Tag Archives: registrars

Mon 10th September 2012
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Are 35 Million Domains/Sites Hosted On Godaddy.com Down? - According to DailyChanges.com there are almost 34 million domain names are hosted on Godaddy’s DomainControl.com servers which appear to be down. In addition another 1.2 million are hosted on Godaddy’s CashParking.com servers which also appear to be down. I did a spot check of domains and sites located on both servers and all appeared to be down. As Godaddy.com outage continues it looks like between domain, site hosting and email hosting up to 35 million domains could be affected. Godaddy.com ... read more ...
 
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Go Daddy climbs behind online - GoDaddy.com and access to millions of sites finally being restored. With domain name registrar Go Daddy and millions of sites down today, clicking on a Google search result was a bit like playing roulette: you might get a blank result. A Go Daddy spokesperson told me the problems began around 10 am PDT today. I was in a meeting at the time, and saw a tweet from Go Daddy about site problems. I clicked over to GoDaddy.com and it didn’t resolve. I then checked Domain ... read more ...
Thu 6th September 2012
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Clint Eastwood proves that as prolonged as there’s news, there will be domain registrations - Dozens of domain names registered about…a chair. Clint Eastwood’s speech at the Republican National Convention last Thursday gave 24 hour news networks and election watchers something to talk about for the next few days. And it once again showed that when there’s news, there will be domain name registrations. On the evening of Eastwood’s speech, in which he pretended Barack Obama was sitting in an empty chair next to him on stage, a California man jumped on ... read more ...
Tue 21st August 2012
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Google Apps creates .co an choice (and promotes it) - .co front and center with the big three on Google Apps. Google Apps has added .co as a registration option when you open a new account. Given that you can currently register 27 different top level domains with Google Apps, that’s not big news by itself. But much like with many of the top domain name registrars, .co has managed to get Google to promote it. When I tested just moments ago, Google places .co right up there with .com, .net, and .org. You have to click ... read more ...
Thu 16th August 2012
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Romney-Ryan domain names snapped adult in a hurry - Republican ticket follows patterns for domain name registration. Whenever there’s a big political announcement we tend to see people register related domain names. Mitt Romney’s announcement of Paul Ryan as his running mate is one example. Since June 2012, Go Daddy says more than 1,600 domain names were registered with the registrar containing Mitt Romney and or Paul Ryan. While many of these were surely registered in the past week when Ryan was named, someone ... read more ...
Thu 9th August 2012
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UPDATED: Bill Hartzer.com Reports Front Running By Godaddy.com - In a story published a couple of days ago blogger BillHartzer.com citing another report,  says Godaddy.com maybe front running domain registrations. “Godaddy, the domain name registrar, has apparently been caught registering domain names after someone has looked up the availability of a domain name. ” “This guy claims that he looked up a domain name to see if that domain name was available. The domain name was available, but apparently he did not register the domain name that day. He came ... read more ...
Mon 30th July 2012
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Godaddy.com CEO Warren Adelman Steps Down To Become “Special Advisor” - According to a press release just out the “Chief Executive Officer of Godaddy.com,  Warren Adelman, has decided to step down from his position as CEO and assume a new role at the company as Special Advisor for Strategy and Global Policy”. “Scott Wagner has been named interim CEO while the board conducts a search for a permanent successor. ” “I am proud to have been part of a team that has built a terrific business. I’ve spent close to a decade with Go Daddy, and it has been an amazing ... read more ...
 
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Go Daddy CEO Warren Adelman stairs down - The world’s largest domain name registrar is seeking a new CEO. Warren Adelman Warren Adelman is stepping down as CEO of Go Daddy, the company announced today. He will remain with the company as Special Advisor for Strategy and Global Policy. Adelman was promoted to CEO of the company in December when Go Daddy closed its investment round with KKR, Silver Lake and Technology Crossover Ventures. He has been with the company for nearly a decade, previously as President ... read more ...
Thu 26th July 2012
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Thomson Reuters Acquires MarkMonitor.com - “The acquisition of MarkMonitor, headquartered in San Francisco, will strengthen the broad portfolio of intellectual property solutions from Thomson Reuters.” “The addition of MarkMonitor, with its innovative online brand protection technology, to Thomson Reuters best-in-class intellectual property solutions, will result in a suite of efficient and effective end-to-end brand protection solutions to assist customers in securing revenue and reputation. With over 400 employees in five countries, ... read more ...
 
