July 22, 2008 – (HOSTSEARCH.COM) – Go Daddy has claimed that the introduction of ‘.me’ domains has produced a “Super Bowl-like spike in traffic and domain registrations”, it was reported this week. The company, which bills itself as “world's number 1 domain name registrar”, was referring to the increase in activity it experiences after its annual Super Bowl advertising and the fact the sale of the new ‘.me’ domain extension has generated similar levels of activity.
According to the company, 20,000 ‘.me’ domains were registered in the first 24 hours of it being available, and the demand slowed down its website. This caused an additional problem in that some Go Daddy customers “registered domain names that were already taken or reserved by the ‘.me’ registry”. After rectifying issues the company contacted customers and issued refunds.
"In spite of a few early difficulties - GoDaddy.com successfully processed a huge, record-setting level of registrations. To the best of our knowledge, there have never been more registrations handled in one day during the ordinary course of businesses by any registrar in history," said Go Daddy CEO and Founder Bob Parsons. "It's important to note, that in addition to the .ME onslaught we also successfully processed our normal business which averages one registration every second."
Go Daddy provides domain name registration plans and website design and hosting packages alongside “a broad array of on-demand services” including SSL Certificates, domains by proxy private registration, ecommerce website hosting, blog templates and blog software, podcast packages and online photo hosting.
