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…
Category: Domain Registrars
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%…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…