Tag Archives: GoDaddy

Tue 6th October 2009
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Dark Blue Sea and GoDaddy Get Back Together - Australian domain company signs new sales agreement with Go Daddy. Dark Blue Sea, parent company of Fabulous, has had a rough year. It probably hit bottom back in July, when GoDaddy pulled out of a sales distribution agreement with the company. Perhaps it’s one of those on-again, off-again relationships, as the two registrars have inked another sales agreement. This is good news, given that an outside investor is currently trying to takeover the company. I ... read more ...
Fri 2nd October 2009
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GoDaddy Files 3 Patents for Domain Suggestion and Advertising Method - Company files patents for improving current domain suggestion and advertising systems. Go Daddy Group, Inc., parent company of domain name registrar GoDaddy, has filed three patents for a method of suggesting possible domain names. The applications also suggest this method can be used for targeted advertising, search results, and web site content. The applications were filed in 2008 and published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on October 1. In the patent ... read more ...
Mon 14th September 2009
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GoDaddy to Advertise in 2010 Super Bowl - Domain name registrar signs up for 6th consecutive year. Domain name registrar and web hosting company GoDaddy has purchased an ad spot in next year’s Super Bowl on CBS. This will be the sixth consecutive year the company has advertise on the big show. The company has agreed to air two spots in the Super Bowl on February 7, 2010. If you’re wondering what the company might feature in its commercials, I have a hunch it will involve scantily clad women. GoDaddy ... read more ...
Fri 11th September 2009
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GoDaddy Launches GoDaddySaves.Me - Domain registrar launches new online savings site, but misses an obvious typo. Domain name registrar GoDaddy has launched GoDaddySaves.Me, and online savings network. Members get discounts at a number of online merchants, ranging from Kohls to FTD.com. Membership costs $9.99, but includes a $10 GoDaddy gift certificate, making it essentially free. Beyond the revenue potential for GoDaddy, the site also continues a trend of the company using the .me domain name. ... read more ...
Tue 25th August 2009
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DNW’s 10 Step Guide to Transferring Domain Names to GoDaddy - Your step-by-step guide to transferring a domain name to GoDaddy. A couple weeks ago I had to transfer a domain name to GoDaddy as part of sale. The buyer was supposed transfer the domain to his account at GoDaddy from mine at Moniker, but he through up his hands in frustration. Given that the buyer is an IT manager at a technology company, I decided to take another look at GoDaddy’s transfer-in process. No wonder he was frustrated — the user interface and ... read more ...
Wed 5th August 2009
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Domain Name Companies Spend $2M Lobbying Washington - Analysis shows over $2M spent in first half of year on lobbying. Domain name related companies continue to spend millions of dollars lobbying representatives in Washington, a study by Domain Name Wire shows. The analysis used public records filed with the U.S. Senate to calculate lobbying expenses by domain name companies and other companies regarding domain name issues. By far the biggest spender is VeriSign (NASDAQ: VRSN), which spent $1.4M in the first half of ... read more ...
Fri 17th July 2009
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GoDaddy Delivers a Blow to Dark Blue Sea - End of sales agreement could have broad implications for Australian domain company. It’s been a rough year for Dark Blue Sea (ASX: DBS), parent company of Fabulous. Its profits are down by three quarters, it has cut half its staff, and one of its biggest shareholders is trying to oust its Chairman. But the news got worse yesterday, as reported by Domain Name News: GoDaddy terminated its sales agreement with the company. This is a big deal. Dark Blue Sea was ... read more ...
Thu 2nd July 2009
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GoDaddy Files Patent for Method of Selling Equity in Domain Names - Domain registrar files patents for system to sell equity in domain names. Go Daddy Group Inc. has filed a patent for a method of selling equity in domain names and protecting the domain names in which the equity is issued. The patent is for a system that will facilitate the sale of shares in a domain name. The patent application explains that a number of institutions are interested in investing in domain names, but there isn’t a simple mechanism to do so. Conversely, ... read more ...
Thu 4th June 2009
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Congress Beats Up ICANN (Part 3) - Question and answer period at hearing gets testy. In part 1 of our coverage of today’s U.S. House of Representatives hearing on ICANN, DNW covered committee member’s opening remarks. Part two covered witnesses’ opening testimony. The real fireworks started when the committee members asked questions of the witnesses. Committee chairman Rick Boucher (D-Virginia) started the questioning by following up on Verizon’s comments about cybersquatting. (Verizon ... read more ...
Wed 20th May 2009
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.Me during 250,000: What’s Next? - 250,000 .me domain names have been registered. Here’s what it means. 250,000 .me domain names have been registered since its relaunch earlier this year. I draw two conclusions from this. First, it shows the power a registrar has in pushing a domain. .Me is run by a partnership between Afilias and GoDaddy. GoDaddy has aggressively pushed the domain and dissed others at the same time. (Bob Parsons stopped using BobParsons.tv and switched to BobParsons.me). ... read more ...
Thu 30th April 2009
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GoDaddy Disses .TV and What it Says About a Echo Chamber - The echo chamber about GoDaddy’s diss of .tv shows that new and old media can get it wrong. GoDaddy is taking its diss of the .tv domain name a step further. How people are reacting to and writing about it shows that it’s hard to know who the “authoritative source” is. In November I wrote an article about how if the country of Tuvalu (which has the .tv country code) ceased to exist, .tv would technically go away. GoDaddy founder Bob Parsons later joked about ... read more ...
Fri 10th April 2009
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GoDaddy Changing Domain Name Backorder Rules - Multiple backorders will be accepted on domain names. GoDaddy has informed Domain Name Wire that it is changing the way it handles backorders for domains not registered at one of The Go Daddy Group’s domain name registrars. As early as next week GoDaddy will begin accepting more than one backorder on domain names. (Currently only one is accepted). If GoDaddy successfully captures the domain name and more than one backorder was placed, there will be an auction ... read more ...
Thu 2nd April 2009
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GoDaddy Gets Split Decision in Domain Dispute - GoDaddy wins one domain name, loses two others in UDRP. An arbitrator has handed down a split decision in a domain dispute brought by GoDaddy.com at World Intellectual Property Organization. As Domain Name Wire reported back in February, Go Daddy filed four UDRPs at WIPO for a number of domains covered by its trademarks. The most interesting case was against Domainsnext.com, a domain reseller. The dispute involved gotodaddy.com, gotodaddynot.com and gotodaddynot.net. The ... read more ...
Mon 16th March 2009
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Survey: Which Expired Domain Name Service is Best? - Aha! That “novel” wasn’t submitted for some reason! Luckily I saved it before I clicked “submit”. But some editing was lost, so please be forgiving. Here it is, again: +++++ H*ll yes, I will choose Snapnames first over any of the others. Reasons? For Dub-A, I will come out of my normally shy and quiet demeanor, and be uncharacteristically blunt: 1) Snapnames has consistently run a well-managed expiring domain service for at least four years (although they’ve been around ... read more ...
Sat 14th March 2009
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GoDaddy Makes It Harder for Woman’s Husband to Find a Job - With missing www., site shows page full of ads. [Updated: It looks like the web site may not be hosted at GoDaddy. It’s on the company’s nameservers, but the IP address on the site shows Apple. GoDaddy says it’s not hosted with them. That would mean the only thing GoDaddy is guilty of is hosting ads on the www version of the domain while it’s being cnamed (or otherwise forwarded) to another web hosting service. That’s not GD’s web hosting groups’ ... read more ...
Tue 10th March 2009
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Survey: Sedo Top Online Domain Sales Site - No surprise in online domain sales category. Once again, Sedo has taken top honors for “Best Online Domain Name Sales Site” in the annual Domain Name Wire Survey. 48% of respondents to the fourth annual survey selected Sedo as the top site, roughly equal to last year. In second place, with only 14% of the vote, were domain name forums. Here are the rankings: 1. Sedo 48% 2. Forums 14% 3. GoDaddy (TDNAM) 8% 4. SnapNames (Non-expired) 7% 5. Afternic 6% Domain Distribution ... read more ...
Fri 6th March 2009
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What Should Domain Registrars Do with Expired Domain Names? - Perhaps letting domain registrars do as they please is OK. For the 2009 Domain Name Wire Survey I added a new option for the most important factors when selecting a domain registrar: what they do with expired domains. With all the commotion over what domain registrars do when domains expire (e.g. GoDaddy and Tucows), I wondered if this affected peoples’ decisions about which registrar to use. Apparently not; it was ranked the least important factor when choosing ... read more ...
Tue 3rd March 2009
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AfternicDLS to Expand Promotion, Improve Integrity - NameMedia platform getting two major improvements. NameMedia will notify customers of Afternic later today about two major enhancements to its platform. First, the company will be greatly expanding the reach of domains listed on Afternic with “Expanded Promotion”. Currently, domains listed with expanded promotion are cross listed on BuyDomains, GoDaddy Auctions, and several other sites. Although the company isn’t yet disclosing additional partnerships, it’s ... read more ...
 
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Survey: Go Daddy Top Domain Name Registrar - GoDaddy tops survey for fourth year in a row, eNom continues slide. For four years running, GoDaddy has topped the list of domain name registrars in the annual Domain Name Wire Survey. GoDaddy took home top honors in this year’s survey with 43% of the vote. Below are the top 5 vote getters, followed by analysis: 1. GoDaddy 44% 2. Moniker 18% 3. Fabulous 10% 4. eNom 9% 5. 11 5% GoDaddy is popular amongst all types of domain owners. This year it even came out ... read more ...
Wed 18th February 2009
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Hells Angels Sue Alleged Cybersquatter for $2 Million - Clearly ignorant cybersquatter can now answer question “What’s the worst that can happen?” There are two types of cybersquatters: big, systematic cybersquatters and small, just-don’t-know-any-better cybersquatters. Sometimes it’s the big guys that get hit with lawsuits, but a recent case shows even the small time cybersquatter can be hit hard. That’s the case of Fawn and Terry Myers, who are named in a lawsuit alleging they registered about 20 domain ... 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 ...
 
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Twitter Can’t Take Down GoDaddy - Twitter backlash at GoDaddy ads is amusing, but it won’t add up to much. The Monday after the Super Bowl is filled with analysis. Not about the football game, but the commercials. Domain Name Wire received literally thousands of search visitors Monday from people searching for GoDaddy’s Super Bowl ad. GoDaddy sturred up its contrived controversy again. And, once again, many people complained about its sexist commercials. The difference this year is that Twitter ... 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 ...
Wed 21st January 2009
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Larry Seltzer Struggles with “Whois Identity Theft” - eWeek writer can’t get copycat whois record changed. I’ve heard people complain about “whois identity theft” before. Essentially, this is when someone uses your name on their whois record. You can imagine how this could potentially be troubling for you, depending on the domain name. But in the case of eWeek writer Larry Seltzer, the “identity thief” went several steps further. First, the domain that is being spoofed is LarrySeltzer.net. Second, the ... read more ...