GoDaddy to Host Domain Buy Service Hangout

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For customers who want to buy a specific domain name but don’t really know how to go about doing that, there are a number of services offered by companies like Domain Agents and registrars like GoDaddy and Network Solutions. I would imagine GoDaddy’s Domain Buy Service has considerable volume due to the company’s footprint, although I have only received a couple of inquiries and no closed deals that I can recall.

Yesterday afternoon, GoDaddy tweeted about an upcoming Google Hangout to discuss its Domain Buy Service:

As I generally do when I see something like this, I reached out to GoDaddy’s Joe Styler to ask for some details about the Hangout. Here’s what Joe told me:

OccupyWallStreet.com on Auction at GoDaddy

When I received my morning email from Dropping.com, OccupyWallStreet.com was the domain name coming up for auction that stood out the most. It looks like OccupyWallStreet.com expired in July, and the GoDaddy auction for it is concluding this afternoon.

The Occupy Wall Street movement was one of the leading news stories back in late 2011 and 2012. Although largely out of the public eye these days, it looks like Occupy Wall Street is still in action. You can see more about Occupy Wall Street and its current events on the OccupyWallSt.org website.

According to Archive.org, it looks like OccupyWallStreet.com was

GoDaddy Hosting Domain Hangout for Businesses

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GoDaddy will be hosting another interesting Google Hangout on Friday afternoon at 2pm Eastern (11am Pacific). The focus of this Hangout is how businesses can effectively use domain names:

I reached out to GoDaddy’s Joe Styler, and here’s what he told me about this Hangout:

GoDaddy Announces .org Price Increase

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I received an email from my account manager at GoDaddy about a price increase on .org domain names. I don’t think I own more than a few .org domain names, but I wanted to pass information about this price increase along to readers who may own their own .org domain names.

In short, the price of .org domain name is going up by $2 on August 1st. Domain names impacted by the price increase can be registered, renewed, or transferred in advance of the price increase in order to avoid paying more once the increase goes into effect.

Other registrars may charge  increase their pricing by more (or less) than $2, so what I am sharing only applies to domain names registered at GoDaddy:

GoDaddy / NameFind Sells Delaware.com

In my morning DomainTools Registrant Alert email, I noticed that GoDaddy’s NameFind likely sold Delaware.com. A current Whois record  shows that the new registrant of Delaware.com is The Delaware Company House LLC. The Delaware.com domain name is not yet resolving.

Knowing that GoDaddy does not tend to report sale prices from its NameFind portfolio, my assumption is that the purchase price of Delaware.com will remain private. If I were to guess, I would say this was a 6 or potentially a 7 figure acquisition, again, assuming the domain name was sold.

Back in April,

GoDaddy to Host “Buying Expired Domains” Hangout

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I regularly participate in expired domain name auctions. I spend the most time on NameJet, but I also participate in auctions on GoDaddy, SnapNames, and DropCatch.com. If you are interested in learning more about buying expired domain names or about the domain name lifecycle and expiration process, GoDaddy will be hosting a Google Hangout to share more information.

GoDaddy’s Joe Styler is one of the organizers of the Hangout as well as a participant, and I asked him to share what is going to be covered in the Hangout. Here is a list of the topics that they expect to cover: