Tag Archives: registrars

Tue 20th November 2012
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New site collates registrar stats and pricing - RegistrarOwl makes it easy to compare domain name registrars. Domain name registrar NameSilo has just launched a new web site that tracks domain registrar and top level domain data. RegistrarOwl.com tracks domain name stats related to each registrar, such as total domains, transfers, etc. It uses publicly available registry reports from ICANN’s web site as its data source. This is good because the data is accurate but unfortunately it’s three months in arrears. ... read more ...
Wed 14th November 2012
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Tucows: 14.1 million domains and Ting has 5,000+ accounts - Tucows continues to grow domain business while mobile phone service Ting gets bigger. Tucows’ total domains under management hit 14.1 million at the end of last quarter, the company announced on its investor conference call last evening. That’s up 21% from the same time last year. New registrations declined by 12%, which the company blames on “general industry softness in North America and Europe and some one-time events”. The ratio of transfers-in to transfers-out ... read more ...
Tue 13th November 2012
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Key-System Rolls Out Totally Re-designed DomainDiscount24.com - According to a press release we received today DomainDiscount24.com (dd24), “the retail service of the international registrar Key-Systems GmbH, has rolled out a totally redesigned website with new design, even more customer-oriented structure and more comprehensive content”. In addition to a refreshed layout with a more clear website composition, many new features have been implemented to simplify the domain registration. Domaindiscount24.com has already been available in the languages English, ... read more ...
Sun 11th November 2012
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Domain Registrar 1and1 Running TV Commercials Promoting “Domain Days” Without Owning DomainDays.com - The domain name registrar, 1and1.com is is running televisions commercial in some heavy rotation today during NFL games touting its domain name registration sale its calling “Domain Days” for November. Not only doesn’t 1and1.com own the domain name DomainDays.com, but to add insult to injury the domain is not even registered at 1and1.com its registered at Moniker.com You can watch the domain days commercial here The domain name was just registered a few months ago by a company NOMITION LTD ... read more ...
Fri 2nd November 2012
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GoDaddy and AOL sued over email patents - Ziplink claims companies’ email services infringe its patents. A Connecticut company sued domain name registrar and hosting company Go Daddy yesterday in federal district court. Ziplink, Inc. alleges that Go Daddy’s email services infringe two of its patents. Go Daddy is in good company on this one. Ziplink also sued AOL yesterday. Its first patent infringement target was Microsoft, in which Ziplink argued that Hotmail violated its patents. The two patents in ... read more ...
Thu 25th October 2012
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Go Daddy files obvious applications for geo domain idea tools - Patent applications are related to geo domain search tool released in 2009. In 2009 Go Daddy released a geo domain research tool to help domainers find local domains, such as cityHotels.com. The tool is online at geo.godaddy.com/. The company subsequently filed three patent applications covering various ways to generate geographic-specific related domain names. These three applications were filed in 2011 but just published today. The applications are: SUGGESTING DOMAIN ... read more ...
Tue 23rd October 2012
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Lawsuit claims Go Daddy illegally available phone calls - Two California men claim domain registrar recorded calls without permission. You know the line… “This call may be recorded for quality or training purposes”. Well, according to two California men, their phone calls with domain name registrar Go Daddy were secretly recorded in violation of California law. The lawsuit they just filed (pdf) seeks class action status and $5,000 per recorded phone call for all California residents who had a phone call with the company ... read more ...
Thu 18th October 2012
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Go Daddy Picks Ad Agency To Produce Super Bowl Ad: 1st Time Since 2005 - “For the first time since its controversial 2005 debut, Go Daddy is producing its new Super Bowl commercials with the help of an ad agency. Go Daddy officially signed the New York Office of Deutsch Inc. as its agency-of-record this week. Now, Deutsch NY is working to produce two thirty-second spots for the world’s largest Web hosting provider’s 2013 Super Bowl campaign. The challenge is to create memorable, innovative ads that reflect the world-class Go Daddy customer experience and have the ... read more ...
 
