Tag Archives: registrars

Thu 19th January 2012
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Fortune names GoDaddy to 100 “Best Companies to Work for” list - Domain company on list of top companies to work for. The domain name industry is represented in Fortune magazine’s annual “Best Companies to Work for” list with GoDaddy.com coming in at #93. GoDaddy was one of only 19 companies on the list to have never had layoffs. It was also cited for its benefits (one of 14 companies on the list that pay 100% of employee health premiums) and ranked #8 on the list for job growth (24.6%). The company has about 150 positions ... read more ...
Wed 18th January 2012
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GoDaddy blacks out partial of the web site to conflict SOPA - From bill supporter to blackout. Did you know that GoDaddy is participating in today’s web blackout to oppose SOPA and PIPA? OK, so it’s only a 500×90 pixel block below the fold on its home page: Still, this is noteworthy given that GoDaddy’s prior support for the anti-piracy legislation made waves on the internet last month, leading to a spike in domain transfers to competitors. GoDaddy reversed its opinion on the bill and now opposes it. Ironically, some ... read more ...
Thu 12th January 2012
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Tucows: Why We Don’t Like SOPA & Joins Reddit Blackout On Jan 18th - Tucows.com just published a post its site entitled “Why We Don’t Like SOPA and promises to follow Reddit lead and blackout its site on January 18th The story is written by Elliot Noss the CEO of Tucows.com Tucows.com is the 3rd largest registrar in the world with almost 9 Million domains under management according to registrarStats.com We congratulate Tucows for taking a strong stance on this and joining the black out which will cost them a day of revenue. Here is the full post: “”The proposed ... read more ...
Mon 9th January 2012
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Will another domainer win a $10,000 .Me grant this year? - Go Daddy handing out $100,000 in scholarship program that included Brian Diener as a recipient last year. Go Daddy’s .ME College Scholarship program is returning for another year. The company will hand out ten $10,000 scholarships to students pursuing an undergraduate degree in Fall 2012. Normally I wouldn’t think this particularly newsworthy for the domain name industry, but last year a domain blogger was one of the winners. TeenDomainer.com writer Brian Diener ... read more ...
Fri 6th January 2012
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2 Weeks Of SOPA: The Actual Godaddy Numbers: 100K Domains Transferred Out, 117K Domains Transferred In - When the story first broke about the Godaddy boycott or “move your domain away” movement to protest Godaddy’s support of SOPA, it was two weeks ago on December 22nd. A few days later, we released numbers based off of DailyChanges.com which we acknowledged were only a best guess based on changes made to Godaddy’s default servers of DomainControl.com and promised as soon as we had actual numbers we would report them. Well we have been tracking the daily incoming and outgoing domain name transfers ... read more ...
 
