Tag Archives: GoDaddy

Wed 8th October 2014
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See GoDaddy’s crafty .NYC boat ad - Barge message taunts neighbors across the Hudson. Earlier today I wrote about the highly anticipated launch of .NYC domain names. GoDaddy is promoting the domain name heavily around New York City, including a big ad on a barge being piloted on the Hudson River. Here are a couple photos of the barge, taunting New Jersey residents about how New York City has a domain name and they don’t. In fact, only people who live or own a business in New York City are eligible ... read more ...
Wed 1st October 2014
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Times have changed: GoDaddy CEO to pronounce during women in computing event - CEO of company known for sexy commercials to speak on panel at women in computing conference. GoDaddy CEO Blake Irving is speaking at an event celebrating women in computing.GoDaddy’s CEO is speaking on the “Male Allies” panel at next week’s Anita Borg Institute Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing event. Let that soak in for a moment. Such a role for a GoDaddy CEO would not have been imaginable five years ago. The company, known for its objectifying ... read more ...
Tue 23rd September 2014
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Godaddy 15%+ .LONDON domains purebred outward of a UK; US & Germany Are 8% - According to a press release from Godaddy over 15% of .LONDON domains that were registered through GoDaddy came from outside of the UK. 5.9% of all .London domains registered by Godaddy were registered by people in the United States and 1.9 percent were registered by people or businesses in Germany. Stefano Maruzzi, VP of GoDaddy EMEA, says: “These figures show that London is one of the most attractive cities to businesses worldwide. Since the general availability launch on Tuesday Ninth September, ... read more ...
Fri 19th September 2014
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My .website results: Hexonet wins a day - Hexonet did remarkably well with my .website pre-orders. On Wednesday, I wrote about the challenges I had pre-registering domain names at various registrars. I was specifically trying to pre-register .website domains. .Website was supposed to launch Wednesday, but was delayed a day for technical reasons. This gave me another 24 hours to go after the domains I wanted. Originally, I found 23 domains that didn’t have premium prices and pre-ordered them at GoDaddy. ... read more ...
Thu 18th September 2014
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Beware of Bogus Go Daddy “Account On – Hold” Email Scam - Back on August 17th we wrote about a scam email going around that was impersonating Go Daddy, there looks to be a new one out that says your account is on hold. Another phishing attempt. Elliot Silver had pointed out a post that Go Daddy blogged about when dealing with email and phishing back in August as well. https://garage.godaddy.com/smallbusiness/secure/email-phishing-think-link/ Here is the text of the new bogus email: The subject line: Subject: Account on Hold: Registry Domain ID: 2844255_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN Partner ... read more ...
Wed 10th September 2014
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Big news: GoDaddy now entirely organic with Afternic - Fast Transfer integration is good news for all domainers that sell domains with fixed prices. It’s been almost a year since GoDaddy acquired Afternic, and domainers can finally realize a huge benefit of the acquisition. Starting later today, GoDaddy will be fully integrated with Afternic as a “Fast Transfer” partner. This means two things for domain name investors: 1. If you have domain names listed for sale at Afternic’s Premium level, your domains will get ... read more ...
Thu 4th September 2014
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Godaddy Teams Up With Paypal on Its Brand New “Here SDK” Product - The PayPal Here DK, though complex in its capabilities, is simple to integrate with an easy to use API. We built a system that allows partners and developers to use the same SDK to implement payment solutions across several different geographic locations. We’ve also listened to the needs of our growing merchant customers, and have included the features and functionality important to them in our new PayPal Here SDK. This includes the ability to interact with credit card readers so customers can ... read more ...
Wed 27th August 2014
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Christine Jones’ gubernatorial bid ends in primaries - Former GoDaddy exec places third in Republican primary. Christine Jones, former general counsel for GoDaddy, lost her bid to become the next governor of Arizona in the Republican primary yesterday. Doug Ducey, current Arizona treasurer and former CEO of ice cream franchise Cold Stone Creamery, took 37% of the vote in the primary. Jones finished third with 16.7% of the vote. GoDaddy founder Bob Parsons contributed over $1 million to fund attack ads against Ducey. ... read more ...
