Tag Archives: GoDaddy

Sun 1st February 2015
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Watch GoDaddy's deputy Super Bowl commercial - GoDaddy Super Bowl ad doesn’t show a puppy dog…it shows a small business owner. GoDaddy’s Super Bowl commercial is puppy dog-less, making it seem that the initial Buddy commercial was not intended to be a PR stunt. The real commercial is a great nod to GoDaddy’s customer, the hard working small business owner. He’s not watching the game at a party, the narrator says, because he’s working. The commercial makes a subtle nod to its aborted “Journey Home” commercial, or at least the ones ... read more ...
Tue 27th January 2015
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Dogs Win: Godaddy Follows Our Advice & Pulls The #Godaddypuppy Super Bowl Ad - It was just 8 hours ago when we posted the Godaddy Super Bowl Ad known as the #Godaddypuppy which went tragically wrong. Now the CEO of Godaddy has given in to the overwhelming condemnation of the ad and announced the commercial will not air during the Super Bowl. Had they reached out to anyone in the industry before hand like myself, we would have told them there we;re heading down the wrong path, but after investing what is probably million of dollars towards this campaign GoDaddy wisely followed ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy to change argumentative Super Bowl Commercial - GoDaddy won’t run controversial “Journey Home” commercial. GoDaddy’s 2015 Super Bowl commercial, which it just released this morning, won’t air on Sunday after all. GoDaddy CEO Blake Irving tweeted this afternoon: The ad was criticized by many animal lovers. In many ways, the commercial was classic GoDaddy. It was sure to spark outrage, which got people talking about the company…much like its previous GoDaddy commercials. I wondered this morning if the plan was to get this commercial ... read more ...
 
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Namecheap.com Jumps On #GodaddyPuppy Outrage With PUPPYLOVE $3.98 Transfer w/$1.50 To Humane Society - Wow Godaddy… Transfer yr domains to us for $3.98 using coupon code “PUPPYLOVE” we’ll donate to @HumaneSociety pic.twitter.com/04jU2bGysc — Namecheap.com (@Namecheap) January 27, 2015 Namecheap.com has jumped on the outrage from Godaddy’s Super Bowl commercial and is offering a $3.98 special using the transfer code of  PUPPYLOVE to anyone to transfer in any .com, .net .org or .info and Namecheap will contribute $1.50 to the Humane Society for each domain name transferred. As we noted ... read more ...
 
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Godaddy Looks Like They Have A Disaster On Its Hands; People REALLY Hate Their Super Bowl Ad - Its been less than an hour since we posted Godaddy’s new Super Bowl Ad and social media is already weighting in on what might go down as one of the worst marketing blunders of all time. Just go to Twitter and search for the hashtag #GoDaddyPuppy and you will see that the vast majority of people who are commenting, hate the commercial. I know hate is a strong word. But that is the word. Now we have a outcry against the commercial for promoting puppy mills with hash tags like #boycottGoDaddy #BanPuppyMills ... read more ...
 