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Judge allows rascal explain in Monte Cahn vs. Oversee.net to pierce forward, nixes dual others - Judge tosses two claims, allows fraud claim to move forward. The judge overseeing Monte Cahn vs. Oversee.net has handed down a mixed bag to both parties in his latest ruling. The Honorable Stephen V. Wilson dismissed two of Monte Cahn’s claims against his former employer while denying a motion to dismiss a fraud claim and strike a prayer for punitive damages. Oversee.net argued that Cahn’s fifth claim for fraud by Oversee.net was merely a restatement of an earlier ... read more ...
Thu 5th January 2012
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United Domains gets Punk’d - Members of ICANN community and competing domain registrars find themselves as new United Domains account holders. Someone is having a laugh at United Domains’ expense. Over the past few days an unknown perpetrator has set up roughly 500 empty accounts at domain name registrar United Domains using email addresses of people active in ICANN’s Governmental Advisory Committee and at various competing domain name registrars. Each of these people received a welcome email ... read more ...
Wed 4th January 2012
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Moniker.com Falls To Number 11, As FastDomain.com Passes Them - According to RegistrarStats.com,  Moniker.com just fell to the 11th largest domain name registrar being passed by FastDomain.com During 2011 FastDomain.com picked up around 800,000 registrations while Moniker which was the 7th largest registrar at the beginning of 2011. During 2011 Moniker.com lost about 8o0,000 domains under management and sits right over 2 Million domain names. I don’t know much of anything about FastDomain.com, other than they seem to be headquartered in Provo Utah. Moniker.com ... read more ...
Mon 2nd January 2012
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2011 Domain Dunce award: elephant sport and domain names - Elephant hunting and viral internet causes. Let’s keep our Domain Dunce awards going with Bob Parsons’ elephant shooting video and the aftermath. In March, GoDaddy founder Bob Parsons posted a video of him shooting a “problem elephant” in Zimbabwe. The video went viral after someone posted it to Change.org and asked people to boycott GoDaddy. PETA joined the party, too, transferring its domains away from GoDaddy and admonishing Parsons. There are a few things ... read more ...
Sun 1st January 2012
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Monte Cahn gets a justice feat as decider denies outline judgment - Oversee.net’s motion for summary judgment is denied. The court presiding over Monte Cahn vs. Oversee.net has given a victory to the former Moniker CEO in its final act of 2011. The court denied (pdf) Oversee.net’s motion for summary judgment, in which Oversee.net asked the judge to toss out Cahn’s claim of breach of contract over an incentive plan. A defendant’s burden for a motion for summary judgment is very high, but some of the judge’s rationale in his ... read more ...
Fri 30th December 2011
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BigRock Tells Its Customers Verisign’s Price Increase Is A LOT Higher Than It Is - BigRock.com is an ICANN Accredited registrar, that is one of the major tags used by SnapNames.com to catch domain names on the drop. I just received an email from them today about the Verisign’s price increase which goes into effect January 15th. “”Dear Customer, As your account manager, I would like to inform you of an imminent change in Verisign Registry pricing.” “From early January 2012,.COM/.NET domain prices will approximately increase by $2 USD.” “I urge you to take advantage ... read more ...
Thu 29th December 2011
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1&1 Takes a Stand Against SOPA & PIPA & Asks Customers To Join The Fight - 1 and 1, one of the largest hosting companies in the world, and a domain name registrar,  this morning sent an email to it current customers telling them why they oppose both the  Protect-IP (PIPA) and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and why customers should join the fight against the current bills. Its a much different tactic taken than other registrars that have taken Godaddy former support of the bills to encourage Godaddy customers to transfer domains out with discount codes. This email was ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy releases matter about “spike” in domain transfers due to SOPA - Company says outbound transfers are up due to prior support of controversial bill. Responding to inquiries from Domain Name Wire and other news outlets, domain name registrar GoDaddy.com has issued a statement about an increase in domain transfer activity due to the company’s prior support of Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA): “We have observed a spike in domain name transfers, which are running above normal rates and which we attribute to Go Daddy’s prior support ... read more ...
Tue 27th December 2011
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Customers use GoDaddy to register anti-SOPA domains - At least some of them were registered after GoDaddy changed its mind. Oh, the irony. A Houston, Texas man registered the domain name SopaBoycott.com on December 20 and promptly started creating a web site about the ills of the Stop Online Piracy Act. But apparently he had not done his research yet for his section on “who supports it”. He registered the domain name at GoDaddy and may even by using GoDaddy’s web hosting services. Yet on December 20, when he registered ... read more ...
Mon 26th December 2011
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DailyChanges.com information is widely misunderstood - Don’t look to DailyChanges.com to see how many domains GoDaddy has lost. Ever since GoDaddy faced a boycott of its services over its (since changed) position on SOPA, people have been trying to quantify domain losses for the company. A typical data source is DailyChanges.com, which monitors changes to nameservers. This is a bad source in this case for two reasons: 1. Domain names typically take 5 or more days to transfer, so the full effect won’t be evident for ... read more ...
Sun 25th December 2011
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UPDATE: Godaddy Loses 28,000 More Domains On Saturday - Yesterday we reported on the two day loss from domain names transferred out of Godaddy.com to other domain name registrars in like of their former support of the SOPA Bill. As a quick update DailyChanges.com reported an additional 28,656 domain names transferred out of Godaddy.com. It should be noted that this figure only includes domain names that use Godaddy.com default servers and does not include domains that are hosted on their own server. For Example this blog, TheDomains.com is hosted on servers ... read more ...
Sat 24th December 2011
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2 Days Loss From Transfers Out Of Godaddy.com: 37,000 - On Thursday as you probably know by now, a poster on Reditt.com called for people to move their domain names away from Godaddy calling December 29th as the day to do so. Yesterday Godaddy.com reversed it position in the early afternoon EST pulling its support for the SOPA Bill. So the remaining question is how many domain names got transferred on Thursday and Friday. We can tell you over 15,000 domain names were transferred from Godaddy.com on Thursday and over 21,000 were transferred away from Godaddy ... read more ...
Fri 23rd December 2011
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Facing A Boycott Godaddy Caves In On SOPA & Now “No Longer Supports It” - Wow that was quick. One day after a post on Reddit called for a boycott of Godaddy.com due to its support of the “Stop Online Piracy Act” (SOPA),  Godaddy.com just issued a statement saying it no longer supports it. “””Go Daddy is no longer supporting SOPA, the “Stop Online Piracy Act” currently working its way through U.S. Congress. “Fighting online piracy is of the utmost importance, which is why Go Daddy has been working to help craft revisions to this legislation — but we can ... read more ...
 
