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Go Daddy About To Surpass 40 Million Domains Under Management

Amit Chowdhry — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:07:36 +0000

Go Daddy will be surpassing 40 million domains under management sometime this week. About 10 years ago Go Daddy had about 17 million domain names registered. Last year Go Daddy made about $750 million in revenues. [Domain Name Wire]

Go Daddy Earns $750 Million In 2009 Revenue

Amit Chowdhry — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:47:53 +0000

Domain name registration company GoDaddy.com earned $750 million in revenue this past year according to CEO Bob Parsons. Go Daddy started only about 10 years ago and the company did not raise any venture capital thus far. Go Daddy employs about 2,400 people and is actively hiring people. About 1,600 of those 2,400 people work in customer service. The company has roughly 32,000 active reseller accounts and they host over 3.8 million websites.

In terms of domain name registration, Go Daddy has at least one domain name registered every second of the day. GoDaddy has about 33.5 million domains registered. Wild West Domains, its reseller subsidiary has around 3.3 million domains registered.

Daniel Goncalves Charged For Stealing P2P.com Domain And Selling It To L.A. Clippers Forward Mark Madsen

Amit Chowdhry — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:36:29 +0000

Daniel Goncalves is a guy that leaves in New Jersey that is the first to be charged with stealing a domain name and reselling it. Goncalves stole P2P.com and sold it on eBay. The buyer was Los Angeles Clippers basketball player Mark Madsen, who played ball at Stanford University.

Goncalves somehow got a hold of the password and shifted ownership to himself. Then he resold the domain name on eBay to Madsen, who was unaware that the domain name was stolen. Goncalves was arrested on Thursday for felony charges that include unlawful taking or deception, computer theft, and identity theft. Each of the 3 counts could carry a maximum sentence of 10 years.

Police estimated that the P2P.com domain name is worth about $200,000 based on the popularity of file sharing. Madsen paid $111,000 for the domain name. But Marc Ostrofsky, one of the legitimate owners of the P2P.com domain name said that his company spent 30 months and $500,000 trying to get back the domain name. They plan to file a civil lawsuit against Goncalves and his brother, Madsen, and GoDaddy.com. Ostrofsky said that GoDaddy was slow at responding to the theft.

[via AP]

GoDaddy Reminds You About Tuvalu Sinking When Buying .TV Domain

Amit Chowdhry — Mon, 04 May 2009 23:10:09 +0000

Tuvalu, an island in the South Pacific with about 11,000 inhabitants is eventually going to sink beneath the ocean. The .tv is the official domain name extension for the island and can be registered from GoDaddy.com.

Interestingly Twitter user Adam Quirk noticed that a pop-up window appears when registering the .tv domain name recommending buyers to go with a .com, .net, or .info. There is also a note that reminds people that the island is sinking.

If Tuvalu does end up sinking, its only real estate that will be left will exist on the Internet. Back in the 1990′s during the domain name rush, analysts were predicting that every TV station would want to snap up a .tv domain name for websites that could potentially be called NBC.tv, Sony.tv, Zee.tv, etc. But that never happened.

The island of Tuvalu even had a 12 year contract sharing agreement for revenue made from .tv registrations, marketed by DotTV. DotTV was even backed with $50 million in funding from Idealab.

Revision3 and Go Daddy Holding Contest To Have Diggnation Hosted In Your Living Room

Amit Chowdhry — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:48:24 +0000

Revision3 and Go Daddy have partnered on a contest that will bring a live episode of Diggnation to the winner’s living room. Everytime Go Daddy users type in the word “diggcouch” when buying a domain name or other service as the code, they are entered for a random drawing. This drawing is happening between now and October 22.

“Diggnation started on a couch in a living room and is still going strong thanks to viewers like you. To this day, almost every Diggnation is still shot on a couch in a living room and now we want to make that YOUR living room and YOUR couch!” states the Revision3 contest page. “Enter now for your chance to win a Diggnation taping in your living room. For one lucky winner, Kevin and Alex will come to your house and shoot an episode of Diggnation from your living room.”

Diggnation is a vidoe podcast that is hosted by Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht. The podcast covers top stories that make it to the homepage of Digg.com.