Comments on: GoDaddy Uses Standard Tactics To Warehouse Domains

By: Frank

Frank — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:47:04 +0000

Off the topic a bit but what the hey It’ll spark some conversation worth your time
Is it possible while parking a domain name that Godaddy or another co. Could purposely control the amount of traffic that your parked site(name) gets,while creating another mirror site using your highly sought after domain name and getting all the traffic ie. money from advertisers. How am I or anyone else ever going to know. They could easily control this from a back end suite and allow a trinkle of traffic to go to your site so you wouldnt get to suspicious. I own a domain name that gets google over 5 million times a month its parked on godaddy and recieve 5o hits or less a month, I feel something is not on the up and up, considering the name is highly sought after by a majority of phamecuticals well heres the name and it is for sale or lease, oh by the way I am offering a 10% buyers premium if you find me a buyer before I search lands for a pharmecutical to purchase it, its very desirable “Bronchial.com”
please leave your coments on this most likely cyber scam that seems highly probable anyone got any insight.

thank you F.A.

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By: dirtdaddy

dirtdaddy — Wed, 20 May 2009 20:35:16 +0000

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By: Pabloz23

Pabloz23 — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 23:08:51 +0000

You all should know what GoDaddy(GD) and Rookanalytics is doing these days. They are creating traffic on small bus. and prof. people's names on the net via porn, hackers' pgs,terrorizing them to prevent deterioration of their image and good prof. reputation & then getting one of their hackers to buy those domain names under false pretenses and keeping them for the small bus. or prof.s to beg to give them back. Even if you tell them a million times that the info given is false on whois, they will not delete the domain names and make it availablel. GD openly tries to sell the domain to these small bus/profs and at a hefty price. Extortion! You guys should all make complaints to the AZ Atty. Gen, and your own AG and the Bureaus of the various Main Law enforcement agencies in the states, the Secret Service which has a cyber crim unit and the FBI about GD. Do not expect ICANN to do anything about it. GD has to be stopped and invidividual law suits will not work. They need to be taught a lesson like MCI worldcom's Bernie Ebbers and co. was. Read more about GD's and Rook's nefarious activities by researching Rookanalytics based in Pasadena, CA. They buy all the domain names you check out to see if avaible via wonderful GD! scaring them

By: dirtdaddy

dirtdaddy — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 04:57:38 +0000

As far as domain warehousing you all got it wrong.

It was creative accounting to create a receivable for Godaddy of 64.000 X $ 9.00 WOW looks nice on the statement to the Wells Fargo bank to continue servicing the BIG loans, then even better when the ghost company was discovered it was then turned into another revenue when selling the domains thru TDNAM.. remember Scumbob Parsons is a creative accountant this reminds me of ENRON.

LOL

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Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:32:25 +0000

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By: anon

anon — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 09:09:26 +0000

Katie….how long have you worked in gopoopies company communications. I know a plant when I see one.

By: Anon

Anon — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 09:03:15 +0000

I can’t tell you how I know this…but I can confirm the whole thing first-hand. :^) Standard Tactics is a locked account with no ability for any employees to see.

By: Katie

Katie — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 16:28:21 +0000

Bob Parsons wanted to reward his employees for their hard work over the course of the year. He pumped $2 million into a struggling economy, which gave jobs to many people catering and setting up. In addition, donations were made to the Humana Fund in the name of EVERY employee. I do not see how it is poor taste to spend money rewarding your employees, which should help fight against recession instead of hording money, and donating on be half of all of your employees.

And I do not buy that the holiday party is only for the press… because I did not hear anything about the donations to the Humana Fund. In addition, the prizes were over half a million dollars… if the party was in deed only for the press, don’t think half a million dollars would been used making the party seem more over the top?

By: Big Poppa

Big Poppa — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 22:50:39 +0000

i dont think this is shady at all. If you really wanted the domain you would register it for 10 years and would be damn sure not to let it expire.

