As DomainNameWire.com reported today, Godaddy has changed their minimum bidding policies on TDNAM expired domain auctions after a few posts ran criticizing Godaddy.com for the practice both on Andrew's site and on this blog. Godaddy now has reduced all minimum prices on TDNAM auctions to $10. Last week DomainNameWire.com pointed out that the practice of having variable starting pricing for … [Read more...]
With Its Business Ethics Called Into Question, GoDaddy Shoots SuperBowl Commericals & Plans The Party Of The Year
After last weeks, revelation in the domainnamewire.com that Godaddy is warehousing domains, and our discussion of how this action is jeopardizing the whole domain industry, now we see where some of the ill gotten profits are going. GoDaddy shot two completely different SuperBowl ads this week near Los Angeles. Both concepts feature auto racing superstar and GoDaddy Girl Danica Patrick. “We … [Read more...]
How GoDaddy Is Making Big Money Off Of Trademaked Domains and Putting the Domain Industry Right in the Hands Of CADNA
I'm sure you have all read the fine journalistic piece written by Andrew Allemann over at DomainNameWire.com, if not stop go read it and come back. I have a slightly different take on this ramifications and effect of what Godaddy.com is doing. Yes they are warehousing domains, in a tricky fashion, which Andrew's outstanding research discovered. But there activity much more serious in … [Read more...]
Here We Go Again: Now Enom Has A Site To Sell Its Own Domain Inventory: Where Did These Domains Come From?
Following on the heals of Tucows launch of YummyNames.com, to sell expired domains of its customers, Tucows elected to keep, today we notice that Enom has launched AcquireThisName.com. Enom is not taking credit for this site, at least not directly. If you click on the "about us" link you get this: Q: Do you own the domains you sell? A: No, we represent the domain owner and … [Read more...]
Tucows President Responds to Our Post About YummyNames.com
Elliot Noss, the President and CEO of Tucows has responded to our post of a few days ago regarding the YummyNames.com, the site Tucows set up to sell some of the domains it acquired from it's customers after they expired. The comments from Mr. Noss are unedited. Our comments will follow but feel free to comment: """""I wanted to weigh in here and provide my view very specifically. … [Read more...]
Fabulous.Com Makes It’s Case To Investors And Puts Together The Best Explanation of the Industry I’ve Ever Read
Dark Blue Sea which operates Fabulous.com, made a presentation to investors today which you can download and view here. It's a very interesting presentation of not only it's own business, but in great detail outlines the case for the domain industry as a whole. It's probably the best explanation I have ever read about the domain industry. You can direct all those people who never understood … [Read more...]
New .Info Policy Announced
Afilias, a global provider of registry services, announced today a new registration policy that will go into effect on November 6, 2008, which prohibits registrants from using .info domain names for "abusive behavior" Abusive Behavior includes, but is not limited to: phishing, e-mail spam and other types of spam, the willful distribution of malware, the use of botnets and … [Read more...]