Tag Archives: GoDaddy

Tue 28th January 2014
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John Turturro Stars In Godaddy Superbowl Ad Where Real Person, Quits Real Job - Actor John Turturro stars in GoDaddy’s 1st Half Super Bowl commercial where a real person quits a real job to pursue her passion and start her own business. In what is an historic commercial ‘first,’ you’ll see a real person quit a real job in front of 100-million people! During the big game, see how a gutsy go getter goes from working for someone else to following their dream and turning a hobby into their very own small business. Only the people involved with the commercial production ... read more ...
 
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GigaOM “How GoDaddy skeleton to turn a genuine tech association for genuine people” - GigaOm did a very lengthy piece earlier today on Go Daddy and on the maturation process the company has embarked upon to become more of a technology company. Blake Irving certainly has shaken things up with a lot of the focus being on small business. The company has made acquisitions like Locu and will be heavily marketing its new “Get Found”  product. GigaOm wrote, The product, which starts at $4.99 per month, uses machine learning algorithms to pull company information from store websites, ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy’s 2nd Super Bowl ad to underline chairman quitting their pursuit (for real) to start a biz - GoDaddy posts teaser for second ad for Sunday’s game. GoDaddy has already posted one of its two Super Bowl commercials for Sunday’s game. It hasn’t posted its second yet, but it has revealed some of the subject matter. According to a video teaser GoDaddy just posted, the second commercial will feature someone quitting their job (for real) in front of the Super Bowl TV audience. Apparently only the production staff and the person’s father knows about her resignation. ... read more ...
Thu 23rd January 2014
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What domain names Capital One and 28 other finish users bought final week - Capital One was among the end user buyers making domain name purchases last week. GoDaddy and Afternic combined to sell $1.9 million worth of domain names last week, which is higher than normal. Below are sales that appear to be to end users. You can see previous end user sales reports here. KirklandPermits.net $2,077 – City of Kirkland, Washington. They also have the matching .com. Crafting.com $51,500 – Missouri Start Quilt Co, seller of craft supplies. This ... read more ...
Wed 22nd January 2014
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Confirmed: There Will Not Be A .Co/Godaddy Super Bowl Commercial This Year - Godaddy.com released one its commercials that it will be airing during the Super Bowl today. I confirmed with Godaddy that there will not be a .Co domain name registry co-branded commercial running on this year’s Super Bowl. The .Co registry ran co-branded ads with Godaddy for the past three Super Bowls. My favorite of the bunch, actually my favorite television commercial of all time for domain names, was last years Godaddy/.Co commercial entitled Your Big Idea .Co. Godaddy also confirmed that ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy posts the initial 2014 Super Bowl Commercial - No naked women. Just men this time. GoDaddy has published one of its Super Bowl Commercials that will air during the big game February 2. As promised, it’s a distinct departure from previous years in which the company featured scantily clad women. This time it is scantily clad men, although Danica Patrick still plays a role. Compared to the previous commercial along these lines featuring Jean-Claude van Damme, I think this commercial says less about what GoDaddy ... read more ...
Tue 21st January 2014
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What domain names Yahoo! and 21 other finish users bought - Yahoo! buys a sports domain name and other end user domain name purchases. Afternic and GoDaddy sold $1.7 million worth of aftermarket domain names from 1/6/14 – 1/12/14. Here are some of the sales that were to end users. You can see more end user reports here. JiveCloud.com $3,650 and LCloud.com $13,700 – Community software and social media marketing firm Lithium. WarehouseCleaning.com $1,199 – Web design company Ambidextrous Services, which specializes in ... read more ...
Sun 19th January 2014
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GoDaddy Expands WordPress Offerings with Managed Hosting - GoDaddy Expands WordPress Offerings with Managed Hosting Go Daddy unveiled a new WordPress offering that they announced on Thursday. From the press release they put out: GoDaddy Managed WordPress automatically updates accounts to the latest version of WordPress and ensures that a website’s plug-ins aren’t vulnerable to security attacks or wasting resources, causing a website to perform poorly. In addition to protecting WordPress, GoDaddy offers layers of added security including firewalls, malware ... read more ...
