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Critical customer mistakes often blamed on domain registrars. When online backup service CrashPlan.com went down earlier this month, the company was quick to blame its domain name registrar GoDaddy . Code 42 Software, which runs the CrashPlan.com service, tweeted about how GoDaddy “mistakenly removed our root nameserver entry”, “inappropriately took over our DNS”, and did a DNS “hijack”. What Code 42 Software never tweeted was that it had mistakenly let the domain name expire. T

A Google Webmaster Help thread has one webmaster who was trying to figure out why his site was not coming up for a search on its own name. After some review, Googler, JohnMu, said the site has recently shown a placeholder page from a web hosting company or domain name registrar. These are also known as parked domains, where a domain is purchased but there is currently no web site on that domain. Many registrars or hosting companies place placeholder pages on those new domains. Clearl

Registrar is launching tool to make finding location-based domain names easier. Domain name registrar GoDaddy is launching a GeoDomain research tool to help domainers find local domains, such as cityHotels.com. The tool will be launched no later than Monday. Users enter a location (such as a city or state) and can also add keywords, such as “hotel”. The tool then loads a map of the area with pinpoints on each location, which represent available domains or domains on GoDaddy’s aftermar

More registrar transitions thanks to ICANN enforcement. Domain name registrar DirectNIC will take over domain names that were registered at Red Register, which was recently de-accredited by Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Red Register had approximately 7,000 global top level domain names under management. Billing contact information was not provided by Red Register, so customers should provide billing information to DirectNIC to ensure their domain names are ren

Company files patents for improving current domain suggestion and advertising systems. Go Daddy Group, Inc., parent company of domain name registrar GoDaddy , has filed three patents for a method of suggesting possible domain names. The applications also suggest this method can be used for targeted advertising, search results, and web site content. The applications were filed in 2008 and published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on October 1. In the patent applications, Go Dadd