Tag Archives: registrars

Thu 2nd April 2009
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Moore Stepping Down as CEO of Dark Blue Sea - CEO Richard Moore not renewing contract. Richard Moore is stepping down as chief executive officer of Dark Blue Sea (ASX: DBS) effective at the end of June. Dark Blue Sea is parent company of Fabulous, a popular domain name registrar and domain parking service for domainers. According to a press release (pdf), Moore will work part time with the company in an executive director role. Moore has been CEO of the company since 2001. The company has promoted current ... read more ...
Thu 19th March 2009
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Which Domain Name Registrar is Best for Domainers? - @ Ozie, contact me for some wholesale one-name IDN’s. Great prices if you buy in bulk. Plus, I can set up a nice lunch with Todd Han if you bring over 1000 domains or more to his registrar! Be sure and wear boots if you’re under 6 foot. @Tony K – Ever see what GoDaddy charges once you get to the shopping cart checkout? You’ll get the fees, trust me. *My advice to registrars is to just price out new registrations at the full price you’re charging, with no “surprise” add-on ... read more ...
Wed 18th March 2009
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Go Daddy Awarded Three New Patents - Go Daddy gets three new patents, bringing total to five. The Go Daddy Group, Inc, parent company of domain registrar GoDaddy, has been awardedthree new patents this month. Based on a search of “Go Daddy” with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Go Daddy now has five patents. Its previously issued patents include one for private domain registration (whois privacy) and a server based spam filter. The three patents granted this month relate to web design and ... read more ...
Sat 14th March 2009
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GoDaddy Makes It Harder for Woman’s Husband to Find a Job - With missing www., site shows page full of ads. [Updated: It looks like the web site may not be hosted at GoDaddy. It’s on the company’s nameservers, but the IP address on the site shows Apple. GoDaddy says it’s not hosted with them. That would mean the only thing GoDaddy is guilty of is hosting ads on the www version of the domain while it’s being cnamed (or otherwise forwarded) to another web hosting service. That’s not GD’s web hosting groups’ ... read more ...
Wed 11th March 2009
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SnapNames Server Outage Brings Down 50 Domain Registrars - Outage of (perhaps only one) server takes down 50 registrars. A reader just informed me about an interesting situation affecting about 50 ICANN accredited registrars. If you visit any of the 50 domain registrars you will see this error message: Downtime Notice We have been dealing with a major hardware failure that has necessitated replacement of hardware and restoration of data. This is a long and tedious process and is expected to finish around 08:00 AM GMT on ... read more ...
Tue 10th March 2009
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Moniker Adds IP Tracking Security - Domain name registrar adds new security check. Domain name registrar Moniker has added a new security tool to track potentially unauthorized account activity. The new tool allows account holders to view the IP addresses of all logins to their accounts. Using the login history, account holders can check for IP addresses that do not appear to be authorized. This can be used to launch an investigation, or to signal the need to change your password if there is suspicious ... read more ...
 
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New Rules Considered for Domain Name Registrars - GNSO approves motion for changes to registrar accreditation agreement. At the Mexico City ICANN meeting, Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) approved a motion to adopt changes to the Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) including new amendments. These changes are now open for public comment, after which the ICANN board of directors will vote on the changes. These changes will have major effect on domain registrars that have found ways to slip through ... read more ...
Wed 4th March 2009
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Dynadot Recovers from Two Day Outtage - Domain registrar’s web site down for two days due to hardware failure. Domain name registrar Dynadot is recovering from a hardware failure that took dynadot.com offline for two days. Webhosting, dns servers, website forwarding, parking, and email forwarding were not affected. In an email to customers, Dynadot president Todd Han explained: …Although we had prepared for such a situation by using redundant hardware and performing frequent backups, when it actually ... read more ...
Tue 3rd March 2009
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Survey: Go Daddy Top Domain Name Registrar - GoDaddy tops survey for fourth year in a row, eNom continues slide. For four years running, GoDaddy has topped the list of domain name registrars in the annual Domain Name Wire Survey. GoDaddy took home top honors in this year’s survey with 43% of the vote. Below are the top 5 vote getters, followed by analysis: 1. GoDaddy 44% 2. Moniker 18% 3. Fabulous 10% 4. eNom 9% 5. 11 5% GoDaddy is popular amongst all types of domain owners. This year it even came out ... read more ...
