Tag Archives: GoDaddy

Wed 7th May 2014
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.Club lands among Top 10 new TLDs on initial day - .Club is now one of the top ten new TLDs. The .Club domain name is now among the top 10 most registered new TLDs after launching this morning. The exact number of registrations (based on the zone file) won’t be available until tomorrow. It takes about 15,000 registrations to make the top ten as of today. The company received 2,000 registrations combined from sunrise and a premium-priced landrush. 100 of the landrush domains are going to auction. .Club CEO Colin ... read more ...
Thu 1st May 2014
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Go Daddy Auctions Sells 41,812 in Apr 2014 - Go Daddy Auctions Market Report April 2014 Go Daddy sold 41,812 domains in April vs 42,122 in March. Go Daddy adjusted the March 2014 number, it is not uncommon to see adjustments from the previous month. In this report March was increased from 41,242 to 42,122. The other new piece of data was that ecigarettes.com sold for $49,999. The top sale for April was LCT.com at $41,000. Online was the most sold keyword, this continues a trend of being number one for many months in a row. (click to enlarge) ... read more ...
Wed 30th April 2014
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22 finish user domain sales and some reward .co.com sales - GoDaddy and Afternic combined to sell about $1.8 million worth of domain names last week. Before jumping into the regular end user sales list, I want to point out a couple premium .co.com sales. SurfMyAds.com, a company that creates shopping sites, paid $3,750 each for Istanbul.co.com and CouponCodes.co.com. .Co.com, led by Ken Hansen, Paul Goldstone and Gregg McNair, offers third level domain names. OK, on to the regular list. (You can see previous domain sales ... read more ...
Tue 29th April 2014
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Go Daddy/Afternic Sells $1.7million in domains for a week -

GoDaddy and Afternic’s reportable weekly domain sales for a week of 4/21/14 – 4/27/14.

The tip sale for a week was Modernize.com during $25,000.

Prostate.info was a tip non .com sale during $15,000

Total Sales $1,778,547 for a week.

Buffalo.org was a good buy imo for $2,100 and Mike.co sole for $2,500 with this already adult on a site:

Because .com was taken !

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Go Daddy Continues Global Expansion - Go Daddy is expanding all around the globe. The company now  Supports Localized Product Support in 37 Countries, 42 Markets, 44 Currencies 17 Languages. Go Daddy put out a release announcing some of their expansion plans. GoDaddy, the world’s largest technology provider dedicated to small businesses, today announced its continued expansion into international markets. After beginning this international expansion fewer than two years ago and a recent successful release across Latin America, GoDaddy ... read more ...
Thu 24th April 2014
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The usually thing Blake Irving points during elephants is a camera - GoDaddy CEO Blake Irving is doing a Reddit AMA. GoDaddy CEO Blake Irving is doing an Ask Me Anything (AMA) on Reddit right now. It’s a pretty gutsy move given the typical Reddit user and their stance toward GoDaddy. I suppose that’s the point. Comments have been basically what you’d expect: the company’s initial support of SOPA, the founder shooting elephants and racy commercials. Most of these are easy to defend since Blake wasn’t around when these happened. ... read more ...
Wed 23rd April 2014
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Godaddy Partners With SiteLock - According to a press release out today, GoDaddy, has partnered with SiteLock to bring complete protection to websites. SiteLock proactively protects websites using the latest scanning techniques, giving customer peace-of-mind their website is safe. SiteLock scans websites for the latest malware, viruses, suspicious code, back doors and many other vulnerabilities commonly exploited by attackers. A report is emailed summarizing what was detected. In addition to finding issues, SiteLock automatically ... read more ...
 
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Go Daddy/Afternic Sells $1.9 million in domains for a week - Go Daddy/Afternic reportable weekly domain sales for the week of 4/14/14 – 4/20/14 The top sale for the week was Trade360.com at $42,500, registered in 2004. Rad360.com also sold for $3,500. Cod.co was the top country code sale at $8,250 Resell.net sold for $7,000. I thought scripter.com for $2,000 was a great buy and a shout out to my good friend Bob Brookes who does this part time but had another mooc sale,with Cmooc.com for $2,250. Total sales for the week $1,982,736   ... read more ...
 
