Tag Archives: GoDaddy

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 ...
Wed 14th January 2009
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NBC Approves Two Go Daddy Ads for Super Bowl - Approval comes well in advance of big game. Domain registrar GoDaddy has a history of butting heads with networks over its Super Bowl commercials. This year is no different, although NBC has given the green light for two GoDaddy ads well in advance of the big game. GoDaddy is asking customers to vote on which ad should show during the Super Bowl. During my radio interview with Go Daddy CEO Bob Parsons, he mentioned my criticism of the company for becoming to institutionalized. ... read more ...
Mon 12th January 2009
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GoDaddy Brings Humor to Company Mistakes - The Go Daddy Group CEO Bob Parsons brings a laugh to last year’s controversial issues. Last week I saw in my RSS reader that GoDaddy had published its latest Bob Parsons video blog including his “ding dong” awards for the past year. I assumed that he wouldn’t bring up some of GoDaddy’s own “ding dongs”. But over the weekend I had a chance to watch the video, and was delighted to see Parsons included GoDaddy employees bidding at TDNAM auctions and Standard ... read more ...
Tue 30th December 2008
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GoDaddy Donates $1.7 Million to Charity - GoDaddy tops last year’s giving by $300,000. With all of the negative news I’ve written about Go Daddy this year, it’s nice to end the year on an up note. Today the company announced that its total philanthropic giving for the year is $1.7M, topping last year’s $1.4M in giving. That’s about $1,000 per employee, a very respectable number. Go Daddy supports a number of non-profits from local (Phoenix Children’s Hospital) to international (Make A Wish ... read more ...
 
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Top 10 Domain Name Wire Stories of 2008 - As the year crawls to a close, here’s a look back at the most viewed stories of 2008. Good riddance. That’s what most people are saying to 2008. After losing half their retirement savings, seeing the value of their homes plummet, and fearing for their futures, most people want to forget 2008 ever happened. But the domain name world survived. Here are the top 10 stories on Domain Name Wire for the year ranked by number of views. 1. Standard Tactics, LLC: How ... read more ...
Mon 29th December 2008
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The Perils of Trying to Go Public - NameMedia’s withdrawn IPO more painful than it looks. It may appear that NameMedia’s decision last week to to drop its planned initial public offering is just a temporary setback. Aside from the costs of filing its S-1 to go public, going on the investor roadshow, and obliging quite period regulations, did it really cost the company anything? The answer is yes. And it’s not the time, money, or decreased morale that hurts the most. It’s the disclosure. By ... read more ...
Wed 17th December 2008
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Go Daddy To Shut Down Standard Tactics, LLC - Standard Tactics and 60-day lock discussed on Radio Go Daddy. I just concluded my interview with Go Daddy CEO Bob Parsons on his internet radio show. It is available for on demand listening RadioGoDaddy.com. Perhaps the biggest news that came out of the interview is that GoDaddy is effectively shutting down Standard Tactics. Parsons said it had about 33,000 domains in the subsidiary and 8,000 that made most of the money. This is lower than I privately estimated ... read more ...
Tue 16th December 2008
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GoDaddy Changes Expired Domain Pricing - In response to Standard Tactics coverage, GoDaddy has changed starting bids on TDNAM auctions. Last week I mentioned that GoDaddy was making a change to its TDNAM auctions based on some of my commentary on Standard Tactics. In my commentary I had suggested that, by setting minimum bid prices higher than the standard $10 bid price, GoDaddy was effectively bidding against its customers on TDNAM. In response, GoDaddy has changed how it prices expired domains. All domains ... read more ...
Thu 11th December 2008
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Domain Name Wire on Go Daddy Radio Show - I’ll have an open talk with Go Daddy CEO Bob Parsons next week. I’ve written a lot of good things about domain registrar GoDaddy over the past few years. But I’ve also called the company out numerous times when it did no-so-good things: such as Standard Tactics. Yesterday Go Daddy CEO Bob Parsons called me to talk about Standard Tactics and invite me to be his guest on next week’s Radio GoDaddy show. I accepted the offer. On Today’s Radio Go Daddy show, ... read more ...
Mon 8th December 2008
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Commentary: Why Standard Tactics is a Problem - Analysis of Go Daddy’s Standard Tactics subsidiary.UPDATE 12/17/08: GoDaddy is shutting down Standard Tactics. It’s been five days since Domain Name Wire published its expose on The Go Daddy Group’s subsidiary Standard Tactics LLC. Judging from the over 100 comments, it appears to have struck a nerve in a lot of people. Interestingly, I received some feedback that people “disagreed” with my story. This is interesting because there really aren’t any ... read more ...
Wed 3rd December 2008
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Standard Tactics, LLC: How GoDaddy Profits from Expired Domains - GoDaddy goes to great lengths to hide its expired domain warehousing operations. UPDATE 12/17/08: GoDaddy is shutting down Standard Tactics. Scottsdale, Arizona based The Go Daddy Group, which runs the world’s largest domain name registrar GoDaddy.com, is warehousing its customers’ expired domain names and profiting from them. The company has taken a number of steps to hide this practice from public view. This article covers the results of a Domain Name Wire ... read more ...
Mon 24th November 2008
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New Registrars Added to RegistrarJudge.com - 7 more registrars added to domain name registrar review site. Six more registrars are available for reviewing at Registrar Judge, Domain Name Wire’s sister site. Domainers can now review ResellerClub, Dynadot, Gandi.net, DomainDiscover, Joker.com, directNIC, and NameCheap. The registrars were added at the request of Registrar Judge users. ResellerClub and Dynadot were added last week and since then ResellerClub has shot to the top of the charts. At Registrar ... 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 ...
Thu 13th November 2008
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.Tel Has Benefits, But Many Challenges - In an interview with Telnic, I learned more about the top level domain and its benefits. The first time I wrote about .tel was back in 2006 when it was approved by ICANN. I wasn’t a big fan of it back then. I wrote about it again earlier this week, and said I still think this domain extension is a longshot. Earlier today I talked with Justin Hayward, communications director for .tel backer Telnic. My general opinion is the same, but there are some ways, if executed ... read more ...
Tue 4th November 2008
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GoDaddy Gets Stolen Domain Name Back to Owner - Domain registrar secures popular blog domain for real owner. It’s every web site owner’s worst nightmare: having a domain name stolen and the thief holding it for ransom. That’s what recently happened to MakeUseOf.com, a popular blog about web applications and software. But as in many cases, MakeUseOf.com blamed GoDaddy for losing its domain when it wasn’t the company’s fault. In a blog post on blogger and another one on its site, MakeUseOf.com pins the ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy Tests Parking Pages on 404 Pages - GoDaddy tries monetizing error pages with parked pages, but will discontinue practice. GoDaddy is concluding a test in which it ran parked domain name ads on error pages of its customers free hosting accounts. The tests were limited and only showed the ads on non-existent pages of sites that used GoDaddy’s free, ad-supported service. Interestingly, the ads were not part of GoDaddy’s feed but instead a full landing page served by DomainSponsor. In the example ... read more ...
Tue 28th October 2008
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Site Parodies Sarah Palin and GoDaddy: But How Would Bob Vote? - GoMilfy.com uses GoDaddy look to parody Sarah Palin. DNForum member Acro has done a great job parodying Sarah Palin using the same look of GoDaddy’s web site: The attention to detail is stunning and hilarious. Be sure to check out Acro’s version of the GoDaddy Girls. You can visit the parody at GoMilfy.com. In a blog post, Acro suggests that GoDaddy likely endorses Barack Obama for president. No so fast, Acro. GoDaddy chief Bob Parsons has given generously ... read more ...
Mon 13th October 2008
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DBS: Domain Name Sales Up - Domain name company sees robust domain names sales. I’ve written several times about how Dark Blue Sea (ASX: DBS.AX), parent company of Fabulous, has seen a massive drop in domain parking revenue. But what I haven’t highlighted is growth in the company’s domain sales. I’ve dismissed it somewhat because its latest financial year’s sales include a couple large portfolio sales. But the numbers are too much to ignore. In its most recent annual report for ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy Releases SmartSpace Based on Patent Filing - GoDaddy’s new product linked to recent patent filings. A few months ago I noticed that GoDaddy filed a few patents related to social networking portals. GoDaddy just released SmartSpace, which appears to be include features referenced by the patent applications. SmartSpace enables you to register a domain and instantly turn it into an active web site with a blog, photo album, etc. It also includes “SocialSpace”, which seems to be what the company’s patents ... read more ...
Fri 10th October 2008
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GoDaddy Parking Page Customization: $99 - New service seems wildly overpriced. Am I missing something? I just read GoDaddy’s October sales letter (not really a newsletter as they call it), and read the fine print on the 20% off $75 coupon it offered. One of the exclusions is for “CashParking Custom Header“. Curious, I visited the GoDaddy web site to learn more. Essentially, GoDaddy will create a custom header for your parked domain. Price? $99. Am I missing something here? First, GoDaddy is the ... read more ...
 
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Strong Domain Registrars Will Win in Downturn - Cash-rich domain name registrars can take advantage of economic downturn. In any economic downturn, the strong companies come out ahead and the weak ones die. The same thing will happen in the domain registrar business over the next few years. Cash-rich domain registrars will be able to buy flailing registrars for pennies on the dollar. Even if domain registration rates remain strong, registrars that over leveraged themselves, created inefficient organizations, ... read more ...
Thu 9th October 2008
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Official GoDaddy Statement on Kentucky Domains Case - What is GoDaddy doing with gambling domains? Here’s the official word. There have been a number of rumors swirling around about whether GoDaddy has handed over domains that Kentucky wants to seize as it cracks down on illegal gambling. A number of online gambling news sources have reported that GoDaddy capitulated and turned over the domains, but a look at the whois shows the domains are still in the original owners’ names. (Compare this to the domain names ... read more ...
Fri 3rd October 2008
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Register.com Home Page is a Winner - Re-designed web site is simple. Competitors should take note. I had to make one of my infrequent visits to Register.com today to unlock a backordered domain for transfer. When I arrived at the home page I was greeted by a simple, yet bold home page: In a business where many companies believe “more is better”, Register.com is going for simplicity. You can’t miss the domain search box as it’s not shoved in between 50 promotions. The phone number is right ... read more ...
Wed 1st October 2008
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Dotster Picks Up Domain Names from BestRegistrar.com - Deal provides new home for 5,400 domain names. Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has selected Dotster to receive of bulk transfer of domain names from de-accreditated domain registrar BestRegistrar.com. BesRegistrar.com had about 5,400 gTLD domain names that will be transferred to Dotster. The transfers do not include any extension to expiration term, so BestRegistrar clients should renew domains at Dotster. If a domain expires within ... read more ...