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Here Is a Godaddy Super Bowl Commercial; Not Risque But Downright Risky - The Godaddy.com Super Bowl commercial has been released and as promised for the first time features a dog, name buddy, with a VERY brief appearance by Danica Patrick Although there are no sexy, barely clothed women, I would say this commercial is as risky a commercial as the company has ever run on the Super Bowl. Other Godaddy.com Super Bowl ads have been Risque, but I think this is just risky IMHO. When I say risky I think there maybe a lot of push back on this commercial from the public.  I also ... read more ...
Mon 19th January 2015
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GoDaddy’s Domain Business with Mike McLaughlin – DNW Podcast #016 - A look inside GoDaddy’s domain name business. How is domain name registrar GoDaddy handling the influx of new top level domain names? What is it doing to improve its domain name aftermarket and what’s the latest on Afternic? How does GoDaddy handle a growing number of search results for domain names? GoDaddy SVP and GM of Domains Mike McLaughlin joins us on the show this week to answer all of these questions. Also: a recap of NamesCon including a million dollar ... read more ...
Tue 13th January 2015
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GoDaddy SVP explains because new TLDs are struggling - Head of domains at largest domain name registrar says new TLD registries are failing small business owners. Why are new top level domain names struggling to grow their registration bases? GoDaddy Senior Vice President of Domains Mike McLaughlin told a large audience at NamesCon today that registries are making it difficult for small businesses to buy their domain names. Registries need to focus on accessibility and usability if they want to see their domains succeed, ... read more ...
Thu 8th January 2015
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GoDaddy Auctions implements bidder verification - I think this is fairly ironic news, considering how much trouble they have with the simplest things such as auto charging a paypal account. My partners and I have a Paypal agreement with GoDaddy and have for some years. We keep a balance of a min of $30k in it at all dues as a float. Due to sales, etc., sometimes it even has over $100k in it. Yet GoDaddy auctions consistently fails to auto charge it several times a month. I’m on many platform, and depend on these pieces of software ... read more ...
Sun 28th December 2014
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Why Hasn’t Godaddy Filed UDRP On Phishing Domains? - Domaingang.com has been reporting on many domain names that have been involved in phishing attacks on Godaddy which have resulted in domain names being stolen out of Godaddy accounts. Unlike most phishing attacks where someone uses a domain controlled by the phisher, to actually send the  customers to which wind up appearing in the URL bar,  recent attacks actually use domain names containing the register’s name, but are owned by third parties just like the one’s Godaddy recently warned its ... read more ...
Wed 17th December 2014
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Godaddy Sued For $50 Million By Russian Millionaire Konstantin Malofeev - According to Courthousenews.com, GoDaddy.com has been sued for $50 million by A Russian millionaire claiming Godaddy defamed him by hosting a number of websites that accuse him of fraud. Konstantin Malofeev sued GoDaddy, Domains by Proxy and John Doe – the anonymous operator of the websites – on Dec. 14 Malofeev claims he is a businessman, politician, and chairman of the board of directors of Marshall Capital Group, one of Russia’s largest equity investment groups. He claims that a number of ... read more ...
Thu 11th December 2014
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It’s Go Buddy Time: Say Hello To The Star Of Godaddy’s Super Bowl Commercial “Buddy” -                         As any frequent reader to TheDomains.com knows, there isn’t many things I love more than Dogs so I’m really looking forward to this years Godaddy Super Bowl Commercial Godaddy which announced that their Super Bowl Commercial would feature a Puppy has now released a picture of the adorable pup and after a name the puppy contest that ran on Twitter this week under the Hashtag #GoDaddyPuppy. Godaddy announced just a little while ago that the puppy has been named ... read more ...
Tue 9th December 2014
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GoDaddy gets another Domain Appraisal patent - Patent covers using comps for domain name evaluation. GoDaddy has been issued another U.S. patent related to domain name appraisals. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office today issued patent number 8,909,558 for “Appraising a domain name using keyword monetary value data”. The patent basically covers using comps for a domain name appraisal, i.e. looking up sales of other domain names including similar keywords and using this to determine value. GoDaddy has a number ... read more ...
Sun 7th December 2014
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Godaddy Has Blowout Holiday Party Featuring Pitbull -     Godaddy held its annual holiday party in Cedar Rapids Convention Center last night December 6th. The party featured one of the hottest performers in music, none other than Pitbull a/k/a Mr Worldwide a/k/a Mr. 305. Pitbull who is from Miami puts on a great show.  We were lucky enough to see him in Miami perform last new years eve but we were not lucky enough to have been invited to the Godaddy party which is generally for employees. The CEO of Godaddy posted this picture of himself and Mr. ... read more ...
Wed 3rd December 2014
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Go Daddy Coupon Covered By CNET – Get Yourself a Cheap .Com - I thought it was interesting that CNET would spend some time in their deals section on a Go Daddy Coupon, and to top it off they make the headline a $1 .com when in reality it’s $1.67. But here is the deal so get yourself a cheap hand reg if you like. GoDaddy offers a new 1-year .com domain name registration for $1.49 via coupon code “SAS149COM”. An 18-cent ICANN fee applies. That’s the best deal we’ve seen for .com registration from GoDaddy since March, when we saw it for 99 cents. Some ... read more ...
