Go Daddy to take over RegisterFly domains

Posted on May 30, 2007

It was announced yesterday that Go Daddy has reached an agreement with RegisterFly and ICANN to take over approximately 850,000 RegisterFly domains still under control of RegisterFly CEO, Kevin Medina.

We’re pleased to be providing a safe, reliable home for your domain names. We’re in the process of getting everything ready for you, so your transition to GoDaddy.com® will be fast, easy and as smooth as possible.

Within the next few days, you should be receiving an email from us regarding how to log in to your account, as well as manage your domains. In the meantime, please feel free to check back at GoDaddy.com for any new developments.

We look forward to having you as a member of the Go Daddy family.

This is obviously great news for all three parties involved in the agreement. Great for GoDaddy, with added business of all the RegisterFly customers. Great for RegisterFly customers, because they have industry leading GoDdady support just a phone call or e-mail away. Great for ICANN, because Go Daddy is probably the only registrar with the manpower to clean up this Kevin Medina mess. Way to go GoDaddy!

Go Daddy now offers premium domains!

Posted on April 14, 2007

If you have searched for domains recently at Go Daddy you will notice a new offering of “premium domains.” We’re assuming Go Daddy has affiliated with some domain auction sites such as Afternic, Fabulous, Sedo, and BuyDomains to offer these domains. Sorry, GoDaddy, but this new feature is pretty weak. Most of the domains we’ve seen are not premium at all and for sale at ridiculous prices. Please dump the “premium domains” ASAP!

Go Daddy Gear!

Posted on February 2, 2007

Go Daddy is now selling T-shirts in their Go Daddy gear shop coming in two colors, black and white. Display your love for Go Daddy and buy this shirt today. Sorry non-US customers, shipping to US-only. https://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/superbowl05/shirts.asp

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Go Daddy shuts down site hosting illegal content.

Posted on January 27, 2007

A couple days ago MySpace officials demanded that Go Daddy shut down Seclists.org, which hosts roughly 250,000 pages of mailing list archives and other resources, because there was a list of thousands of MySpace account login information archived on the site. Go Daddy complied and pulled the plug on the site. The site was inaccessible for about 7 hours until the site owner of Seclists.org, Fyodor Vaskovich, found out what was going on and removed the lists. In a Go Daddy response, the Director of Network Abuse, Ben Butler, “As we have said to our customers - Go Daddy is committed to keeping the Internet a safe place. If there is material online that is jeopardizing Internet safety, we will take necessary action.”

What is GoDaddyRocks.com’s response on this? We think Go Daddy made a great decision. These password lists were compromising the safety of MySpace users and Go Daddy took the appropriate action by shutting down the site. Thanks Go Daddy for making the internet a safer place!

2nd Go Daddy commercial denied by ABC

Posted on January 22, 2007

Yet another Go Daddy Super Bowl gets rejected by ABC. This time it’s a commercial about two office workers registering personal domain names, and it gets pretty stupid and immature. Sorry GoDaddy, but this commercial simply is not funny at all. Get some better material!

http://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/superbowl07/view_ioy.asp

Go Daddy Introduces Domain Buy Service

Posted on December 28, 2006

In addition to their backordering service, Go Daddy has introduced a new domain acquisition service known as the “Domain Buy Service.” When you search for a name that is already taken, a “Use a Domain Buy Agent to get this name” link will appear. This seems like a great way to acquire the names you’ve always dreamed of.

The price of this service is $59.99 + either a 10% commission or $10 fee (whichever is greater). Go Daddy will appraise the domain, attempt to contact the owner, handle all negotations, and finally facilitate the transaction in a secure environment if and when a transaction were to take place. Great work GoDaddy! More information on this new service at the following URL: https://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/broker/landing.asp

Go Daddy Launches Online Photo Filer

Posted on December 27, 2006

Go Daddy has recently unveiled a new service to their plethora of already excellent services and products, the Online Photo Filer. The service features bulk uploads of your photos, password protection to certain galleries of your choice, an online editing tools accesible from the domain.

“The idea is to allow all digital camera owners to share their images, online and in print, without the fuss,” said Warren Adelman, GoDaddy.com President and COO. “There are other photo-sharing sites online, but most make you use their long and impossible to remember URLs, or they make your friends give up information to view your photos. With Online Photo Filer, you just provide them your personalized domain name.”

More information at the following URL: https://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/photo/landing.asp?ci=7309. We hope you enjoy this great new service from GoDaddy.