GoDaddy Shares the Success Story of VidaliaOnions.com

Elliot Silver
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Peter Askew has done well with VidaliaOnions.com, building a successful e-commerce website selling Vidalia onions after winning the domain name in an expiry auction. As a customer, I like how easy VidaliaOnions.com is to use and buy onions, and as a colleague, I appreciate how much effort went into building and launching this successful website and business.

As part of GoDaddy’s keynote presentation at this year’s NamesCon Global conference, GoDaddy visited the farm where VidaliaOnions.com sources its onions. They spent the day with Peter and farmer Aries Haygood to learn about the business operations and growth of the vidalia onion business.

The video can be found embedded in the GoDaddy tweet below:

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GoDaddy Landing Page Induces UDRP

Elliot Silver
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Unfortunately, it looks like my prediction about the new GoDaddy pay per click-focused landing page design was prescient. Just yesterday, I wrote “In fact, some registrants may believe this is discourteous if GoDaddy were to monetize their landing page with trademark infringing links that induce a UDRP (or worse).” It looks like this was the exact issue in the ArtPetrossian.com UDRP.

Before diving into the UDRP and its decision, have a look at the landing page on ArtPetrossian.com:

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Thanks, GoDaddy! (for the laugh)

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I read an article in this morning’s New York Post about a possible “air bridge” between London and New York City. While the air bridge idea wasn’t all that interesting to me right now, it did make me think about AirBridge.com to see how the domain name is being used. What I saw made me chuckle a bit:

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DownPat.com Sold by NameFind in November, Expired in March

Elliot Silver
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Andrew Allemann wrote about the DownPat.com UDRP, which was decided in favor of the domain registrant who acquired the domain name via GoDaddy Auctions for $861. Although the domain registrant won the UDRP in a decision I agree with, I think what happened to the complainant really stinks.

In looking at the Whois History at DomainTools, I see DownPat.com was previously registered to NameFind, the domain name portfolio company owned and operated by GoDaddy. The domain name appears to have been acquired by GoDaddy when it acquired Michael Berkens’ portfolio several years ago.

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Fanbase.com Sells for $151,000 on GoDaddy Auctions

Elliot Silver
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The expiry auction for Fanbase.com ended today at GoDaddy Auctions, and the domain name sold for $151,000. There were 229 bids placed from 29 bidders in the three day expiry auction.

The sale of Fanbase.com is the largest expiry auction at GoDaddy Auctions that I can recall. In looking at NameBio, the next three highest value expiry auctions at GoDaddy in the last 5 years include:

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GoDaddy Whois Contact Form

Elliot Silver
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Late last year, I discovered and shared that people are able to contact domain registrants directly via the GoDaddy Whois lookup page. This may be helpful because domain registrant contact information was recently removed from GoDaddy Whois lookup pages. Earlier this week, I discovered a change in the format of the GoDaddy Whois contact form – instead of a custom message field, I was given four contact options from which to choose:

I shared what I found on Twitter:

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