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12Feb By PriyankaNo Comments

ACQUISITION

GoDaddy Acquires Uniregistry and its Marketplace

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Feb. 11, 2020-- GoDaddy Inc is acquiring Uniregistry's leading domain registrar and marketplace businesses. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. The deal is expected to close sometime in Q2 2020. The Uniregistry domain registry is not part of the transaction. Uniregistry started in 2014 by catering to domain name investors with specialized tools to register, manage and sell domains. They later expanded its service to other audiences while still focusing on domain name investors. "Uniregistry is unique in that domain investors built it from the ground up so their products and services have always catered to the domain investor community," said GoDaddy Vice President Paul Nicks. "This acquisition reinforces GoDaddy's commitment to domain inves...

24Aug By AnkitaNo Comments

News

Godaddy Launched App For Real Time Domain Bidding

USA based GoDaddy Inc , which operates the worlds largest domain name aftermarket, today announced the launch of its first mobile app for domain investors in India. The GoDaddy Investor app, launching on iOS and Android, will allow investors to watch and bid on domains at auction and stay on top of their current bids all from their mobile device. After market domain auctions are time-sensitive and highly competitive, and its critical that investors are able to easily participate at any time and from anywhere, not just from their computers. GoDaddy Investor app offers several additional features not previously available. After downloading the app, domain investors are able to monitor a watch list of active expiry domain auctions in real time, as well as view their bidding history. Inves...

9Jan By Press Trust of IndiaNo Comments

CHINA

China’s country code domain “.cn” becomes world’s largest

Beijing, Jan 9 (PTI) - China's country code domain '.cn' has become the world's most commonly used in the internet with 16.36 million users, surpassing Germany's '.de' domain. According to the data released yesterday by the China Internet Network Information Centre (CNNIC), which manages the domain, '.cn' had 16.36 million users by the end of 2015. The '.cn' domain is also world leading in domain resolution service, security and the ratio of benign uses, said CNNIC head Li Xiaodong. As China began to require real-name registration in 2009, the '.cn' domain is able to protect users' interests and reduce online theft, phishing and fraud, Li said. In the past, Germany's '.de' domain had the largest number of registered websites. The domain is not only widely used by Chinese institu...

How I owned Google.com for a minute- Sanmay Ved

3Oct By No Comments

BLOGS

How I owned Google.com for a minute- Sanmay Ved

A strange thing happened at 1:20 AM Eastern Time on Tuesday, September 29. I was learning more about the Google Domains interface, and typed google.com and clicked search domains. To my surprise, Google.com was showing as available! I clicked the add to cart icon beside the domain (which should not appear if the domain is not available for sale). The domain actually got added to my cart as seen by the green checkbox, and the domain appeared in my cart. I was hoping I would get an error at sometimes saying transaction did not go through, but I was able to complete purchase, and my credit card was actually charged! As soon as I completed purchase, I received two emails, one from sc-noreply@google.com, and one from wmt-noreply@google.com, which is not the norm when you book domains v...