Video: GoDaddy CEO Blake Irving on fresh TLDs, pre-registrations
GoDaddy CEO explains why fresh TLDs will be a good thing and hints at firm’s pre-registration plans.
AZTechBeat has published a video interview (embedded below) with GoDaddy CEO Blake Irving regarding the forthcoming launch of fresh top level domain names.
In the interview, Irving describes what he sees as the problem with the existing limited number of TLD options.
“…there has been what I guess I’ll call a lot of domain name pollution that has happened in the marketplace,” he stated. “It’s very difficult for anybody to find a domain that actually represents them.”
He stated GoDaddy is an example. When Bob Parsons came up with the name for the firm, he first tried BigDaddy and FatDaddy, but both of those domains were taken. He then settled on GoDaddy since it was available.
It also seems that Irving disclosed that the firm will accept pre-registrations for individual domain names. GoDaddy by now allows clients to express an interest in particular fresh top level domain names. But my interpretation of what he states in the video is that the firm also plans to let people pre-register individual second level domain names that the firm will then try to obtain when they become available.
