Tag Archives: registrars

Tue 3rd February 2015
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Moniker mislaid over 60,000 .com domain names in October - Registrar plunges below 900,000 .com registrations mark. Verisign’s latest .com monthly report has been published by ICANN, and Moniker’s woes from its platform switch over the summer appear to have finally caught up with it. Moniker lost 61,191 .com domain names to transfers in October 2014. After its disastrous platform switch in June, it lost at least 17,500 .com domains to transfers each month, peaking at 26,681 in September. The October jump is huge. (ICANN publishes the reports after a ... read more ...
Mon 2nd February 2015
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Blake Irving on Fox & Friends: Super Bowl ad barter was not designed (and we trust him) - GoDaddy’s CEO discusses this year’s Super Bowl ad controversy. GoDaddy CEO Blake Irving was on Fox Friends this morning talking about the Super Bowl ad controversy. He claims the original ad and changing it was not a publicity stunt. (See video below.) After watching the final commercial yesterday, I believe him when he says that nixing the first ad was not a publicity stunt. After all, the company ended up with a commercial that: Was produced with stock video footage Had voiceover from someone ... read more ...
Sun 1st February 2015
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Watch GoDaddy's deputy Super Bowl commercial - GoDaddy Super Bowl ad doesn’t show a puppy dog…it shows a small business owner. GoDaddy’s Super Bowl commercial is puppy dog-less, making it seem that the initial Buddy commercial was not intended to be a PR stunt. The real commercial is a great nod to GoDaddy’s customer, the hard working small business owner. He’s not watching the game at a party, the narrator says, because he’s working. The commercial makes a subtle nod to its aborted “Journey Home” commercial, or at least the ones ... read more ...
Thu 29th January 2015
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Puppy dogs for sale on GoDaddy satire site - Someone is having fun with GoDaddy’s withdrawn commercial…and doing it with GoDaddy services. GoDaddy won’t run its controversial Journey Home commercial during the Super Bowl on Sunday. The ad featured a site called Gabby’s Goldens that sold dogs online. It drew the ire of pet lovers and advocates everywhere. Yet someone is having some fun with it, and using GoDaddy’s services to boot. GoDaddy registered GabbysGoldens.com ahead of the commercial. Another customer just registered GabbysGoldens.org ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy's Super Bowl ad switcheroo: designed or not? - GoDaddy, once again, is getting a lot of press for its Super Bowl ad. How much of it was planned? If you pay for a Super Bowl commercial and no one talks about it before or after the big game, you got ripped off. GoDaddy discovered this many years ago and has mastered the art of getting extra impressions of its ads and Monday morning water cooler talk. GoDaddy’s ads are often criticized and sometimes ranked as the “worst” ads on the Super Bowl. Yet “worst” is a heck of a lot better than ... read more ...
Tue 27th January 2015
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GoDaddy to change argumentative Super Bowl Commercial - GoDaddy won’t run controversial “Journey Home” commercial. GoDaddy’s 2015 Super Bowl commercial, which it just released this morning, won’t air on Sunday after all. GoDaddy CEO Blake Irving tweeted this afternoon: The ad was criticized by many animal lovers. In many ways, the commercial was classic GoDaddy. It was sure to spark outrage, which got people talking about the company…much like its previous GoDaddy commercials. I wondered this morning if the plan was to get this commercial ... read more ...
 
