Joan Rivers Reams Christina Aguilera Over Star-Mangled Banner

EXCLUSIVE: Christina Aguilera has pipes of steel, but her memory failed her on Super Bowl Sunday when she flubbed the ramparts out of the Star-Spangled Banner. With great gaffes come great amounts of criticism, and although the singer has tried to explain herself ("I lost my place"), she couldn't escape the wrath of Joan Rivers.

"How stupid can you get?" Joan asked when I talked to her on Monday. "Christina must have been thinking about food, that's why she forgot the words."

Before the big game, Christina belted out "What so proudly we watched at the twilight's last reaming" instead of "O'er the ramparts we watch'd, were so gallantly streaming." It was the second time she sang the "What so proudly" line, but before she used the word "gleaming" instead of "reaming."

The 'Joan & Melissa: Joan Knows Best?' star continued using Christina's oft-fluctuating weight to rough up Christina, and offered a line she thought she could have used, "O say can you see ... french fries." Joan snarked that there was an upside to Christina's fluctuating weight. "She's gotten so big," -- here's where you say how big is she? -- "She looks like she could eat Lady Gaga. Great way to get rid of competition."

After 'The Star-Spangled Banner' wrapped, Aguilera headed backstage where a source told me that the singer was "devastated" by her mistake.

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Go Daddy Sees Anticipated Traffic, Sales Spike from Super Bowl Ad

(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Web hosting and domain giant Go Daddy (www.godaddy.com) announced on Monday that it had doubled its best-ever Internet traffic spike in the wake of its advertisement in Sunday’s Super Bowl broadcast, and had successfully converted the traffic into significant sales.

The company, which owes much of its rapid rise to prominence to a deft spinning of the controversy surrounding its original Super Bowl ad, says the surge that followed its first appearance in the broadcast pushed its total domains under management past the 46 million mark.

"We scored several Go Daddy Super Bowl records," said Go Daddy CEO and founder Bob Parsons, in a statement. "Our fourth-quarter commercial spiked our Internet traffic higher than any Super Bowl ad we've ever done… In fewer than 15 minutes after Go Daddy's first Super Bowl commercial aired, our domain name registrations shot up more than 466 percent over last year."

The company’s first-quarter ad marked the unveiling of a new “Go Daddy girl,” the reveal of which had been teased for several weeks by the company, in the lead-up to the game. The mystery woman turned out to be comic Joan Rivers, with a digitally assisted “smoking hot” body – apparently as a way of suggesting that “anything is possible” with a .co domain.

Part of the purpose for the ad, said the company, was to showcase the recently-launched .co TLD, helping to give exposure to a product that is available at Go Daddy. But, as Go Daddy has pointed out, there’s a fairly obvious potential benefit to anybody selling .co domains to the product being put on that kind of stage.

"It's a memorable, meaningful Web address that opens up millions of new, creative branding opportunities for entrepreneurs and businesses on the Internet," says Juan Diego Calle, CEO and founder of .CO Internet SAS, quoted in the Go Daddy press release. "This ad is working for us already. Almost immediately, we recorded a huge uptick in .CO domain name registrations."

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