ICANN announced this week, the opening of the comment period for the "Post-Expiration Domain Name Recovery Working Group", seeking opinions certain matters from the registrant point of view, but failed to follow its own staff recommendation that it should address warehousing by registrars. What ICANN called for comments on this week were: """Whether adequate opportunity exists for … [Read more...]
The Next Big Domain Auction: GoDirect.com Today On NameJet.com
The auction closes today for GoDirect.com and with almost 4 hours to go the domain is already at $15,100. The are 121 bidders in the closed auction. Godirect.gov is a site where you go if you want to sign up for direct deposits of government benefits. The .gov site gets a lot of traffic, compete.com shows it getting over 70K visitors a month. Compete also shows the .com ranging from … [Read more...]
GoDaddy.com Still Growing & Hiring
With daily news of layoffs by the ten's of thousands, and business closings topping the news, it's great to see a company that is actually expanding in this lousy economy and it's excellent news that it is in our industry. According to the Phoenix Business Journal, GoDaddy Group is expanding it Scottsdale headquarter by about 21,000 square feet. The space will house additions to the … [Read more...]
Think You Can’t Compete With the Big Guys: How 2 Regular Guys Turned $2K Into $1M & Kick Madison Ave. Ass
Indiana brothers Joe and Dave Herbert entered a contest to create a Super Bowl commercial for Doritos. Their commercial “crystal ball", was chosen from around 2,000 entries. Doritos paid five finalists, $25,000, but promised to pay a contestant $1 million if the ad chosen to run during the game ended up as the No. 1 selection in USA Today's Ad Meter focus group ranking. The Herbert brothers … [Read more...]
Bob Parson Gets Covered by INC. Magazine
In a new story appearing in Inc. Magazine, entitled "The Way I Work", Bob Parson discusses his daily routine as head of the world's largest domain registrar. Parson also discusses the first Super Bowl ads, and his idea for the Godaddy girl, which he seems to credits in large part with taking Godaddy.com from a 16% market share to having by far the most domains under management. It's an … [Read more...]
Asset Protection Company Urges All To Register & Host Domains Outside Of US
The Sovereignsociety.com, a group whose fundamental purpose is to give advice regarding asset protection, issued an advisory yesterday, telling its members, that in light of the Kentucky Domain Seizure, they should register and host all of their domain names outside of the US. In its post, the SovereignSociety, in calling the Kentucky seizure action a "trade war", since the Commonwealth is … [Read more...]
The .ORG Registry Adopts A Domain Anti-Abuse Policy; Allows For Domain Cancellation: Are Your .Org’s At Risk?
Today The Public Interest Registry ("PIR"), the company which runs the .Org registry, announced a Domain "Anti-Abuse Policy", effective 5 February 2009. In announcing this policy PIR is taking a strong stand against what is defines as Domain Abuse and it gives itself the right to cancel, any .org, domain registration which is considered to be abusive. From the announcement: """"Abusive … [Read more...]