"For the first time since its controversial 2005 debut, Go Daddy is producing its new Super Bowl commercials with the help of an ad agency. Go Daddy officially signed the New York Office of Deutsch Inc. as its agency-of-record this week. Now, Deutsch NY is working to produce two thirty-second spots for the world's largest Web hosting provider's 2013 Super Bowl campaign. The challenge is to … [Read more...]
EnCirca Rolls Out A White Labeled Registrar Service
EnCirca.com an ICANN accredited registrar announced today its white labeled registrar services to help determine the right Registrar solution to meet the needs of new gTLDs. TLD's that envision complex authentication and verification of potential registrants; integration of partners and member-based trade associations for referrals and authentication; industry verticals with clearly defined … [Read more...]
Endurance International Group Owner Of Dotster.com & Domain.com Selects Afternic.com as Its Exclusive Aftermarket Partner
Afternic.com today announced an Exclusive Partnership with Endurance International Group, a top ICANN-accredited registrar, incorporating Afternic’s inventory of the largest collection of fast transfer-enabled domains in the world for sale on several Endurance brands including Domain.com." Endurance manages 2.9 million unique Web hosting accounts and close to 10 million domain names and owns … [Read more...]
Sedo Adds “Make Offer” Domains To Godaddy.com Through Its MLS Program
According to a press release we received today, Sedo.com is adding "Make Offer" domain names to its MLS system with Godaddy.com "Go Daddy joined the SedoMLS network in January 2012, offering all Buy Now names from Sedo’s inventory of more than 16 million premium domains to millions of new buyers. " "The expanded partnership adds Make Offer names to this distribution channel, which means … [Read more...]
So Godaddy.com Wasn’t Attacked But Why Did They Wait Almost 24 Hours Before Letting Anyone Know?
Godaddy.com announced a short time ago they were not attacked or hacked yesterday but had internal network issues which caused widespread outage to millions of customer's sites, domain names and email accounts. According to the statement, all services were restored by 4pm PDT. So why did we first get word that there was no attack or hack especially when hundreds of major media stories were … [Read more...]
Godaddy.com is Back Up: “At No Time Was Any Sensitive Customer Information Compromised”
Godaddy.com is back up and it seems according to Twitter are almost all of the domains, sites and email addresses that were under attack today Here is what is posted on Godaddy.com's site tonight: "At 10:25 am PT, GoDaddy.com and associated customer services experienced intermittent outages. Services began to be restored for the bulk of affected customers at 2:43 pm PT. At no time was any … [Read more...]
Forbes.com Just Publishes 5 Reasons Why You Should Leave Godaddy (and How)
Talk about hitting someone when there down, Forbes.com just published a post entitled 5 Reasons Why You Should Leave Godaddy (and How). Forbes writes in part: "In the last few years, GoDaddy has come under fire plenty of times – and for plenty of reasons. Not only has the company used sexual advertising several times to promote its services (reasons 1-3 why anyone paying GoDaddy money should … [Read more...]