Will .Travel Registry Fail? - First RegisterFly died. Will the .Travel registry fail next? A fiasco ensued when domain registrar RegisterFly died. ICANN is learning its lesson. But now an entire domain registry is on the verge of death. The good news is it’s only the .travel registry, which no one really cares about anyway. Noted .travel critic Edward Hasbrouck, who has complained about the way the .travel domain was awarded and structured, writes about registry Tralliance’s parent company, ... read more ...

Survey: Price, Security Top Considerations When Registering Domains - Registration prices and security of domains are the top factors when choosing a domain registrar, according to the 2007 Domain Name Wire survey. If registrars want to earn your business, they need to offer low prices and ensure the safety of your domain names. For the second year in a row, price and security came out on top when domain owners were asked to rank the importance of various factors for choosing a domain registrar. Survey respondents were asked to rank ... read more ...

GoDaddy Selected as Top Domain Name Registrar - The world’s biggest domain registrar is also the best, according to Domain Name Wire’s annual survey. GoDaddy is the world’s largest registrar with about 20M domains registered (including reseller sites). It was also voted as the best registrar in the 2007 Domain Name Wire survey, taking 33% of the vote. Last year GoDaddy was also tops but received only 28% of the vote. Although not without controversy, GoDaddy has grabbed market share by offering domain ... read more ...

Domain Registrars Offer Discounts if You Ask; $5.99 Renewals during GoDaddy - GoDaddy offers $5.99 renewals; other registrars have discounts too. When you multiply domain name registration and renewal costs across thousands of domains, saving even a few dimes per registration adds up quickly. Many registrars offer “preferred” pricing for large domain name owners. This article will discuss some of this pricing along with a coupon code for domain renewals at Godaddy. GoDaddy -GoDaddy has special offers almost daily. I get an e-mail from ... read more ...

GoDaddy’s Support: Cross-sell Machine - Calling GoDaddy support? Expect a cross sell. I used to work for a Fortune 500 company that serviced millions of customers. Whenever a customer called in for support, our tech support representatives were required to attempt to sell them a product at the end of the call. That can be tough: “I’m sorry about your service being unavailable for 24 hours and that your bill is inaccurate, and that this has caused you hours of inconvenience. I’m also sorry you ... read more ...

Domain Registrars’ Better Business Bureau Records Spotty - Analysis of Better Business Bureau complaints alarming yet inconclusive. Domain Name Wire surveyed the Better Business Bureau records of the seven largest domain registrars with considerable North American consumer operations. Registrars ranged from 2 complaints on the low end (over the past 36 months) to 321 on the high end. Consumers can register complaints with the Better Business Bureau when they are unsatisfied with how a company responds to their customer complaints. ... read more ...

.Info Hits 4 Million Registrations - 4 millionth .info domain registration occurred last month; registry releases stats. .Info domain name registry Afilias announced that the 4 millionth .info domain was registered on February 1, 2007. .Info was one of the first so-called “new TLDs” to be released in 2001. 500,000 .info domains were registered in the first 90 days after launching. In connection with the announcement, Afilias released a report titled “4 Million Milestone Analysis Report”. ... read more ...

GoDaddy Responds to Deletion Over Invalid Email Address - GoDaddy’s Director of Domain Services explains its actions in the case of FamilyAlbum.com Yesterday I reported about how GoDaddy deleted the domain registration for a domain due to invalid Whois information. This invalid information was limited to the e-mail address used; the phone number and mailing address was correct. Today, GoDaddy Director of Domain Services Camille Ede responded to a number of my questions concerning the actions it took. 1) What is your ... read more ...

GoDaddy Launches Discount Club - Domain Registrar GoDaddy launches discount membership club. The world’s largest domain name registrar, GoDaddy, has launched a membership club called Discount Domain Club that offers reduced pricing. The club costs $89.95 per year and provides a number of discounted services. The fee might make sense for you if you are a GoDaddy customer who owns many domain names, or someone trying to consolidate domains that would prefer the security of GoDaddy compared to, ... read more ...

Network Solutions Acquired - Domain registrar Network Solutions has been acquired by a private equity firm. Private equity firm General Atlantic announced that it is acquiring domain registrar Network Solutions from Najafi Companies (formerly Pivotal Private Equity). Since this is a private equity deal you should not expect major changes to the operations of Network Solutions (as compared to an acquisition by a competitor). According to TechCrunch, rumors are swirling that the deal is worth ... read more ...

CNET Surveys Registrars about GoDaddy Suspension - CNET sent surveys to 12 registrars asking them about their policies for suspending domains. Last week GoDaddy changed the DNS on a customer’s domain name at the request of MySpace. MySpace complained that the site in question was displaying the usernames and passwords of its users. It turns out that this same file of usernames and passwords was available at numerous sites on the internet and could be found with a simple Google search. (I suspect GoDaddy was not ... read more ...

MyDomain offers $4.99 .mobi domains - MyDomain.com is offering a coupon for a $4.99 .mobi domain registration. .Mobi is hot. The domain, designed for mobile devices, has seen lots of aftermarket activity since its release last year. The best known sale is Flowers.mobi, which sold for $200,000. More recently Sportsbook.mobi sold for $129,800. Domain registrar Dotster, through its MyDomain.com site, is offering a happy hour discount on .mobi domains. Dotster invented the “happy hour” discount marketing ... read more ...

GoDaddy Launches Domain Buying Service - GoDaddy, the world’s largest domain name registrar, has launched a service to help people purchase registered domain names. If you search for a domain name at GoDaddy and find it’s already taken, GoDaddy now has a link that reads “Use a Domain Buy Agent to get this name”. Clicking on that link introduces you to one of GoDaddy’s newest services called “Domain Buy Service”. GoDaddy describes the service as follows: We’ve seen it happen countless times: ... read more ...