Brian Patrick Byrne wrote an article on The Daily Beast that takes a shot at GoDaddy and their providing registration and privacy services to white nationalist sites. In an article that has to be uncomfortable for the Arizona based company. Byrne points to specific registrants and some of their actions. It's like we discussed last week with GoDaddy taking RapeKids.com down from auction. … [Read more...]
GoDaddy has integrated four new registrars to its expiry and Aftermarket
More inventory will be coming to GoDaddy auctions. Monica from Bite (http://www.biteglobal.com) informed us that GoDaddy has integrated four new registrars to its expiry and Aftermarket following its recent acquisition of Host Group Europe: 123-Reg.co.uk, Heart Internet, Domain Factory and hosteurope.com. This will add thousands of additional domains to GoDaddy's platform per month and … [Read more...]
GoDaddy takes down auction for RapeKids.com
GoDaddy removed the auction for RapeKids.com on their platform today. Lance @tldn had tweeted @WtfDomains with a link to the auction, @DNUpdate retweeted it with a message and Noah Plumb who has the super cool handle of @no took care of the situation. That’s not right. We took it down and are looking into how it happened so it doesn’t happen again. Thanks for keeping us in check — Noah Plumb ? … [Read more...]
Rare sighting: 2 expired 3L.coms on GoDaddy auctions
With 8 and 9 days left on their auctions respectively, the domain names GTJ.com and MNT.com are expiring on GoDaddy auctions. You can view the auctions by clicking their name above, GTJ is currently at $32,888 and MNT.com is currently at $31,333. GTJ.com - registered since 2000, been under privacy for years and parked at Sedo. MNT.com - registered since 1997, owned by, Crystal Beacon … [Read more...]
Bidding war for former popular tor service
On Saturday there was a bidding war for a domain that many might have wondered, "What's all the fuss?" The auction was for Torcache.net, the auction closed at $4,952. Bidders 11 and 12 battled it out from $1,623 to the close. Eventually bidder 11 won the auction. Bidder 11 looks to just have had a pretty high proxy bid TorrentFreak.com covered the news last August when the service was … [Read more...]
Shares of Godaddy Hit An All Time High
Shares of Godaddy (GDDY) hit an all time high today of $40.37 before closing at $40.29 which I also believe is an all time high closing price for shares of Godaddy. Shares were up over 3% at $1.23 and are up slightly after hours. I didn't see any news today on the company. Godaddy has a market cap based on the closing price of 6.77 Billion … [Read more...]
Odd GoDaddy auction activity, might be tied to new appraisal valuations
So GoDaddy revamped their appraisal tool and now when someone is bidding at GoDaddy auctions they see where GoDaddy is valuing the name. Elliot Silver wrote a couple articles on the topic. On Twitter and as a sidenote in the Daily Sales Recap on TLDinvestors.com I expressed my doubts about this. @DInvesting @godaddyauctions I think it hurts GoDaddy more than helps if worthless names have … [Read more...]