I just received an email from Godaddy.com that they are making a change to the closing rules on the Godaddy.com domain auction platform, which is to take place on Monday, 7/14/2014. "As it stands now, any bid that is placed in the last 5 minutes of an auction auto-extends the auction by 5 minutes." "This will change to auto-extend to only 1 minute, and a maximum time of 5 minutes 59 seconds … [Read more...]
Go Daddy Acquires Smart Calendar App Canary
Go Daddy Acquires Smart Calendar App Canary Vator.tv reported on Go Daddy acquiring smart calendar app Canary, no price tag on the deal . From the article: Web-hosting and domain registration giant GoDaddy has purchased smart calendar app Canary, it was revealed via a post on on Canary’s website on Thursday. No financial terms of the deal were disclosed, but Canary did reveal that the … [Read more...]
Go Daddy Launches Mobile Payment System “Get Paid”
Go Daddy launched Get Paid today a new mobile payment service that partners with Paypal, Stripe and Dwolla. Tech Crunch covered the launch. These types of products are the ever continuing push to focus on small business and become a player in areas where Go Daddy did not compete prior to Blake Irving becoming CEO. From the article: As GoDaddy gears up for a $100 million IPO, the domain and web … [Read more...]
Go Daddy Now Carrying $1.5billion in debt
Jeff Bailey wrote a good piece on Seeking Alpha about the upcoming Go Daddy IPO. This article is worth reading for those contemplating investing in Go Daddy. Bailey does a good job at looking at the metrics Go Daddy uses and a look at their past financial history. As far as metrics go Bailey points out that Go Daddy likes to focus on bookings rather than revenue. In its IPO filing, GoDaddy … [Read more...]
ReTweet.com Is Over $11K On Godaddy With 2+ Hours to Go
I just noticed a pretty interesting auction going on Godaddy.com right now The domain is ReTweet.com The high bid as of publication is $11,250 There are 127 bids as of the moment and 19 bidders The auction closes at 01:09 PM (PDT) subject to Godaddy's auction closing rules. I'm not going to get into the possible TM issues, or lack thereof, but its a very interesting domain that … [Read more...]
Godaddy Auction Of Premium .Futbol, .Ninja & .Reviews Domains Closes Tomorrow; App.Reviews Over $1K
The Godaddy auction of premium . Futbol, .Ninja and .Reviews domain names closes tomorrow Wednesday June 18th at 5pm PST and several domain names already have multiple bidders Leading domain names in the auction is App.Reviews which has 7 bidders and as of publication has a high bid of $1,050. A single letter domain that will carry a normal renewal price e.ninja has a high bid of … [Read more...]
Godaddy/Afternic Sales Total Just Over $1.3 Million
Godaddy/Afternic reported its weekly sales which totaled just over $1.3 Million dollars. All sales were led by Suzies.com for $62,050 which was owned by a Scottcraft Label Co. out of Marlton, NJ .COM … [Read more...]