Comments on: How Go Daddy Can Court Domainers

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 04:48:53 +0000

$2,500 deposit with a minimum of 1,000 domains? I can already get low flat-rate prices and a slick interface with API access for $500 deposit and no minimum portfolio size at Dynadot

By: Ben Vardag

Ben Vardag — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 01:38:39 +0000

Thanks Andrew – really helpful feature, i was surprised that one of my domains had over 50 whois searches, im sure some of you have more than that!

Cheers

By: Andrew Allemann

Andrew Allemann — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:43:37 +0000

@ Ben Vardag – in account manager, go to “exportable lists”. Then check the boxes for whois.

By: Ben Vardag

Ben Vardag — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 20:26:34 +0000

“GoDaddy already has a feature that tells you how many times someone did a whois search for domains you own”

How do you access this feature, cant seem to find it. Thanks.

By: Andrew Allemann

Andrew Allemann — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:03:06 +0000

That said, I don’t think a .info should show as a Premium Domain unless all of the other major extensions are taken.

By: Andrew Allemann

Andrew Allemann — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:54:36 +0000

@ Allen T – I was joking. I own some .info’s, too.

By: Allen T.

Allen T. — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:37:06 +0000

Andrew:

No, my statement isn’t an oxymoron, pay close attention to what I said. I didn’t say that nothing needs to be changed, I said that most of the things that people are complaining about don’t need to be changed.

Godaddy’s target market is well served for the most part; I feel that domainers are a specialized market.

In my opinion, the .info extension with 5,781,000 registrations is wholly overlooked because everyone is biased towards .com. Despite the fact that .info has more daily registrations on average than .org,.biz,.us and occasionally .net, you rarely hear about it in forums.

I know you are going to say that there are a lot of .info’s being registered because you can get one for $1.00, but keep in mind that this extension has an 80% renewal rate at the regular price.

I had one fool tell me the reason for the high renewal rate has to do with the fact that these people don’t want to lose their initial investment.

How much sense does that make? Who is going to spend $10.00 to save a $1.00 initial investment?(first time registration fee)