Tag Archives: registrars

Wed 14th April 2010
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GoDaddy Customer Commercials Follow a Same Script - Registrar getting lots of commercial submissions — but few good ones. After critics panned Go Daddy’s Super Bowl commercials (again) this year, the company went to the marketing playbook and created a contest for customers to make their own commercials. The top prize is $100,000, which would buy you about 10,000 domain names. I expected customers to move away from the traditional Go Daddy commercial script of just throwing in some hot chicks acting like they’re ... read more ...
Fri 9th April 2010
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How to Lock Down Your Domains during Go Daddy - How to protect your domains from theft. Continuing on a theme of security related posts this week, I reached out to Director of Go Daddy Domain Services Camille Ede to find out what its customers can do to prevent domain theft. Specifically, I wanted to know more about the company’s Protected Registration and added protections for customers with Executive Accounts. Ede’s response was very thorough, so I’m publishing it in full here: “Go Daddy offers Protected ... read more ...
Wed 7th April 2010
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Registrar Ads on “Coming Soon” Pages Need to Be Addressed - Unpaid parking still a common complaint in UDRP cases. For many years domain name registrars have shown pay-per-click ads on domain names registered by their customers but not in use yet. It makes sense; the customer usually doesn’t care and it helps the registrar earn money and hopefully keep registration prices down. As far as I know, all major registrars show these ads. The problem comes in when a domain gets hit with a frivolous UDRP case and the complainant ... read more ...
Tue 30th March 2010
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Tucows Hits 10 Million Domain Milestone - Domain name registrar is third to meet 10 million domain milestone. Tucows Inc. announced today that it hit a major milestone: 10 million domain names under management. The company credits its OpenSRS reseller network for hitting the milestone. The reseller network includes 10,000 web hosting companies, ISPs, Internet consultants, and other service providers in over 100 countries. At the end of December 2008, the company topped 7 million domain names and surpassed ... read more ...
Sun 28th March 2010
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NY Post Rips Godaddy On Its Drop Auction & Its Backorder Program - The New York post today has a story ripping Godaddy.com process of charging customers $18.99 to “backorder” an expired domain and then placing the domain into auction once it “drops”. First we have to note that absolutely nothing new is going on that the NY Post is complaining about. Godaddy for years has had a program were you can backorder any domain,  for which is now $18.99 per domain.  If the domain was not at Godaddy or one of its affiliated registrars it would simply try to get the ... read more ...
Fri 26th March 2010
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Foursquare Admits Its Expired Domain Name Mistake - Popular location based social networking company forgets to renew its domain name. Kudos to social networking site Foursquare, which freely admitted this morning on Twitter that it messed up and didn’t renew its domain name. Based on the language of the tweet, it appears that Foursquare may have had an old credit card on file with domain name registrar GoDaddy. Or perhaps its email address in whois at master@foursquare.com no longer worked. Compare Foresquare’s ... read more ...
Tue 23rd March 2010
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The Worst Domain Name Promotion of All Time - Whatever happened to the Dotster Dots? There have been a lot of bad stunts, publicity attempts, and ads put out by domain name registrars. But one of them stands out as perhaps the worst of all time: The Dotster Dots. Dotster was one of the first discount domain name registrars, but has languished through the last decade while watching Go Daddy take home the crown. In 2006, Dotster took a look at what had happened in the domain name industry since 2000 and saw that ... read more ...
Mon 22nd March 2010
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Register.com: Baidu Can’t Sue Us for Negligence. Its In Our Contract. - Domain name registrar argues that you can’t sue it for negligence because it’s in the TOS. What happens if you register a domain name at Register.com and then Register.com screws up? Tough luck. That’s the message the company is sending by asking a court to dismiss a lawsuit Baidu brought against it for handing over the keys to its account to a criminal. In a motion to dismiss (pdf), Register.com’s representatives write: Asserting a laundry list of inflammatory ... read more ...
Sat 20th March 2010
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Verizon Sues DirectNIC for Parking Expired Domain Names - Suit claims registrar parked trademarked domain names for the period between expiration and deletion. Verizon has a filed a lawsuit (pdf) against domain name registrar DirectNIC and related companies, alleging that the defendants parked expired domain names infringing on Verizon’s trademarks in the period between expiration and deletion. The lawsuit also names directors of DirectNIC and related companies as defendants, and uses a gripe site and UDRP decisions as ... read more ...
Thu 18th March 2010
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Prevent another Parava By Mining Domain Registry Reports - Data mining could identify problem registrars before it’s too late. It’s always a headache when an ICANN-accredited domain name registrar loses its accreditation. But often times that’s just the beginning, as customers of Parava Networks learned last year. Parava was allegedly bilking its customers by accepting payments for multi-year renewals, and then only renewing the domain names a year at a time. This becomes fairly evident when you look at VeriSign’s ... read more ...
Wed 17th March 2010
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Fact Check: UK Registrar World’s Largest New Domain Name Supplier? - Reviewing the numbers behind DomainMonster’s claim. Yesterday domain name registrar DomainMonster.com sent out a press release “UK Company Confirmed as World’s Largest New Domain Name Supplier“. According to the release, Measured by the largest number of domains registered in the first month of public door opening at a domain registry, the closest retail competitor was US based Go-Daddy, some 36% behind Domainmonster.com. It may come as a surprise that a ... read more ...
Wed 10th March 2010
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GoDaddy.com Passes 40 Million Domain Mark & Has 50% Market Share Of All New Domain Registrations - Go Daddy announced today that it has just surpassed 40 million, registered domain names. Godaddy said it typically registers a million domain names per month. Godaddy also says they have a 50% market share of all active new domains registered in the world and is more than three times the size of its closest competitor. Go Daddy CEO and Founder Bob Parsons is quoted as saying: “”The Go Daddy portfolio surpassed 40 million domain names today.  The Internet is the heart of the new economy,” said ... read more ...
Tue 9th March 2010
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Go Daddy Set to Hit 40 Million Domains Milestone on Wednesday - Go Daddy set to hit another milestone. [Update: Go Daddy hit the milestone earlier today.] About six months after crossing the 30 million domain name mark, The Go Daddy Group is set to surpass 40 million domains under management, most likely on Wednesday. So if you register a domain name tomorrow, you might get some extra notoriety if you time it just right. Ten years ago there were only about 17 million domain names registered, and now there is a single registrar ... read more ...
Thu 4th March 2010
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Go Daddy Wants Patent for Selling Business Cards with Domain Names - Company files patent application for cross-selling business cards based on registrant information. The Go Daddy Group, parent company of domain name registrar GoDaddy, has filed two patent applications related to ordering business cards along with a domain name registration. U.S. patent applications 12/202919 (pdf) and 12/202956 (pdf) describe a method of using information collected during the domain name registration process to help generate — and cross-sell ... read more ...
Sat 27th February 2010
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Go Daddy CEO Bob Parsons Buys Cher’s House - Bob Parsons buys house at auction for $8.72 million. According to The Wall Street Journal, Go Daddy founder and CEO Bob Parsons just bought a house in Hawaii owned by singer Cher. The house went up for auction, and Parsons was the winning bidder at $8.72 million. The house description isn’t bad, if I do say so myself: The Hawaiian property, at the Four Seasons’ Hualalai resort, includes a main house flanked by four one-bedroom bungalows. Singer-actress Cher bought ... read more ...
Wed 24th February 2010
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How Baidu Got Hacked by a Iranian Cyber Army - Court documents show how imposter allegedly duped Register.com into handing over access to Baidu.com. Last month visitors to Baidu.com were redirected to a page stating that the site had been hacked by the Iranian Cyber Army. Baidu later sued Register.com for allegedly allowing a security intrusion that enabled the hackers to change the name servers for Baidu.com. But the original lawsuit redacted the essential facts about how the hackers got control of Baidu’s ... read more ...
Tue 23rd February 2010
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How Go Daddy Can Court Domainers - Love ‘em or hate ‘em, a better partnership between domainers and the world’s biggest registrar would benefit the industry. GoDaddy is the most loved domain name registrar. Ironically, it’s probably the most hated registrar at the same time. Respondents to DNW’s annual survey have selected GoDaddy.com as the best registrar for five years running. But it’s also true that a lot of domainers avoid the registrar like the plague. It would be great if GoDaddy ... read more ...
