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I was following the Gradient.com auction on GoDaddy Auctions for the last few days, and the domain name sold for $125,001 yesterday. Because Gradient.com was an expired domain name, the domain registrant has several days to renew the domain name before the winning bidder will be able to close on...

GoDaddy has filed a lawsuit (pdf) in an effort to take down one of the groups that it alleges is spamming offers to domain name owners and pretending to be affiliated with the registrar. If you’ve ever registered a domain name without Whois privacy, you are probably a victim of the defendants...

Company picked up about 300,000 domain names for $50 million. Last month GoDaddy (NYSE:GDDY) bought two domain name portfolios: Donuts’ portfolio of about 200,000 domains and a portfolio linked to Kevin Ham that had about 100,000 domain names. The company disclosed in its latest 10-Q filing...

GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY), reported financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2017. “GoDaddy delivered yet another great quarter, with continued strong growth in customers, revenue and cash flow,” said GoDaddy CEO Blake Irving. “As I look to my retirement from the CEO seat at...

GoDaddy continues to gobble up large domain name portfolios. Just a week after completing a deal to acquire Donuts’ portfolio of about 200,000 domain names, GoDaddy appears to have purchased legendary domain investor Kevin Ham’s domain name portfolio, or at least part of it. I detected a large...

I detected a domain portfolio acquisition by GoDaddy’s NameFind, and the news was confirmed to me by the company yesterday afternoon. GoDaddy acquired an unknown number of domain names from the Name.com / Rightside domain name portfolio, which I believe was sold by Donuts. Up until earlier this...

I received a scam email today that tries to trick domain name and website owners into going to some phishing website to supposedly agree to the new GoDaddy Universal Terms of Service Agreement. Here is the email: From: GoDaddy <ssl4194noreply@wrdsb.ca> To: ****************************...

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What other registrars will stop carrying new gTLDs?

GoDaddy (NYSE:GDDY) reported second quarter earnings up 22% year over year. The stock is up After Hours: 43.00 +0.55 (1.30%). Domain revenue up 14.6% year over year. Highlights: Total revenue of $557.8 million, up 22.3% year over year, or 23.5% on a constant currency basis. Total bookings of...

There was a service from Godaddy earlier at geo.godaddy.com Is it dead already? I don't see the link resolving to any website. It was an excellent tool to buy geo domain names in any extension.

GoDaddy has entered into an agreement to sell PlusServer, a business it picked up in the Host Europe Group acquisition, for €397 million (USD $456 million). Funds advised by BC Partners are buying the business. PlusServer is a managed hosting service that doesn’t fit into GoDaddy’s typical...

GoDaddy has launched a new domain investing section on its website. If you click on the “Domains” drop down menu on GoDaddy’s website, you can see the “Domain Investing” category on the bottom right section (with the word “New” next to it). Clicking on this link takes you to a section of the...

Like Title suggests, My friend have one domain which is listed for Auction at GoDaddy. I got it for him in drop catch, but the domain is still listed in auction @ GoDaddy. So, What happens if someone pays full price in "Buy Now" option at GoDaddy? Anyone experienced this? OR Any thoughts?

GoDaddy managed to rack up 56,000 extra years of .com registrations in June. How? “Using this one simple trick!” GoDaddy’s shopping cart defaults to a five-year registration period when you place a domain name in your cart. Most people switch this back to just one year, but some don’t...

Yesterday, the news that domainer Liulian acquired FH.com broke out. The previous owner of FH.com appeared to be NameFind LLC, which is a GoDaddy company. Right now FH.com’s whois appears to be Xiaosheng Liu, CEO of 62.com, seems like 62.com brokered the deal. The price of FH.com is not...

GoDaddy, the world’s largest cloud platform dedicated to small, independent ventures, today announced that it has registered its 1 millionth .UK1 domain in the United Kingdom. As more UK entrepreneurs and professionals decide to turn their ideas into reality, they are choosing GoDaddy to...

GoDaddy has been on fire the past two days, selling domain names out of it’s NameFind domain name portfolio. The following are simply domains I had noticed change ownership based on name server records, so there easily could be more. Yesterday, some of those sold included FOC.com which was...

GoDaddy Inc. today announced its Domain Connect Initiative. The initiative was launched to make it easier for customers to get the most out of their domain names. New APIs make it easier for customers of Microsoft, CloudFlare, Squarespace and other web services to point their domain names to...

GoDaddy Inc., the world’s largest cloud platform dedicated to small, independent ventures, today announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire ManageWP, the leading WordPress site management tool. ManageWP enables web designers and developers to manage multiple WordPress sites from a...