GoDaddy

In September of last year, GoDaddy was brokering both SV.com and LA.com on behalf of the owner of the domain names,  a media company called MediaNews Group. A few days ago, I noticed a Whois update occurred on the SV.com domain name, and the domain name appears to have been unlocked for a transfer. I can now confirm that SV.com has sold.

According to David Helgeson, Director of Aftermarket Sales at GoDaddy, “We can’t disclose price, but can confirm the sale happened and it was a co-brokered sale with Brian Kleiner from GoDaddy and Tracy Fogarty from eNaming.com.”

At the time of

One of the storylines about this year’s Super Bowl commercials is that GoDaddy is not advertising for the first time in a long time. The company made the decision not to run a Super Bowl television commercial and announced it towards the end of last year.

During tonight’s Super Bowl game, there have been many comments about GoDaddy’s advertising absence. GoDaddy is using these interactions to humorously inject itself into the Super Bowl conversation. In fact, some of the company’s responses are pretty hilarious.

Posted below are a handful of GoDaddy tweets in response to people commenting about the lack of a GoDaddy Super Bowl commercial. There are plenty more, but here are some of the funnier ones I found:

I shared the story about how GoDaddy invited me to be their guest at a NASCAR race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway back in September. I also shared the fun story about how my picture was used on the back of Danica Patrick’s race car in her last race in the GoDaddy #10 car. I want to share another brief story illustrating GoDaddy “going the distance” for me.

Shortly after seeing the race car with my photo on the back, I reached out to my contacts at GoDaddy to ask if I could buy the back panel of the car to display in my office. I figured it would be a long shot, but there would be no harm in asking. I reached out to Paul Nicks and Nick Fuller, and they both told me to connect with Paula Hozza, Director of Corporate Sponsorships at GoDaddy.

I got in touch with Paula, and she let me know that

GoDaddy will be hosting a meetup in its Tempe, Arizona headquarters on February 18 from 6pm-9pm. The free meetup is open to domain investors and others who are interested in talking about domain names with GoDaddy employees and others who are involved in the domain investment space.

Joe Styler shared a link to the Meetup.com page with information about the event: