Patents, the Go Daddy outage, and the French. Here are the top five stories from Domain Name Wire last month, ranked based on page views. Go Daddy patents “announcing a domain name registration on a social website” - Go Daddy got a patent on a way ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Sedo expands distribution partnership with Go Daddy
· Domain Registrars"Make Offer" domains now distributed to Go Daddy through SedoMLS. Sedo announced today that it has expanded its distribution partnership with Go Daddy to include "make offer" domain names. In January Go Daddy joined the SedoMLS network. That meant ... Continue Reading10 Comments
Go Daddy patents “announcing a domain name registration on a social website”
· Domain RegistrarsPatent describes way to announce your latest domain name registration. Last year I wrote about Go Daddy's patent applications related to announcing a domain name registration on a social network. Today the United States Patent and Trademark office ... Continue Reading15 Comments
Go Daddy gets patent for SEO and search engine submission
· Domain RegistrarsPatent covers method and systems for SEO suggestions and search engine submission. The United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued a patent (pdf) to Go Daddy for "method for improving a web site's ranking with search engines". U.S. patent ... Continue Reading10 Comments
Why I won’t leave GoDaddy over yesterday’s outage
· Domain RegistrarsGo Daddy web hosting still makes sense for me. Yesterday Go Daddy suffered a major outage that appears to have involved its DNS services. The outage lasted about four hours. Back in May I switched from a small web host to Go Daddy, which means that ... Continue Reading11 Comments
Romney-Ryan domain names snapped up in a hurry
· Domain RegistrarsRepublican ticket follows patterns for domain name registration. Whenever there's a big political announcement we tend to see people register related domain names. Mitt Romney's announcement of Paul Ryan as his running mate is one example. Since ... Continue Reading4 Comments
Go Daddy makes its first “business” acquisition
· Domain RegistrarsGo Daddy acquires Outright. More to come? Go Daddy today announced the acquisition of Outright, a provider of online financial software for small businesses. This is only the company's third acquisition in its history, and the first one that ... Continue Reading1 Comment
What Afternic’s expanded deal with Go Daddy means for domainers
· Domain SalesMore eyeballs and more sales. This morning Afternic announced an expanded deal with Go Daddy to distribute its non-fixed price domain sales listings through the registrar. Here's what this means for you... The Afternic deal will help you get more ... Continue Reading10 Comments
GoDaddy.com adds two factor authentication
· Domain RegistrarsNew security option available to customers with a U.S. mobile phone number. GoDaddy.com has added two factor authentication capabilities for U.S. customers. The feature appears to have been added within the past couple days. The added security ... Continue Reading10 Comments
Go Daddy says request to move Homelandsecurityus.com not about politics
· Domain RegistrarsCompany says campaign committee and politics not at play in request to change web hosts. Last Friday GoDaddy.com sent a notice to the owner of Homelandsecurityus.com informing him that he needed to find a new home for his domain name and web ... Continue Reading16 Comments