Tag Archives: registrars

Wed 22nd December 2010
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Network Solutions and Register.com Slot .Co Second - Big registrars pushing .co as next best thing to .com. Last month Go Daddy created quite a buzz by briefly changed its default domain name search parameter to .co. Although Go Daddy and its competitors continue to offer .com first, two large retail domain registrars are making a significant push to get customers to register .co. Both Network Solutions and Register.com are promoting .com as a second choice to .co, with Network Solutions even promoting .co above other ... read more ...
Fri 17th December 2010
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Tucows Not Liable for Porn Spammer - by Kevin Murphy Domain name registrars cannot be held responsible for spammers who hide behind Whois privacy services, a California appeals court has ruled. Plaintiff Daniel L Balsam had won a $1.125 million default judgment against a spammer after receiving over 1,000 pieces of pornographic spam. Unable to recover the money, he found that the spammer had hidden his identity behind Tucows’ Whois privacy, so he sued the registrar for the cash instead. He argued that ... read more ...
Wed 15th December 2010
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Domain Registrar Acquired for $22 Million - by Kevin Murphy Indom, a medium-sized European domain name registrar, has been bought for €16.9 million ($22 million) in cash. The buyer is Group NBT, an acquisitive British registrar holding company that already owns NetBenefit, NetNames, Easily.co.uk, Ascio and Envisional. Indom, founded in 1999 focuses primarily on the French corporate market. It had revenue of €6.6 million ($8.7 million) in 2009, was slightly profitable, and is growing at 18% this ... read more ...
Mon 13th December 2010
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GoDaddy Announces The .Co Super Bowl Commercial - In the press release by Godaddy today, the company  announced what we told you last week they would be announcing today, that they will be sharing a 30 second SuperBowl Commerical to “spotlight to tell the world about a new domain name extension — .CO”. “”We think this new commercial will do for the dotCO domain what our first Super Bowl commercial did for Go Daddy,’ said Go Daddy CEO and Founder Bob Parsons” Wow that’s strong. “Our team was brainstorming ways to ... read more ...
 
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Video and Highlights from Go Daddy’s $4M Holiday Bash - Scenes from a four million dollar holiday party. Go Daddy held its annual holiday party at Chase Field in Phoenix on Saturday evening. In this video you’ll see some highlights from the night. You’ll also wonder if the event really took place at Chase Field. It looks more more like an amusement park to me. Here are some highlights from the video: GoDaddy CEO Bob Parsons gave some interesting stats on what happens at Go Daddy every minute: -75 domain names are ... read more ...
 
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“It Would Take a Super Bowl Commercial for a New TLD to Stick” - Go Daddy releases details about Super Bowl commercial with .co It’s kind of funny, isn’t it? Whenever people doubt (including me) the potential for a new top level domain name to go mass market, we often say “it would take a Super Bowl commercial to make a new domain name go mainstream”. Today Go Daddy released details about its upcoming Super Bowl commercial featuring .co. While .co isn’t really a “new TLD”, it is being marketed as such. And this ... read more ...
Wed 8th December 2010
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Registrars Defend Domain Name Whois Privacy - by Kevin Murphy Domain registrars are fighting off critics of Whois privacy on multiple fronts at the ICANN meeting in Cartagena, Colombia this week. In the latest example, registrars led by Tucows CEO Elliot Noss today savaged an ICANN draft advisory that would hold affiliated privacy services accountable for cybersquatting customers. In May, ICANN said that as far as it is concerned proxy/privacy services are liable for how customers use their domains, under the ... read more ...
Tue 7th December 2010
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Go Daddy’s 2011 Super Bowl Ad Will Promote .Co - by Kevin Murphy Go Daddy’s 2011 Super Bowl ad is going to have one big difference – it will advertise .co domains. The registrar has made a deal with .CO Internet to share the cost of the big-money ad – exact terms have not been disclosed – in what will be the biggest marketing deal for .co to date. The news broke last night at a rooftop party held by the .co registry in Cartagena, Colombia, following the first day of the ICANN public meeting here. Go Daddy ... read more ...
Fri 3rd December 2010
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DynaDot Facing Pressure on WikiLeaks.org Domain Name - U.S.-based registrar has taken no action against WikiLeaks.org domain name, but is facing pressure from both sides. Amazon booted Wikileaks from its cloud hosting services. Everydns kicked out the site thanks to distributed denial of service attacks. But the domain name WikiLeaks.org remains in the hands of the underground organization as domain name registrar DynaDot has not taken any action on the domain. Earlier today I reached out to DynaDot founder and president ... read more ...
Thu 2nd December 2010
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Brilliant: Bob Parsons to Keynote DOMAINfest - Go Daddy founder to give keynote presentation at DOMAINfest. I didn’t see this coming, but it’s brilliant: Go Daddy founder Bob Parsons will keynote February’s DOMAINfest Global conference in Santa Monica. DOMAINfest is run by Oversee.net, which owns Moniker. Go Daddy is certainly its #1 competitor for domain registration. Go Daddy is the biggest domain name registrar and manages perhaps 20 times as many domains as Moniker. But DOMAINfest is an industry ... read more ...
Wed 24th November 2010
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Queen Cancels Holiday Party, But Go Daddy Goes All In - Domain registrar to continue tradition of big holiday parties. The latest issue of Bloomberg Businessweek has a story titled “The End of the Office Holiday Party” that prominently features domain name registrar Go Daddy. The article starts off by mentioning that Queen Elizabeth II canceled this year’s Christmas Party, saying it wouldn’t be right to throw a lavish party while asking everyone else to cut back. But there’s one company that’s not cutting back, ... read more ...
Tue 23rd November 2010
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Go Daddy Gets Social Networking Portal Patent - Domain registrar gets patent for social networking dashboard. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued U.S. patent number 7840690 to The Go Daddy Group for “Internet portal for managing social websites”. The patent appears to be related to the company’s SmartSpace web service, which aggregates multiple social networks into a single dashboard. In the application, Go Daddy says that it has found a problem with current methods of aggregating social network ... read more ...
Mon 15th November 2010
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VentureBeat.com DemandMedia IS Worth $1.4-$1.7 Billion - In a blog post today on VentureBeat.com, Stephen Walker The CEO of Perfectmarket.com chats about  DemandMedia’s IPO and concluded: “I can now envision a scenario wherein Demand Media, whose properties include eHow, LiveStrong.com, and Cracked.com, is worth $1.4 – $1.7 billion. Not bad when you consider that the equity of the New York Times Company is currently valued at $1.2 billion. ” This is quite different than what Wired.com had to say about Demand’s anticipated IPO. To come up ... read more ...
Sun 14th November 2010
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GoDaddy Switches Back to .Com as Default Search Option - .Co now second search option. About 24 hours after promoting .co to the top of its search box, domain name registrar GoDaddy has switched back to .com. But .co remains the second option for people searching for domains at the world’s largest domain name registrar. GoDaddy frequently runs tests, such as changing the prices of domain registration a couple bucks up or down to measure the effects. Moving .co to the top of the list was just such as test, yet it was ... read more ...
Sat 13th November 2010
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GoDaddy Replaces .Com with .Co, Now Default Choice - A big lift for .co this weekend as world’s largest registrar promotes .co to top of search box. [Update: .com is now back as the default option. This was a test by GoDaddy.] You might be in for a bit of a surprise if you visit GoDaddy today. This is what the search box looks like: That’s right. The default search option is now .co at GoDaddy. This is a huge win for .co since GoDaddy registers about half of all new domain names registered. It seems like ... read more ...
Thu 11th November 2010
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Tucows Thanks .Co for Strong Quarter of Domain Registrations - Company says .co launch was major contributor to growth on OpenSRS platform. Yesterday Tucows reported record quarterly revenue for the third quarter. It saw strong growth on its OpenSRS domain reseller platform, and credits .co in part for that growth. Here’s Tucows CEO Elliot Noss on the investor conference call last night: Again this quarter, OpenSRS domain service saw strong year-over-year growth in transaction volumes. Total transactions grew 16% compared ... read more ...
