Since James Iles wrote about Brent Oxley having his domain names locked by GoDaddy due to someone filing a complaint in India, Namepros has erupted. Many have started transferring names out, I mentioned the story to someone this morning who neither goes to Namepros anymore or reads most blogs. He replied back 30 minutes later he was transferring his 700 names out. The thread at Namepros … [Read more...]
HomeContractors.com expires and closes at $51,000
HomeContractors.com registered in 1998 was left to expire at GoDaddy and closed at $51,000. The domain name looks to have been owned by a Jeff Sauer from Three Deep Marketing. Jeff is alive and well he tweeted today. He seems to be affiliated with another company now so maybe he left and no one else at Three Deep knew about the domain name. Three Deep describes themselves on this page as • … [Read more...]
GoDaddy added 1.4m net customers in 2020
GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) reported earnings today after the close. Q4 Revenue for the quarter was up 12% year over year. The stock was up on the day but down 3% in after hours trading Highlights: Revenue of $873.9m, up 12.0% YoY; bookings of $943.1m, up 13.1% YoYProjected Q1 revenue growth of 12% to $885m and 2021 revenue target of $3.7b, up 12%GoDaddy added 1.4m net customers in 2020, nearly … [Read more...]
GoDaddy boots AR15.com
Earlier the news broke that Parler.com moved to Epik and now GoDaddy has apparently booted AR15.com. 15 years ago I said this was the way I thought the Internet would be in the future. Splintered as a series of "Internets" Countries who want to protect a valuable resource would keep out what they don't like. And companies who want to thwart those with different belief systems would apply … [Read more...]
Epik Update on Afternic Fast Transfer Status
Epik provided an update on their termination from Afternic Fast Transfer. In the blog post Epik gives some insight into what factors played a part in the decision from their view. From the post We believe there were several factors involved, including our reports of repeated Afternic security issues with their platform harming both registrars and domain investors who trusted them. Instead of … [Read more...]
GoDaddy buys payments processor Poynt
GoDaddy buys payments processor Poynt for $320 million to boost ecommerce offerings. GoDaddy said, Poynt’s technology will let it offer businesses a “complete suite of commerce and payment services”; Poynt CEO Bedier will run a newly created commerce division. Poynt has raised $128 million in VC funding. GoDaddy (NYSE:GDDY) saw it's shares up a little under 1.5%. … [Read more...]
Once subject to UDRP and ACPA battles NewportNews.com expires
NewportNews.com is a domain name that has quite the history. A former owner once defended a UDRP successfully but then lost an ACPA case. This led Michael Berkens to call this registrant stupid domainer of the year for 2011. Michael wrote: In 2009 Newport News won summary judgment against the domain holder and the court also awarded the trademark holder $80,000 in statutory damages AND it’s … [Read more...]