8% of employees being let go in second round of layoffs since 2020. GoDaddy announced yesterday that it's letting go of about 8% of its employees. CEO Aman Bhutani announced the layoffs in a notice to employees and impacted employees have ... Continue Reading6 Comments
Epik and Rob Monster fined $10,000 in DNProtect settlement
· Domain RegistrarsWashington State insurance commissioner went after company for offering insurance product. Domain name registrar Epik shut down its DNProtect service earlier this month, and now we know why. The Washington State insurance commissioner was ... Continue Reading3 Comments
Epik updates: layoffs and technical issues
· Domain RegistrarsCEO addresses layoffs and technical issues. I've heard more chatter about Epik over the past couple of weeks, and I reached out to Epik CEO Brian Royce for an update. First, I noticed a couple of Epik employees/contractors posting that they'd ... Continue Reading30 Comments
How to fix the “wrong country” problem at GoDaddy
· Domain RegistrarsGet stuck in the wrong country? Here's what to do. The other day I was on GoDaddy when I noticed the URL in my address bar changed. It was no longer just GoDaddy.com. Every page was godaddy.com/en-au. I had landed Down Under. Most frequent ... Continue Reading7 Comments
Latest .com rankings: a slow month
· Domain RegistrarsHere are the biggest and fastest-growing domain name registrars for .com domains. ICANN has published the latest official data from Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) about the .com namespace. This registrar-by-registrar report covers September 2022. It ... Continue Reading3 Comments
GoDaddy acquires Dan – 2022 top stories
· Domain RegistrarsGoDaddy gobbled up a competitor, and domain investors are worried. A single acquisition rarely rises to the level of being a top annual story in our industry, but GoDaddy's acquisition of Dan.com this year rises to that level. For domain ... Continue Reading1 Comment
GoDaddy gets another domain suggestion patent
· Domain RegistrarsPatent describes way to use training data to create search results. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted patent number 11,539,661 (pdf) to GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY). Using a learning algorithm to suggest domain names is closely related to ... Continue Reading1 Comment
GoDaddy responds to lawsuit over 968.com domain
· Domain RegistrarsDomain registrar asks court to dismiss the case. GoDaddy has responded to a lawsuit filed in October regarding the 968.com domain name. In the suit, Yuming Hao stated that she acquired the domain name from a person named Chu Chu for ￥800,000 ... Continue Reading8 Comments
Dynadot adds closeouts, changes auction pricing structure
· Domain RegistrarsDutch auctions will follow regular auctions. Domain name registrar Dynadot is making two changes to its expired domain auctions. First, the company is introducing closeout auctions similar to GoDaddy. These Dutch auctions will occur when a ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Michael Riedl replaces Ben Crawford as CentralNic CEO
· Domain RegistrarsA surprise leadership change at CentralNic. Ben Crawford has retired from CentralNic (AIM: CNIC) after leading the company as CEO since 2009. He is also departing the board. The company's CFO, Michael Riedl, has been promoted to CEO. Riedl came ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