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Deutsch to furnish dual Super Bowl commercials for Go Daddy - Go Daddy to use ad agency for Super Bowl commercials for first time since 2005. Go Daddy announced today that ad agency Deutsch, which is hired earlier this year, will produce its two Super Bowl commercials for 2013. The domain name registrar and web hosting company hired Duetsch to change its image from just being about girls to showing its technology side. The first commercials Duetsch produced for Go Daddy ran during the Olympics. Go Daddy produced its early ... read more ...
Wed 17th October 2012
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Google Offers has 50% off during Go Daddy - “Daily” deal offers half off at Go Daddy. Google Offers — Google’s answer to Groupon — has a deal going on right now that will be interesting to domainers. I just got an email from the service about an offer for Go Daddy. You can see it here. The offer is $10 for $20 toward domain names, hosting, and other services at Go Daddy. The 50% discount offer must be purchased within the next 10 days. It can be redeemed anytime between now and April 1, 2013 and must ... read more ...
Tue 16th October 2012
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EnCirca Rolls Out A White Labeled Registrar Service - EnCirca.com an ICANN accredited registrar announced today  its white labeled registrar services to help determine the right Registrar solution to meet the needs of new gTLDs. TLD’s that envision complex authentication and verification of potential registrants; integration of partners and member-based trade associations for referrals and authentication; industry verticals with clearly defined market segments and marketing opportunities and/or Specialized Rights Protection Mechanisms would benefit ... read more ...
Thu 11th October 2012
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Could Twitter brand a best domain registrars? - The sentiment of your tweets may suggest which domain name registrars are best. A few weeks ago TechCrunch wrote about Kevin Ohashi’s new web hosting review site ReviewSignal.com. (If Ohashi’s name rings a bell, Ohashi is a Domain Name Wire reader and you may have seen some of his comments on the site before.) TechCrunch titled its post “Web Hosting Reviews Are A Cesspool. Review Signal Wants To Fix That”. If you’ve ever searched for web hosting reviews ... read more ...
Tue 9th October 2012
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Doh! Melbourne IT incidentally close down Twitter’s t.co couple shortener - Company placed domain status on hold thanks to phishing complaint. Yesterday Twitter’s t.co link shortener, which it wraps all outgoing links in, went down. Was the culprit some self-proclaimed anonymous user? Or a DDoS? Nope. Domain name registrar Melbourne IT has fessed up to causing the problem. The company, which is the registrar for t.co, admitted to CNET that one of its employees had temporarily taken the t.co domain name offline in response to a phishing ... read more ...
Mon 8th October 2012
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Endurance International Group Owner Of Dotster.com & Domain.com Selects Afternic.com as Its Exclusive Aftermarket Partner - Afternic.com today announced an Exclusive Partnership with Endurance International Group, a top ICANN-accredited registrar, incorporating Afternic’s inventory of the largest collection of fast transfer-enabled domains in the world for sale on several Endurance brands including Domain.com.” Endurance manages 2.9 million unique Web hosting accounts and close to 10 million domain names and owns HostGator.com, Dotster and Domain.com and 30 more registrars. “Since it was founded in 1997, this Massachusetts-based ... read more ...
Wed 26th September 2012
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Sedo Adds “Make Offer” Domains To Godaddy.com Through Its MLS Program - According to a press release we received today, Sedo.com is adding “Make Offer” domain names to its MLS system with Godaddy.com “Go Daddy joined the SedoMLS network in January 2012, offering all Buy Now names from Sedo’s inventory of more than 16 million premium domains to millions of new buyers.  ” “The expanded partnership adds Make Offer names to this distribution channel, which means that end users worldwide can now place bids on premium domains listed at Sedo, and negotiate a purchase ... read more ...
 