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Go Daddy releases the 3 Olympic ads - Three ads explain that Go Daddy is about more than just attractive women. Go Daddy has released the three television commercials it will run during the Olympics. You may have seen the first one a few weeks ago, called “Inside Out – Otter”. The basics of Otter are the same as the other two commercials, “Bubble Bath” and “Berries”. In each one, a narrator explain that Go Daddy has two sides — the attractive models it uses in ads and the techies who actually ... read more ...
Wed 25th July 2012
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Name.com Asks “What New gTLD’s Are You Waiting For” - Unlike some other registrars that are taking “pre-orders” or expressions of interest in domain name registrations for certain hand selected new gTLD’s, Name.com is going from it at a whole different angle asking users: “What new gTLDs are you waiting for?” Name.com is asking users to tell then what new gTLD’s they are most interest in. The page put up by Name.com starts with an important question: “”What the heck is a gTLD?” “”TLDs are the endings that follow the string in a ... read more ...
Mon 23rd July 2012
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Moniker and SnapNames beef adult patron support after acquisition - Support and operations staff quadruple. I recently read Elliot’s post about Moniker’s extended phone support hours. I’ve been tracking the support situation at Moniker/SnapNames since KeyDrive bought the companies from Oversee.net, as a number of people have made comments about it. Some customers were also concerned because their account manages left the company. Here are some more details about the support changes at Moniker/SnapNames. DNW: How did the support ... read more ...
Wed 18th July 2012
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Go Daddy creates the initial “business” acquisition - Go Daddy acquires Outright. More to come? Go Daddy today announced the acquisition of Outright, a provider of online financial software for small businesses. This is only the company’s third acquisition in its history, and the first one that involves bringing over people from the acquired business. (It’s previous acquisitions were a technology acquisition for a root certificate and taking over the RegisterFly customer database when that registrar lost its accreditation.) Go ... read more ...
Mon 9th July 2012
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GoDaddy.com adds dual cause authentication - New security option available to customers with a U.S. mobile phone number. GoDaddy.com has added two factor authentication capabilities for U.S. customers. The feature appears to have been added within the past couple days. The added security layer, also known as two step authentication, means that someone who gets control of your username and password will be unable to log in to your account. In addition to the usual login credentials, Go Daddy will send a one time ... read more ...
Tue 26th June 2012
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ICANN sends crack notice to Tucows - Organization sends notice of breach to third largest domain name registrar. ICANN has sent a notice of breach to Tucows, the third largest domain name registrar. This breach notice is unusual in that it seems to stem from a dispute over a particular domain name. According to the letter, Tucows is in breach of its registrar accreditation agreement for two reasons: 1. Tucows’ failure to maintain registration data and records pursuant to Section 3.4 of the RAA; and 2. ... read more ...
 
