Comments on: GoDaddy Twitter Relationship

By: Robert Pariseau

Robert Pariseau — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 09:56:17 +0000

I ran across this when i tried to see what this twitter on Godaddy was all about. The only thing I can come up with and a tactic I have used in the past when I am trying to get a website ranked is, that when you create a twitter account with a domain name it gets your search result in Google almost instant Google seems to love twitter names. beside the fact of it helping keep your account with godaddy it is a nice little seo trick.

By: john andrews

john andrews — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 04:01:13 +0000

The matching twitter name increases the value of the domain as a “branding package”, plus increases affinity if the twitter account is used… the user is more likely to keep the (undeveloped) domain if they use the twitter account (?)

By: Mark Puckett

Mark Puckett — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:45:27 +0000

Makes perfect sense to me.

If you are looking for a domain name for a new project/biz/whatever, are you not also going to try to get the associated twitter account with it?

I assume there is (or will be) a twitter account squatter biz in place just like domains.

By: Mark McLaren

Mark McLaren — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:43:40 +0000

In my experience working with GoDaddy, or, should I say, in my experience being worked by GoDaddy, it’s true that they would not do anything unless motivated, in some way, by profit – or ego.

With respect to domain names, the goal is to get you to pay to register and to keep the domain with GoDaddy until our Sun becomes a supernova, or about that long.

Once you register a domain with them, it’s difficult to move it. So if you were to create a matching Twitter account and use it to the point that you built a following, you would be less likely to stop using the domain. On the other hand, if you registered a domain with GoDaddy only to discover later that the matching Twitter username was already taken, it’s pretty certain – given the success of Twitter – that you would let the registration lapse and find a different domain to use. And then there would be a chance that you might use a different registrar.

By: Mark10

Mark10 — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:19:31 +0000

Add another vote to “group think.” Amazing how many execs jumping on the twitter bandwagon without even knowing what it is. I’ve never seen GoDaddy put extra features in that weren’t intended to make them extra money. Strange happenings!

By: Scott Bush

Scott Bush — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:10:40 +0000

I saw that the other day when helping a friend with his GoDaddy account. It struck me as odd, too. If I had to chose a reason–without additional information on business arrangements, if any, between the companies–I’d pick your “group-think” option. Everyone’s caught up in Twitter these days and I can just imagine GoDaddy’s product team lead saying “We have to integrate Twitter!” The devs would look at each other and say “What? Why? That doesn’t make sense,” but since management wanted it, they did it.
The real proof will be whether the feature sticks around in a year.