Thu 21st August 2014
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This week’s lapsed domain report: Got .info? - That would be Coleridge — his ill fated sailor thirstily contemplating the vast seawater. But I doubt “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” was the Rime.com that just sold at GoDaddy Auctions for $12.8k. Aside from that archaic spelling of “rhyme”, we have “rime” as the hoarfrost that forms from a fog in winter. Nope. Not it either. My bet is on the Play Station game, Rime — whose trailer is oddly reminiscent of Coleridge’s poem with its sea scape, ... read more ...
Tue 19th August 2014
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The state of a domain name industry - My views on domain parking, domain sales, registrars and registries. I’ve been collecting my thoughts on the domain name business over the past month, and it’s time to put them down in writing. Here’s what I think about the state of the domain name industry in August, 2014. Domain parking is down. Way down. But don’t confuse down with out. We’re still talking about a relatively big business. Rook Media’s acquisition of DomainSponsor and its domain name ... read more ...
Sun 17th August 2014
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New Go Daddy Phishing Email Going Around – Be Careful - New Go Daddy phishing email going around so be careful. I have not received it but others have. Tip of the cap to Namepros member Tom Carl for posting the email he received. Most veterans would not fall for this but there are many newer domainers and business owners who may not know what to look for. Email subject: Status Alert: Your account contains more than 9740 directories.Dear Valued GoDaddy Customer. Your account contains more than 937 directories and may pose a potential performance risk ... read more ...
Thu 14th August 2014
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Godaddy: Radix Landrush Fees Are Fully Refundable & Always Were -   I got a message from Godaddy today in response to my story of a few days ago, that they were charging a non-refundable $160 application Landrush fee for the Radix new gTLD which start with .Press, .Website, .Host. Godaddy wrote me today and said that the $160 landrush fee was in fact refundable in the event the applicant didn’t wind up getting the domain. I asked the Godaddy Representative if this was a change in policy based on my post and they told me despite what their site showed in the ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy justification IPO filing, reports Q2 results - Company continues to grow revenue as it heads toward IPO. GoDaddy released its second quarter financial results today through an amended S-1 Initial Public Offering filing with the SEC. Q2 2014 revenue came in at $338.5M, up from $276.0M in the same quarter of 2013 and $320.2M in Q1 2014. The net loss for the quarter was $37.5 million, worse than the $35.3 million loss it turned in during the second quarter of 2013 but better than the $51.3M loss in the first quarter ... read more ...
Tue 12th August 2014
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Warning: Some Registrars (Godaddy) Are Making The Radix $160 Landrush Fee NonRefundable - Radix a new gTLD registry,  landrush for three new gTLDs .Host, .Website and .Press opens up on August 26th and runs until September 15th. Applying in landrush for a new gTLD domain gives the applicant early access to domain names ahead of general availability. The wholesale cost to apply for a .Host, .Website and .Press domain in landrush is $160. Radix has been advertising on social media calling their landrush a “no risk landrush” meaning that the $160 landrush fee is fully refundable if ... read more ...
Fri 1st August 2014
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Go Daddy Growing Up - Tony Stewart pranks Danica Patrick in new Go Daddy Ad Go Daddy put out a new ad and uploaded it to You Tube a couple days ago. Media Bistro wrote about the ad and gave mention to an  interview on Ad Week by Go DaddyCMO Barb Rechterman  from last year on the company growing up and changing their ad strategy. “This commercial marks another milestone in our brand evolution. The ad definitely uses humor, as our past campaigns have, but this new campaign is not solely about driving brand awareness ... read more ...
Tue 22nd July 2014
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Design Start Up Canva gets $3.6 million in additonal appropriation and enters partnership with Go Daddy - Australian start-up Canva received an additional $3.6 million in financing and announced a partnership with Go Daddy. The product does seem cool for those that don’t have the skills of a trained graphic artist. Crunch Base – Canva makes graphic design amazingly simple for everyone, by bringing together a drag-and-drop design tool with a library of more than 1 million stock photographs, graphic elements and fonts. Computer World wrote: Australian startup Canva has announced an additional $3.6 ... read more ...
Fri 11th July 2014
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Godaddy Changing Domain Auction Rules On Time Extension Starting Monday - I just received an email from Godaddy.com that they are making a change to the closing rules on the Godaddy.com domain auction platform, which is to take place on Monday, 7/14/2014. “As it stands now, any bid that is placed in the last 5 minutes of an auction auto-extends the auction by 5 minutes.” “This will change to auto-extend to only 1 minute, and a maximum time of 5 minutes 59 seconds (5:59).” “For example, if you place a bid on an auction that has 4:30 left, it will auto-extend this ... read more ...
