Tag Archives: registrars

Fri 4th July 2008
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Moniker.com Systems Upgrade Complete - Moniker announced today that it the recent system upgrades have been completed resulting in the Moniker account control panel to load much faster making it easier to use for domainers and other bulk users. According to Moniker the new platform is 10 to 25 times faster than before, based on the size of the portfolio, making bulk management more efficient. For our own account we have noticed a much quicker loading process. In the past it would have taken well over a minute,  sometimes several ... read more ...
Mon 30th June 2008
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This is Your Chance to Tell ICANN How Registrars Should Act - ICANN announced that it is now accepting comments for proposed changes to the Registrar Accreditation Agreements, those agreements registrars sign with ICANN which in part, govern registrars conduct. This is the time that you can send a clear message to ICANN that certain practice of registrars should be outlawed and let them know of any instances of improper conduct on the part of registrars. Here is what we are going to send off in our comments and strongly suggest you do the same. ICANN should ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy Stops Employee’s From Bidding in TDNAM Auction - Today as reported by DomainNameWire.com the General Counsel of GoDaddy, Christine Jones announced that “”””To ensure customer confidence and to avoid any possible future questions of impropriety all GD employees are now and in the future prohibited from participating in TDNAM auctions, purchasing, sales back orders.”””” We applaud GoDaddy in reversing their policy and taking this action. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Wed 25th June 2008
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GoDaddy took down 7,000 sites in a Last 2 years - Go Daddy General Counsel Christine Jones testified before Members of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security,  today about illegitimate pharmacies on the Internet. Today, House Members introduced a bipartisan bill to stop pharmacies operating on the Internet enttled  ‘The Ryan Haight Online Pharmacy Consumer Protection Act of 2008. It passed the U.S. Senate without any opposition and now awaits action in the House. Go Daddy‘s top lawyer and Corporate Secretary ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy Group Registers 30 Millionth Domain Name - RulesofSaving.com, registered by a Connecticut man yesterday, pushes company over milestone. A tip of the hat to GoDaddy Group, which runs GoDaddy.com, Wild West Domains, and Blue Razor, for crossing the 30 million domains registered mark. This number appears to reflect the total number of domains currently registered. Given expirations, that means GoDaddy has registered a lot more domains than that over its lifetime. According to RegistrarStats.com, GoDaddy.com ... read more ...
Tue 24th June 2008
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Tucows.com Does Adult - In  my dealings with Tucows last week I discovered that not only does Tucows own a lot of adult domains but they are monatizing them adding revenue from adult domains to their bottom line. Although their is nothing wrong with a public company being involved in the adult business, there are several of these including Rick’s Cabaret (RICK) and Frontier Media (NOOF), it was suprising to find out that Tucows owned and was profiting from such names as  “pussyshop.com” and  “onlinepussystop.com” ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Hit With Phishing Attack - Phishing attack mimics ICANN; asks for domain login information. A new phishing attack has been launched at domain name owners. It appears that the registrar where the phishing domain ICANNResolve.com was registered has taken it down. The e-mail used in the scam tells users that ICANN is upgrading all domain names in its database and that domain owners must submit their domain name information including username and password. The e-mail directs domain owners to ... read more ...
Fri 20th June 2008
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Network Solutions: “We’ll Stop Reserving if ICANN Adds Fee” - Network Solutions says it will stop controversial practice if ICANN adopts fee next week. Next week the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) board will vote on its 2009 budget. The budget includes the much-talked-about provision to make the ICANN registration fee (currently 20 cents) non refundable once a registrar’s deletions during the five day grace period exceed 10% of new registrations during a month. Network Solutions says it will ... read more ...
Wed 11th June 2008
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GoDaddy Playing Hardball with NeuStar? - Pricing at GoDaddy for NeuStar’s .us and .biz domains is oddly high. In February I wrote about GoDaddy’s price increase for .biz domain names. The registrar was charging $14.99 for .biz domain names, even though its wholesale cost at the registry is about the same as .com domain names (which GoDaddy sells for $9.99). It appeared that GoDaddy was just trying to make some extra profit. But a couple weeks ago a friend pointed out that I may have missed the boat ... read more ...
