registrar to sign ICANN’s new Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA). The new agreement provides customers a better experience, allows registrars to offer the upcoming new gTLDs and sets the standard for the future of the Internet. Signing the new agreement enables GoDaddy to offer the new top level domain names (new gTLD’s) “This agreement is a great step forward for the Internet,” said GoDaddy CEO ... read more ...
 
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First 5 domain name registrars pointer 2013 RAA - Five domain name registrars, including GoDaddy, signed the new registrar accreditation agreement today. Five domain name registrars signed the 2013 Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) during a signing ceremony at ICANN’s meeting in Durban today. The group was headlined by GoDaddy, which registers about half of all new domain names. The 2013 RAA places significant new requirements on domain registrars, including validating registrant information and retaining ... read more ...
Thu 11th July 2013
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Body.com Sells On Godaddy.com For $380,000 - The domain name Body.com just sold on GoDaddy’s aftermarket for $380,000. This was listed via Godaddy’s partnership with Sedo and sold from GoDaddy.com as a make offer listing. The seller appears to have been Red Trend Limited out of Hong Kong. The domain was last sold back in 2009 for $400,000 by Live Current Media on Sedo’s Great Domains site. This is the 2nd highest domain sale ever recorded  by Godaddy.com The highest sale recorded at Godaddy.com is HomeOwnersInsurance.com which sold for ... read more ...
Mon 8th July 2013
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.LA gets GoDaddy’s selling energy to assistance code domain for Los Angeles - .LA to get another push as the domain for Los Angeles. GoDaddy announced this morning that it has teamed up with DOT LA Marketing Company and CentralNic to help push the ccTLD .la as a domain name for Los Angeles. The domain name registrar is offering annual .la domain name registrations for $39.99 and will hold auctions for some premium .la domain names as well. .LA is actually the country code for Laos, also known as Lao People’s Democratic Republic, a country ... read more ...
Mon 1st July 2013
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Godaddy Sells 38,155 Domains In Jun Led By Fortnite.com For $71,500 & Two .Org’s - Godaddy just released its June domain name auction report, selling 38,155 domains in June down substantially in number of transaction in May when it sold 42,217 domain names. All sales were led by Fortnite.com which sold for a whopping $71,500 and CashForCars.Org which sold for $55,000 Right behing those two was the domain name AHN.org which sold for $50K. Really good sales in my opinion. The domain Fortnite.com is only 7 years old and was owned by an Eric Williams of Moorestown,NJ Fortnite is a ... read more ...
Thu 20th June 2013
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GoDaddy uses discerning consult to shred customers - GoDaddy segments its customers using quick survey. When I logged in to my GoDaddy account this morning I was greeted by a friendly blonde asking me what I was up to. “We’re working on new ways to give you a more personalized experience,” a pop-up survey proclaimed. Indeed, GoDaddy is working to customize what you see — and surely what the company tries to sell you — based on the type of business you run. The first question reads “Which best describes you?”, ... read more ...
Thu 6th June 2013
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.Co Puts Over 1,000 Two Character Domains Up For Sale At Godaddy - According to the .Co Registry, effective immediately, the .CO Registry has listed approximately 1,100, two-character premium .CO domain names for sale on  GoDaddy. The two-character domain names are available through GoDaddy’s Aftermarket and will be available soon on the GoDaddy domain availability check, making these premium digital assets widely available to GoDaddy’s customer base of SMBs and global businesses. The two-character .CO domain names now listed on the GoDaddy platform include ... read more ...
Wed 5th June 2013
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A pointed (yet big) change in GoDaddy’s ads - Verisign paying to include .com in GoDaddy ad. I was watching the Cardinals game last night when I noticed ads for GoDaddy.com behind the batter. This is nothing new. GoDaddy frequently advertises on baseball broadcasts. But something about the ad looked different. Take a look. Can’t see the difference? Here’s a close-up. We already know that GoDaddy is rebranding by dropping .com from its name. But this ad not only drops the .com from the original GoDaddy.com ... read more ...
Tue 4th June 2013
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GoDaddy releases vital refurbish to Domain Manager - Upgrades to Domain Manager make it easier to complete common tasks. GoDaddy, the world’s largest domain name registrar, has released a new Domain Manager for managing domain names held at the registrar. Compared to other registrars, GoDaddy’s system has always been a bit bloated. The new interface is a step in the right direction. Whereas before it took multiple clicks and pageviews to change a nameserver, you can now do it from the main Domain Manager screen: You ... read more ...
