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Web Summit Acquire The .Com For Undisclosed Sum

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Web Summit founder Paddy Cosgrave announced via Facebook and Twitter that the company had acquired websummit.com for an undisclosed sum. Apparently they'd been negotiating the acquisition for the last 5 years. The domain has been registered since November 2001, which is long before Web Summit's first event was held in Dublin. The domain had switched registrars several … [Read more...] about Web Summit Acquire The .Com For Undisclosed Sum

GoDaddy Pulls Out Of SuperBowl

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According to an article over on Market Watch GoDaddy will not be advertising during Super Bowl 50 next February. GoDaddy had been running ads during the Super Bowl for the last 10 years with several of its adverts attracting plenty of controversy. Some of the earlier ads they ran featured the GoDaddy girls, like this one: https://youtu.be/3vWu8SAzQPE Over the years … [Read more...] about GoDaddy Pulls Out Of SuperBowl

James Bladel Elected Chair GNSO

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GoDaddy's VP of Policy James Bladel has been elected as Chair of ICANN's GNSO Council. The GNSO Council returned Bladel as Chair with a unanimous vote with the results being announced this morning. Last month the GNSO Council Chair elections concluded without the body being able to choose a new Chair. Mr Bladel has been with GoDaddy since 2007 and has been the "face" … [Read more...] about James Bladel Elected Chair GNSO

Nike.ie LinkedIn.ie ieDRP Cases

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The volume of disputes involving .ie domain names is pretty small. This is probably due in part to three factors: The namespace is pretty small with only 206 thousand names the registry's rules are very restrictive compared to gTLDs prices are generally higher than for a lot of gTLDs However there are still a number of ieDRP cases every year. The ieDRP is based on … [Read more...] about Nike.ie LinkedIn.ie ieDRP Cases

GoDaddy CEO Blake Irving To Do Reddit AMA

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GoDaddy's CEO, Blake Irving, will be doing a Reddit AMA (ask me anything) this Thursday, April 24th. Irving's AMA will start at 0930 PST, 1630 UTC or 1730 IST Reddit AMAs have featured pop stars, movie stars, porn stars and a wide variety of other celebrities and you can literally ask them anything you want. Whether you'll get a "good" answer or not is another matter … [Read more...] about GoDaddy CEO Blake Irving To Do Reddit AMA

GoDaddy Acquires MediaTemple

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GoDaddy has been on an acquisition spree this year, announcing a number of acquisitions in recent months. Today's announcement is that they've acquired Media Temple. Media Temple are a relatively big hosting provider whose focus has always been on serving developers and designers. That GoDaddy should acquire the company while surprising is logical. Media Temple made the … [Read more...] about GoDaddy Acquires MediaTemple

GoDaddy’s New CEO Is Blogging

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GoDaddy's new CEO, Blake Irving, has started blogging. It's a bit of a tradition with GoDaddy's CEOs to blog, though the company's first CEO, Bob Parsons, was by far the most flamboyant to date. Irving's predecessor, Warren Adelman, also blogs from time to time, but hasn't posted anything since 2011. Blake Irving's blog so far only has a handful of posts, but he … [Read more...] about GoDaddy’s New CEO Is Blogging

Christine Jones Running For Governor of Arizona

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Former GoDaddy general counsel Christine Jones is getting into politics. Ms Jones announced over the weekend that she was planning on running for governor of Arizona, where both she and GoDaddy are based. While precise details of Jones' campaign are not available as yet, they should be announced in the next few weeks. She's got a campaign site, Twitter and … [Read more...] about Christine Jones Running For Governor of Arizona