GoDaddy has released as service called SmartSpace, which it claims will make creating web sites – complete with blogs, chat rooms, email addresses, photo galleries, and video showcases – easy for people that are not the least bit "tech savvy."
GoDaddy Auction VP Gets Slashdot Treatment
There’s nothing improper about the VP of aftermarket domain auctions bidding up domain prices, says GoDaddy, but they’ve banned employees from participating in the future anyway, just to make everybody happy. And likely, to make the all the dirty looks go away. What looked like an idle comment in NamePros.com’s domain forum stirred up the hornets nest a bit. The comment from a senior forum member going by Stevie read this way:
GoDaddy’s New Super Bowl Ad
GoDaddy CEO Bob Parsons has revealed, on his "Hot Points" blog, that after 10 submitted spots were rejected by Fox Network, the network has approved and agreed to air the new 2008 Superbowl Ads starring Danica Patrick in a commericial he calls "Spot On" in an apparent reference to all the rejected spots which are "off" because they were rejected.
GoDaddy And Friends Rescue RegisterFly Database
It was a team effort, but GoDaddy.com was the main mover; it’s this domain name registrar that “will take over the entire portfolio of more than 850,000 generic top-level domain (gTLD) names held by RegisterFly.”
“GoDaddy And Friends Rescue RegisterFly Database”
GoDaddy’s PR problems
For a variety of reasons, I’ve been registering all my domain names at GoDaddy.
GoDaddy Moving To Windows Servers
A press release (via Digg) reports that GoDaddy is moving their hosted parked domains to the Microsoft Solution for Windows-based hosting.
GoDaddy Super Bowl Ad Controversy
No, this isn’t an article about how bad the GoDaddy ad was … because I saw nothing wrong with it or the one Fox and the NFL pulled.
GoDaddy CEO Fights Super Bowl Ad Ban via Blog
Robert Scoble and Shel Israel point to another example of how corporate communication is changing on their Red Couch book blog.