| GoDaddy.com Review |
May 31st, 2006 |
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Go Daddy Software, Inc.
http://www.godaddy.com
Price: 8/10
Features: 8/10
Interface: 7/10
Customer Service: 7/10
Overall Rating: 7.5 |
Pros and Cons:
- World's largest domain name registrar.
- Competitive prices, specially with the promo codes.
- Lots of value-added features.
- Interface is ok but a bit complicated and slow.
- The amount of advertising of products they try to push on you when buying a domain name is annoying. |
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| .com | .net | .org | .biz | .info | .us | .co.uk | .tv | .ws | .name | .eu |
| $8.95 | $8.95 | $7.95 | $7.95 | $5.95 | $7.95 | $19.95(2 yr) | $34.95 | $9.99 | $9.95 | $14.75 |
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| GoDaddy Files For IPO |
May 22nd, 2006 |
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The Go Daddy Group Inc., web hosting and domain name registration provider has asked the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to approve its listing on the NASDAQ market under the stock symbol DADY so it can offer for sale shares of public Class A common stock (as much as $200 million). The number of shares to be offered and the price range for the offering have not yet been determined.
GoDaddy is the world's largest domain-name registrar, with about 13.6 million domain names under management and about 2.4 million customers. It's also North America's largest shared Web site hosting provider.
Although it's true that GoDaddy is growing very fast (from just $4.3M in revenue in 2001 to a whopping $140M in 2005), but the truth is GoDaddy loses money and its annual losses are increasing (<$774,000 in 2003, $1.8M in 2002, $3.6M in 2004, and $11.6M in 2005), maybe due to its huge spending on marketing (from $1.2M in 2003 to over $15M in 2005).
According to the filing, GoDaddy plans to use the money from the IPO for the repayment of about $7 million in debt, and for working capital and other general corporate purposes, including the expansion of the customer care and support, and research and development organizations.
(Source: msnbc.msn.com) |
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| ICANN approves the .TEL |
May 16th, 2006 |
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Telnic Limited is pleased to announce that ICANN has approved the new .tel sponsored top-level domain.
We would like to take this opportunity to thank ICANN for their ongoing commitment to the .tel initiative, and our community for their support.
Over the coming weeks, Telnic will update the Telnic.org website with the launch timetable and provide information to our community. To be notified regarding key dates, press releases and more, please click here to register your interest. |
(Source: telnic) |
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| ICANN Board Votes Against .XXX sTLD Agreement |
May 11th, 2006 |
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Marina del Rey, California, 10 May 2006: Today, ICANN's Board of Directors voted against a proposed agreement for a .XXX. Sponsored Top Level Domain (sTLD). The application was proposed by the ICM Registry.
The application has received much public comment and detailed discussion by the ICANN Board. Reflecting the diversity of views this application has generated, the Board discussion at today's meeting focused on the criteria for the sTLD, especially for sponsorship, and the terms of the contract proposed by ICM, including compliance issues related to key terms associated with public policy concerns. ICM had proposed additional terms in response to issues raised by ICANN's Governmental Advisory Committee, particularly at ICANN's meeting in Wellington in March. http:// www.icann.org/announcements/announcement1-18apr06.htm
ICM had requested that the ICANN Board vote on the proposed contract at this meeting.
ICANN's Board voted 9 to 5 against the proposed agreement. Votes in favor of the proposed .XXX Registry Agreement were cast by the following Board Members: Veni Markovski, Susan Crawford, Peter Dengate Thrush, Joichi Ito, and Mouhamet Diop. Directors who voted against the approval were Vint Cerf (Chairman), Alejandro Pisanty (Vice-Chairman), Raimundo Beca, Demi Getschko, Hagen Hultzsch, Njeri Rionge, Vanda Scartezini, Paul Twomey (President and CEO), and Hualin Qian. Additional details regarding the vote will be provided by ICANN later this week. |
(Source: ICANN) |
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| $0.60 .info's at Registerfly |
May 9th, 2006 |
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Just received this in my email: Starting tomorrow for period of 12 hours, we will be discounting .info names to the LOW LOW price of .60 /ea
How to redeem my .info promotional code
* Make sure you are logged into your RegisterFly account
* You must have at least one .info domain name purchase in your cart
* Enter the code "SUPERINFO"
This code will not work till tomorrow |
RegisterFly.com |
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| eNom, Inc. Acquired by Demand Media, Inc. |
May 2nd, 2006 |
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eNom, Inc. (www.enom.com), one of the world's largest Internet domain name registrars, announced that it has been acquired by Demand Media, Inc., a new company headed by former MySpace.com chairman, and former CEO of Intermix Media, Richard Rosenblatt. Los Angeles-based Demand Media will broaden eNom's offerings by developing proprietary content tools and technologies, as well as new online advertising opportunities for eNom's clients.
With the acquisition, Paul Stahura, eNom founder and CEO, becomes president and chief operating officer of Demand Media. Terms of the private sale were not disclosed. |
(Source: eNom)
eNom is one of the largest registrars. I'm not sure what this acquisition will mean, but I hope eNom continues to be also one of the most respected registrars, I like eNom just the way they are. |
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