Tag: Domain names

Greatresponder.com – 2011-06-15 – One of the biggest web hosting providers and domain registrars Go Daddy experienced an outage on its website Monday after software update. According to a report, Go Daddy did software update and for some reason it went wrong. As result it cause noticeable website downtime.

This downtime comes a week after Go Daddy announced it now protects over than 500,000 web sites with its unique SSL certificates and other affordable security solution.

Turning back to this accident, Go Daddy’s home page was completely offline for approximately 3 hours on Monday evening though visitors were redirected to a mobile version of the site that was available and worked fine.

“We made some changes to our website, and those updates failed,” Neil Warner, chief information officer for Go Daddy said in a statement. “As a result, Go Daddy.com went down. No customer account information was compromised. This was not an attack on Go Daddy servers. We caused the issue, not someone else.”

The report says that the mobile version of Go Daddy website allowed users to continue to manage domain names, accounts and all transactions. So, despite the issue which happened due to software update, Go Daddy web hosting service continued to provide customers with minimal set of necessary functions to manage accounts, prolong domains and web hosting service. And that’s definitely good sign.

Go Daddy web hosting providers and domain registrar apologized for the length of the outage, saying it was longer than it was expected.

“My team is investigating what went wrong with our site update process so we can avoid an issue like this in the future,” Warner stated.

Also few days ago, Go Daddy announced it was expanding its team at its Iowa primary customer service center by 300 employees.

Summarize on Go Daddy web hosting and domain registrar company:
Go Daddy – the world’s largest ICANN accredited registrar of domain names. Go Daddy group supports more than 34 million domain names in the major domain areas of the first level, including the COM, ORG, NET, BIZ, INFO.

 

Greatresponder.com – 2011-06-13 – ResellerClub popular domain registrar and web hosting service provider announced on Friday its plans to start providing fully customized variants of its unique Reseller Program for 8 most attractive and major Domain Markets around the whole world.

Over the past several years ResellerClub company has launched a stand alone programs for the Chinese domain market and more recently for the Russian domain market and is on track to setup its presence in 8 domain markets by the end of this Quarter.

According to ReselletClub’s CEO, Bhavin Turakhia, “While our system is popular in over 230 countries worldwide, we realized that Resellers prefer complete localization – be it local currency transactions, local payment options, local language interfaces or dealing with local staff. Our latest focus is to provide them with just that.”

ResellerClub’s local Russian program provides a Russian version of website, Russian control interfaces for administrator and front-end and Russian Rubles as the default transaction currency. It is driven with help and assistance of sales & support by Russian staff.

“We’re essentially making it as easy as possible for Resellers to join and use our system. Our Chinese program proved to be a great success and expanding to key markets like Russia, UK, Spain and Germany was the next natural step,” added Mr. Shridhar Luthria, Director of Marketing and company Business Development.

In the near future ResellerClub plans on launching fully customized domain reseller programs for the UK, India, Spain, Germany, Brazil and Portugal.

About ResellerClub Web Hosting and Domain registrar:
ResellerClub is a part of DirectI corporation. ReselleClub provides web hosting services, domain registration and several other web related products. ResellerClub is ICANN-accredited registrar which provides domain registration for over 60 domain zones. Today company has over 600 employees worldwide and known as one of the biggest players on domain market which continue to expand and enter new markets over the planet.

Greatresponder.com – 2011-02-22 – The 14th annual SC Magazine Awards announces its winner for best security team and this year goes to Go Daddy IT Security Team.

Go Daddy has been widely known as one of the top Web Host providers all over the world. Yet, more to this excellent title is the internal hardworking team of IT Security that blocks more than 100 million attacks in each day. Go Daddy IT Security Team was regarded as the best in ensuring people’s safety in the Internet.

For six years, Go Daddy has been continually increasing its internal manpower from one single person to more than fifty people working hard behind the powerful Web Host provider. More than 46 million domain names and more than 8.8 million customers are under its protective management, making Go Daddy as the primary DNS in almost one third of the Internet.

Go Daddy IT Security Team works 24/7 for network and security operations, monitoring the entire scope of Go Daddy’s system as well as detecting and eliminating any forms of attack.

The “Hackfest” event of Go Daddy is one key factor for the success of their IT Security team. The entire team collaborates with the other developers inside Go Daddy, seeking and monitoring product vulnerabilities and allowing familiarization of the whole security procedures.

Furthermore, Go Daddy implements an advanced tool called the SIM (Security Information Management), which basically allows the entire system of Go Daddy to be secured even before an attack is detected.

Bob Parsons, CEO and Found of Go Daddy, claims that millions of people all over the world are relying on Go Daddy for enhancing their businesses and increasing Web presence. It is indeed such an honor for the SC Magazine to present such award to Go Daddy IT Security Team.

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