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Namecheap.com Jumps On #GodaddyPuppy Outrage With PUPPYLOVE $3.98 Transfer w/$1.50 To Humane Society - Wow Godaddy… Transfer yr domains to us for $3.98 using coupon code “PUPPYLOVE” we’ll donate to @HumaneSociety pic.twitter.com/04jU2bGysc — Namecheap.com (@Namecheap) January 27, 2015 Namecheap.com has jumped on the outrage from Godaddy’s Super Bowl commercial and is offering a $3.98 special using the transfer code of  PUPPYLOVE to anyone to transfer in any .com, .net .org or .info and Namecheap will contribute $1.50 to the Humane Society for each domain name transferred. As we noted ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy's Super Bowl Commercial will be the many argumentative nonetheless [Watch] - Here’s proof you can have controversy without nudity. [Update: GoDaddy won’t run this ad after all.] GoDaddy made a name for itself with controversial Super Bowl commercials. If you thought its move from sexy commercials to one featuring a puppy dog meant the company was shying away from controversy, you’re in for a bit of a surprise. This year’s commercial (embedded below) features an adorable puppy dog that gets tossed off a truck, yet perseveres and finds its way home. Yet “Buddy” ... read more ...
Thu 22nd January 2015
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Trademark Clearinghouse bundles Porn domains with use during discount - Deal with ICM Registry cuts pricing if you sign up for TMCH and protect a brand in adult domain names. The Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH) will cut you a deal on its services, if you take a little TA with it. On a webinar about the new ICM Registry domains .Adult and .Porn today, ICM General Counsel Sheri Falco announced it has partnered with TMCH to create special bundled pricing. She said it’s the first deal of its kind for the Trademark Clearinghouse. The TMCH doesn’t set pricing for domain ... read more ...
Tue 20th January 2015
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Pssst…Rightside expelled the name collision domain names - Many good domains on the list, but be prepared to pay a premium. While you were partying in Las Vegas at NamesCon last week, Rightside released its name collision domain names to the public. Sort of… As a bit of background, name collision domain names are ones that new top level domain operators had to hold back from registration at launch. The list includes domain names that, during a somewhat random window of time in history, received traffic. ICANN required the domain names to be held back for ... read more ...
Fri 16th January 2015
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More new TLD complexity: transferring reward domain names - Article points to further complexities with new top level domain names. With new top level domain names now entering their renewal cycle, you might be tempted to transfer domain names from one registrar to another. This could prove challenging if the domain name you bought is a “premium” domain name in which the registry charges higher than standard pricing. That’s what Kevin Lisota found out while testing out Google Domains: Google Domains does sell .tips domains, ... read more ...
Wed 14th January 2015
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Chris Sheridan and Steve Banfield are withdrawal Rightside - Two key figures at eNom are moving on. A longtime fixture in the domain name industry — as well as a newer hire — are leaving domain name company Rightside. VP of Business Development Chris Sheridan is leaving the company this week to join website maker Weebly. His experience at Rightside, where he worked on the eNom business, will be highly relevant to Weebly. Prior to eNom/Rightside, the “selfie king” worked at Verisign. Sheridan’s former clients and other ... read more ...
Tue 13th January 2015
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Google Domains Now Open to All in The U.S. – Over 60 new gtlds now accessible for registration - Google Domains is now opened to anyone in the U.S. they are also offering over 60 new gtlds for registration. TechCrunch is reporting that Google Domains is now available to anyone who wants an account From the article: Google said at the time its service also includes phone support, indicating Google’s intention to market it more to business customers. To date, thousands of testers have signed up and registered domains during the private testing, but Google didn’t release exact numbers. Additionally, ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy SVP explains because new TLDs are struggling - Head of domains at largest domain name registrar says new TLD registries are failing small business owners. Why are new top level domain names struggling to grow their registration bases? GoDaddy Senior Vice President of Domains Mike McLaughlin told a large audience at NamesCon today that registries are making it difficult for small businesses to buy their domain names. Registries need to focus on accessibility and usability if they want to see their domains succeed, ... read more ...
Thu 8th January 2015
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GoDaddy Auctions implements bidder verification - I think this is fairly ironic news, considering how much trouble they have with the simplest things such as auto charging a paypal account. My partners and I have a Paypal agreement with GoDaddy and have for some years. We keep a balance of a min of $30k in it at all dues as a float. Due to sales, etc., sometimes it even has over $100k in it. Yet GoDaddy auctions consistently fails to auto charge it several times a month. I’m on many platform, and depend on these pieces of software ... read more ...
Tue 6th January 2015
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September’s .Com winners and losers - Moniker lost, PublicDomainRegistry gained. ICANN has published official registry reports from September (always three months in arrears), showing that Moniker dropped below one million .com domain names registered. The chart below shows the ten domain name registrars with the most successful .com transfers out, and then compares this against the number of successful .com transfers in. Registrars that “won” for the month will have a blue column taller than the ... read more ...
Sun 28th December 2014
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Why Hasn’t Godaddy Filed UDRP On Phishing Domains? - Domaingang.com has been reporting on many domain names that have been involved in phishing attacks on Godaddy which have resulted in domain names being stolen out of Godaddy accounts. Unlike most phishing attacks where someone uses a domain controlled by the phisher, to actually send the  customers to which wind up appearing in the URL bar,  recent attacks actually use domain names containing the register’s name, but are owned by third parties just like the one’s Godaddy recently warned its ... read more ...
Wed 10th December 2014
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A outline of unequivocally engaging information in Rightside’s Investor Presentation - Investor presentation shows initial results from five of Rightside’s TLDs, explains how the company picked TLDs to acquire, and describes the method used to identify premium domain names. One of the great things about having publicly traded domain name companies is that we can get more data from the companies than we can from private ones. Rightside (NASDAQ: NAME) is a prime example. Rightside held its first Investor Analyst Day last Friday. You can view the entire ... read more ...
 
