Tag Archives: GoDaddy

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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128 “binder” domains purebred during GoDaddy.com after debate - Meme kicks of domain registration spree. There’s nothing like a funny phrase in a debate to start a meme. And when there’s a meme, there are domains to be registered. Earlier this year there was Clint Eastwood and his chair. That spurred dozens of domain registrations. Last night there was Mitt Romney and his “binders full of women” comment at the debate. A Super PAC was standing by for any possible meme moments in the debate and snapped up Bindersfullofwomen.com ... read more ...
Thu 11th October 2012
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Godaddy.com Is Going To Make A Return Visit To The SuperBowl For A Reported $3.7-$3.8 Million - Godaddy.com is making a return visit to the Super Bowl. According to  BusinessInsider.com, Godaddy.com has already committed $3.7-$3.8 Million dollars for a 30 second Super Bowl Spot. CBS says that 90% of it’s inventory for the Super Bowl is already sold. Guess we will see if .Co makes a return as well.   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Wed 10th October 2012
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Godaddy & Enom To Sell 94 One & Two Character .ORG Registry Owned Domain Names - Public Interest Registry, the not-for-profit operator of the .ORG domain, today announced the release of 94 previously unregistered one- to two- character .ORG addresses, Through a partnership with GoDaddy and eNom, the initiative – called “Project94” – gives organizations the unprecedented opportunity to enhance their brand with one of the shortest and perhaps most memorable domain names available. These domains also carry the inherent trust and reliability for which the .ORG domain is known. What’s ... read more ...
Thu 4th October 2012
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Godaddy.com Kills Its Cloud Business As A Stand Alone Product - According to gigaom.com, Godaddy.com “has decided to close its Cloud Servers cloud computing product, according to an internal email shared with Gigaom.com by an anonymous ex-employee.” “After reviewing all of our hosting products, we decided to double-down on our shared hosting and site builder products and invest to win in these spaces,” it reads. “As part of this focus, we will discontinue Cloud Servers as a stand-alone product.” GoDaddy has confirmed the decision in an email to me ... read more ...
Mon 1st October 2012
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Top 5 domain name stories of Sep 2012 - Patents, the Go Daddy outage, and the French. Here are the top five stories from Domain Name Wire last month, ranked based on page views. Go Daddy patents “announcing a domain name registration on a social website” – Go Daddy got a patent on a way to announce your latest domain name registration on a social networking web site, such as Twitter. (And this post got a lot of traffic from Hacker News.) On day of iPhone 5 announcement, iPhone5.com sits dark – despite ... read more ...
Thu 20th September 2012
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Class movement lawsuit filed over Go Daddy downtime - Lawsuit claims seeks damages for downtime on September 10. Well, that was quick. The first federal lawsuit seeking class action status has been filed against GoDaddy for its downtime on September 10 (pdf). The outage affected GoDaddy.com and many people who used the company’s DNS and web hosting services. The suit was filed by Eric Mitchell, who runs the web site StatedIncomeIsBack.com. He claims Go Daddy failed to “satisfy its guaranteed upload (sic) times for ... read more ...
Tue 4th September 2012
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Go Daddy Auctions sells 31,481 domains in August - TeachingJobs.com heads list of domain name sales. The monthly Go Daddy Auctions Domain Market Report is out, and the headline number is 31,481 domain names sold during August. That’s lower than July’s 33,373 domains. The top sale for August was TeachingJobs.com at a strong $89,250. The domain name appears to have been previously developed or used as a lead gen site. Here are the top ten reported sales for the month: teachingjobs.com $89,250 curio.com $60,000 ced.com $60,000 ffun.com $25,000 eduhelper.com $21,288 myeyes.com $19,777 mrcglobal.com $15,000 southernrecycling.com $13,100 officerentals.com $12,500 livecasinotv.com $12,000 Go ... read more ...
Fri 10th August 2012
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Whitserv says it’s entrance after domain registrars for promulgation renovation notices - Company claims it has patents related to sending renewal notices. Whitserv, a company suing Go Daddy for alleged patent infringement related to sending renewal reminder notices, says it has put other domain registrars “on notice” as well. Last year Whitserv filed suit against Go Daddy for how it sends reminder notices to renew domain names. The company apparently got a victory related to the same patents against another company, so it just sent out a press release: [Whitserv ... 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 ...
Fri 1st June 2012
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Go Daddy creates routine to discharge 60 day send lock - GoDaddy.com offers way to remove 60 day lock on domain transfers after certain registrant changes. Update: Read more about Go Daddy’s new transfer lock policy here. Ah, the dreaded 60 day lock. Go Daddy has taken quite a bit of flack over the years for rejecting transfers to other registrars if you changed certain registrant information within the previous 60 days. But under a new policy, customers will have a formal way to request the sixty day hold be removed. ... read more ...
Wed 30th May 2012
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Go Daddy relates for .home and .casa tip turn domains - Go Daddy applies for .home, .casa, and .godaddy top level domains. Domain name registrar Go Daddy has applied for the .home and .casa top level domains, CEO Warren Adelman disclosed to Domain Name Wire. These two domains are in addition to .GoDaddy. Adelman said the domains were chosen in part because they have multiple meanings with big market opportunities: they can be used in both a real estate context and personal context. From a real estate perspective, Go Daddy ... read more ...
