Comments on: GoDaddy.com Purchases Second Super Bowl Commercial

By: Domain Offerings

Domain Offerings — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 19:39:21 +0000

The one about Danica having enhanced wasn’t very imaginative especially comapred to all the other comercials that it was mixed in with.

By: Rick

Rick — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:59:04 +0000

Those were the cheesiest commercials I have ever seen and not fit for family tv which of course the super bowl is supposed to be. And Parsons looked like the biggest perv ever. If anything, these commercials may encourage the average american to be more aware of domain names but I think they will discourage them from using godaddy because of the tastless advertisements.

By: AdJoe.com

AdJoe.com — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 20:58:22 +0000

We all know that the name of GoDaddy’s game is to get the renewals and being the leader and up front in there business model. The fact that Bob Parsons thinks outside the box in marketing and inside the box on running his company is Win Win!!

By: Rob Sequin

Rob Sequin — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 03:04:31 +0000

Good point. Out of all of the above mentioned companies, which ones are members of ICA?

By: Domainer

Domainer — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 02:28:02 +0000

Rob quote -
“where the hell is Richard Rosenblatt from enom? I havenâ€™t heard anything from him.”

That is an excellent question and a sore subject with me.

Godaddy’s $ 6 million expenditure is benefiting GD first. But, indirectly it helps the domain industry.

Other registrars that give back to the industry.
1. Fabulous by actively supporting the conferences plus many, many other things.
2. Moniker/DomainSponsor supports the conferences plus many other things.
3. Also, Parked and Directi.

Which registrars were made successful by domainers but refuse to give back ANYTHING (not a penny) to help the industry?

Enom
Network Solutions
Namescout
Namejet
Pool

They take and take and don’t even say “thank you” as they put the money in their pocket.

Enom/Namejet/DemandMedia must be worth at least $ 200 million. I think they can afford to give back a little.

They should be the ones domainers should avoid. They do not have our best interest at heart.

Godaddy – thanks for bringing more people to the industry.

By: Rob Sequin

Rob Sequin — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 14:48:18 +0000

GoDaddy!

Whether you like GoDaddy or not, you can’t deny that a company in our industry spending this kind of money to promote our industry is nothing short of FANTASTIC!

How many millions of people will think “Hmmm, maybe I should register a domain and start something online”?

Then of course their favorite domain is taken and now they have to come into the secondary market.

We should all be thanking Bob Parsons for his commitment to this industry.

With that said, where the hell is Richard Rosenblatt from enom? I haven’t heard anything from him.

By: M. Menius

M. Menius — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 12:17:05 +0000

Just read this to my wife about the video with Danica in the shower (she’s not familiar with Danica Patrick). Wife asked “Is she cute”? I responded “Well … yeah!” She wanted to see Danica so I showed her GoDaddy’s homepage. Wifey retorted “Oh, that’s going to be “family entertainment”. (slight tone of sarcasm)