Thu 5th June 2008
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ccTLD Spotlight: .AE United Arab Emirates - A look at the .AE country code domain name. Overview: United Arab Emirates (UAE) is a federation of seven states in the middle east, including Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Dubai, Fujairah, Ras al-Khaimah, Sharjah, and Umm al-Quwain. This oil-rich territory uses the country code domain name .AE. Population and Demographics: UAE has only five million residents, but that number is growing quickly as the area quickly booms with its oil and development wealth. If you’ve seen ... read more ...
Wed 4th June 2008
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GoDaddy Looks to Social Networking for Growth - Domain registrar and web hosting company files patents for aggregating social network sites. The world’s biggest domain registrar, GoDaddy, may be looking to social networking to grow its business. The company filed three patents this year, published last month, that describe a web portal that aggregates a person’s social networks. For example, you may register your name as a domain name at GoDaddy, and GoDaddy’s product would generate a web portal that has ... read more ...
Tue 27th May 2008
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ICANN Puts eNom and Moniker “On Notice” - eNom and Moniker were named in “Worst Spam Offenders” report. In the words of Stephen Colbert, ICANN has put eNom and Moniker “On Notice”. The two registrars were named in a recent report from KnujOn titled “The 10 Worst Registrars in terms of spam advertised junk product sites”. That title is a bit misleading, or perhaps I’m the only one who doesn’t quite understand how KnujOn calculated which registrars were worst. The report (pdf) considered a ... read more ...
Fri 9th May 2008
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.Org Domain Name Prices to Jump 10% - Public Interest Registry to raise wholesale prices of .org domain names. Public Interest Registry, the registry for .org domain names, has notified ICANN that it is increasing wholesale prices 10%. The annual wholesale price for .org domain name registrations will be $6.75, slightly below the $6.86 rate that .com domains will jump to later this year. The rational for the price increase? None. At least none that was disclosed to ICANN. The rational is purely for ... read more ...
Tue 29th April 2008
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GoDaddy Allows Transfers After Whois Changes - GoDaddy complies with ICANN advisory for transferring domain names. Last September I wrote that GoDaddy might have to end its controversial practice of denying transfers-out when a domain owner changes whois information in the preceding 60 days. A few weeks ago ICANN finalized the advisory that I wrote about, and it seems to target GoDaddy specifically. The advisory basically says that registrars can’t deny transfer requests due to changes in whois information, ... read more ...
Thu 17th April 2008
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Survey: GoDaddy, Moniker Still Top Domain Registrars - Over 50% of those surveyed pick GoDaddy as “best registrar”. A survey of 841 domain name industry participants found that GoDaddy is considered the best domain name registrar for the third year running. The Third Annual Domain Name Wire Survey asked respondents “Which registrar do you think is best overall”. GoDaddy was selected 52% of the time, showing growing popularity compared to previous years. In 2006 GoDaddy was first with 28% and in 2007 it was ... read more ...
Wed 16th April 2008
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Survey: Security Top Concern for Domain Name Registrants - When selecting a registrar, customers place security at the top of the list. According to Domain Name Wire’s 2008 survey of 841 domain name industry participants, security is the number one selection criteria when choosing a domain name registrar. This is a change from the first two years of the survey, which had price as the number one consideration. Clearly, issues about domain names being stolen are affecting where registrants take their business. Survey respondents ... read more ...
Tue 15th April 2008
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How to Become a Full-Time Domainer Overnight - Tucows has new job for “Associate Domainer”. Are you a part-time domainer that wants to become full-time? Think you could work magic if only you could get your hands on a multi-million dollar portfolio of domain names? I came across a job listing from domain name registrar Tucows (AMEX: TCX) that might interest you. The position is for “Associate Domainer”: * The Domain Portfolio Analyst is responsible for monitoring, measuring, and managing a large portfolio ... read more ...
