GigaOm did a very lengthy piece earlier today on Go Daddy and on the maturation process the company has embarked upon to become more of a technology company. Blake Irving certainly has shaken things up with a lot of the focus being on small business. The company has made acquisitions like Locu and will be heavily marketing its new "Get Found" product. GigaOm wrote, The product, which starts … [Read more...]
Confirmed: There Will Not Be A .Co/Godaddy Super Bowl Commercial This Year
Godaddy.com released one its commercials that it will be airing during the Super Bowl today. I confirmed with Godaddy that there will not be a .Co domain name registry co-branded commercial running on this year's Super Bowl. The .Co registry ran co-branded ads with Godaddy for the past three Super Bowls. My favorite of the bunch, actually my favorite television commercial of all time for … [Read more...]
GoDaddy Expands WordPress Offerings with Managed Hosting
GoDaddy Expands WordPress Offerings with Managed Hosting Go Daddy unveiled a new WordPress offering that they announced on Thursday. From the press release they put out: GoDaddy Managed WordPress automatically updates accounts to the latest version of WordPress and ensures that a website’s plug-ins aren’t vulnerable to security attacks or wasting resources, causing a website to perform … [Read more...]
Go Daddy CEO calls current domain space polluted and not descriptive
Blake Irving CEO of Go Daddy sat down at the Consumer Electronics Show and gave a talk about the changes taking place in the domain space. Irving calls the current space polluted and talks about the new names being descriptive. He talks about pizza, doctor, dentist and then says LA, of course LA has been available and is a cctld. This inclusion is why some think that the repurposed country … [Read more...]
Go Daddy Fires Back at AMPAS
Two weeks ago Mike covered the news that The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences which hands out the Oscars had filed another lawsuit against Godaddy under the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (“ACPA”). The Hollywood Reporter is out with a story now where Go Daddy claims that the Academy gets special treatment from the judge hearing the case. They go on to say that the judge has … [Read more...]
Afternic/Godaddy Sells $1.1 Million In Domain Names
Afternic/Godaddy released its sales report right before the New Years Break for the the week of 12/23/13 – 12/29/13. Sales totaled $1,120,500 All sales were lead by Folia.com Looks like one New York based Real Estate Investment Trust picked up a pair of domains for $8,300 each; NewYorkREIT.com and NYREIT.com .com … [Read more...]
Uber.org Leads The Go Daddy Auctions Domain Report for December 2013
Go Daddy finished the year selling 38,841 domains vs 39,715 in November. Uber.org was the top sale for the month at $36,000. The domain registered in 2001 looks to have been sold by the Canadian powerhouse Original.com. The whois shows Go Daddy and the name still points to an Internet Traffic parked page. (click to enlarge) … [Read more...]