The SuperBowl is on this Sunday and as usual there’s probably as much media interest in the adverts that big brands will be showing during the commercial breaks as there is in the game itself. As previously mentioned, this year’s GoDaddy ad features Bar Refaeli. The advert is short and simple, but it’s likely to [...]
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Bar Refaeli To Star In GoDaddy Ad
Bar Refaeli is to star in this year’s GoDaddy superbowl ad. The Israeli supermodel will star alongside longtime GoDaddy girl Danica Patrick in an ad entitled “Perfect Match” Refaeli was ranked number 1 in Maxim’s Hot 100 for 2012. She’s also behind the aptly named line of underwear under.me, which we mentioned recently. Full release [...]
Wired Think Verisign Competes With GoDaddy
Wired is one of the few publications that generally does a good job of reporting all things technical and internet related. However the magazine’s site last night ran an article reporting on the GoDaddy outage with the title: Amid Outage, GoDaddy Moves DNS to Competitor VeriSign On what planet do GoDaddy and Verisign compete? I [...]
GoDaddy Suffers Massive Outage
GoDaddy is the world’s largest registrar and hosting provider. Earlier this evening they suffered a massive outage which appears to be related primarily to their DNS. However it is unclear if that is the issue and it is also unclear as to what is the cause. At the moment pretty much every tech blog on [...]
GoDaddy Responds To Front Running Claims
Over the last week several bloggers have posted accusing GoDaddy of “front running”, which is a practice that was effectively blocked by ICANN several years ago. GoDaddy have responded and explained how people can confuse lack of originality (their chosen domain wasn’t really unique) with nefarious activity. Their post is short, sweet and to the [...]
GoDaddy Hiring New CEO Techcrunch Don’t Check Basic Facts
The job vacancy may not have been announced yet, but GoDaddy will be looking for a new CEO. Warren Adelman was officially made CEO of GoDaddy back in December of last year. Andrew Allemann of DomainNameWire was one of the first to break the story yesterday and also managed to get GoDaddy’s founder, Bob Parsons, [...]
Big News Chez GoDaddy
This evening has seen a couple of pretty big stories coming out of GoDaddy. First off GoDaddy CEO told reporters that the company was applying for 3 domain extensions (TLDs) including .godaddy (their .brand). He wouldn’t say what the other two strings were, but it’s safe to assume that they are more generic. The other [...]
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