GigaOm did a very lengthy piece earlier today on Go Daddy and on the maturation process the company has embarked upon to become more of a technology company. Blake Irving certainly has shaken things up with a lot of the focus being on small business. The company has made acquisitions like Locu and will be heavily marketing its new "Get Found" product. GigaOm wrote, The product, which starts … [Read more...]
Archives for January 2014
OMGChrome.com Takes A look at what .chrome might look like
Omg Chrome did a piece on how Google will use dot chrome. Of course Chrome is ubiquitous all throughout the Google landscape, from netbooks, to the most popular web browser on the planet, to ChromeCast for your tv. There were a couple Chrome related news items today, Google is offering a $2.7 million bounty for cracking ChromeOS Forbes is out with a story on an add on that turns your … [Read more...]
DotAsia and Momentum Events Announce Partnership for Major Hong Kong Domains Conference scheduled for May 2014
DotAsia, and Momentum Events have announced that they will be joining forces to create a new domain industry event coinciding with the prominent International Trademark Association (INTA) Annual conference and exhibition, taking place May 13-14 in Hong Kong. This new event which combines DotAsia’s "Internet of Names" meeting and Momentum’s "Digital Marketing & gTLD Strategy Congress" is … [Read more...]
Daniel Schindler of Donuts Says gTLDs Better Than .Com But .Com Values Will Go Up
In a blog post appearing in iparkavenue.com, Daniel Schindler of Donuts is quoted as saying gTLDs Better Than .Com. You might expect that from a co-founder of a company which applied for 3x more new gTLD's than any company on earth, however in all fairness Dan's comment that a new gTLD is better than a .com seems to be limited to end users looking for available domain names: Here are the … [Read more...]
TRAFFIC Picks Halloween For Its Florida Show & Promises A Live No Reserve New gTLD Auction In Vegas
In an email sent out this morning by the organizers of the TRAFFIC conference, the Florida TRAFFIC conference will be held for the first time on a weekend, at the Fontainebleau Hotel on Miami Beach from October 30th, until, November 2nd, 2014 with cabana networking starting on the 29th. "This will be our first weekend show and the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Premiere Party promises to be a spectacular … [Read more...]
Report: Dailymail.com “Sold For As Much As £1m-plus” (1.65 Million)
According to a story in TheGuardian.com, whose parent company operates Mail Online otherwise known as the Daily Mail & General Trust "has paid potentially as much as £1m-plus to secure the valuable domain name. DailyMail.com" One Million British Pounds Equal just over $1.650,000. According to the story "Mail Online is switching from a .co.uk to .com homepage address, following … [Read more...]
Web.com Has 50 New gTLD For Pre-Registration
Web.com Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:WWWW), which owns two of the top to 10 domain name registrars now has over 50 new gTLD's domain extensions available for pre-registration and purchase. The following new domain names are now available for pre-registration or Sunrise … [Read more...]