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GoDaddy.com’s New Direction: Less Provocative, More SMB Focused

Today I got an email from current CEO Blake Irving, regarding the changes at Godaddy.com. Being a loyal customer of the service for over 7 years now, this new direction looks to be very serious and even more attractive for people trying to start a website. Today, GoDaddy's front page got a revamp. Gone is Danika Patrick and those provocative

I’m in a .NYC State of Mind – New York Gets Top Level Domain

Hey! Yo! Yous Hearin This!?! New York city announced that ICANN approved its request for the .nyc top-level domain. This is the first city to do so. "Pursuing the .nyc top-level domain has been a goal of Mayor Bloomberg’s Digital Roadmap from the start", said Rachel Haot, Chief Digital Officer, "and this caliber of innovation keeps New York City on

Will new Top Level Domains Bring Price of Auctioned Domains Down

On June 13th ICANN announced that we could see as many as 280 new domains extensions or gTLD's enter the Internet space within the next couple of years. As I look through that list there are a handful of domain names I have in mind that would fit perfectly on, one or more of these new gTLD. Recently I tried

Happy IPv6 Day

Today June 8th is IPV6 Day, I know that most people are thinking that's nice, what is IPV6 and why should I care. The reason you should care is that IPV4 which is the current protocol we are using is running out of IP addresses. When the Internet was first conceived the idea that we would need more than the 4.3

GNC-2009-02-20 #453 Recorded on Rebuilt Machine

My loyal and dedicated podcast recording PC died on Tuesday and I had to revive it with some new guts. So while I get it dialed in let me know how the sound quality was tonight. I have a decent list of content for a Friday show. Thanks for staying subscribed. Support my Show Sponsors it keeps food on the

Judge may ask ICANN to shutdown SPAMHAUS domain!

 In what I can only describe as sure stupidity on a judge’s part it seems that one of the organizations that keep a lot of Spam out of your inbox may be in trouble over a recent lawsuit. It seems after being sued by an accused spammer and then not showing up for the court case they lost by default.

VeriSign the gift that keeps on giving!

It looks like we are stuck with VeriSign for six more years as they have been given a renewal on thier contract with ICANN. My questions is did this come with restriction on them playing fair and not try to pull that same stunt they pulled two years ago when the re-directed mis-typed domains to their own website. In my