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Which domain name registrars mislaid (and won) transfers according to many new central data - Latest published data shows August performance of Moniker and other domain name registrars. ICANN just published Verisign’s official .com numbers from August, which gives us a chance to check in on how certain registrars are doing from a customer standpoint. I’ve been checking these reports over the past few months to see how many domains Moniker is losing after changing its account interface. What I thought would be massive hemorrhaging has proven to be just ... read more ...
Tue 9th December 2014
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Analyst reiterates new TLD foresee and cost aim for Rightside - After Rightside investor day, analyst says forecast is on target. B. Riley Co analyst Sameet Sinha has reiterated his forecast for new top level domain names and his $15 price target for Rightside. Rightside (NASDAQ: NAME) is currently trading for $8.29. Sinha forecasts that 29.1 million registrations will be made under new to level domain names by the end of 2016. Based on 3.4 million domains registered to date, he believes his forecast of 3.6 million by the end ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy gets another Domain Appraisal patent - Patent covers using comps for domain name evaluation. GoDaddy has been issued another U.S. patent related to domain name appraisals. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office today issued patent number 8,909,558 for “Appraising a domain name using keyword monetary value data”. The patent basically covers using comps for a domain name appraisal, i.e. looking up sales of other domain names including similar keywords and using this to determine value. GoDaddy has a number ... read more ...
Mon 8th December 2014
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Oops: Moniker comment balances are apparently borked - Incorrect balances shown on accounts dating back to October. The hits keep on coming for Moniker…and its customers. When the domain name registrar switched to a completely new registrar platform over the summer, it lost all previous invoices that customers used to be able to view within their account. Customers got access to new invoices, and could see an up-to-date balance, but couldn’t see their transactions from before the platform switch. Then, some time around ... read more ...
 
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CentralNic sells $2.5 million value of reward domain names - Sales were from the company’s portfolio of domain names. CentralNic plc, (AIM:CNIC) announced today that it has sold $2.5 million worth of premium domain names. These domain names are part of the group’s 20,000 domain name holdings that are not related to new top level domain names. The company did not disclose which domain names it sold. CentralNic also cited delays in new top level domain names coming to market for lower-than-expected sales in new TLDs. In its ... read more ...
 
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Rightside rings NASDAQ shutting bell [Photo] - Domain name company holds investor day and rings closing bell. On Friday, domain name company Rightside rang the closing bell on the NASDAQ. The company became listed on the NASDAQ earlier this year after being spun off from Demand Media. Rightside trades under the ticker ‘NAME’. Earlier in the day Friday, Rightside held its first Investor Analyst Day event at Nasdaq MarketSite in Times Square. Rightside is pitching new top level domain names as the future, and ... read more ...
Tue 2nd December 2014
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Can Verisign Maintain Its Leadership Moving Forward ? - Trefis is a financial analysis site, they describe themselves as an interactive financial community structured around trends, forecasts and insights related to some of the most popular stocks in the US.  They wrote about Verisign yesterday and whether or not they can maintain their growth. They note that .com has built such a niche that it has been able to stand the test of competition, in their estimation .net is not and they believe the new gtld program has affected .net in a negative way. From ... read more ...