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Dan to Integrate With Afternic DLS

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In a move that should surprise very few people Dan.com is going to be integrating more closely with Afternic. Both Afternic and Dan are owned by GoDaddy, so the two aftermarket services working together makes a lot of sense. In an email to users Dan.com announced that the integration is live since last week. If you'd already opted in to Dan's "Open Domain Distribution … [Read more...] about Dan to Integrate With Afternic DLS

GoDaddy Acquires Dan.com

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GoDaddy has been buying up companies for years. Some of the acquisitions happened fairly quietly and without fanfare, while others have been fairly seismic in their impact on a particular market segment. When they bought NeuStar, for example, they went from having no registry services to having a big chunk of that pie. In the domain name aftermarket space GoDaddy has been a … [Read more...] about GoDaddy Acquires Dan.com

.TV Switching to GoDaddy Registry

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The island of Tuvalu got lucky when they were assigned the two letter country code "tv". When internet domain names became a thing over 20 years ago they were naturally given the .tv domain extension and, as we all know, that has been used for many a video or TV based business. The domain registry has been operated by Verisign for years under a contract with the government … [Read more...] about .TV Switching to GoDaddy Registry

.Club Registry DNS Goes Down

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The DNS for the entire .club domain extension is currently offline, or at least appears to be. While some DNS servers might be still serving old data from their cache the actual DNS servers for the domain are not working correctly. The .club registry are apparently aware of the issue, but no details of what it is nor when it will be resolved. All gTLD registry operators … [Read more...] about .Club Registry DNS Goes Down

Neustar Registry is now GoDaddy Registry

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Back in April, at the height of the pandemic, GoDaddy announced its acquisition of Neustar's registry business. Any acquisition takes time to finalise and this was no different and in the middle of a pandemic I suspect the entire process may have had extra complications (it's not exactly easy to physically go onsite anywhere and travel restrictions would have added an extra … [Read more...] about Neustar Registry is now GoDaddy Registry

GoDaddy CEO Speaks About DailyStormer

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GoDaddy CEO Blake Irving has spoken to the media about DailyStormer and GoDaddy's position with respect to domains and sites they provide services to. While the interview focussed on the Daily Stormer, Blake Irving also spoke about GoDaddy's approach to dealing with content. The company has a large team that are tasked with reviewing complaints and seeing whether or not the … [Read more...] about GoDaddy CEO Speaks About DailyStormer

DailyStormer Switches to Google; Google “Cancels” Registration

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At time of writing the extreme right-wing website Daily Stormer is still online. The website operator is now claiming to have "retaken control" of the site. However, as has been reported in the mainstream media as well as on most domain industry sites, the domain was booted by GoDaddy. It now resides with Google: Domain Name: DAILYSTORMER.COM Registry Domain ID: … [Read more...] about DailyStormer Switches to Google; Google “Cancels” Registration