Tag Archives: paul nicks

Mon 28th September 2015
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GoDaddy Aftermarket with Paul Nicks – DNW Podcast #52 - Paul Nicks, who manages GoDaddy’s aftermarket, discusses the state of domain resales and the GoDaddy platform. Paul Nicks runs the aftermarket for GoDaddy, which includes Afternic and GoDaddy auctions. Paul discusses the current state of the domain aftermarket, including which direction sales and sale prices are moving. He also discusses changes the company is making in the aftermarket and how they’re trying to remove friction from the domain selling and buying process. Paul also provides stats ... read more ...
Wed 17th July 2013
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GoDaddy gets obvious for Geo Domain tool - First patent related to system for generating geo domain names is granted. Back in 2009 GoDaddy released a geo domain tool that allowed you to find domain names specific to a location, e.g. AustinAllergists.com. Last year I reported that GoDaddy filed three patent applications related to the tool. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has now granted a patent to GoDaddy covering the technology. U.S. patent 8,489,746 is titled “Systems for suggesting domain names ... read more ...
Tue 21st May 2013
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GoDaddy gets dual patents for domain appraisal - Paul Nicks’ inventions related to name spinning and appraisals get patent protection. The United States Patent and Trademark Office today issued two patents to GoDaddy related to name spinning and appraisal. U.S. Patent number 8,447,701 is titled “Appraising domain names using comparative data” and 8,447,702 (pdf) is “Domain appraisal algorithm”. The patents have lots of overlapping material. They cover name spinning to create permutations of domain names ... read more ...
Fri 6th July 2012
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Go Daddy Auctions Jun sales down (but that doesn’t meant a downturn in a market) - Aftermarket domain sales robust despite lower numbers on Go Daddy Auctions. Last month Go Daddy Auctions sold 31,896 domain names. That’s down from 35,094 in May. The number of domains sold on the platform has been on a downward trend for several months. I reached out to Paul Nicks, Director – Domain Name Aftermarket at Go Daddy, to find out what’s behind the decline: Seasonality is a factor during summer months. We’ve also seen a direct correlation with an ... read more ...