GoDaddy Launches “GoDaddy Community” Forum

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Earlier this week, GoDaddy announced a new forum for customers to ask various questions about GoDaddy products and services. The forum can be found by visiting GoDaddy.com/community.

When I visited the forum while logged into my GoDaddy account, it asked me to create a username. I believe people who are not logged into their GoDaddy accounts will still be able to visit the forum, although I am pretty sure they need a username in order to start threads or post comments. The username creation screen was very simple.

I would imagine that the most

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GoDaddy Investor App Hangout Scheduled

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I have been using the new GoDaddy Auctions app (called the GoDaddy Investor app) quite a bit lately. I wrote about the GoDaddy app when it was first released, and I have been using it regularly since then to bid on auctions. The GoDaddy Investor app is available for download in the Apple app store.

On March 25th from 11:30am – 12:30pm, GoDaddy will be hosting a Google Hangout to discuss the new app and how domain investors can use the app.  GoDaddy’s Joe Styler told me that Page Howe will  be making a  guest appearance during the Hangout, and he plans to discuss what it was like being a part of the beta testing group for the app  and how he is using it now.

Here’s the brief write up about the Hangout:

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GoDaddy 2015 Annual Report – Things to Watch

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GoDaddy published its 2015 annual report today, and it can be viewed on Morningstar’s website. As Andrew Allemann noted this morning, the company essentially confirmed the purchase price of Mike Berkens’ domain portfolio. Aside from this, I think there are a several interesting aspects of GoDaddy’s annual report, and there are a few things to watch over the next few years.

I took a relatively quick look through the company’s annual report, and I highlighted some interesting aspects of it. I paid particularly close attention to the company’s mentions of its aftermarket and customer growth.

I listed  some of the things I found particularly interesting as well as some of the things I will be observing as the company reports in the future. I invite you to share some of your thoughts and observations:

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GoDaddy “Valuations” Are Laughable

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I just saw a tweet from the GoDaddy Auctions account promoting the upcoming auction for the three letter WOA.com domain name:

I retweeted the link and visited the auction page to get some more details. The thing that stands  out to me the most is the “valuation” field. Three letter .com domain names have been selling for thousands of dollars for many years. I highly doubt you could buy any LLL.com domain name for less than 5 figures today, and if you can, there are probably issues with it. In fact, back in November, Mike Berkens wrote “I’m calling the wholesale value of Chinese LLL.com to be around $50K.” WOA.com is not a “Chinese LLL.com” but it is worth 5 figures in today’s market.

So what is so jarring about GoDaddy’s valuation? According to the auction page, the valuation of WOA.com is

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George Kirikos: GoDaddy “*definitely* paid $35.5MM for Mike Berkens domain portfolio”

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GoDaddy published its quarterly earnings report and had its conference call tonight. In the report, the company had a line item for acquisitions, and George Kirikos has used that to deduce  what he believes the company paid for Mike Berkens’ domain portfolio in December of 2015.

According to a series of tweets from George Kirikos this evening, GoDaddy “*definitely* paid $35.5MM for Mike Berkens domain portfolio.” Andrew Allemann also wrote about this, although he posed it as a question rather than a definitive statement.

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GoDaddy and eNaming.com Broker the Sale of SV.com

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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

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