Thu 24th May 2012
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Mayor arrested after illegally accessing GoDaddy comment and cancelling domain - Mayor and his son accused of hacking into email and then illegally accessing GoDaddy account to cancel domain name registration. West New York mayor Felix Roque and his son were arrested after allegedly working together to hack into an email account to gain access to a GoDaddy account and take down a domain name related to a recall effort against the mayor. The complaint alleges that Roque’s son, Joseph Roque, was first able to compromise the email address for the ... read more ...
Tue 22nd May 2012
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Why we switched to GoDaddy hosting - Domain Name Wire is now hosted by GoDaddy.com A couple weeks ago I changed web hosts to GoDaddy.com. Several people have asked why I decided to change hosts in the first place and why I chose GoDaddy. Why I changed hosts When I started Domain Name Wire I hosted it with the same host I’d been using for my other sites for 5 years. I’m not going to mention the host by name because they’ve really been pretty good to me for the better part of a decade. It’s a ... read more ...
Mon 26th December 2011
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DailyChanges.com information is widely misunderstood - Don’t look to DailyChanges.com to see how many domains GoDaddy has lost. Ever since GoDaddy faced a boycott of its services over its (since changed) position on SOPA, people have been trying to quantify domain losses for the company. A typical data source is DailyChanges.com, which monitors changes to nameservers. This is a bad source in this case for two reasons: 1. Domain names typically take 5 or more days to transfer, so the full effect won’t be evident for ... read more ...
Thu 22nd December 2011
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GoDaddy’s obvious portfolio still growing, though no descent movement yet - Domain registrar continues to apply for patents but hasn’t gone on the offensive yet. Will GoDaddy’s patent strategy change now that it has taken an investment from three private equity giants? It’s an important question for the domain name and web hosting industries because of the size of the company’s patent war chest. A search with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office shows 65 issued patents for The Go Daddy Group and close to 200 pending. These patents ... 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 ...
Fri 2nd December 2011
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GoDaddy investment should tighten before finish of year - Investment from big name private equity groups should be completed before the end of the year. A private equity investment by KKR, Silver Lake, and Technology Crossover Ventures in GoDaddy should close by the end of the year, according to Iowa news station KCRG. The deal has finally passed its big regulatory challenge — approval by the People’s Republic of China, the report says. Foreign government approval is important since one of the main points of the investment ... read more ...
Thu 13th October 2011
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Go Daddy Wants to Patent Way to Monetize URL Shorteners - A way to make money off of shortened URLs? There’s not a whole lot of money in shortening links. Go Daddy has devised a way to change that. The company filed a trio of patent applications (here’s one) for methods of monetizing shortened URLs. The applications were filed in April 2010 and just published today. The idea is to monetize each visitor to a shortened URL with some sort of advertising. The method parses the URL that was shortened to come up with relevant ... read more ...
Tue 27th September 2011
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Go Daddy’s Real Number: 225 Million - Registrar has 50 million domains on the books. But how about over time? This past weekend Go Daddy topped the 50 million domain name mark. This number is kind of like a balance sheet: it means the company has 50 million domain names currently registered with it. But what about the longer view? I asked Go Daddy for some indication of how many domains it has registered over time. Since it became a registrar, Go Daddy has registered more than 225 million years worth ... read more ...
Thu 15th September 2011
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Go Daddy Responds Over Compromised Hosting Accounts - Redirects inserted into .htaccess files of 445 hosting accounts. Internet security company Securi wrote a blog post yesterday noting that a number of web sites hosted with Go Daddy’s had been compromised. According to Securi, the .htaccess file on these sites had compromised and a conditional redirect was inserted. Site visitors coming from a set of pre-determined search engines were automatically forwarded to a malware site. I reached out to Go Daddy to find out ... read more ...
Thu 8th September 2011
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Registrar Renewal Notices: Damned if we Do, Damned if we Don’t - Guy complains about receiving renewal notices after his domain expires. I just read a post on ZDNet by Scott Raymond that lambasted GoDaddy.com for a number of its practices. The article starts out complaining about how GoDaddy continued to send him renewal notices for his domain even after it expired: Recently I had deliberately allowed a domain to expire, since I no longer used it and it wasn’t worth maintaining for sentimental reasons. However, GoDaddy has a ... read more ...
Thu 25th August 2011
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GoDaddy Files Patents for Domain Appraisals and Domain Spinning - Four patent applications provide method of domain name valuation and domain suggestions. Domain name registrar GoDaddy has filed four patent applications related to domain name appraisals and spinning. The applications list Paul Nicks, who is Director of Product Development for GoDaddy’s auction service, as inventor. They were filed in February 2010 and just published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office today. The domain name appraisal portion (pdf) of the patents ... read more ...
Tue 16th August 2011
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A Quick Way to Slash Your Go Daddy Premium Commissions By 33% - Reduce your commission rate by changing your price. Last week I sold a domain through GoDaddy Premium Listings for $1,750. I’m happy with the sale, although is stings to pay a $525 commission. A couple weeks ago Adam Strong noted that GoDaddy reduced its fee on Premium Listings sales from 30% to 20%, but only on listings created in August. He suggested deleting and re-adding domains to take advantage of the lower commission rate. For the domain I just sold it would ... read more ...