Tue 17th February 2009
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GoDaddy.com Still Growing & Hiring - With daily news of layoffs by the ten’s of thousands, and business closings topping the news,  it’s great to see a company that is actually expanding in this lousy economy and it’s excellent news that it is in our industry. According to the Phoenix Business Journal, GoDaddy Group is expanding it Scottsdale headquarter by about 21,000 square feet. The space will house additions to the company’s customer care center and to house additional product developers. Godaddy.com has seen its work ... read more ...
Wed 11th February 2009
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Re-Ranking KnujOn’s Spam Domain Registrar List - Using a different, simpler, and better methodology, here are the top spam registrars. The internet media goes abuzz when KnujOn (“No Junk” backwards) releases its report of the domain name registrars with the most spam. But few people question the methodology behind the report, and blindly shame the top registrars on the report. If you know me, I don’t take things at face value. And that’s why I’m presenting a re-ranking of KnujOn’s report based on ... read more ...
Tue 10th February 2009
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Tucows Sells $1M Domain Name Portfolio; Domain Parking Flat - Company sells big portfolio, enters into $1.8M expired domain name deal, and sees domain name parking revenue flatline. Domain name wholesaler Tucows Inc (AMEX: TCX) has sold a portfolio of 2,553 domain names for $1 million, the company announced in its quarterly earnings call yesterday. That’s an average of $392 per domain name. In a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the company reported that the same buyer has rights to purchase up to ... read more ...
Mon 2nd February 2009
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Think You Can’t Compete With a Big Guys: How 2 Regular Guys Turned $2K Into $1M & Kick Madison Ave. Ass - Indiana brothers Joe and Dave Herbert entered a contest to create a Super Bowl commercial for Doritos. Their commercial “crystal ball”,  was chosen from around 2,000 entries. Doritos paid five finalists, $25,000, but promised to pay a contestant $1 million if the ad chosen to run during the game ended up as the No. 1 selection in USA Today’s Ad Meter focus group ranking. The Herbert brothers shocked Madison Avenue by topping the USA Today’s group and took home the $1 million prize. The ad ... read more ...
 
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Twitter Can’t Take Down GoDaddy - Twitter backlash at GoDaddy ads is amusing, but it won’t add up to much. The Monday after the Super Bowl is filled with analysis. Not about the football game, but the commercials. Domain Name Wire received literally thousands of search visitors Monday from people searching for GoDaddy’s Super Bowl ad. GoDaddy sturred up its contrived controversy again. And, once again, many people complained about its sexist commercials. The difference this year is that Twitter ... read more ...
Sun 1st February 2009
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GoDaddy Promotes Its Own Service When Switching Nameservers - Domain registrar offers its own competing service when changing nameservers. Domain name registrar GoDaddy.com is promoting its own domain parking service “Cash Parking” to customers who attempt to change a domain’s nameservers to a competing domain parking company. If you have a domain name on GoDaddy’s name servers (which is the case whenever you register a new domain name or use forwarding) and try to switch to the nameservers of a domain parking company, ... read more ...
Fri 30th January 2009
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GoDaddy.com Purchases Second Super Bowl Commercial - Company to air two commercials during Sunday’s Super Bowl. One of the last remaining advertising spots in Sunday’s Super Bowl was snapped up by domain name registrar GoDaddy. The commercial will air near the two minute warning in the fourth quarter of the game. GoDaddy, a perennial Super Bowl advertiser, asked the public to select which of two commercials to run during the company’s first quarter 30 second spot. The company settled on a Danica Patrick spot ... read more ...
Fri 23rd January 2009
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Name.com Lays Off 10% of Staff - Domain registrar feels bite of sinking economy. Domain name registrar Name.com has laid off 10% of its staff, according to a post on its company blog. After growing last year, the company started to cut back on costs in October. But the cuts were not enough. Name.com cites razor small margins on domain names and intense competition, along with the faltering economy, for its woes. Name.com says customers need not worry; these cuts will enable the company to continue ... read more ...