Sat 1st June 2013
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Godaddy Sells 41,786 In May Led By boxed.com during $35,000 - Godaddy.com just posted its Domain Sales information for auctions taking place on their system for the month of May 2013. In all Godaddy.com sold 41,786 domain names slightly up from April’s sales of 40,221. Of the 41,786 domain names sold through auctions here is the break down of the type of transaction: By Auction Type5/1 – 5/31   Here are the top ten sales for the month of May: Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Tue 21st May 2013
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GoDaddy gets dual patents for domain appraisal - Paul Nicks’ inventions related to name spinning and appraisals get patent protection. The United States Patent and Trademark Office today issued two patents to GoDaddy related to name spinning and appraisal. U.S. Patent number 8,447,701 is titled “Appraising domain names using comparative data” and 8,447,702 (pdf) is “Domain appraisal algorithm”. The patents have lots of overlapping material. They cover name spinning to create permutations of domain names ... read more ...
Thu 16th May 2013
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GoDaddy.com Bowl drops .com for 2014 game - In another sign of rebranding, The GoDaddy.com Bowl is now the GoDaddy Bowl. GoDaddy is in the process of rebranding from GoDaddy.com to simply GoDaddy. With the change, the football game formerly known as the GoDaddy.com Bowl will be called merely the GoDaddy Bowl next year, reports AL.com. GoDaddy announced plans to change its brand to a group of new top level domain applicants in March. The company will drop the .com from its branding over the coming year and ... read more ...
Wed 8th May 2013
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Godaddy Formally Names Scott Wagner COO & CFO - According to a press release by GoDaddy, it is formally announcing as “its new Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer Scott Wagner, effective immediately.” “Wagner was a KKR Capstone Member and the leader of KKR’s portfolio operations team in North America, who stepped in as GoDaddy’s interim CEO last summer. ” “Wagner began working with GoDaddy a short time after KKR, Silver Lake Partners and Technology Crossover Ventures made strategic investments in the company in 2011.     ... read more ...
 
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Scott Wagner takes COO and CFO positions during Go Daddy - Scott Wagner goes from interim to permanent at GoDaddy. Domain name registrar GoDaddy today announced that Scott Wagner is its new COO and CFO. Wagner took over as interim CEO of the company last summer when Warren Adelman stepped down from the CEO position. He then vacated that position earlier this year to make way for new CEO Blake Irving. Wagner worked for KKR for 13 years, recently as a member of KKR’s portfolio operations team. He became involved with GoDaddy ... read more ...
Mon 29th April 2013
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VentureBeat Covers & Interviews Godaddy’s CEO Blake Irving - VentureBeat.com just published a story on the CEO of Godaddy.com Blake Irving. Here are some of the more interesting quotes: “I  see a very clear path of how to make GoDaddy the most valued, largest platform for small businesses in the world. It is quite clear that no one is doing it right yet.” “What I like to do is make a significant change in the world for good,” “I want to take something that doesn’t exist and help change people’s lives by helping people turn their ideas into businesses. ... read more ...
Wed 17th April 2013
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Godaddy Roll Out New gTLD Pages - Godaddy has launched a few new page in anticipation of the launch of the new gTLD   “Targeted, Relevant Domain Names are Coming!” “The Web is about to change forever.” “Starting this summer, hundreds of new domain extensions will become available, allowing you to target your business or personal website like never before.” The domains on the page keep changing randomly to show what is possible under the new gTLD progra and as                   Godaddy has pages set up to ... read more ...
Tue 16th April 2013
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Godaddy Opens Seattle Office& Hires Executives of Microsoft Google & Amazon - Go Daddy announced today that is opening a permanent Seattle-area office in Kirkland or Bellevue, Washington n June. According to a Press Release out today, Godaddy is already  operating out of a temporary office near Carillon Point in Kirkland, as Go Daddy has hired “veteran executives from Microsoft, Google, Amazon and eBay, among others. “The reason to join Go Daddy is simple … you can make a difference at a company that is hell-bent on changing the world,” Irving said. “We have the ... read more ...
Mon 1st April 2013
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Godaddy.com Sells Over 42K Domain Names In March - Godaddy.com posted its sales totals for March 2013, reporting 42,600 domain sold on its platform in March. This is a substantial increase over February where Godaddy.com reported 34,985 Of the 42K+ sales: 762 Offer/Counter-Offer 22,566 Auction 19,332 Buy Now Here are the top 10 sales of the month: Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Tue 26th March 2013
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Return of a Mini-Site? Google Stops Its Domain Blocking Tool - Google has discontinued its domain blocking tool (known as The Blocked Sites feature”) i The tool would allow internet users could elect not to see results of say parked pages or content farm pages in their search results when logged into Google. Google says users can still block particular sites from your search results, we recommend the Personal Blocklist Chrome extension from Google. You may also download your existing blocked sites list as a text file. So for parked pages, especially mini-sites ... read more ...