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15 finish user domain name sales adult to $42,500 - Trade360.com leads list of end user domain name sales. GoDaddy and Afternic sold nearly $2 million worth of domain names last week. Here’s a list of 15 that were sold to end users. You can view previous end user sales lists here. Trade360.com $42,500 – A New York firm called Trade360. JSA.com $25,000 – Jackson Square Aviation in San Francisco. I think it got a good deal. BuyDomains was the seller. TouchLamps.com $4,999 – The online lamp seller that was using ... read more ...
Tue 15th April 2014
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Go Daddy Going To Court in India over Copyright/Trademark Infringement - Go Daddy is going to have to go to court in India regarding a claim by the National Stock Exchange and their online trading platform. It is hard to see how Go Daddy has liability in this case as they are not profiting from the sales of software, but I am not a lawyer and I am not well versed in Indian law. LiveMint reported: ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy.com comment government Goes Down - Site won’t let users log in. GoDaddy had technical difficulties today, spanning from about 2:30 PM ET to 3:10 PM ET. Users trying to log in were greeted with a message similar to this: Service Unavailable The server is temporarily unable to service your request. Please try again later. Reference #6.c758acc6.1397587049.b44810 I was able to enter my login credentials, but when I entered by two factor code I got the error message. A Domain Name Wire reader reported ... read more ...
Sat 12th April 2014
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Go Daddy Off The Hook in Revenge Porn Case - So back in January of 2013 a class action suit was filed against the revenge porn website  Texxxan.com, GoDaddy who hosted the website, its uploaders and its subscribers. Eric Goldman who regularly contributes to Forbes on intellectual property law and Internet law, said at the time he felt the case was weak. Now to give some context Mr. Goldman has been a staunch proponent of 47 USC 230, section 230 of the the Communications Decency Act, he has been worried that with the recent cases involving ... read more ...
Thu 10th April 2014
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21 finish user domain name sales adult to $39,200 - Afternic’s strong week included a number of large end user domain name sales. Afternic and GoDaddy combined to sell over $2 million worth of domain names last week. Here’s a look at some of the domain names that were purchased by end users. You can view previous end user sales lists here. TailLights.com $39,200 – Software company Ristken.com. I bet it’s for a new product or service. BETM.com $32,000 – NRG Energy. I’m not sure what the domain stands for. SocialWifi.com ... read more ...
Wed 9th April 2014
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Go Daddy/Afternic Sells $2million in domains for a week - GoDaddy and Afternic’s reportable weekly domain sales for the week of 3/31/14 – 4/6/14. Total domain sales for the week summed to $2,042,237 The top sale was TailLights.com at $39,200, the domain was registered in 2001 and currently does not resolve. For .us fans Taillights.us dropped and is currently available. Awesome.de sold for $10,000 and was the top non – com sale. In thee it matters what the buyer needs department, there was a NNN.net (934.net $1200) sale that sold for only $50 more ... read more ...
Mon 7th April 2014
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Tesla buys a typo and Lord of a Flies association buys author’s domain name - Tesla pays a lot of money for a domain it could have won in a UDRP. I’m a bit behind on end user sales reports thanks to DomainFest last week. This list is the one Afternic/GoDaddy sent last week. Some notable buyers include Tesla and BMI. You can see previous end user lists here. MusicMark.com $12,750 – Music Giant BMI PartnerCloud.com $13,000 – RelayWare, which offers partner channel management services. PhysicianResource.com $1,000 – Medical Education ... read more ...
Wed 2nd April 2014
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Go Daddy/Afternic Sells $1.9 million in domains led by iAcademy.com -

Go Daddy/Afternic sole $1,940,630 in domains for a week of  3/24/14 – 3/30/14.

The tip sale was iAcademy.com for $55,000. The domain was sole by Frank Schilling’s Name Administration.