 
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eNom Launches “Instant Reseller” Domain Reseller Program - eNom joins competitors in offering easy domain reseller option. Joining the ranks of Go Daddy and Tucows, eNom is launching a domain reseller package that includes a web storefront for non-techies. (Update: Instant Reseller will replace the former PDQ program. See comments for details.) eNom’s system, called “Instant Reseller“, is essentially a reseller-in-a-box package that includes a fully hosted website and customized storefront, a shopping cart feature, ... read more ...
Mon 22nd February 2010
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How Tiered Pricing Could Lower a Cost of Domain Name Registration - …for some domains, anyway. A lot of the talk around new top level domain names is the lack of pricing controls on providers. A company that launches a new TLD can set prices however they wish, and owners of existing TLDs worry that this idea would then be applied to their domains. Have a successful domain? You could get hit with a $1,000 renewal bill. But let’s look at the other side for a moment. My guess is VeriSign would like to offer variable pricing — ... read more ...
Wed 10th February 2010
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For GoDaddy, Last Place is Better than Middle of a Pack - Analyzing Super Bowl commercial results for the world’s biggest domain name registrar. Another year, another GoDaddy Super Bowl commercial media circus. And that’s just how the company likes it. This year was no different than past. The company created a stir. Big props to Morality in Media for sending out a x-rated news release on Christian Newswire telling parents to keep their kids away from GoDaddy’s commercials (while simultaneously telling parents to ... read more ...
Mon 8th February 2010
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Survey: Price, Security Most Important When Choosing Domain Registrar - A look at selling points for domain name registrars. Price and security are the most important characteristics customers consider when choosing a domain name registrar, according to a survey of over 500 people in the 5th Annual Domain Name Wire Survey. 171 respondents selected the security of their domain names at the registrar as the most important factor, while 153 said price was the primary concern. However, when the weighted average of all factors shows that ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy Rated Best Domain Registrar (Again) - Go Daddy pulls in top honors in this year’s Domain Name Wire survey. Getting buzz from Super Bowl commercials isn’t the only thing domain name registrar Go Daddy does well. For the fifth year in a row, the registrar has been rated best registrar in Domain Name Wire’s annual survey. This year 41% of those survey said Go Daddy was the best domain name registrar. Here are the top five vote-getters: 1. GoDaddy 41% 2. Moniker 16% 3. Fabulous 11% 4. eNom 5% 5. ... read more ...
Thu 4th February 2010
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GoDaddy Forced to Pull Another SuperBowl Commercial - Another commercial problem for Go Daddy. There’s more controversy with GoDaddy’s Super Bowl commercials, but this time it actually may not have been planned. The company planned to air an ad called “movies” during Sunday’s game. The ad showed Danica Patrick performing a couple scenes from iconic movies. But apparently GoDaddy ran into licensing problems with some of the movie studios with scenes portrayed in the commercial. So the company yanked the commercial. Instead, ... read more ...
 
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Buy a Domain Name With Your Latte - New gift card lets retail shoppers pick up a domain name on impulse. You can register domain names through web sites, twitter, and text message. So why not buy one with your latte? A new gift card from Canadian domain name registrar WebNames.ca lets customers buy a voucher for a .tel domain name at the cash registrer and then redeem it online. The card is apparently being offered (or soon will be) at CanTalk Wireless and Blenz Coffee in Canada. A number of domain ... read more ...
Wed 3rd February 2010
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VeriSign Toasts 25 Years of .Com - VeriSign launches campaign to celebrate 25 years of .com. .Com registry VeriSign has launched a new campaign to celebrate 25 years of dot com domain names and the emergence of the web. The campaign — found online at 25YearsOf.com — will celebrate a number of the milestones and important individuals that have made .com what it is today. As part of the program, VeriSign will sponsor a Policy Impact Forum in Washington D.C. on March 16. This forum will examine ... read more ...