Nobody Will Request an “Appraisal Certificate”

Elliot Silver
-
6

Domain industry attorney Jason Schaeffer reported today that three of his clients received $60,000 offers to buy domain names, and the supposed prospective buyer requested an “appraisal certificate” in order to proceed with a deal.

Read More

Brandsight Job Opening: Account Executive

Elliot Silver
-
2

Brandsight is looking to hire someone in an Account Executive role, according to a job opening posted recently on LinkedIn. Because GoDaddy acquired Brandsight earlier this year, the job listing is under the GoDaddy branding. This is a work from home remote job (at least for the time being), and the location is the United States or United Kingdom.

Here’s the description of what the job entails:

Read More

GoDaddy Monetizing Mobile Parked Names with Link to Broker Service

Elliot Silver
-
1

Nepotism Barbie is trending on Twitter right now, and the domain name NepotismBarbie.com was registered at GoDaddy in January of this year. It doesn’t look like the registrant has done anything with this domain name, but that is not really the point of this article.

Have a look at NepotismBarbie.com, a domain name that resolves to the default GoDaddy nameservers. This looks like the standard GoDaddy default landing page. Here’s a screenshot of what you would see if you were on your desktop computer and typed in NepotismBarbie.com:

Read More

GoDaddy Announces COVID-19 Related Layoffs

Elliot Silver
-
10

Some unfortunate news to report from GoDaddy this morning. GoDaddy CEO Aman Bhutani had the difficult job of announcing a round of layoffs at the company, the direct result of the impact the COVID-19 coronavirus has had on the company. The news comes less than three months after the company “pledged not to lay off employees for at least 90 days,” according to a Phoenix Business Journal article from April.

Read More

More Sales Data Coming from DAN and GoDaddy

Elliot Silver
-
4

In the coming months, we will begin to see more domain name sales data shared publicly by two of the largest domain name sales platforms. This morning, GoDaddy and DAN separately announced that more domain name sales transacted on their platforms will be publicly shared and reported.

DAN announced its privacy policy change on Twitter, providing details about how sellers are able to opt out of sharing sales they transact on the platform:

Read More

GoDaddy Online Services Cayman Islands Ltd.

Elliot Silver
-
3

Last week, Finlead first highlighted a big corporate name change involving Uniregistry and GoDaddy. It looks like the new corporate registrar name for domain names registered at Uniregistry is GoDaddy Online Services Cayman Islands Ltd. This comes on the heels of GoDaddy’s acquisition of Frank Schilling’s company, which includes Uniregistry and Name Administration.

Read More
1...343536...117Page 35 of 117