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
GoDaddy plans IPO
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Microsoft releases tool to squash typosquatters
· Policy & LawMicrosoft has launched a tool to block ads on typosquatted domains. Typosquatting, the act of registering typos of popular domains, is a big business. Witness some recent typo domains that have sold for big bucks: Mortage.com for $242,400, ... Continue Reading2 Comments
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
Domain Name Wire cracks top 50,000 web sites
· UncategorizedDomain Name Wire's ranking has cracked the 50,000 barrier. Thanks to Domain Name Wire's loyal readers, the site recently cracked into the top 50,000 sites on the web according to Alexa. Many readers get the latest domain name news by viewing our feed ... 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
Chicago forgets to pay domain name bill
· UncategorizedThe City Clerk's office of Chicago forgot to pay its domain renewal bill, resulting in a site outage. As is too often the case, a large bureaucracy forgot to pay its renewal fee. The Chicago City Clerk's web site went down and was replaced with an ... 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
.EU eve
· Policy & LawIt's kind of like New Years' Eve - open registration for .eu domain names begins tomorrow. If you have a mailing address in the EU, that is. People without addresses in the European Union are not allowed to register .eu domains. Dotster is ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
