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GoDaddy warns customers about theft with 3 new levels of domain privacy

GoDaddy’s new cross-sell warns about domain theft. GoDaddy warns customers about domain theft in its new checkout cross-sell. Last week…

6 years ago

Big news: GoDaddy starts redacting Whois information

GoDaddy has redacted personal information in Whois records for all customers. Effective today, GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) has begun redacting personal…

6 years ago

Registrars: remove phone numbers from Whois

You can no longer justify the harm it causes consumers.   GoDaddy is making long-overdue changes to Whois records sometime…

6 years ago

Tucows: Domain registrations are way up during pandemic

“We are seeing years of economic transformation jammed into weeks or months,” Tucows CEO Elliot Noss says. Domain name, fiber…

6 years ago

GoDaddy assigns $88.5 million value to Frank Schilling’s domain portfolio

Company assigns accounting value to Frank Schilling’s domain portfolio, which it acquired this year. GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) has assigned an…

6 years ago

GoDaddy is paying $218 million for Neustar’s registry business

Company discloses acquisition price for Neustar business. GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) unveiled its acquisition price for Neustar along with GoDaddy’s first-quarter…

6 years ago

Web.com refreshes Register.com, lowers pricing

It no longer costs an arm and a leg to register a domain at Register.com. Just an arm. It’s purple.…

6 years ago

GoDaddy hosting accounts hacked

Unauthorized access happened in October last year and impacted SSH logins only. GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) has informed some of its…

6 years ago

CentralNic shuns dividend to look for more acquisitions

Company sees acquisition opportunities in current economic environment. CentralNic (London AIM: CNIC) has decided to delay its first-ever dividend to…

6 years ago

Redacted Whois at GoDaddy: a revenue hit but better customer experience

Privacy laws and bad customer experience are forcing GoDaddy to rethink a cash cow. Last Friday, Elliot Silver broke the…

6 years ago