In the press release by Godaddy today, the company announced what we told you last week they would be announcing today, that they will be sharing a 30 second SuperBowl Commerical to "spotlight to tell the world about a new domain name extension -- .CO". ""We think this new commercial will do for the dotCO domain what our first Super Bowl commercial did for Go Daddy,' said Go Daddy CEO … [Read more...]
VentureBeat.com DemandMedia IS Worth $1.4-$1.7 Billion
In a blog post today on VentureBeat.com, Stephen Walker The CEO of Perfectmarket.com chats about DemandMedia's IPO and concluded: "I can now envision a scenario wherein Demand Media, whose properties include eHow, LiveStrong.com, and Cracked.com, is worth $1.4 – $1.7 billion. Not bad when you consider that the equity of the New York Times Company is currently valued at $1.2 billion. … [Read more...]
UPDATED: Protecting Your Domains: Registrars That Have Special Locking/Security Programs
In the wake of this weeks story's on domain theft we reached out to some of the registrars that offer "protection" or domain lock type programs to get details on their products. Here is a list of some of the registrars and the extra level of protection they offer: Fabulous.com: Fabulous.com offers two options customers can choose to enable to protect sensitive areas within their account, … [Read more...]
Moniker & SnapNames.com Redesigned Sites To Launch Monday: Here is Your Sneak Preview
Both Moniker.com and SnapNames.com are going to launch redesigned sites on Monday afternoon and we got a sneak peak. Generally the sites both look a lot cleaner and more user friendly. Gone from the front pages of both sites are the banner ads for other products including domain auctions, domain shows which I thought garbaged up the sites quite a bit. Replacing those ads both sites … [Read more...]
Who Might Buy Godaddy.com? The Fool.com Puts Up Its List
The Fool.com just published an article listing who they think might be the buyer for Godaddy.com In its article entitled "Whose Hot For Godaddy", the Fool.com lays out what they consider to be the most likely buyer of Godaddy.com. The Fool.com came up with these companies: Google, Amazon.com, Cisco Systems, Oracle, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Microsoft. To read about their reasoning for … [Read more...]
What A Goddady Sale Could Mean For The Domain Industry
Love him or hate him you have to admit that Bob Parsons has bought attention to domain names to mainstream America like no one before him. That's why the story by the Wall Street Journal yesterday saying that Godaddy was going to place itself in an auction to sell the company, is one all domainers should follow. Godaddy is not just a company in the domain space it is a company responsible … [Read more...]
Godaddy.com Gets X.Co & Its Already Up & Running
The .Co registry just announced today that Godaddy.com has been awarded X.Co. This is the 4th single letter .co to be released E.co sold for $81,000 in a charity auction sponsored by the .Co registry. Twitter was granted T.Co to use as a shortener. OverStock paid $350,000 for O.Co X.Co is already up and running at Godaddy.com Here is the the official announcement: ""URL … [Read more...]