Thu 3rd April 2008
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Why GoDaddy Spent Lobbying Money on Pharmacy Issues - GoDaddy’s pharmacy lobbying is related to online pharmacy bill. In February I wrote about GoDaddy and its 2007 $580,000 lobby bill on capitol hill. One thing struck me as odd: one of the issues GoDaddy spent money on was pharmacy. Here’s what I wrote: According to the company’s self-reported lobbying reports, its lobbying activity included computers information technology, copyright trademark, telecommunications, law enforcement, pharmacy, and consumer product ... read more ...
Tue 25th March 2008
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What’s Happening to a GoDaddy Brand? - Will the GoDaddy brand wither as it is institutionalized? GoDaddy CEO Bob Parsons is one outspoken guy, and he has built a brand around this “edginess”. He recently took a stab at video blogging on his blog BobParsons.com. He discussed the idea of having former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer’s call girl Ashley Dupre be the next GoDaddy girl (he said he was open to discussion, which suggests this video was recorded before GoDaddy’s PR team dismissed the ... read more ...
 
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Credit Suisse: Domain Name Parking to Slow - Analyst predicts decrease in parked domain names. Credit Suisse Internet technology analyst Philip Winslow predicts domain name parking will become less profitable, leading to a drop in domain registrations, reports financial publication Barron’s. According to the Barron’s article: To wit, some enterprising folks will sign up tons of temporary, or “parked” Web sites, to drive keyword search results to their pages and collect an ad fee they split with Google. ... read more ...
Wed 12th March 2008
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GoDaddy Squashes RateMyCop.com - Web site hosted with GoDaddy taken offline, details not clear. According to Wired, GoDaddy took controversial site RateMyCop.com offline yesterday. The domain RateMyCop.com is registered with Name.com, LLC, but was hosted at GoDaddy. According to Wired’s article, visitors to RateMyCop.com on Tuesday were redirected to a GoDaddy page reading, “Oops!!!”, which urged the site owner to contact GoDaddy to find out why the company pulled the plug. RateMyCop founder ... read more ...
Thu 28th February 2008
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GoDaddy Spends $580,000 on Federal Lobbying - Domain registrar spends big bucks to lobby on capitol hill. Domain registrar GoDaddy.com spent $580,000 in federal lobbying last year, according to data obtained by Domain Name Wire from the Center for Responsive Politics. This is up from $460,000 spent in 2006. GoDaddy set up a full time presence in Washington D.C. by the fall of 2006. In general, GoDaddy’s efforts in Washington appear to by pro-domainer, including testifying against VeriSign’s price increases. ... read more ...
 
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Tucows Fights off Car Dealership - Tucows wins UDRP decision for Batchelor.com. Domain registrar Tucows has successfully defended against an arbitration proceeding over the domain name Batchelor.com, which the registrar acquired with its NetIdentity purchase. NetIdentity holds nearly 40,000 surnames and offers email addresses at those names, such as tom@lastname.com. The complaint was filed by Ken Batchelor Cadillac Company, a car dealership in San Antonio, Texas. The National Arbitration Forum panel ... read more ...
Tue 26th February 2008
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GoDaddy Files Patent for Filtering Ads on Trademark Domains - Technology could be crucial to registrars and parking companies. GoDaddy has filed a patent for a technology that would filter ads from domain names containing trademarks. Patent application #20080033822 reads: invention allow for filtering online advertisements containing third-party trademarks. In an example embodiment, a webpage host may host a webpage that resolves from a domain name. A check trademark service may parse the domain name into a keyword that an ... read more ...
Mon 25th February 2008
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Mailbag: What’s Up With GoDaddy’s .Biz Pricing? - A reader inquires about GoDaddy’s .biz price jump. Dear Domain Name Wire: Godaddy recently raised its prices on .biz to a published $14.99. Even going through an account manager the price is still over $10. GD has definitely been getting less price competitive, but this one seems completely out in left field. Did prices change at the registry level? Or something else? - Michael Z. Good question, Michael. .Biz registry NeuStar charges $6.42 for domains, the same ... read more ...