Mon 13th January 2014
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Go Daddy CEO calls stream domain space soiled and not descriptive - Blake Irving CEO of Go Daddy sat down at the Consumer Electronics Show and gave a talk about the changes taking place in the domain space. Irving calls the current space polluted and talks about the new names being descriptive. He talks about pizza, doctor, dentist and then says LA, of course LA has been available and is a cctld. This inclusion is why some think that the repurposed country codes may get an extra boost as people just include them when talking about the new gtlds. Click to watch the ... read more ...
Thu 9th January 2014
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Go Daddy Fires Back during AMPAS - Two weeks ago Mike covered the news that The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences which hands out the Oscars had filed another lawsuit against Godaddy under the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (“ACPA”). The Hollywood Reporter is out with a story now where Go Daddy claims that the Academy gets special treatment from the judge hearing the case. They go on to say that the judge has a certain affinity for AMPAS because the judge has a daughter who is an actress. From the article: In ... read more ...
Wed 8th January 2014
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What domain names De Beers and 20 other finish users bought final week - De Beers was among the famous brands that bought domain names last week. GoDaddy and Afternic sold $1.36 million worth of aftermarket domain names during the New Years week of 12/30/13-1/5/14. Below are some of the domain names that were purchased by end users, including diamond company De Beers. You can see view end user domain name sales reports here. DragonCoin.com $1,199 – OC Gold, and Orange County gold and silver dealer 360eye.com $12,500 – Enerfund, a private ... read more ...
Mon 6th January 2014
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13 some-more finish user domain sales, including Folia.com for $37,500 - App maker buys Folia.com for new app. Afternic and GoDaddy combined to sell $1.1 million worth of domain names over the holiday week ending December 29. Here are some of the sales that were to end users, including Folia.com. You can see more end user sales here. Folia.com $37,500 – Branchfire, creator of the iAnnotate app, bought this domain for a new productivity app. The seller appears to be Notion Research LLC, which previously was creating a product called Folia ... read more ...
 
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2013 Top Stories: GoDaddy acquires Afternic - The combined entity will give more reach domain name sellers, but it also means there’s one less competitor in the marketplace. Mergers and acquisitions in the domain name industry happen all the time. Yet one that took place in 2013 has the potential to have a big effect on domain name owners. In September, GoDaddy acquired domain name aftermarket Afternic. At its core, Afternic is a platform for buying and selling domain names across various websites. Yet the ... read more ...
Fri 3rd January 2014
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20 finish user domain name sales - GoDaddy and Afternic had a good sales week heading into the holidays. The domain name aftermarket doesn’t stop just because of the holidays! Today we’re playing catchup, as this list of end user sales is for Dec 16-Dec 22 at Afternic and GoDaddy. These are part of the $1.55 million worth of aftermarket domain names they sold during the week. You can see more end user domain name sales here. BluDot.ca $10,000 – Furniture seller BluDot. (I’m actually typing ... read more ...
Thu 2nd January 2014
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Afternic/Godaddy Sells $1.1 Million In Domain Names - Afternic/Godaddy released its sales report right before the New Years Break for the the week of 12/23/13 – 12/29/13. Sales totaled $1,120,500 All sales were lead by Folia.com Looks like one New York based Real Estate Investment Trust picked up a pair of domains for $8,300 each; NewYorkREIT.com and NYREIT.com   <![CDATA[]]> Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy gets sixth obvious for “Adwords for Top Level Domains” - Domain registrar continues to collect patents for ways to prioritize domain name search results. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted a sixth patent to GoDaddy related to a way to position domain names in response to a user’s domain search. I first wrote about GoDaddy’s idea in 2011 after the USPTO granted the first patent, 7,890,602, for “Tools enabling preferred domain positioning on a registration website.” Domain name registrars accept marketing ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy Auctions sells tighten to 40,000 domain names in December - Top reported sale was Uber.org for $36,000. GoDaddy Auctions tallied 38,841 domain name sales in December, according to preliminary numbers in the company’s Domain Market Report. The top reportable sale was Uber.org for $36,000. Although the whois record does not yet reflect the buyer, a likely buyer is taxi/black car service Uber. Here are the top ten reported sales for the month: uber.org $36,000 supporter.com $35,000 personalcfo.com $29,000 squid.com $25,500 3dprinters.net $23,001 uchat.com $20,000 adata.com $15,000 ... read more ...