The tip non .com sale was Pod.ly for $6,500

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Tue 1st April 2014
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Go Daddy Sells 41,242 Domains in Mar Led by QY.com - Go Daddy Auctions Market Report – March 2014 Go Daddy sold 41,242 domains in March vs 37, 408 domains in February. The top sale for the month was QY.com at $100,000. The February stats were changed in this report and Apple.net is now the top sale for February at $50,000. The most popular keywords sold were Online, Blog,Free,Design and Home. (click to enlarge) ... read more ...
Mon 31st March 2014
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DomainNameSales.com syndication with GoDaddy is over - Today is the last day domains listed on DomainNameSales.com will show up for searches on GoDaddy. Today is the last day that Sedo listings will be syndicated to GoDaddy. It turns out it’s also the last day for DomainNameSales.com listings on the site. [Update: while March 31 was supposed to be the last day for DNS syndication on GoDaddy, GoDaddy has kept the listings up while it finishes a transition for Afternic listings in the registration path.] That means that ... read more ...
Thu 27th March 2014
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Sedo domain names get kicked off GoDaddy on Monday - Domain sales partnership comes to an end next week. Last November GoDaddy announced it was ending its syndication agreement with Sedo effective the end of March 2014. That date is just around the corner: Monday. Domain names listed with SedoMLS will no longer show up on GoDaddy Auctions and, more importantly, in the registration path at GoDaddy.com. The move comes in the wake of GoDaddy’s acquisition of rival domain marketplace Afternic last September. GoDaddy is ... read more ...
Wed 26th March 2014
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United Internet holding marketplace share from GoDaddy in new TLDs - After slow start, company is grabbing share in recent TLD launches. United Internet, a group of companies that includes 11, Sedo, InterNetX, and United Domains, appears to be taking a good chunk of the new TLDs market share away from GoDaddy. United spent about $50 million advertising pre-registrations for new top level domain names. Yet GoDaddy was kicking its butt in registrations for the first batches of new TLDs that hit the market. That has shifted in recent ... read more ...
Tue 25th March 2014
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Afternic/GoDaddy Sells $1.9 Million In Domain Names - Afternic/GoDaddy released its sales report for the week of March 17th – March 23rd 2014 All sales for the week totaled $1,904,435. The top .com sale was lCatterton.com for $25,000 followed by AmericanNational.com for $20,000. I’m going to guess that Catterton.com probably was bought by the large private equity firm, Catterton Partners The top non-com sale lead by sna.net for $4,500. CEObuzz.com sold for $3,920 SEO.buzz is priced at $5,320 by the registry Here are all the reportable sales Google+Michael ... read more ...
Mon 24th March 2014
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Go Daddy Closing a Go Daddy Direct Affiliate Program - Dear Raymond Hackney, After months of compiling data, projecting development timelines and deciding how to best serve our Affiliates’ needs, we have decided to close the GoDaddy Direct Affiliate Program. I want to thank you for your participation and I hope you join one of our programs in CJ Affiliate (formerly Commission Junction), ShareASale or Affiliate Window. The benefits of joining one of our external partner programs include: • Access to Direct Deposit for our international publishers • ... read more ...
Sat 22nd March 2014
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End user sales are partial of Afternic’s large $2.1 million sales week - Pharmaceuticals company, non-profit, and garage door repairman are among end user domain buyers. GoDaddy and Afternic teamed up to sell $2.1 million worth of domain names last week, led by QY.com at $100,000. Following are some of the sales that were made to end users. You can end user sales from previous weeks here. AutismSociety.com $9.750 – Hussman Foundation, which just launched the Hussman Institute for Autism. Renta.Limo $1,776 and Chicago.Limo $1,625 – ... read more ...
Tue 11th March 2014
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Former Apple executive joins GoDaddy board - GoDaddy adds woman to board and her background might signal a coming IPO. GoDaddy has appointed Betsy Rafael to its board of directors. She is the former Chief Accounting Officer at Apple and Finance VP at Cisco Systems. Rafael also serves on the boards of Echelon and Autodesk. Rafael is the first woman on GoDaddy’s Board of Directors, although the company has a number of women in leadership roles including the CMO, CTO, Chief Communications Officer, and General ... read more ...
Mon 10th March 2014
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M.Dot Rebranded as Go Daddy Go Mobile - App Advice reported that M.dot has been rebranded to Go Daddy Go Mobile. M.dot has just been updated to version 2.0. At the same time, it has been rebranded as GoDaddy GoMobile. Released in October 2012, M.dot was acquired by GoDaddy in February 2013. And now, over a year later, the app has been renamed to officially carry the GoDaddy brand. Not to be confused with GoDaddy Mobile, GoDaddy’s official iOS app, GoDaddy GoMobile offers quick and easy creation and management of mobile-optimized websites. ... read more ...