Mon 24th November 2014
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Godaddy Is Back In The Super Bowl …..With A Puppy - GoDaddy announced today that it will be back advertising for its eleventh consecutive Super Bowl, in the 2015 Super Bowl with a thirty-second spot encouraging business owners to put their businesses online with a domain name and website. “For the first-time ever, GoDaddy will cast an adorable puppy to make its point about empowering business owners to succeed online, but don’t expect this to be a predictable commercial. “We are taking an advertising tradition — a tried-and-true Super Bowl ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy announces Super Bowl ad plans - Danica Patrick to once again star in GoDaddy Super Bowl commercial. GoDaddy announced plans today for its 11th consecutive appearance in the Super Bowl. GoDaddy’s 2015 Super Bowl ad is called “Journey Home”, and will focus on GoDaddy’s small business offerings. Patrick, who already holds the record for most Super Bowl appearances by a celebrity, will star alongside a puppy. Apparently, the commercial will appear to be a Hallmark-style commercial, and then ... read more ...
Thu 20th November 2014
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Godaddy Is Looking For a $4.5 Billion Dollar Valuation In Its IPO Rolling Out Next Year - According to the New York Post, GoDaddy.com is pushing ahead with an initial public offering early next year that would value the world’s biggest domain registration service at roughly $4.5 billion GoDaddy is stressing its desire to diversify from a domain registrar to a business that builds out  Web sites for customers and helping them to process transactions on their sites. GoDaddy has an average revenue per user, of $112 up from $102 9 months ago Adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation ... read more ...
Wed 19th November 2014
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GoDaddy’s DomainFinder App advances domain name selection - App makes it easier to narrow in on the best domain name. GoDaddy recently released an iOS app for finding and registering domain names called GoDaddy DomainFinder. Many of its features are similar to what you find on GoDaddy.com and other registrar sites. For example, the app lets you filter by price, TLD, and length. Yet some features are new and different, mostly when it comes to whittling down the large list of results you receive. You can easily “favorite” ... read more ...
Mon 17th November 2014
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GoDaddy reports Q3 gain in SEC filing - Revenue up nearly 25% compared to same quarter last year. GoDaddy filed an amended S-1 with the SEC today, in which it discloses its results from the third quarter. Here are some financial highlights: Q3 2014 revenue was $356.9 million, up 5.4% from Q2 and 24.7% from Q3 2013. Domain revenue kept growing, but its percentage of GoDaddy’s overall business continues to shrink. In Q3 2012, the domain business accounted for 65.7% of GoDaddy’s business. This past quarter ... read more ...
Thu 6th November 2014
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Will Web.com Hurt Godaddy’s IPO? - Web.com in reporting its earnings earlier today had a few comments on its earnings call that should be of concern to all domain name regisrtrars: CEO David L. Brown noted “the increased availability of [domain] names has had a near-term negative impact on domain-related revenue,” primarily related to “non-core domain-related revenue such as sales of premium domain names and bulk domain sales.” Non-domain businesses (do-it-yourself websites, hosting, etc.) have been hurt by the “unintended ... read more ...
Mon 3rd November 2014
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GoDaddy Opens European Customer Care Centre - Go Daddy put out a press release today with regards to them opening a European customer care centre to serve their EMEA clients. The centre will be in Belfast, Northern Ireland. GoDaddy, the world’s largest technology provider dedicated to small businesses, today announced it has opened a new customer care centre in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The new centre will provide localised customer care to the company’s EMEA customer base. Belfast was chosen as the location for the centre due to the availability ... read more ...
Thu 30th October 2014
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Google Voice Alternative Vonjour.com Release Exclusive Perk for GoDaddy Members - In a press release Vonjour.com announced a program for Go Daddy customers called, “Vonjour for Go Daddy” Go Daddy members will receive a discount of 15 % on Vonjour related services. As Go Daddy continues to focus on small business under Blake Irving this is another step in providing a comprehensive small business suite of services for Go Daddy customers. From the release: Santa Monica based Vonjour.com announced the release of Vonjour for GoDaddy, a perk program for GoDaddy members. With ‘Vonjour ... read more ...
 
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Expired Domain Report: a clever .net sale and more - Joseph Peterson takes a look at the past week in the expired domain name market. There has been some discussion this past year among domain investors about the market outlook for .NET domains. Traditionally, .NET has played second fiddle to .COM for the most part, and some predict that wave after wave of new TLD releases can only erode .NET’s position. Just last week, a DNW reader expressed the view that “.NET is slowly dying”. Not everyone shares that opinion, ... read more ...
Wed 22nd October 2014
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GoDaddy paid adult to $45 million for Mad Mimi, justification S-1 - GoDaddy’s amended s-1 filing shows that it paid $42 million plus up to $3 million in bonuses for email marketing firm. GoDaddy filed an amended S-1 with the SEC yesterday. Most of the changes from the previous S-1, filed in August, are subtle. The latest filing does not include third quarter results. The most notable change in the new filing is the disclosure of its purchase price for email marketing firm Mad Mimi. The filing discloses that it paid $42 million ... read more ...