Tag Archives: registrars

Thu 10th March 2011
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Fabulous Inks Registrar Technology Deal with eNom - eNom to handle back end registrar technology for Fabulous. Fabulous has signed a deal with eNom in which the Australian domain name registrar will outsource back end technology operations to eNom. Communication about this will be going out to Fabulous customers this evening. This isn’t an acquisition; Fabulous will remain part of Dark Blue Sea. As a reseller registrar eNom has a number of similar arrangements with large domain name registrars. The front end ... read more ...
Wed 2nd March 2011
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Go Daddy Gets Biggest Traffic Lift of Top Super Bowl Advertisers - Registrar gets biggest lift among top 10 most watched advertisers. A new report from audience measurement firm Nielsen says that GoDaddy saw the biggest traffic surge of any of the top 10 most watched advertisers during the Super Bowl. Nielsen says the domain registrar’s traffic surged 41% compared to the week before the Super Bowl. The next highest traffic surge for an internet-only company was HomeAway.com at 27%. Groupon only saw a 3% lift. Ironically, both ... read more ...
Tue 1st March 2011
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Security and Price Top Requirements for Domain Registrars - Domain registrants look for security and price when selecting a domain registrar. Domain registrars need to focus on security and price if they want to win your business, according to a survey of over 1,500 people in the domain name industry. As usual, participants in Domain Name Wire’s annual survey said security was the most important factor when considering a domain name registrar. 31% picked it as the top factor and 20% selected it as second most important. Price ... read more ...
 
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Survey Picks Top Domain Name Registrars - Some familiar faces and a new one in registrar poll. This is the sixth year of the Domain Name Wire survey. I’ve never pretended that it’s a scientific survey. It’s more of a vote. So I’ve taken small anomalies in stride. But this year there were some problems with the voting for “best domain registrar”. Without getting into details, there was significant voting that looked like it might be gaming the system. Thankfully I found a simple solution. ... read more ...
Mon 21st February 2011
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New Rules Proposed for Expired Domain Names - Recommendations would make existing best practices of major domain name registrars a requirement. The Post-Expiration Domain Name Recovery (PEDNR) Policy Development Process Working Group has made 14 recommendations for the handling of expired domain names. The recommendations are part of the group’s proposed final report and may be used as part of the Policy Development Process. Among the recommendations: requiring domain name registrars to change the DNS on an ... read more ...
Wed 16th February 2011
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Limited Edition Tucows Cookie Goes Back Up For Sale - Famous cookie goes up for sale. Last April I paid what I believe to be a domainer record for a cookie: $127.50. But this wasn’t just any cookie. It was a sugar cookie commemorating Tucows’ 10 millionth domain name registered. This is a limited edition cookie to be sure. And the proceeds from the cookie auction went to some Canadian charity that (I’m told) had nothing to do with ice hockey or Molson. The cookie has been sitting in my office for the past ... read more ...
 
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Go Daddy Took Down 36,000 Pharmacy Sites Last Year - Registrar’s General Counsel testifies on Capitol Hill. Go Daddy Executive Vice-President, General Counsel, Corporate Secretary Christine Jones testified before The United States Senate Committee On The Judiciary committee today. The hearing was titled “Targeting Websites Dedicated To Stealing American Intellectual Property.” While her testimony provided many examples of how domain name registrars such as Go Daddy fit into the enforcement puzzle, I found the ... read more ...
Tue 15th February 2011
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Go Daddy Devises “Pay for Placement” Idea for New gTLD Operators - Patent describes system where new top level domain operators can bid for preferred placement registrar sites. Want to get your new top level domain name positioned well on GoDaddy? Prepare to pay. That’s the idea behind a pay-for-placement approach for TLD placement on registrar web sites that Go Daddy has devised. Oh, and it has a patent on it. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued U.S. patent 7,890,602 (pdf) to Go Daddy today for “Tools enabling preferred ... read more ...
Mon 7th February 2011
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Godaddy On Tonight’s Super Bowl Commercials: Registrations Up 466% Over Last Year; Traffic Doubled & Now Over 45 Million Domains - Well I know there’s been a lot of discussion inside and outside the domain industry tonight on the Godaddy Super Bowl ads. Love them or hate them, Godaddy says the two commercial they ran tonight on the Super Bowl are the most successful Super Bowl ads in their history in terms of response, traffic and sales. According to a press release issued tonight a few hours after the game ended Godaddy Said: “Our fourth-quarter commercial spiked our Internet traffic higher than any Super Bowl ad we’ve ... read more ...
 
