Enhanced WhoIs by GoDaddy

[webfreak]

Saw this pop up today and just thought how stupid the idea was. Basically, Enhanced WhoIs allows you to add some information about your company to your listing for $4.95 a year. Now, you'd have to assume that your customers will look at your whois information and that the offer will be featured enough in the listing for it to have any kind of an impact.

What's your guys take on this? See this as stupid (like me) or do you see some potential in listing a few extra things about your company in your WhoIs listing?

 

[iWonder]

Nice info ,

Maybe some big companies wont find 4.95 $ as much , though I to dont think its a great deal.

 

[PDCLanWebhosting]

What exactly did the extra WhoIs stuff include? Strange that they would add something as dumb as that, but I guess whatever way you can get money heh. WhoIs is mostly used for people looking to buy domain names, not so much people looking for a product or service.

 

[webfreak]

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[PDCLanWebhosting]

Good way of making money I guess if they can get it to go mainstream, sounds really stupid to me though.

 

[SpareDomains]

stay tuned godaddy sells air next week. :hehe: I like godaddy as a registrar but agree that their sales tactics can get annoying. This is the reason a lot of people choose enom or others because the products are not jammed down your throat.

 

[PDCLanWebhosting]

stay tuned godaddy sells air next week. :hehe: I like godaddy as a registrar but agree that their sales tactics can get annoying. This is the reason a lot of people choose enom or others because the products are not jammed down your throat.

The only nice things about all these extra products is that there are nice exploits as well (such as $4.67 registrations). :hehe: