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… Continue reading Bar Refaeli Kissing Geek For GoDaddy Ad
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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… Continue reading 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… Continue reading 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… Continue reading 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… Continue reading 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,… Continue reading 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… Continue reading Big News Chez GoDaddy
Want a Short Domain? Check Out The .Pro Auction
I’d be the first to admit that I wasn’t exactly enamoured with .pro as an extension due to the registry rules. It seemed to have been setup to serve the US market solely and even then only a small subset of the US would even have been able to deal with the registration requirements. In… Continue reading Want a Short Domain? Check Out The .Pro Auction
GoDaddy Breaks 50 Million Domain Mark
GoDaddy’s growth has been phenomenal. Over the weekend the Arizona based registrar broke a new record as it crossed the 50 million domain mark – which is not only a first for the company, but a first in the history of the internet. Full release on their site
Catching Up On Domain News
Since I haven’t been posting on here as often as I used to for a variety of reasons here are a few articles that I thought were newsworthy: Laos possibly pulling back .la? – .la, which was re-purposed as the extension for Los Angeles might go back under Laos control. Good article by Kevin. Email… Continue reading Catching Up On Domain News