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North.CO on Auction at GoDaddy

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Elliot Silver

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August 19, 2014

Last week, I wrote about Kevin Rose’s startup called North (or North Technologies). Specifically, the business appears to be built on N-o-r-t-h.com, a domain name that contains four hyphens! I don’t recall seeing such a high hyphen to letter ratio in a domain name before!

Ironically, it appears that the North.CO domain name expired on July 20, 2014. Because the domain name is registered at GoDaddy, the domain name is currently up for auction. With a little under 5 days remaining in the auction, the high bid is $365. There have been 30 bids placed in this auction to date, and there have been over 100 views so far.

I can only assume this domain name is

GoDaddy Testing Not Promoting .com on Home Page

Elliot Silver

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July 28, 2014

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It appears that GoDaddy may be testing out not promoting .com domain names on its GoDaddy.com home page. First spotted in a tweet by George Kirikos yesterday, it appears that GoDaddy is continuing to test not promoting .com domain names, which seems unusual to me considering the vast majority of domain buyers are looking to buy .coms.

Here’s a look at the GoDaddy.com home page that I see:

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GoDaddy is a company that is known to

GoDaddy Hosting Open House at New Office in Cambridge

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Elliot Silver

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July 24, 2014

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GoDaddy Boston Office In the last year, GoDaddy has made three Boston-area acquisitions. The company acquired Waltham-based Afternic, Cambridge-based Locu, and Cambridge-based Canary. Because these three companies were based in the Boston area and are primarily staffed by locally-based employees, GoDaddy recently opened an office in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

According to Boston Business Journal, the recently opened office is 9,600 square feet. The office is home to approximately 35 employees, and the company is looking to hire (according to the BBJ article). At the present time, there is only one job opening in Cambridge listed on the GoDaddy job board, but I imagine that number will grow. I visited the office a couple of weeks ago, and it has great views of the Charles River and the city of Boston.

To help celebrate the opening of this new office, GoDaddy will be hosting a

India Domain Market is Growing

Elliot Silver

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July 17, 2014

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India is the second largest country in the world with over 1.2 billion people living there. It makes sense that the domain market in India is growing.

This morning, CIOL.COM published an interview with GoDaddy Vice President and Managing Director for India, Rajiv Sodhi. CIOL is billed as “India’s premier business technology community network.” Sodhi discusses the current state of the domain name market in India, and he offers some of his thoughts on domain name investing in India. I think You will want to read the interview in its entirety, but the jist of it is that there is tremendous potential for growth in India.

There are currently two domain name conferences on the calendar for later on this year in India.

DOMAINXâ„¢ 2014 is scheduled for

GoDaddy Webinar: Starting a Business

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Elliot Silver

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July 16, 2014

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Some people get involved in the domain investment space with the idea of turning one (or more) of their domain names into revenue generating businesses. No matter what the size or scope, building a business can be challenging. If you want to learn about starting a small business, I saw a GoDaddy tweet that might be of interest to you.

What are you doing tomorrow at 10am Pacific? Watching our webinar, right? https://t.co/e5vcoaBVfb

— GoDaddy (@GoDaddy) July 16, 2014

GoDaddy is hosting a live

Change to GoDaddy Auctions Time Extension

Elliot Silver

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July 11, 2014

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I want to pass along a change that is being made at GoDaddy Auctions that might have an impact on your bidding strategy. Here’s the message I received from my account manager at GoDaddy this afternoon:

“As it stands now, any bid that is placed in the last 5 minutes of an auction auto-extends the auction by 5 minutes. This will change to auto-extend to only 1 minute, and a maximum time of 5 minutes 59 seconds (5:59). For example, if you place a bid on an auction that has 4:30 left, it will auto-extend this auction to 5:30.”

“Also as it stands now, any increase of a winners proxy bid amount counts as a new bid and extends the time, this will be fixed to only extend when current price changes.”

Although this change may not seem major, it will have an impact on those who participate in domain name auctions at GoDaddy.