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DNW Interview: GoDaddy CEO Warren Adelman discusses company’s position on SOPA - New GoDaddy CEO explains his company’s reversal of support for SOPA. GoDaddy just pulled its support of Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), a bill designed to protect intellectual property. The reversal came after a call for a boycott of GoDaddy because of its support hit a fevered pitch yesterday. Although GoDaddy has supported SOPA from the beginning, its name was included in a list of supporters that was published this week. Warren Adelman, who became CEO of GoDaddy ... read more ...
Thu 22nd December 2011
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Red Hot on Reddit.com: “Move Your Domain Away From Godaddy Day” Based Off Of Support Of SOPA - A red hot story on Reddit.com this morning started by one domain holder has already gotten over 1,500 comments. The post that started it all is only a little over 3 hours old on Reddit.com and is entitled: “GoDaddy supports SOPA, I’m transferring 51 domains suggesting a move your domain day” The poster goes on to say: “”I just finished writing GoDaddy a letter stating why I’m moving my small businesses 51 domains away from them, as well as my personal domains. I also pointed out that ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy’s obvious portfolio still growing, though no descent movement yet - Domain registrar continues to apply for patents but hasn’t gone on the offensive yet. Will GoDaddy’s patent strategy change now that it has taken an investment from three private equity giants? It’s an important question for the domain name and web hosting industries because of the size of the company’s patent war chest. A search with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office shows 65 issued patents for The Go Daddy Group and close to 200 pending. These patents ... read more ...
 
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OpenSRS implements 100+ ccTLDs from EPAG acquisition - Tucows’ reseller network now has over 100 additional domains to choose from. One of the key reasons Tucows bought domain name registrar EPAG back in August was to bolster its offering of country code domain names (ccTLD). Today it announced the first phase of its integration of ccTLDs carried by EPAG, adding over 100 new ccTLDs to its OpenSRS reseller platform. It will add more next year. A lot of registrars I talk to tell me they see an immediate registration lift ... read more ...
Tue 20th December 2011
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New Pussycat Dolls to star in GoDaddy Super Bowl commercial - Super Bowl commercials to feature Pussycat Dolls and new .co girl. The latest incarnation of the Pussycat Dolls will star in one of GoDaddy.com’s Super Bowl commercials next year. The group will be featured in a commercial dubbed “The Cloud” that will feature many of Go Daddy’s products with a play on its cloud offerings. “The Cloud” will also feature Go Daddy Girl Danica Patrick. Patrick and other Go Daddy girl Jillian Michaels will star in a .co commercial ... read more ...
Mon 19th December 2011
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PerezHilton.com Says A Godaddy.com Super Bowl Commercial Will Star a New Pussycat Dolls - According to Perezhilton.com the “new” Pussycat Dolls will be featured in one of the upcoming Godaddy.com Super Bowl Commercials. The dolls have gone through a make over since the original group which featured as lead singer, the now X-Factor judge and Dancing with the Stars winner Nicole Scherzinger. According to Perez the New PussyCat Dolls will include Chrystina Sayers formerly of the group Girlicious. We look forward to seeing the commercial and apparently some new star power for Godaddy   Google+Michael ... read more ...
 
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Vistaprint acquires Webs.com, pulling serve into domain registrar territory - Vistaprint bolsters its small business web site offerings with acquisition. If you think Vistaprint is just about “free” business cards, you are mistaken. It’s actually a big competitor in the small business domain registration and web site business. It offers domain names and web sites on a monthly billing basis. How big is its web site operation? Its nameservers for the product, vpweb.com, host over 333,000 domain names according to DomainTools. Now the company ... read more ...