GoDaddy's new CEO, Blake Irving, has started blogging. It's a bit of a tradition with GoDaddy's CEOs to blog, though the company's first CEO, Bob Parsons, was by far the most flamboyant to date. Irving's predecessor, Warren Adelman, also blogs from time to time, but hasn't posted anything since 2011. Blake Irving's blog so far only has a handful of posts, but he … [Read more...] about GoDaddy’s New CEO Is Blogging
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Christine Jones Running For Governor of Arizona
Former GoDaddy general counsel Christine Jones is getting into politics. Ms Jones announced over the weekend that she was planning on running for governor of Arizona, where both she and GoDaddy are based. While precise details of Jones' campaign are not available as yet, they should be announced in the next few weeks. She's got a campaign site, Twitter and … [Read more...] about Christine Jones Running For Governor of Arizona
Bar Refaeli Kissing Geek For GoDaddy Ad
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 get more attention from some circles than the company's racier … [Read more...] about Bar Refaeli Kissing Geek For GoDaddy Ad
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 on their site. … [Read more...] about Bar Refaeli To Star In GoDaddy Ad
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 had posted a comment on the article over … [Read more...] about Wired Think Verisign Competes With GoDaddy
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 the planet, tech journo and tech pundit is pushing out blog posts, … [Read more...] about GoDaddy Suffers Massive Outage
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 point, but also … [Read more...] about GoDaddy Responds To Front Running Claims
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, to make a few comments on the record. Adelman has been with … [Read more...] about GoDaddy Hiring New CEO Techcrunch Don’t Check Basic Facts
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 big news is that Christine Jones, GoDaddy's general … [Read more...] about Big News Chez GoDaddy
Is Godaddy For Sale?
According to an article in the Wall Street Journal the GoDaddy group might be up for sale. Godaddy's founder, Bob Parsons, had toyed with taking the company a couple of years ago, but in the end pulled away. … [Read more...] about Is Godaddy For Sale?