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More GoDaddy Upsell Marketing Shenanigans

In the continuing saga of the GoDaddy Marketing vs. GoDaddy Customer Experience wars, I bring you the ‘endless checkout‘. When I tweeted to @GoDaddy that there is no way to log out from the Order Confirmation page after making a purchase (Mac, Firefox), they either didn’t believe me, or did not have access to the tools [...]

Premium DNS Coming To GoDaddy

Just noticed a new feature announcement in my GoDaddy domain panel that looks interesting. Would really appreciate it if someone could tell me what it means.

“So I Did What Anybody Would Do” – Domaining IS Mainstream!

Why would you advertise your company during the Super Bowl if your target audience wasn’t average Americans? GoDaddy’s phenomenal growth over the last few years is evidence enough- domaining is mainstream! While the average person might throw their arms up in frustration at not finding an available name they like, they certainly won’t hesitate to [...]

Domaining Like It’s 1999 (GoDaddy Glitch)

This has only happened once before, at the .ME launch, when I was able to register through GoDaddy great names like Portland.Me, Camden.Me, Hire.Me, Tag.Me, and RSVP.Me.  I was right there on opening day so for about an hour I thought I actually owned those domains. I had put them in my Shopping Cart and [...]

Transferring Names To GoDaddy – 30 Day Gotcha

Update 090709: FIXED! Just noticed that a domain transfer I purchased didn’t actually initiate. I didn’t receive the usual request for the Transaction ID and Security Code that GoDaddy uses to begin the transfer procedure. Checking the status of my transfer I see a new bit of information there, The transfer cannot be processed because [...]

I Did A Lot Of Reading

This will be a lightly posted blog where from time to time I’ll attempt to document one of my domain experiments. “Fail Fast!”. they say. Well I’m three years into an OCD relationship with domains and domaining and the only reason I may even yet be breaking even is because of what got me started [...]