Wed 10th November 2010
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HostGator to Use LogicBoxes for Its Domain Registrar - Large web host to use LogicBoxes for domain name registration. LogicBoxes just picked up a big customer. The company announced today that web hosting company HostGator will use its back end registrar services. HostGator currently has an ICANN accreditation but is registering domains as a reseller. The transition from reseller to registrar will occur in early 2011, and existing customers and resellers should not experience any impact. According to DomainTools, HostGator ... read more ...
Wed 27th October 2010
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GoDaddy Crowns New $250,000 Commercial, Announces 2 Super Bowl Commercials - Over $600,000 in prizes awarded for TV commercials, plus Super Bowl plans GoDaddy has selected a winner in its second user-submitted TV commercial contest. Separately, it announced today that it will run two commercials in the next SuperBowl. The $250,000 top prize goes to Wayside Creations, which created a spot called “Russell’s Notebook“. It features a high school nerd who keeps giving his class notes to bullies. Then he gets the idea that he should create ... read more ...
Mon 25th October 2010
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WSJ: Go Daddy No Longer for Sale - World’s largest domain name registrar supposedly no longer for sale. The Wall Street Journal, which originally reported that domain name registrar GoDaddy was for sale, is now saying the company is off the market. The Journal reports that the sales process was cut off last week. A number of private equity companies were in the mix, and the story suggests a sale price of $1.5 billion to $2.0 billion was possible. So Bob Parsons will continue to control the company. ... read more ...
Mon 18th October 2010
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GoDaddy Sponsors Its Own College Bowl Game - Domain name registrar sponsors a college football bowl game. After years of advertising in the Super Bowl, GoDaddy is upping its football ante by sponsoring its own college football bowl game. The company will be taking over what was the GMAC Bowl, and it will now be known as the GoDaddy.com Bowl. The game takes place January 6, 2011 in Mobile, Alabama, and features teams from the Mid-American and Sun Belt Conferences. It’s a smaller bowl game (last year Troy ... read more ...
Mon 11th October 2010
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Go Daddy Gets Into Local Advertising with AdSpace - Registrar launches new service to drive leads to local businesses. Local advertising companies such as Marchex and ReachLocal have a new heavyweight competitor: GoDaddy. The domain name registration giant today announced the launch of AdSpace, an online advertising service to help local businesses start generating leads online. AdSpace is similar to services offered by competitors in this space. Customers provide some information about their business including description, ... read more ...
Sat 9th October 2010
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UPDATED: Protecting Your Domains: Registrars That Have Special Locking/Security Programs - In the wake of this weeks story’s on domain theft we reached out to some of the registrars that offer “protection” or domain lock type programs to get details on their products. Here is a list of some of the registrars and the extra level of protection they offer: Fabulous.com: Fabulous.com offers two options customers can choose to enable to protect sensitive areas within their account, the Fabulous Security Key or Challenge/Response Security Questions. Both provide an additional layer ... read more ...
Tue 5th October 2010
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High Margin Products Critical to Registrar Success - Forget domains — it’s the add-ons that separate winning registrars from losers. Over five years ago I started an intellectual property licensing company (I long ago left the company.) We would help companies license technologies they developed for internal use. In the grand scheme of things most of our Fortune 500 clients didn’t make much from technology licensing relative to their billions in core product revenue each year. But it was high margin. I recall ... read more ...
Thu 30th September 2010
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GoDaddy.com’s Size Comes Back to Haunt it in uBid Court Case - Court rules that world’s largest domain name registrar can face a lawsuit in Illinois. The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has dealt a blow to domain name registrar Go Daddy, deciding that Go Daddy should face a cybersquatting lawsuit filed by uBid in Illionis. uBid, which is based in Illinois, sued Go Daddy because some of the registrar’s customers registered typos of uBid.com and these domains were parked with advertisements by Go Daddy. Go ... read more ...
Sat 25th September 2010
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Moniker & SnapNames.com Redesigned Sites To Launch Monday: Here is Your Sneak Preview - Both Moniker.com and SnapNames.com are going to launch redesigned sites on Monday afternoon and we got a sneak peak. Generally the sites both look a lot cleaner and more user friendly. Gone from the front pages of both sites are the banner ads for other products including domain auctions, domain shows which I thought garbaged up the sites quite a bit. Replacing those ads both sites feature a simple auction calendar which lists all of the upcoming special live and online auctions as well as those ... read more ...