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Joan Rivers Body Double is No Stranger to Go Daddy Commercials - Body double had key role in 2009’s most watched Super Bowl commercial. By now you’ve no doubt seen the GoDaddy.co commercial from yesterday that introduced Joan Rivers as the .co girl. Of course that wasn’t her real body, which is why so many people were “misled” by the body shots Go Daddy sent out before the commercial. So who does that body belong to? It’s Tabitha Taylor, who starred in 2009’s most watched Super Bowl commercial (according to Tivo). ... read more ...
Sun 6th February 2011
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GoDaddy.co Gets Ready and Network Solutions Piggybacks - Lots of mainstream attention on domain names today. We’re just hours away from Go Daddy’s Super Bowl commercials and a huge plug for the .co domain. I really have no idea who the GoDaddy.co girl is. My guess is it’s not someone from Colombia, but that’s about all I have at this point. I’m thinking that Go Daddy might not actually show who the .co girl is on the TV commercial and instead send viewers to their web site to see the revealing. This would ... read more ...
Wed 2nd February 2011
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The Registrar’s That’s A Parked Page: Welcome To Samoandomains.ws A SnapNames Dropcatcher - SAMOANDOMAINS, LLC is a domain name registrar used by SnapNames.com to catch dropping domains. Their referring URL site if you look up a whois record of a domain name that is registered there is http://www.samoandomains.ws If you visit the registrar you’ll find what I found, the registrar is a parked page. The domain I back ordered with SnapNames and got registered back in October with this registrar, was becomeafan.com Here is how the whois record looked: Domain Name: BECOMEAFAN.COM Registrar: ... read more ...
Tue 1st February 2011
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Go Daddy Releases Part of .Co Commercial - Who the heck is the new .co girl? Go Daddy has released 17 seconds of its Super Bowl commercial unveiling the new GoDaddy.CO girl. It’s a tease — you won’t find out who the Godaddy.co girl is until the commercial airs in the first half of the Super Bowl. But you can start guessing who it is. I’m personally at a loss. I’m not a big celebrity stalker, so this isn’t my sort of game. I wonder if she’s also wearing a wig in the shots below? ... read more ...
 
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Bob Parsons Tells His Story during DOMAINfest - Bob Parsons talks to a standing-room only crowd at DOMAINfest. He carries a rock star persona. And he’s definitely a rock star to the domain name industry. Monday afternoon Go Daddy founder Bob Parsons told his story — from his troubles in Catholic school to serving in the Marines to finally getting a breakthrough and turning Parsons Technology into a $64 million payday — to an enthusiastic crowd at DOMAINfest in Santa Monica. And after his talk, Parsons looked ... read more ...
Mon 31st January 2011
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Another Picture Clue For The New Godaddy.Co Girl Is Released - Godaddy has released another teaser picture of the new Godaddy.Co girl. Over the last weeks we got a teaser picture of her legs, then her butt, and now we have the chest. You know who out pick is. So let the guessing continue, but for those who picked Betty White, I think your out of luck. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Wed 26th January 2011
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Update: It’s Official: Demand Goes Public At $17 a Share Becoming The Largest Internet IPO Since Google - According to the Wall Street Journal Demand Media has raised $151 million by offering 8.9 million shares at $17, above its expected range of $14 to $16. The company originally filed to sell 7.5 million shares (of which 3 million were to be sold by insiders). Demand Media will begin trading on Wednesday on the NYSE under the symbol DMD. Demand of course own the 2nd largest domain registrar in the world, Enom,com as well as part of Namejet.com along with eHow.com which is ranked as the 23rd busiest ... read more ...
Tue 25th January 2011
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Go Daddy Creates New GoDaddy.CO Logo, Files Trademark Application - World’s largest domain name registrar creates new logo with .co. Domain name registrar Go Daddy has been a big supporter of the .co relaunch. It has tested promoting .co as its default search, tried lowering prices to match .com, and is partnering up with .Co Internet for its Super Bowl ad. It’s even teasing the media with a new GoDaddy.co girl that will be unveiled on Super Bowl Sunday. It is also going to test changing its name to GoDaddy.co? Last week the ... read more ...
Thu 13th January 2011
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Which Domain Name Registrar is Best? - Mirror, mirror, on the wall. Who is the greatest registrar of them all? When it comes to top domain name registrars, Go Daddy has been a clear winner in all five years of the Domain Name Wire survey. Last year it grabbed 41% of the vote, compared to just 16% for the runner up. Now the sixth annual survey is upon us. Will Go Daddy retain its crown? This year I’ve expanded the list of domain name registrars to include more of the mainstream top 25 domain name registrars. ... read more ...
 