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Sedo expands placement partnership with Go Daddy - “Make Offer” domains now distributed to Go Daddy through SedoMLS. Sedo announced today that it has expanded its distribution partnership with Go Daddy to include “make offer” domain names. In January Go Daddy joined the SedoMLS network. That meant that fixed priced domains at Sedo that were opted into SedoMLS would show up in the registration path at GoDaddy.com. Go Daddy customers could purchase the domains by following a link to Go Daddy Auctions. The expanded ... read more ...
Tue 25th September 2012
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Go Daddy patents “announcing a domain name registration on a amicable website” - Patent describes way to announce your latest domain name registration. Last year I wrote about Go Daddy’s patent applications related to announcing a domain name registration on a social network. Today the United States Patent and Trademark office granted the domain name registrar a patent for “announcing a domain name registration on a social website”. U.S. patent number 8,276,057 (pdf) describes a way in which a domain name registrar account could be connected ... read more ...
Thu 20th September 2012
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Class movement lawsuit filed over Go Daddy downtime - Lawsuit claims seeks damages for downtime on September 10. Well, that was quick. The first federal lawsuit seeking class action status has been filed against GoDaddy for its downtime on September 10 (pdf). The outage affected GoDaddy.com and many people who used the company’s DNS and web hosting services. The suit was filed by Eric Mitchell, who runs the web site StatedIncomeIsBack.com. He claims Go Daddy failed to “satisfy its guaranteed upload (sic) times for ... read more ...
Tue 18th September 2012
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Go Daddy gets obvious for SEO and hunt engine submission - Patent covers method and systems for SEO suggestions and search engine submission. The United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued a patent (pdf) to Go Daddy for “method for improving a web site’s ranking with search engines”. U.S. patent number 8,271,488 describes a system for helping web site owners edit their web pages for better search results and then automatically submitting the sites to multiple search engines. If some of this seems outdated, ... read more ...
Tue 11th September 2012
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So Godaddy.com Wasn’t Attacked But Why Did They Wait Almost 24 Hours Before Letting Anyone Know? - Godaddy.com announced a short time ago they were not attacked or hacked yesterday but had internal network issues which caused widespread outage to millions of customer’s sites, domain names and email accounts. According to the statement, all services were restored by 4pm PDT. So why did we first get word that there was no attack or hack especially when hundreds of major media stories were reporting the outage as due to an attack or hack? In the case of millions of sites, email accounts and domain ... read more ...
 
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Godaddy.com is Back Up: “At No Time Was Any Sensitive Customer Information Compromised” - Godaddy.com is back up and it seems according to Twitter are almost all of the domains, sites and email addresses that were under attack today Here is what is posted on Godaddy.com’s site tonight: “At 10:25 am PT, GoDaddy.com and associated customer services experienced intermittent outages. Services began to be restored for the bulk of affected customers at 2:43 pm PT. At no time was any sensitive customer information, such as credit card data, passwords or names and addresses, compromised. ... read more ...
 
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Why we won’t leave GoDaddy over yesterday’s outage - Go Daddy web hosting still makes sense for me. Yesterday Go Daddy suffered a major outage that appears to have involved its DNS services. The outage lasted about four hours. Back in May I switched from a small web host to Go Daddy, which means that Domain Name Wire was offline yesterday as a result of the outage. Let me start by saying that downtime for your web site sucks, and yesterday was a frustrating day. But does it make sense for someone like me to change hosting ... read more ...
 
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Have ccTLD questions? Just ask Alex - Get answers to your toughest country code domain questions. Some country code domain names are fairly easy to register. Most of them aren’t. Frankly, figuring out how to register some of the more obscure ccTLDs could take a Ph.D. But now there’s a free resource for all of your ccTLD questions: Ask Alex. It’s a new section on Tucows’ OpenSRS web site where company employee Alex Schwertner answers all of your questions about ccTLDs. Residency requirements? ... read more ...
 
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Like we was saying… Go Daddy wasn’t hacked or attacked - Guy on twitter says he took Go Daddy down. Press bites. Yesterday dozens (hundreds?) of “respectable” publications reported that Go Daddy was hacked, and that it was done by a hacker who was part of anonymous. This morning I tweeted: “incredible how major news outlets take as fact what a single twitter user said about yesterday’s #GoDaddy attack.” I followed up a few minutes later noting that “attack” wasn’t the right word: “I should clarify re: ... read more ...
Mon 10th September 2012
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Forbes.com Just Publishes 5 Reasons Why You Should Leave Godaddy (and How) - Talk about hitting someone when there down, Forbes.com just published a post entitled 5 Reasons Why You Should Leave Godaddy (and How). Forbes writes in part: “In the last few years, GoDaddy has come under fire plenty of times – and for plenty of reasons. Not only has the company used sexual advertising several times to promote its services (reasons 1-3 why anyone paying GoDaddy money should leave, we’ll say), but CEO Bob Parsons murdered a wild elephant in Zimbabwe (reason number 4) and then ... read more ...