Wed 1st January 2014
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Uber.org Leads The Go Daddy Auctions Domain Report for Dec 2013 - Go Daddy finished the year selling 38,841 domains vs 39,715 in November. Uber.org was the top sale for the month at $36,000. The domain registered in 2001 looks to have been sold by the Canadian powerhouse Original.com. The whois shows Go Daddy and the name still points to an Internet Traffic parked page. (click to enlarge) ... read more ...
Mon 30th December 2013
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2013 Top Stories: A new instruction for GoDaddy - GoDaddy has a new CEO and is moving in a new direction. GoDaddy CEO Blake Irving is trying to change the company — and its image.Blake Irving took the helm of domain name registrar and webhosting giant GoDaddy this year. It was a big shift for the company, which had been run by insiders until an investment group bought in to the company in 2011. The investors later installed an interim CEO until Irving came on board. Irving comes from Microsoft and Yahoo!, and brought ... read more ...
Sun 22nd December 2013
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New gTLD Price Wars As United Domains Undercuts Godaddy - United Domains sent out an email making customers aware that they were now taking binding pre-orders on some new gTLD domain names. Interestedly Go Daddy which built its business being the low cost provider on .com, looks like it  may be taking a different path with the new gtlds as there prices are higher on a majority of the extension both are taking pre-orders on. UnitedDomains.com is basically under cutting Godaddy’s price on these new gTLD they are taking pre-orders  by up to  $10 a domain ... read more ...
Wed 18th December 2013
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32 finish user domain name sales adult to $50,000 - Gaming company, natural food store, and rental car company make domain name purchases. GoDaddy and Afternic combined to sell over $1.8 million worth of domain names last week. Here are 32 that were sold to end users. See previous end user sales reports here. Humble.com $50,000 – Humble Bundle, which sells PC and Android games on a pay-what-you-want model and donates money to charity. Its websites is HumbleBundle.com. EconomyRentalCars.com $25,000 – Economy Rent ... read more ...
Tue 17th December 2013
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Godaddy/Afternic Sales Total $1,838.00 Led By Humble.com For $50K - Godaddy.com and Afternic.com just released its sales report for the week of 12/9/13 – 12/15/13. Total domain sales for the week summed to $1,838,001. All sales were led by Humble.com which sold for $50,0000 Orderme.com at $20K was pretty cheap. iFollow.com at $9,700 is interesting. I have no idea who would buy or why Godaddy.com or Afternic would sell GoogleCreate.com at all,  but it sold for  $2,300. Google does not seem to be the buyer. <![CDATA[]]>  Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Mon 16th December 2013
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This association competence be peaceful to compensate $12,500 for a new second turn domain name - Who would pay over ten grand for a new second level domain name? A lot of people were in shock last week when GoDaddy unveiled its pricing for Donuts’ Early Access Program registrations. The Early Access Program (EAP) is Donuts’ version of the traditional landrush period. Instead of accepting applications and auctioning the domain names off the the highest bidder, EAP is sort of like a Dutch auction. The EAP goes on for five days, and the price to register a domain ... read more ...
Thu 12th December 2013
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Bob Parsons Pledges Half of His Fortune to Charity - Huffington Post reports that Bob Parsons the founder of Go Daddy will give half of his fortune to charity. According to Forbes that net worth is $1.9 Billion. http://www.forbes.com/profile/bob-parsons/ From the article: Parsons and wife, Renee, recently joined the Giving Pledge –- a movement started by Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett four years ago –- which asks the world’s richest people to donate half of their wealth to charity. The Parsonses, along with six other affluent families, ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy owner Bob Parsons joins The Giving Pledge - Bob and Renee Parsons pledge over half of their wealth to charitable causes. GoDaddy founder Bob Parsons and his wife Renee Parsons have joined The Giving Pledge, an initiative in which wealthy people pledge to give half or more of their wealth to charity. Parsons’ net worth is estimated at over $1 billion. The couple has already made a number of seven figure donations, including to veteran causes. For example, he gave $1 million to establish The Bob Parsons Veterans ... read more ...