GoDaddy

GoDaddy.com, the huge website registrar famous for its raunchy Super Dowl ads, is for sale. The sale of Go Daddy, which currently registers 43 million Web domains, could fetch $1 billion.

Two days after Google closed its China-based search engine, GoDaddy, the world's largest domain-name registrar, announced it'll no longer sell new domains in China. The move comes after Beijing issued new rules requiring domain applicants to submit detailed personal information.

Erstwhile GoDaddy pitchgal Amanda Beard and I have a storied past. No, we've never met, and I've never been much of a swimmer so I barely paid attention to her Olympic escapades. But what I am is someone who writes a lot about the intersection of nakedness and money, so she and I have become...

A few weeks ago, I wrote a post about Super Bowl advertising. In the piece, I noted that the NFL's powers-that-be had determined that a company that promoted extramarital affairs could not appear in any football-related promotional materials. After looking through ten years worth of Super Bowl...