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Will You Buy Shares in Demand Media? - Company sets flotation price range. A large domain name company is getting ready to go public. Will you get in on the action? Demand Media, which owns eNom, has set an expected price per share of $14-$16. It plans to sell 4.5 million shares while existing shareholders hope to offload 3 million shares. The company also released preliminary, unaudited numbers for Q4 2010. In the last quarter of the year it grossed between $71.5 million and $73.5 million, a 31% increase ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Threatens to Shut Down 3 Domain Name Registrars - Three domain registrars face termination if they don’t start escrowing whois information immediately. ICANN has warned three domain name registrars that they face termination if they don’t start escrowing whois data within 15 days. The three registrars — iWelt AG, Zog Media dba Zog Names, and Centrohost — have not been escrowing their data with Iron Mountain. Escrowing data is important for .com and .net domain names because the registrar is the only entity ... read more ...
Tue 11th January 2011
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Go Daddy to Unveil First GoDaddy.CO Girl - Go Daddy says it will unveil GoDaddy.co girl in conjunction with Super Bowl commercial. .Co already scored a major coup by partnering with Go Daddy on its 2011 Super Bowl commercial. But the publicity train rolls on. The latest announcement from Go Daddy: it will showcase its first every GoDaddy.co girl in the commercial. Well, maybe. The company hasn’t decided it if will formally unveil the .co girl during the broadcast commerical or make viewers go to the the ... read more ...
Tue 4th January 2011
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My Thoughts on a Moniker Whois Privacy Incident - It’s an unfortunate incident. Not a scandal. I’ve waited a few days to write about the Moniker whois privacy flap. My first reaction was that this whole thing was being blown way out of proportion, so I wanted to wait and see how I felt in a few days. But I still feel the same way. What happened I really don’t know all the details behind what happened. What I can gather from reading this blog entry is that an Oversee.net employee found out who owned a domain ... read more ...
 
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Go Daddy Explains Whois Blocking - Company explains access restrictions on third party sites. Users of third party whois search tools have been frustrated in the past few days whenever they look up a domain name registered at Go Daddy. Instead of seeing who owns the domain name, they are given a URL to look up the whois information directly at Go Daddy. Here’s an example from DomainTools: This appears to be occurring on many whois lookup sites, not just DomainTools. For example, searches at who.is ... read more ...
Fri 31st December 2010
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Moniker: Issues Statement On “Unauthorized Data Release” By Moniker Employee - Moniker has just released the following statement acknowledging an “unauthorized release of customer data” by a Moniker Employee: “”Moniker has learned that one of its employees violated company policy by distributing customer data for a single domain name registration.  The employee has been placed on administrative leave while the company further reviews the matter. “”Only one employee and one customer registration were involved.  However, unauthorized data access of any kind, no ... read more ...
Mon 27th December 2010
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Go Daddy Crosses 45 Million Domain Name Mark - Registrar group hits another milestone. Yesterday at 6:02 PM MST, The Go Daddy Group topped 45 million domain names under management across its registrars. This comes about 9 months after the company crossed the 40 million mark. This is an incredible accomplishment, as the nearest competitor has about 10 million domain names under management. There are just over 200 million domain names registered worldwide, meaning that Go Daddy has over a fifth of the market. ... read more ...