FyreFestival.com Domain Name in Auction at DropCatch.com

Elliot Silver
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It looks like the Fyre Festival’s domain name, FyreFestival.com, is now in auction at DropCatch.com. If you visit FyreFestival.com, you will be automatically redirected to the auction page, where the high bid is currently $320 with 2 days to go. You can see this was the domain name used by the festival as it is referenced on the Fyre Festival Facebook page (screenshot above).

Interestingly, based on historical Whois records at DomainTools, it does not look like the domain name went through a standard “domain name life cycle.” In May of this year, the Whois record shows that FyreFestival.com was set to expire in November of 2018. For some unknown reason, the domain name seems to have expired prior to when it was supposed to expire in 2018.

A current Whois record shows the domain name

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GoDaddy Now Offering More WordPress Support

Elliot Silver
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A couple of days ago, I wrote about GoDaddy’s assistance in helping me install the SSL certificate on my website. I made a short lived effort on my own, but I ended up getting some awesome technical support from GoDaddy to install the SSL correctly.

It looks like this extra help may have been part of a new offering the company announced in a press release yesterday that I just saw on LinkedIn: GoDaddy Launches WordPress Premium Support To Provide Small Businesses With 24×7 Expertise. Here’s an excerpt from the press release:

“GoDaddy is launching WP Premium Support to ensure that every GoDaddy customer with a WordPress site has the help they need to make the most of their online presence. WP Premium Support provides access to WordPress experts and GoDaddy’s acclaimed 24x7x365 customer support team to help members fix bugs quickly, improve site security, reduce bounce rate, increase site traffic and speed, and assist with Theme and Plugin installations or modifications.”

When I published my article, a couple of people implied that I received special treatment from the company. Whether

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SSL Installed – Thanks to GoDaddy

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I have regularly lauded GoDaddy for its exceptional customer service. I have been a customer of GoDaddy for 13+ years, and my customer service needs have ranged from simple domain registrations and transfer assistance to more complicated web hosting needs. I just had a SSL certificate installed on DomainInvesting.com, and it was installed thanks to the efforts of the team at GoDaddy.

About a year before rebranding my blog from ElliotsBlog.com to DomainInvesting.com, I moved my web hosting to GoDaddy. At that time, GoDaddy was ramping up its hosting business, and I knew I could trust the company to assist with the hosting migration and offer rapid support if issues ever arose. Since making that transition, I have run into very few hosting issues and/or downtime. When small issues arise, they are generally handled very quickly.

Recently, I decided I wanted to add a SSL certificate across the entire website. I knew there would be some technical hurdles to overcome, so I started off by adding a SSL to the WordPress admin section of the website. The intention was to make the entire website secure, but I had concerns that the addition of the SSL could cause technical problems as well as SEO issues.

Dating back to when DomainInvesting.com was ElliotsBlog.com, there were some fairly

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BitcoinCash.org Sold for Nearly $50k, Already Developed

Elliot Silver
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In last week’s DNJournal weekly sales report, BitcoinCash.org was reported as sold at a $48,888 sale price via Rupii/GoDaddy. This sale ranks on DNJournal as the 56th largest public domain name sale of the year, and it is the seventh largest public non-.com domain name sale of the year so far.

Interestingly, it looks like the BitcoinCash.org domain name was hand registered in March of this year. Based on a DomainTools Whois Historical Whois search, it looks like the domain name had previously been registered to someone else, but it expired and was re-registered in March. Obviously, this is a fantastic return for the seller (identified by Ron Jackson as Rupii’s Christina Thorpe).

This morning, Mike Berkens retweeted a tweet from Bitcoin News, which discussed “Bitcoin Cash:”

When I saw the tweet, I immediately thought about Ron’s sales report and

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GoDaddy Participates in Net Neutrality Day of Action

Elliot Silver
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July 12 is being called  the Day of Action to Save Net Neutrality, and many of the largest websites are participating to encourage users to fight for net neutrality. Some of the major sponsors of this Day of Action are Google, Amazon, Facebook, Netflix, Twitter, Reddit, and many other large Internet-based businesses.

Although GoDaddy is not listed as one of the participants on the BattleForTheNet.com website, it looks like GoDaddy is participating in today’s events and helping to raise awareness. Here are a couple of tweets from the company highlighting its position advocating for net neutrality:

The company referenced an article written by CEO Blake Irving, which was published on GoDaddy’s blog, on Blake’s blog, and on Blake’s LinkedIn page. In this important article that informs readers about net neutrality and its importance, Blake wrote:

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UDRP Filed Against TheToolShed.com, Owned by NameFind (Updated)

Elliot Silver
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A UDRP has been filed against the generic-sounding domain name, TheToolShed.com. The UDRP was filed at the National Arbitration Forum (NAF), and it is case #1737883. The UDRP was first spotted by UDRPSearch.com.

TheToolshed.com was created in 2003, and the domain name is registered to NameFind, a company that is owned and operated by GoDaddy. A Historical Whois search at DomainTools shows that this domain name was previously owned by Worldwide Media, Inc., the company founded by Michael Berkens. Michael sold the vast majority of his domain name portfolio to GoDaddy at the end of 2015. The Whois History Tool shows that Worldwide Media owned this domain name dating back to 2003.

The domain name is parked with pay per click advertising related to tools. I do not see a price for this domain name at NameFind or Afternic. The PGA recently filed a UDRP against ThePlayers.com, and that UDRP was terminated. The PGA now owns the domain name, so I suspect they were able to reach a deal prior to the decision being rendered. The complicating factor in that case were the golf-related PPC links. In this UDRP, the links are all related to tools, which makes sense because the keywords are “The tool shed”

Because the UDRP was filed at the NAF, the complainant is not yet known because the NAF does not publish that information prior to the decision being announced. The keywords “The Toolshed” seems like a fairly descriptive term, so I won’t know for certain who filed the UDRP until the decision is rendered. A Google search for “The tool shed” shows quite many different websites using that term:

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