Former employee alleges company ignored complaints about harassment. A former GoDaddy employee has sued the company in U.S. District Court, alleging it discriminated against her after she complained of sexual harassment. In the lawsuit, Rachel ... Continue Reading10 Comments
Go Daddy Takes Different Approach to Apps
· ServicesGo Daddy develops its own hosted applications. Go Daddy recently released a customer relationship management (CRM) application. The news isn't that Go Daddy launched a web-based CRM app. It's that Go Daddy continues to offer more online software ... Continue Reading5 Comments
Go Daddy Awarded Three New Patents
· Domain RegistrarsGo Daddy gets three new patents, bringing total to five. The Go Daddy Group, Inc, parent company of domain registrar GoDaddy, has been awardedthree new patents this month. Based on a search of "Go Daddy" with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Go ... Continue Reading2 Comments
GoDaddy Charges Own Customers with Cybersquatting
· Policy & LawDomain name registrar files UDRP complaints for its trademarks. You won't believe where the domain names are registered. Domain name registrar GoDaddy.com and its parent company have filed 4 UDRP cases with World Intellectual Property Organization ... Continue Reading19 Comments
GoDaddy Promotes Its Own Service When Switching Nameservers
· Domain RegistrarsDomain registrar offers its own competing service when changing nameservers. Domain name registrar GoDaddy.com is promoting its own domain parking service "Cash Parking" to customers who attempt to change a domain's nameservers to a competing domain ... Continue Reading10 Comments
GoDaddy.com Purchases Second Super Bowl Commercial
· Domain RegistrarsCompany to air two commercials during Sunday's Super Bowl. One of the last remaining advertising spots in Sunday's Super Bowl was snapped up by domain name registrar GoDaddy. The commercial will air near the two minute warning in the fourth quarter of ... Continue Reading10 Comments
Go Daddy Thwarts Cyber Criminal, 1,000 Accounts Locked
· Domain RegistrarsGo Daddy's security team stops perpetrator; about 1,000 accounts affected. GoDaddy.com, the world's largest domain name registrar, has thwarted an attack by a person who gained access to customer information. The company discovered that someone ... Continue Reading9 Comments
GoDaddy Takes on eBay, Amazon.com, and Yahoo
· Domain RegistrarsGoDaddy plans to open online selling site. In direct competition with eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY), Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN), and Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO), domain registrar Go Daddy is launching a marketplace dubbed "Go Daddy Marketplace" for people to buy and ... Continue Reading19 Comments
GoDaddy Increases Default Registration Period to 5 Years
· Domain RegistrarsBe careful as you click through checkout on GoDaddy. If you're used to quickly clicking through the GoDaddy checkout process to register domains, be warned: the default registration period has changed to 5 years. The graphic below shows the default ... Continue Reading17 Comments