Mon 19th January 2009
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Go Daddy Thwarts Cyber Criminal, 1,000 Accounts Locked - Go Daddy’s security team stops perpetrator; about 1,000 accounts affected. GoDaddy.com, the world’s largest domain name registrar, has thwarted an attack by a person who gained access to customer information. The company discovered that someone gained access to certain customer information through a vulnerability in its systems. The information accessed included names, physical addresses, and customer IDs. Passwords and other sensitive information was not ... read more ...
Fri 16th January 2009
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GoDaddy Takes on eBay, Amazon.com, and Yahoo - GoDaddy plans to open online selling site. In direct competition with eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY), Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN), and Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO), domain registrar Go Daddy is launching a marketplace dubbed “Go Daddy Marketplace” for people to buy and sell goods online. Users can set up stores and upload products. GoDaddy will handle all payments and notify sellers whenever a product is sold. Marketplace will integrate with other GoDaddy products, such as allowing ... read more ...
Wed 14th January 2009
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Bob Parson Gets Covered by INC. Magazine - In a new story appearing in Inc. Magazine, entitled “The Way I Work”, Bob Parson discusses his daily routine as head of the world’s largest domain registrar. Parson also discusses the first Super Bowl ads, and his idea for the Godaddy girl,  which he seems to credits in large part with taking Godaddy.com from a 16% market share to having by far the most domains under management. It’s an interesting profile of one of the most successful people in the domain space. To read the whole article ... read more ...
 
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NBC Approves Two Go Daddy Ads for Super Bowl - Approval comes well in advance of big game. Domain registrar GoDaddy has a history of butting heads with networks over its Super Bowl commercials. This year is no different, although NBC has given the green light for two GoDaddy ads well in advance of the big game. GoDaddy is asking customers to vote on which ad should show during the Super Bowl. During my radio interview with Go Daddy CEO Bob Parsons, he mentioned my criticism of the company for becoming to institutionalized. ... read more ...
Tue 13th January 2009
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Register.com Must Stop “Call In” Practice by March - Transfer authorization code process will be easier under new ICANN policy. Under ICANN’s new Policy on Transfer of Registrations between Registrars, which goes into effect March 15, Register.com will no longer be able to require customers to call the company to request transfer authorization codes. These codes are used to transfer domains to a different domain registrar. (See Register.com’s Customer Service Lie) The policy states “Registrars may not employ ... read more ...
Mon 12th January 2009
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Sedo Listings Syndicated to 1&1 Internet, but… - Sedo domain listings are now on 11… but I can’t get it to work. Domains listed for sale on Sedo are now being offered to customers of 11 Internet, one of the largest domain registrars. Sedo and 11 are owned by the same parent company. However, the system for buying or requesting a price on a Sedo domain doesn’t appear to work. When you attempt to register a domain, 11 will show a list of related domains that are for sale at Sedo. In this example I searched ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy Brings Humor to Company Mistakes - The Go Daddy Group CEO Bob Parsons brings a laugh to last year’s controversial issues. Last week I saw in my RSS reader that GoDaddy had published its latest Bob Parsons video blog including his “ding dong” awards for the past year. I assumed that he wouldn’t bring up some of GoDaddy’s own “ding dongs”. But over the weekend I had a chance to watch the video, and was delighted to see Parsons included GoDaddy employees bidding at TDNAM auctions and Standard ... read more ...
Thu 8th January 2009
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Asset Protection Company Urges All To Register & Host Domains Outside Of US - The Sovereignsociety.com, a group whose fundamental purpose is to give advice regarding asset protection, issued an advisory yesterday, telling its members, that in light of the Kentucky Domain Seizure, they should register and host all of their domain names outside of the US. In its post, the SovereignSociety, in calling the Kentucky seizure action a “trade war”, since the Commonwealth is attacking 141 online gambling sites, while protecting the online gambling site operating in Kentucky, TwinSpires.com, ... read more ...