GoDaddy shuffles board of directors three weeks before earnings
GoDaddy announced changes to its board of directors (BOD) just three weeks before scheduled Q4/2022 & fiscal 2022 earnings. Srini Tallapragada and Sigal Zarmi are in, moving from Salesforce and Morgan Stanley respectively. The impressive qualifications of these two new board members were lauded by GoDaddy CEO, Aman Bhutani, who noted: “GoDaddy’s diverse board is […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.GoDaddy to announce Q4/2022 and fiscal year earnings on Valentine’s Day
On Valentine’s Day, GoDaddy will be sharing its performance results for Q4/2022, alongside the fiscal year 2022 earnings. The report will be released on February 14th, after the US stock market closes. Following the release, a webinar will be hosted by the GoDaddy management at 5:00pm Eastern time. You can register for the webinar here. […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.GoDaddy auction bidders: Prepare(.com) to waste your time
Expired domain auctions at GoDaddy come with a fair warning for the winner: You might end up not getting the domain. Even after the auction finishes, as long as the registrant renews within the time frame that ICANN mandates, money and time is lost for the auction’s winner. Although the amount paid is refunded, that […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Silver lining in Dan.com fee-jacking revealed
There’s a silver lining in the recent fee-jacking that Dan.com users will face, apparently. The back story: GoDaddy-owned Dan.com decided to raise the fees it collects on the platform, from the current 9% to 15% beginning on February 1, 2023. This price increase was matched by a similar increase at the Uni Market and a […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Reza Sardeha talks about the Dan future and fee changes
Dan founder, Reza Sardeha, emerged via Twitter and delivered his personal opinion about the recent drastic fee changes at GoDaddy. The back story: Just months after acquiring Dan.com in June 2022 for a reported $71 million dollars in cash, GoDaddy increased the fees domain investors pay to use the Dan platform. Starting on February 1st, […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Bye Dan: Sedo will keep its BIN landers at 10% commission
Domain investors are facing an unprecedented act by GoDaddy, that will be imposing a 25% commission on domains that are added on Afternic, Dan, or the Uni Market whilst not using their nameservers. In effect from February 1st, the 25% commission is a massive “head tax” that attempts to terrorize domain investors that use their […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Media Temple: Another GoDaddy “funeral” of a great brand
GoDaddy collects brands – the ones that stand in its way to control the ebb and flow of its domain name and hosting business. It’s not a secret that a big chunk of revenue for GoDaddy comes from its core web hosting services. Once you register domains at GoDaddy you will be upsold with hosting, […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Asking questions after the new Afternic/Dan/Uniregistry fee changes
The “price alignment” that GoDaddy is rolling out across its marketplaces has created a shock and awe effect among domain investors. Increasing Dan.com commissions to 15% is just the tip of the iceberg, as the Afternic.com supposed drop from 20% to 15% isn’t a reduction of fees; Afternic drops its tiered pricing altogether: In the […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Dan.com raises base commission rate to 15%
Popular domain platform, Dan.com, is increasing its base commission to 15%. Beginning on February 1, 2023, the increase will take effect, for all domains that use Dan, Afternic, or Uniregistry DNS. Alternate DNS usage will result in an even higher commission, set at 25%. GoDaddy calls this a “price alignment” and is sending similar emails […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.GoDaddy turns on the .TV
GoDaddy has rolled out a new marketing campaign to “Turn on .TV” as a destination of choice. The GoDaddy Registry has taken over the digital airwaves for .TV domains, a popular ccTLD that despite representing Tuvalu it’s a global acronym treated by Google as a generic ccTLD. GoDaddy is now asking everyone to TurnOn.TV per […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Dan rolls out updates proving it was a worthy acquisition
Dan.com rolled out a new product update, codenamed #7, with plenty of additions and improvements. The latest batch of updates arrives two months after update #6, proving that Dan’s acquisition by GoDaddy was quite worthy; meanwhile, Afternic 2.0 is still in the works. So what’s new at Dan.com? Here are some highlights: Afternic Reseller Network […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.GoDaddy: We are retiring the Pro Rewards program
GoDaddy has announced the upcoming termination of its GoDaddy Pro Rewards program. The stifling of the GoDaddy Pro Rewards program began in 2020, with the waiving of cashback rewards. The end of the GoDaddy Pro Rewards program will occur on November 20, 2022. All rewards points that have been earned will be redeemable for in-store […]
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