As I speculated last December, domain registrar GoDaddy appears to be gearing up for an initial public offering. News reports today, including this one at MarketWatch, suggest that GoDaddy could be valued at a quarter billion dollars when it hits the ... Continue Reading1 Comment
Bob Parsons on the .eu landrush fiasco
· Domain Registrars, Policy & LawI don't always agree with GoDaddy President Bob Parsons, but this time he has hit the nail on the head about the .eu landrush. With over 1.4M domains registered, some would look at the launch of the .eu domain name as a success. But GoDaddy President ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Is GoDaddy violating ICANN’s transfer policy?
· Domain Registrars, Policy & LawGoDaddy's strict transfer-out policies appear to violate ICANN's official policy. I recently sold a domain name through Network Solutions' Certified Offer Service. As part of the transaction I was required to transfer the domain from GoDaddy to ... Continue Reading10 Comments
1.3M .eu domains registered (and counting)
· Domain RegistrarsAs of Sunday evening almost 1.3M .eu domain names have been registered. The pace of registrations is slowing dramatically with fewer than 300,000 registered over the past 48 hours. Many of the initial 1,000,000 registrations were "pre-orders" from ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Over 1M .eu domains registered
· Domain RegistrarsPeople registered over 1,000,000 .eu domain names during the first day of open registration. The EURid web site shows 1,089,012 active domain names as of this writing. 702,684 domains were registered within the first 4 hours. The first five domain ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Registrar error could have led to 1000s of hijacked domain names
· Domain RegistrarsAn error by domain registrar DiscountDomainRegistry.com could have led to compromised financial data and 1000s of domain name hijackings. A bug on the registrar's web site exposed financial and personal information of 1000s of customers. Depending on ... Continue Reading1 Comment
Network Solutions hit by DOS, ISP problems
· Domain RegistrarsDomain name registrar Network Solutions has faced two web site outages in the past week. The first outage, about a week ago, was the result of a denial of service attack. The second outage, which occurred Tuesday morning, was the result of an internet ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
RegisterFly $4 domain coupon code
· Domain RegistrarsDomain Registrar RegisterFly is offering $4 domain transfers and other discounts. RegisterFly says it became the 8th fastest growing registrar last week and is offering the transfer special to celebrate. You must enter coupon code "FLY6PROMO" to get ... Continue Reading3 Comments
New Dotster Happy Hour
· Domain RegistrarsDotster is having another happy hour-- this time for hosting. Dotster is having another happy hour this Wednesday at 4PM EST. Instead of selling cheap domains, this happy hour will offer the first 1,000 people a coupon for $1 per month webhosting. ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Dotster $.50 domains Wednesday
· Domain RegistrarsDomain Name Wire has learned that Dotster's second happy hour will offer domains for 50 cents. That's even better than the last offer of $1. The first 1,000 people will receive a coupon for a $.50 .com, .net, or .org domain. This is different from ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment