I am sure you’ve seen a domain name registered to Domains By Proxy, LLC in a Whois Lookup before. Chances are good that you’ve probably seen it hundreds or maybe thousands of times before. That’s because it’s the privacy service operated by Go Daddy.

For a while, the company listed 15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160 in Scottsdale, Arizona as the main address. About three months ago, the address changed, and it was updated across the millions of domain names registered to Domains By Proxy, LLC.

The reason for this move? Apparently, UPS Store #1669 changed locations. The store is now located at 14747 N Northsight Blvd Suite 111, PMB 309 in Scottsdale, Arizona, and now all Domains By Proxy, LLC registered domain names have been updated to reflect this. I would imagine the company has a huge mailbox.

Interestingly, and on a side note, United Parcel Service (UPS) owns both UPSStore.com and TheUPSStore.com, but for some reason, the shorter UPSStore.com is not resolving or forwarding despite being on the UPS.com namerservers. Hopefully, they fix that problem soon.

It’s been just over two months since I switched to GoDaddy hosting for my blog, and I want to give you an update on how things have been going so far.

When I first announced the switch, a few people weren’t keen on the idea in public and private. Luckily for me, I don’t recall any downtime or outages whatsoever in these two months. The site has been humming along quite well, and I am very happy that I stopped paying $60/month and am now paying under $10/month.

Things have been going so well that I just moved DogWalker.com, another WordPress-based website, to GoDaddy hosting. I wrote about the hosting change on the DogWalker.com blog, and the reception on Facebook, Twitter, and via email has been positive.

The unique situation with DogWalker.com is that there are between 400-500 paying advertisers, and I couldn’t afford to have any downtime and risk getting angry emails. Luckily for me, the switch went off with out much of a hitch. I appreciate the support from GoDaddy’s tech team, as well as Todd Cluff’s management of the transition.

I am considering dropping the VPS all together and moving all of my sites to GoDaddy.

Just as a FYI, I have not been compensated in any way for this nor are there any affiliate links. It is likely that I received good treatment because I have very active websites with tens of thousands of visitors, and I have been a customer for 10 years.

Some serious charges have been lodged against Go Daddy regarding alleged domain name frontrunning, and because the person who wrote the article didn’t mention the domain name in question, it’s impossible to see what really happened. Mike Berkens also posted an article following up on a Bill Hartzer article.

I reached out to GoDaddy to see if the company could respond to the allegation, and I received a statement from Rich Merdinger, Vice President of Product Development – Domains at the company:

“Go Daddy does not and never has participated in domain name “front-running” – the act of registering domain names after a registration search is done.”

There are a few things that could have caused the person who made the allegation to think something was amiss at GoDaddy. Perhaps he entered the wrong domain name (ie a typo) which was available, and upon trying to register the actual name, it was unavailable. Another reason could have been that someone else registered the same domain name after he showed it was available. There are other possibilities as well.

One thing is pretty clear though. An allegation without mentioning the domain name is not fair to Go Daddy, and it’s probably damaging as well. In 2008, Network Solutions was heavily criticized  when front running was revealed, and the company ceased the practice shortly thereafter. A class action lawsuit was reportedly filed in response.

I hope the person who made the accusation provides more information so that we can all see for ourselves what happened.

As I mentioned yesterday, Go Daddy CEO Warren Adelman made an appearance on  Your World With Neil Cavuto  on Fox Business to discuss his outlook for venture capital funding for new business and where VC money is being invested right now.

The video is embedded above.

#GoDaddy CEO @asocialcontract is on Cavuto @FoxBusiness tonight talking venture capitalist spending – 5pm MT/8pm ET twitter.com/StephB0302/sta…

— Stephanie Bracken (@StephB0302) July 20, 2012

According to a tweet from Go Daddy Public Relations Specialist Stephanie Bracken, Go Daddy CEO Warren Adelman will be making an appearance on Your World With Neil Cavuto on Fox Business tonight at 8pm EDT. The Huffington Post has reported that this is the #1 show in its time slot, and it averaged well over 1 million viewers in May.

Mr. Adelman will be discussing small business and venture capitalist spending, and I would expect that he will discuss domain names and the domain aftermarket during his appearance. One reason the domain aftermarket has been strong is due to VC-funded entities acquiring good domain names for their startups.

I think special appearances like this are good for the domain industry because it’s insolar and channels like Fox Business have a pretty large following.

The video has been posted.