#GoDaddy trademark an issue with GoDaddyPayments.com

Posted by DomainGang on June 18, 2021, at 2:55 pm

Following news that GoDaddy is introducing GoDaddy Payments, a payment solution for GoDaddy’s Online Store and Managed WordPress Ecommerce, someone from China registered the domain GoDaddyPayments.com. This is not a registration of a generic set of terms, however, as “GoDaddy” is a registered trademark in various forms with the USPTO. Not only is GODADDY a […]

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GoDaddy has just released Afternic 1.99998

Posted by DomainGang on June 15, 2021, at 10:55 am

GoDaddy is on a roll today, unveiling Afternic 1.99998, a step closer to the much-anticipated Afternic 2.0. The release was made available at 6:00am this morning to Afternic account holders with small domain portfolios, including those that have zero domains at Afternic. “I can’t think of a better time to roll out a major Afternic […]

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GoDaddy : Remove our brand from the Trump Train

Posted by DomainGang on May 11, 2021, at 9:11 am

US politics don’t mix well with tech and GoDaddy wants to stay away from being associated with partisan activity. The operator of the Trump Train, a pro-Donald Trump bus that is full of Trump iconography on its wrap, was told to remove the GoDaddy domain name reference that somehow made it on it. So what […]

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Mark McCaffrey : Incoming #GoDaddy CFO is a PricewaterhouseCoopers veteran

Posted by DomainGang on May 5, 2021, at 9:21 pm

GoDaddy released its financial statement for Q1/2021 today. The company delivered solid growth results all around, missing however the EPS target for the quarter. An important indication of commitment to future growth is the recruitment of Mark McCaffrey, a 20 year veteran partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) who will be on board as the new GoDaddy […]

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List of 5 companies #GoDaddy might be buying next

Posted by DomainGang on April 8, 2021, at 9:43 am

GoDaddy is on a roll; the acquisition of Uniregistry, Neustar, and now .CLUB and .Design along with MMX, indicates that the largest domain registrar in the world has aspirations of galactic size. These acquisitions are an indication that GoDaddy’s appetite for a bigger share of the pie is just getting whetted. Here’s a list of […]

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Is #GoDaddy going after Frank Schilling’s UNR next?

Posted by DomainGang on April 7, 2021, at 7:19 pm

GoDaddy announced the acquisition of the .Club, .Design, and MMX registries today, a deal that places the top registrar in the world at the helm of 240 TLDs. Like a modern Cronus, GoDaddy swallowed the three registries and any speculation on the numbers involved might be revealed in next quarter’s financial statements – but not […]

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Supercharging.com : From $50k to low teens after #GoDaddy let it drop

Posted by DomainGang on April 3, 2021, at 11:01 am

Premium EV domain name Supercharging.com was in an expired GoDaddy auction in February, that ended at $50,000 dollars. It seems the auction’s winner never paid the fifty G’s and what did GoDaddy do? They let the domain drop. Jesus. Instead of re-auctioning the domain or awarding it to the 2nd highest bidder (once the high bidder’s […]

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After recount, 8minutes46seconds.com is now obsolete

Posted by DomainGang on March 29, 2021, at 5:12 pm

A domain’s relevancy might change, if it involves numbers that might change. In the case of 8minutes46seconds.com, the “8:46” time references how long George Floyd was knelt on, leading to his suffocation and death. Former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on George Floyd for 9 minutes and 29 seconds, and the new time of […]

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Brent Oxley saga almost over as #domains moved to #Namecheap

Posted by DomainGang on March 18, 2021, at 12:51 am

Brent Oxley‘s saga is almost over; a cache of valuable domains totaling millions of dollars were kept locked at GoDaddy, without a court verdict supporting that decision. An Indian self-styled broker’s attempt to abuse the GoDaddy system of locking domains “under dispute” backfired this week, as GoDaddy announced changes to how it’ll be handling such […]

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Brent Oxley just released a ton of emails about his locked #domains

Posted by DomainGang on March 9, 2021, at 3:32 pm

Domain investor and entrepreneur, Brent Oxley, just released a ton of emails related to his ongoing saga. Disputing that there was ever a contract with the Indian broker who has managed to lock down his domains at GoDaddy, Oxley shared dozens of emails, messages, and other information depicting the mental state of his former broker. […]

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#GoDaddy: Alarming number of #domain theft attempts

Posted by DomainGang on February 25, 2021, at 10:57 am

GoDaddy is the biggest domain registrar in the world, with more than 80 million domain names under management. It makes sense that it’s therefore the most targeted domain registrar by cybercriminals, due to the sheer volume of domains. For domain portfolio holders at GoDaddy, a type of upgraded protection is available. The message displayed under […]

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#GoDaddy removed the “Interested in purchasing this domain” option from #WHOIS contact form

Posted by DomainGang on February 16, 2021, at 4:27 pm

GoDaddy has removed the option to contact the owner of a domain via its WHOIS, if you’re interested in buying it. When looking up domain names registered at GoDaddy, you can see underlying Registry data, contact the domain holder, or report an invalid WHOIS. When clicking on the option to contact the domain holder (registrant,) […]

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