By: hiproductions

hiproductions — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 20:52:34 +0000

I have been a godaddy customer for about 5 years now and suddenly, I’ve noticed an unsettling trend. I search a domain on godaddy alone, nowhere else, its available, I come home that night to reserve the domain…suddenly in a matter of hours its now unavailable unless I want to pay THOUSANDS for it from a “godaddy partner”. When this first happened I just thought, “Well, just a coincidence” the second time it happened I was suspicious, the third time, I am now convinced that when I find a good domain name, it triggers a flag in the godaddy system and they sell this domain to their “partner” in hopes of making a fatter percentage off a ‘resale’ back to me, the customer they duped in the first place. Beware of this register company. I still have my domains registered with them but I’m now looking to transfer them to a more reputable register company (which I’m researching now). If this post saves one person from being ripped off, I will feel MUCH better.

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By: John Doe

John Doe — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 07:33:44 +0000

THE SIMPLE FIXES DOMAIN INDUSTRY NEEDS.

1. THE OBAMA/BIDEN administration w/US Department of Commerce needs to take a greater active role with ICANN to take control of all general domains and kick out the private sector (.com, .net., .org, .info, etc) like verisign.

2. They need to put salary caps of 100k on all ICANN employees with 100k bonues divded quarterly at best.

3. Increase all domain names prices to $99 where the ICANN government can take most of that money and reinvest it in the infrastructure of the US.

4. Setup a domain Judicial court similar to that of what IRS courts are.

5. Be transparent!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Go Daddy Employee of the Year

Go Daddy Employee of the Year — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:13:55 +0000

“A lot of businesses giving out pink slips for the holidays, but we’ll talk to one CEO who’s hiring by the hundreds!” The company may be hiring a limited number of highly technical employees but they are only hiring for attrition on the call center side. In the past, Go Daddy had mass amounts of new employee training sessions. Right now they have none scheduled. Sales and revenue are down.

When Mr. Parsons brings up the 2008 SuperBowl ad, he will state that Go Daddy received the highest number of website traffic on the day it aired. Traffic did not equate to increased sales. I know this because I viewed the reports.

Moreover, Go Daddy’s holiday party is in poor taste given the current economic conditions. As the Arizona Republic featured yesterday, local companies are cutting back and/or donating to the community. Go Daddy should be adopting Google’s way of thinking.

Anything Go Daddy does is for publicity. The holiday party is not about the employees but about how much air and print time Go Daddy can garner from the press. $2mm for the party is cheap if they receive more than that in press exposure.

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By: Dave Zan

Dave Zan — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 02:00:17 +0000

Heh, be fortunate they’re currently not holding you liable for that. *knock on wood*

By: Dave Zan

Dave Zan — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 01:59:13 +0000

There is no logical reason for the 45 day restricted period, nor is there any justification for the $100+ GoDaddy and others charge to renew a domain after this period has been entered.

Maybe there isn’t a so-called logical reason because people generally don’t understand, much more care, what happens behind the scenes?

Especially for .com, registrars are billed for autorenewing an expired domain name. They have that 45-day window to collect payment or tell the Registry (VeriSign for com/net, PIR for org, etc.) to delete it and be refunded, although I forgot the rationale behind 45 days instead of, say, 90.

The 30-day Redemption Grace Period was created to address “accidental” deletions, given it wasn’t rather “predictable” how soon an expired domain name will be released for availability. Registrars do get charged higher than their standard renewal fee for redeeming a domain name, and they can very well pass on that cost to its registrant.

Bottom line: if you don’t want any of that to happen, stay on top of your renewals.

On the side, the major issue this article discussed is it can potentially “leave out” other people from having a shot at the desired domain name. Well, I’d like to ask if some of you seek ways to gain a subjectively “unfair” advantage over the average person in other fields, just to get ahead?

Even if, say, ICANN eventually orders that registrars release their expired domain names to the standard Redemption Period-Pending Delete-availability stages, coupled with not actually so-called “warehousing” them (whatever that means), nothing is going to stop other parties with more resources than the average user from still having an arguably unfair advantage over them. I don’t know how exactly can one enact any kind of realistically enforceable law banning them from participating, especially since they can always go overseas.

Then again, how many really like to work out the devil in the details?

By: fb1066020077

Sat, 06 Dec 2008 19:30:57 +0000

godaddy should be on top