WebProNews

GoDaddy Auction VP Gets Slashdot Treatment

There's nothing improper about the VP of aftermarket domain auctions bidding up domain prices, says GoDaddy, but they've banned employees from participating in the future anyway, just to make everybody happy. And likely, to make the all the dirty looks go away. What looked like an idle comment in NamePros.com's domain forum stirred up the hornets nest a bit. The comment from a senior forum member going by Stevie read this way:

Secure Your Domain Name

What's in a (domain) name?Part of your online identity, for a start. Have you registered a domain in your own name? If not, have you checked whether someone else has? And if they have, do you know what they’re doing with your name?

GoDaddy Cops Out On RateMyCop.com

Site owner Gino Sesto picked the wrong host for his RateMyCop.com site, as GoDaddy took it offline and evidently refused to provide the real reason for doing so.

GoDaddy's New Super Bowl Ad

GoDaddy CEO Bob Parsons has revealed, on his "Hot Points" blog, that after 10 submitted spots were rejected by Fox Network, the network has approved and agreed to air the new 2008 Superbowl Ads starring Danica Patrick in a commericial he calls "Spot On" in an apparent reference to all the rejected spots which are "off" because they were rejected.

MySpace Has Super Bowl Ad Widget

There's a new official Super Bowl Ads Page live now at http://www.myspace.com/superbowlads .Grab that OFFICIAL Superbowl Countdown widget and customize it with your own message, then put it on your own profile or blog.

GoDaddy & Google Partner on Webmaster Tools

Go Daddy and Google collaborate to offer easy access to Webmaster Tools, informs the Google Webmaster Central Blog.

GoDaddy Gets RegisterFly Domains

GoDaddy will inherit some 850,000 of the domains originally registered by RegisterFly according to this week’s ICANN agreement. RegisterFly has been struggling for some time. Last month, a federal judge issued an injunction enabling ICANN to terminate RegisterFly’s accreditation. This came after many different problems and customer complaints, not the least of which were fraud accusations.

GoDaddy And Friends Rescue RegisterFly Database

It was a team effort, but GoDaddy.com was the main mover; it’s this domain name registrar that “will take over the entire portfolio of more than 850,000 generic top-level domain (gTLD) names held by RegisterFly.” "GoDaddy And Friends Rescue RegisterFly Database"

GoDaddy Claims Success With Super Bowl Ad

GoDaddy.com saw its market share increase 75 percent on February 5, the day after the Super Bowl according to Hitwise. Their commercial was rated as one of the “least favorite” but the site still managed to attract more new customers and saw improved sales. On Monday the site saw revenue increase 70 percent year-to-year. They also had a 37 percent spike in new customers this year when compared to the 2006 Super Bowl.

GoDaddy's PR problems

For a variety of reasons, I've been registering all my domain names at GoDaddy.