Unauthorized access happened in October last year and impacted SSH logins only. GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) has informed some of its webhosting customers that their accounts were breached last year. The company submitted the breach notice (pdf) to the State of California on Sunday. The incident happened in October 2019. In a letter to affected customers, […]
Privacy laws and bad customer experience are forcing GoDaddy to rethink a cash cow. Last Friday, Elliot Silver broke the news that GoDaddy is planning to limit personal information in Whois records starting later this year. GoDaddy is the largest domain name registrar in the world, and also one of…
Major acquisition shakes up domain name investor landscape. GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) is acquiring the Uniregistry registrar and marketplace, Frank Schilling’s Name Administration domain name portfolio, [READ MORE] The post GoDaddy acquires Uniregistry and Frank Schilling’s domain portfolio appeared first on Website Hosting Review.
Patent suggests ways a registrar can decide which domains to display to customers. Part of a diagram from GoDaddy’s latest patent related to domain name suggestions. The United States Patent and Trademark Office issued patent #10,387,959 to GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) today. The patent (pdf) for “Portfolio-based domain name recommendations” provides…