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Go Daddy says ask to pierce Homelandsecurityus.com not about politics - Company says campaign committee and politics not at play in request to change web hosts. Last Friday GoDaddy.com sent a notice to the owner of Homelandsecurityus.com informing him that he needed to find a new home for his domain name and web site. Douglas J. Hagmann, founder of the site, tells his story here. He claims that one of the Obama campaign’s “truth teams” asked Go Daddy to give the site the boot. But Ben Butler, Network Abuse Director at Go Daddy, ... read more ...
Sun 24th June 2012
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30%-50% Of All Domain Registrations Are Through Resellers & Enom Has 8,000 of Them - A few interesting facts coming out of the afternoon ICANN session entitled; “Briefing for GAC on Domain Name Marketplace” Jeff Eckhaus of Demand Media which owns Enom.com,  speaking to the Governmental Advisory Council, (GAC) said that Enom has 8,000 resellers itself and he thought that on a volume of registrations, the percentage of domain names registered by resellers was “somewhere between 30 and 50%” I was pretty surprised with the numbers and so was the GAC, who was less than happy. As ... read more ...
Fri 15th June 2012
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Go Daddy eyes one month registrations for .home and .casa domains - Company may offer short term registrations if awarded domain names. Go Daddy is proposing a couple twists in its plan to offer .home and .casa domain names to the public. A big one: registrations as short as one month. “Why pay for a year if the domain name will not be needed for a year?”, the company asks in its application. This makes since for real estate domains. When I put my house on the market last year I registered our street address as a .com domain with ... read more ...
Wed 13th June 2012
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Demand Media’s 26 TLDs strike a armed forces, democrats, and republicans - Demand Media applies for 26 domain names — and some of them are very interesting. Publicly traded Demand Media, parent company of domain registrar eNom, has applied for 26 top level domain names through (what appears to be) a subsidiary called United TLD Holdco Ltd. The company also has a deal to share in up to 107 top level domains applied for by Donuts, Inc. Demand Media’s list is interesting. Of course, it didn’t want to conflict with Donuts, Inc. on any ... read more ...
Tue 12th June 2012
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Go Daddy hires ad group as it changes the image - Company taps Deutsch to shift its image and advertising. For the first time since 2005, Go Daddy has hired an outside ad agency to manage its advertising. The company will formally announce tomorrow that it hired the New York office of ad agency Deutsch Inc. Deutsch’s first public work for the company will be its ads during the Olympics on NBC. Go Daddy and Deutsch plan to shift the company’s ads away from just good looking woman and more to what the company ... read more ...
Thu 7th June 2012
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Fifth Annual Registrar Summit Kicks Off Today - Godaddy.com is hosting the Fifth Annual Registrar Summit which is being held today and tomorrow, June 7th and 8th at the Royal Palms Resort and Spa in Phoenix, Arizona. Here is the agenda: Thursday, June 7   Friday, June 8   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Mon 4th June 2012
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More sum about changes to Go Daddy’s 60 day lock - Why the new policy is in place and what it means for you. Last Friday I wrote about how Go Daddy had put into place a way to remove the dreaded 60 day transfer lock activated when you make a change to the registrant name on a domain name at the registrar. Over the weekend I looked at comments on that post and re-read ICANN’s new inter-registrar transfer policy. Here’s what the policy has to say about this sort of transfer lock (3.6): Express objection to the transfer ... read more ...
 
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Google creates domain corroboration easier with eNom and Go Daddy - eNom and Go Daddy customers can verify ownership from web based interface. Google has just introduced a speedier way to verify your domain ownership for use with certain Google tools. You have to verify that you own a particular domain name in order to use some Google services with the domain, e.g. seeing search queries for your web site in Webmaster Tools. Until now the process has been kind of difficult for people without technical skills. The new service allows ... read more ...
Fri 1st June 2012
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Go Daddy creates routine to discharge 60 day send lock - GoDaddy.com offers way to remove 60 day lock on domain transfers after certain registrant changes. Update: Read more about Go Daddy’s new transfer lock policy here. Ah, the dreaded 60 day lock. Go Daddy has taken quite a bit of flack over the years for rejecting transfers to other registrars if you changed certain registrant information within the previous 60 days. But under a new policy, customers will have a formal way to request the sixty day hold be removed. ... read more ...
Wed 30th May 2012
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Go Daddy relates for .home and .casa tip turn domains - Go Daddy applies for .home, .casa, and .godaddy top level domains. Domain name registrar Go Daddy has applied for the .home and .casa top level domains, CEO Warren Adelman disclosed to Domain Name Wire. These two domains are in addition to .GoDaddy. Adelman said the domains were chosen in part because they have multiple meanings with big market opportunities: they can be used in both a real estate context and personal context. From a real estate perspective, Go Daddy ... read more ...