The New York post today has a story ripping Godaddy.com process of charging customers $18.99 to "backorder" an expired domain and then placing the domain into auction once it "drops". First we have to note that absolutely nothing new is going on that the NY Post is complaining about. Godaddy for years has had a program were you can backorder any domain, for which is now $18.99 per domain. … [Read more...]
GoDaddy.com Passes 40 Million Domain Mark & Has 50% Market Share Of All New Domain Registrations
Go Daddy announced today that it has just surpassed 40 million, registered domain names. Godaddy said it typically registers a million domain names per month. Godaddy also says they have a 50% market share of all active new domains registered in the world and is more than three times the size of its closest competitor. Go Daddy CEO and Founder Bob Parsons is quoted as saying: ""The Go … [Read more...]
Move Over Danica; Pamela Anderson Is Newest Domain Name Spokesperson In Commercial For CrazyDomains & (Yes You can Watch It Here)
Following in Godaddy.com footsteps, the domain registrar CrazyDomains.com.au (also the owner of CrazyDomains.com) has hired Pamela Anderson to appear in commercials for its domain registrar services. According to the blog, NextRound.com, the Australian based ICANN accredited domain registrar's commercial featuring Pamela Anderson starting airing last week on Australian TV. "The commercial … [Read more...]
ICANN Fails to Deal With Warehousing & Registrars Conduct In Its “Expired Domain Policy Review”
ICANN announced this week, the opening of the comment period for the "Post-Expiration Domain Name Recovery Working Group", seeking opinions certain matters from the registrant point of view, but failed to follow its own staff recommendation that it should address warehousing by registrars. What ICANN called for comments on this week were: """Whether adequate opportunity exists for … [Read more...]
The Next Big Domain Auction: GoDirect.com Today On NameJet.com
The auction closes today for GoDirect.com and with almost 4 hours to go the domain is already at $15,100. The are 121 bidders in the closed auction. Godirect.gov is a site where you go if you want to sign up for direct deposits of government benefits. The .gov site gets a lot of traffic, compete.com shows it getting over 70K visitors a month. Compete also shows the .com ranging from … [Read more...]
GoDaddy.com Still Growing & Hiring
With daily news of layoffs by the ten's of thousands, and business closings topping the news, it's great to see a company that is actually expanding in this lousy economy and it's excellent news that it is in our industry. According to the Phoenix Business Journal, GoDaddy Group is expanding it Scottsdale headquarter by about 21,000 square feet. The space will house additions to the … [Read more...]
Think You Can’t Compete With the Big Guys: How 2 Regular Guys Turned $2K Into $1M & Kick Madison Ave. Ass
Indiana brothers Joe and Dave Herbert entered a contest to create a Super Bowl commercial for Doritos. Their commercial “crystal ball", was chosen from around 2,000 entries. Doritos paid five finalists, $25,000, but promised to pay a contestant $1 million if the ad chosen to run during the game ended up as the No. 1 selection in USA Today's Ad Meter focus group ranking. The Herbert brothers … [Read more...]