Comments on: Did GoDaddy Turn Off Premium Listings During the Super Bowl?

By: Rob Sequin

Rob Sequin — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 17:25:33 +0000

concur with Adam.

Premium sales were disabled and confirmed by GD.

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 22:29:47 +0000

The answer from GD directly is yes.

By: Clay Burt

Clay Burt — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 22:14:21 +0000

I didn’t notice it, but if they did I think that is pretty shady business practice…

By: Landon White

Landon White — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 21:42:09 +0000

The Commercial was a FLOP! (at the bottom of the Network TV survey)

Shutting Down Prem was a cover to explain why there
was no sales.

Real Reason: Godaddy had NO increase in Traffic…

This .Co thing is TURNING every one into a CON!

By: JOey Starkey

JOey Starkey — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 21:27:27 +0000

Making a 30% commission on a $2400 domain sale should would cover a lot of those $11.99 .com and overpriced .co’s.

Not to mention the GoDaddy.co commercial was a letdown in my opinion.

By: page howe

page howe — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 21:12:43 +0000

it could be they didnt want the rush of chargebacks “ohh i thought the name was $11.99.. and i saw the “this name is available ”

but my credit card got dinged for $2400.

page howe

By: Jake

Jake — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 20:38:42 +0000

I noticed this as well. I was pretty disappointed.

By: Joel

Joel — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 20:32:34 +0000

It was not a DR Campaign.

By: Gazzip

Gazzip — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 19:33:59 +0000

“I doubt many people dropped their beers to register a domain. ”

Agree with mrx

People wait all year to watch the SuperBowl and then rush of in mass right in the middle of it to buy a domain after seeing a 30 second ad.

I find it incredibly hard to beleive that people could EVER be that gullable.

It may be good for exposure but the REAL results of the ad will take some time to take effect, if it ever does.

By: jamie

jamie — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 18:31:15 +0000

Interesting. I wonder why they would send out a PR to get people to list with the pls last week and then pull it during huge traffic?

Maybe the pls drags down servers and it was the easiest thing to take offline to free up some space?

By: mrx

mrx — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 17:42:31 +0000

I doubt many people dropped their beers to register a domain.

The publicity may have been good but I dont’ think we’ll know how sucessful the ad was for a few weeks, despite the rosy press releases.

By: Kenny Goodman

Kenny Goodman — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 17:38:34 +0000

Those ads will cost an absolute fortune so Godaddy will just utilize their best monetization model for that market and that period.