Moniker.com appears to be on Pace to drop another spot to the 9th largest registrar in the next month. Just a few months ago Moniker.com was the 7th largest registrar. According to WebHosting.info, over the past 6 weeks Moniker.com has lost about 100,000 registration Weeks Total Domains Global Market … [Read more...]
Total Damage To Godaddy From Parsons Elephant Shooting? About 100,000 Domains
I've been tracking the weekly registrar report on Godaddy since the Parsons Elephant Shooting story broke on March 31. According to Webhosting.info it seems that the damage to Godaddy.com has been minimal and also seem to have been short lived. In all what I'm seeing is a loss of about 100,000 domains. Weeks Gain Loss Net … [Read more...]
Bob Parsons Stars On Extra & CNN’s Piers Morgan & Is Unapologetic On Elephant Hunting: “It Was A Wonderful Thing To Be Doing”
Bob Parsons CEO of Godaddy made the rounds on National TV today appearing on the syndicated television show Extra as well as debating a PETA spokesman and the host of the CNN Piers Morgan Show. On both shows Parsons was unapologetic for his elephant kill and the video he made of it. On CNN, there was a back and forth discussion that went on for about 10 minutes between Piers Morgan (host of … [Read more...]
PETA Names Godaddy.com Bob Parsons With “First-Ever Scummiest CEO of the Year Award”
According to TMZ.com, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has just named the CEO of Godaddy.com with the First-Ever "Scummiest CEO of the Year Award". Bob Parsons triggered the controversy after posting an Internet video chronicling his elephant slaying during a trip to Zimbabwe". In a copy of a letter that TMZ obtained from PETA sent to Parsons, they "presenting him with its … [Read more...]
LogicBoxes Passes 5 Million Domain Mark
LogicBoxes a Directi company, announced this week that its now power over 5 million domain names. LogicBoxes powers the back end of many registrars and resellers. "Over 20% of the world's ICANN Accredited Registrars have been accredited through our consultancy service" Bhavin Turakhia, CEO & Founder of Directi said in its press release that: "I am proud of the fact that Logicboxes … [Read more...]
Godaddy On Tonight’s Super Bowl Commercials: Registrations Up 466% Over Last Year; Traffic Doubled & Now Over 45 Million Domains
Well I know there's been a lot of discussion inside and outside the domain industry tonight on the Godaddy Super Bowl ads. Love them or hate them, Godaddy says the two commercial they ran tonight on the Super Bowl are the most successful Super Bowl ads in their history in terms of response, traffic and sales. According to a press release issued tonight a few hours after the game ended … [Read more...]
The Registrar’s That’s A Parked Page: Welcome To Samoandomains.ws A SnapNames Dropcatcher
SAMOANDOMAINS, LLC is a domain name registrar used by SnapNames.com to catch dropping domains. Their referring URL site if you look up a whois record of a domain name that is registered there is http://www.samoandomains.ws If you visit the registrar you'll find what I found, the registrar is a parked page. The domain I back ordered with SnapNames and got registered back in October with … [Read more...]