GoDaddy made a major announcement in a press release yesterday afternoon. The publicly traded company intends to purchase .Club, .Design, and Minds & Machines (MMX) TLDs. These TLDs will be folded into the company’s GoDaddy Registry division. Terms of the acquisition of .Club and .Design were not disclosed, but GoDaddy will be paying $120 million USD for MMX assets, subject to various approvals. MMX is traded publicly on the London Stock Exchange.
NameFind is the domain name portfolio company owned by GoDaddy. NameFind owns hundreds of thousands of domain names following acquisitions of several large domain portfolios (Uniregistry, Marchex, Berkens…etc.).
GoDaddy posted a job listing for a Director-level position with NameFind, according to a tweet from Paul Nicks, VP of the Aftermarket at GoDaddy:
Looking for someone with strong analytical and business background to run one of the largest domain portfolios in the world. One of a kind opportunity for someone with the right skillset. https://t.co/ONLcl5AxDf
— Paul Nicks (@PaulENicks) April 3, 2021
GoDaddy has started reporting some of its top domain name sales on a trailing basis, with the approval of both the buyer and the seller. This morning, GoDaddy reported a handful of its top domain name sales from November of 2020. Nine of these domain name sales were in the six figure range.
The top publicly reported sale in GoDaddy’s report is Exclusive.com, which sold for $350,000. I believe the domain name had been owned by Merlin Kauffman’s company, True Magic, prior to the sale. The domain name now has a coming soon page, and it appears to be some sort of payments company that will be using the domain name.
In 2017, GoDaddy changed its domain name expiry process. As far as I understood, this change was going to pretty much eliminate the ability for a domain registrant to renew a domain name once it went to auction for domain names registered at GoDaddy. I know this doesn’t apply for domain names registered at auction partner registrars like Enom, but I thought GoDaddy-registered names that went to auction could no longer be renewed post-auction.
It was always frustrating to participate in an auction, submit payment, and then receive the cancelation and refund email. It’s a frustrating experience and a waste of time.
Earlier today on Twitter, I was mentioned in a tweet by the winning bidder of ChicagoPizza.com. Apparently, this person won the auction for ChicagoPizza.com and the auction was cancelled. The winning bid for the domain name was $9,400, as archived by NameBio.
GoDaddy’s Joe Styler responded to the tweet thread:
Last week, I wrote an article sharing my opinion that a domain name should not be locked by GoDaddy in a legal dispute unless a court order is received – with very few exceptions. This came to my attention after reading about GoDaddy’s decision to lock domain names owned by Brent Oxley in response to litigation that was filed.
At several points during the discussion on NamePros, GoDaddy VP Paul Nicks commented that GoDaddy was working with outside groups to make a determination about whether or not its legal locking policy needs to be updated or revised. Yesterday afternoon, Paul shared another update to let people know the decision was reversed and the company has updated its policy:
GoDaddy Corporate Domains (GCD) is looking to hire a Senior Client Success Manager. This position would be well suited for someone who has domain industry experience and expertise, particularly for someone who has worked with corporate clients. In essence, the Sr. Client Success Manager position seems to be similar to the role of a Sr. Account Executive or Sr. Account Manager.
The company would like to hire someone with domain industry experience. Here’s an excerpt from the job listing regarding domain industry experience:
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