 
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Go Daddy Acquires Smart Calendar App Canary - Go Daddy Acquires Smart Calendar App Canary Vator.tv reported on Go Daddy acquiring smart calendar app Canary, no price tag on the deal . From the article: Web-hosting and domain registration giant GoDaddy has purchased smart calendar app Canary, it was revealed via a post on on Canary’s website on Thursday. No financial terms of the deal were disclosed, but Canary did reveal that the purchase was an acqui-hire. Not only will the Canary team be coming to work at GoDaddy, but the Canary app ... read more ...
Thu 3rd July 2014
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GoDaddy wants to obvious approach of onboarding new TLDs - GoDaddy files four patents related to adding new TLD options to a registrar. GoDaddy has filed four patent applications describing methods for adding new top level domain names to a registrar’s offerings. Each top level domain name a registrar offers comes with its own restrictions, GoDaddy explains: A large part of the difficulty in adding new TLDs is that each TLD may (and usually does) have unique business requirements. As non-limiting examples, the business ... read more ...
Mon 30th June 2014
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Go Daddy Launches Mobile Payment System “Get Paid” - Go Daddy launched Get Paid today a new mobile payment service that partners with Paypal, Stripe and Dwolla. Tech Crunch covered the launch. These types of products are the ever continuing push to focus on small business and become a player in areas where Go Daddy did not compete prior to Blake Irving becoming CEO. From the article: As GoDaddy gears up for a $100 million IPO, the domain and web services company is adding on more features that will help it make more profitable revenues from its 12 ... read more ...
Thu 26th June 2014
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You can’t simply review Rightside and GoDaddy - Two soon-to-be public companies aren’t necessarily good comps for each other. Demand Media is getting ready to spin off its domain name business, Rightside. Competitor GoDaddy recently filed its S-1 for an initial public offering. It might be tempting to compare the two companies. After all, both of them are prominent in the domain name space. But when it comes to comps, Rightside and GoDaddy don’t match up. Here are some key distinctions between the two companies. GoDaddy ... read more ...
Tue 24th June 2014
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Uniregistry inks placement understanding with GoDaddy - Frank Schilling’s registry finally comes to agreement with GoDaddy. Frank Schilling’s registry Uniregistry has signed a registry-registrar agreement with GoDaddy, paving the way for its top level domains to show up on the world’s largest domain name registrar. The ink on the agreement is barely dry, so you won’t find Uniregstry’s names on GoDaddy just yet. It’s possible they’ll be available at the registrar before the general availability of .christmas ... read more ...
Sat 21st June 2014
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Go Daddy Now Carrying $1.5billion in debt - Jeff Bailey wrote a good piece on Seeking Alpha about the upcoming Go Daddy IPO. This article is worth reading for those contemplating investing in Go Daddy. Bailey does a good job at looking at the metrics Go Daddy uses and a look at their past financial history. As far as metrics go Bailey points out that Go Daddy likes to focus on bookings rather than revenue. In its IPO filing, GoDaddy makes clear it prefers different metrics. It likes bookings, which are all the cash receipts taken in during ... read more ...
Wed 18th June 2014
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ReTweet.com Is Over $11K On Godaddy With 2+ Hours to Go - I just noticed a pretty interesting auction going on Godaddy.com right now The domain is ReTweet.com The high bid as of publication is $11,250 There are 127 bids as of the moment and 19 bidders The auction closes at 01:09 PM (PDT) subject to Godaddy’s auction closing rules. I’m not going to get into the possible TM issues, or lack thereof,  but its a very interesting domain that appears will sell for some decent to big money. Its not my domain, I’m not bidding in the auction, nor do I own ... read more ...
 
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No some-more GoDaddy/Afternic sales reports during Quiet Period - Quiet period eliminates weekly data on aftermarket sales. GoDaddy’s planned initial public offering means no more weekly domain name sales reports for a while. Afternic has long sent out weekly aftermarket sales reports including total sales numbers and specific domains with sale prices. GoDaddy took over that responsibility when it acquired Afternic. These reports are the basis for Domain Name Wire’s end user sales reports. With GoDaddy’s IPO filing, the company ... read more ...