GoDaddy has been buying up companies for years. Some of the acquisitions happened fairly quietly and without fanfare, while others have been fairly seismic in their impact on a particular market segment. When they bought NeuStar, for example, they went from having no registry services to having a big chunk of that pie. In the domain name aftermarket space GoDaddy has been a … [Read more...] about GoDaddy Acquires Dan.com
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.TV Switching to GoDaddy Registry
The island of Tuvalu got lucky when they were assigned the two letter country code "tv". When internet domain names became a thing over 20 years ago they were naturally given the .tv domain extension and, as we all know, that has been used for many a video or TV based business. The domain registry has been operated by Verisign for years under a contract with the government … [Read more...] about .TV Switching to GoDaddy Registry
.Club Registry DNS Goes Down
The DNS for the entire .club domain extension is currently offline, or at least appears to be. While some DNS servers might be still serving old data from their cache the actual DNS servers for the domain are not working correctly. The .club registry are apparently aware of the issue, but no details of what it is nor when it will be resolved. All gTLD registry operators … [Read more...] about .Club Registry DNS Goes Down
Neustar Registry is now GoDaddy Registry
Back in April, at the height of the pandemic, GoDaddy announced its acquisition of Neustar's registry business. Any acquisition takes time to finalise and this was no different and in the middle of a pandemic I suspect the entire process may have had extra complications (it's not exactly easy to physically go onsite anywhere and travel restrictions would have added an extra … [Read more...] about Neustar Registry is now GoDaddy Registry
GoDaddy Enters the Registry Business
In what probably came as a surprise to many observers GoDaddy has announced that they are acquiring NeuStar's registry business. The announcement comes quite soon after the web giant's acquisition of Frank Schilling's Uniregistry registrar and marketplace. Both Neustar and GoDaddy made announcements about the acquisition last night. So what exactly have they … [Read more...] about GoDaddy Enters the Registry Business
GoDaddy Unveils New Branding
Branding is one of those things that many companies spend a lot of time and energy on. It goes from the company's logo down to the choice of font on the notepaper. GoDaddy's logo, up until yesterday, was highly recognisable and hadn't changed much since the company launched over 20 years ago. The new logo is, of course, part of the company's latest pivot. Under the new CEO … [Read more...] about GoDaddy Unveils New Branding
GoDaddy CEO to Retire in December
GoDaddy CEO Blake Irving is to retire at the end of the year. Irving, who is 58, will continue to be a member of the GoDaddy board until June 2018. https://twitter.com/Blakei/status/900097038863421440 Fortune magazine has more details of Blake's retirement. He'll be replaced at the helm by Scott Wagner, who is the company's president and COO. Under Irving's tenure … [Read more...] about GoDaddy CEO to Retire in December
GoDaddy CEO Speaks About DailyStormer
GoDaddy CEO Blake Irving has spoken to the media about DailyStormer and GoDaddy's position with respect to domains and sites they provide services to. While the interview focussed on the Daily Stormer, Blake Irving also spoke about GoDaddy's approach to dealing with content. The company has a large team that are tasked with reviewing complaints and seeing whether or not the … [Read more...] about GoDaddy CEO Speaks About DailyStormer
DailyStormer Switches to Google; Google “Cancels” Registration
At time of writing the extreme right-wing website Daily Stormer is still online. The website operator is now claiming to have "retaken control" of the site. However, as has been reported in the mainstream media as well as on most domain industry sites, the domain was booted by GoDaddy. It now resides with Google: Domain Name: DAILYSTORMER.COM Registry Domain ID: … [Read more...] about DailyStormer Switches to Google; Google “Cancels” Registration
DailyStormer Booted by GoDaddy and Claims to Have Been Hacked by Anonymous
Extreme right-wing hate site Daily Stormer is being booted by registrar GoDaddy. GoDaddy responded to various tweets over the weekend stating that they had given the website operators 24 hours to find a new domain name registrar: https://twitter.com/GoDaddy/status/896935462622957573 It's not 100% clear if the site itself was being hosted by GoDaddy, as it relies on … [Read more...] about DailyStormer Booted by GoDaddy and Claims to Have Been Hacked by Anonymous