GoDaddy CEO Aman Bhutani appeared on Fox Business. Aman starts out talking about small businesses and the effects of the pandemic. Around the 2:37 mark Liz Claman asks Aman about the auction market. Aman mentioned record growth on the auction side. I thought it was interesting that Liz said, It's almost like trading stocks, trading domain names. People make a lot of money doing that, I … [Read more...]
GoDaddy Q1 revenue up 13.8% – $775m share repurchase authorized
GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) reported first quarter earnings today. After hours 82.75 +0.51 (0.62%) GoDaddy raised its full year revenue expectations by $45 million to $3.745 billion, representing approximately 13% year over year growth. Revenue growth by category is expected to approximate double-digit growth in Domains, high-single-digit growth in Hosting and Presence, and high-teens growth in … [Read more...]
GoDaddy making moves on the registry side acquiring .club and others
Big news on the registry side of the business. GoDaddy is acquiring .Club, .design and 28 extensions from Minds + Machines Group Limited (MMX). .Club has seen a lot of press lately due to Clubhouse and people registering .club domain names for their club on the app. Full release here GoDaddy Registry, one of the world's largest domain registry providers, today announced that it is acquiring … [Read more...]
GoDaddy takes down $100m listing for Bitcoin.com
So Mike Sallese pointed this one out to me, a story on TheBlockCrypto.com posted an article about Bitcoin.com being listed for sale on GoDaddy for $100 million. Yogita Khatri wrote: Roger Ver, the owner of the domain, said it is in fact not for sale. "100% fake news," he told The Block. Ver showed The Block screenshots in which he appears to be messaging GoDaddy, saying: "Why are you … [Read more...]
Paul Nicks on the Looking Forward Podcast
Jeff Ostroff hosts a podcast called Looking Forward, yesterday he spoke with Paul Nicks of GoDaddy. It's a pretty good listen. Paul just doesn't talk domain names but his background and how he got interested in domain names. … [Read more...]
Create.com moves to Namecheap as GoDaddy updates policies and unlocks Oxley’s domains
Brent Oxley's domain names are now unlocked at GoDaddy. Paul Nicks posted the following at Namepros: All, I’d like to provide the community with another update on the recent situation. I appreciate all the opinions and engagement from the community.As we reviewed our policies and procedures, our goal was to do what’s right for our domain investors and to protect the industry from domain theft. … [Read more...]
Other Registrars reply when asked how they would handle the Oxley situation?
So while there is other stuff going on in domaining, for many the only thing that matters is the Brent Oxley domain lockdown at GoDaddy. Someone registered FireAman.com referring to the CEO of GoDaddy Aman Bhutani and redirected it to the thread on Namepros. I started another thread to get the input from other domain registrars. How would they handle it? Namecheap was approached to lock … [Read more...]