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- Legal Name: GoDaddy Inc.
- Website: www.godaddy.com
- Founded: 1997
- Founder(s): Bob Parsons
- Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoDaddy
- Stock Symbol: NYSE: GDDY
What is GoDaddy?
GoDaddy is one of the most popular internet domain registrar and web hosting company, headquartered in Arizona and incorporated in Delaware. In March of 2019, the company announced that it has more than 18 million customers and over 9,000 employees around the globe. GoDaddy also announced a $2.98 billion revenue in 2019. In September of 2019, Aman Bhutani replaced the former CEO Scott W. Wagner.
Bob Parsons has founded Jomax Technologies which became GoDaddy in 1997 in Baltimore, Maryland. Before launching Jomax, Parsons sold his company, Parsons Technology, financial software services provider for $65 million in 1994. In 1999, the Jomax team decided to rebrand the company as GoDaddy. One year later the company became ICANN accredited. After launching its SSL certificate offering in 2004, the company became the largest ICANN-accredited registrar on the Internet in April of 2005.
During the next years, the company achieved rapid growth and in 2009, GoDaddy reached 1 million international customers. In 2012, GoDaddy achieved 10 million customers and launched its first localized market outside the U.S. in India. In 2013, once again GoDaddy is reported as the largest ICANN accredited registrar in the world, with a size of four times the second competitor. In March of 2018, GoDaddy started migrating the majority of its infrastructure Amazon Web Services as a part of a long-term plan.
After 2012, the company completed many acquisitions to strengthen its position. Some of its most notable acquisitions are, domain marketplace Afternic, domain parking service SmartName, business name generator NameFind, web hosting service provider Media Temple, smart calendar service Canary, email marketing service Mad Mimi, VoIP phone systems provider FreedomVoice, ManageWP, Sucuri, Plasso, Cognate, Sellbrite, and Over.
Latest News on GoDaddy
GoDaddy closes the Dan.com acquisition for $71.4 million
GoDaddy's Form 10-Q quarterly regulatory filing showed that the company completed the acquisition of Dan.com in July for $71.4 million ...
GoDaddy reports 2nd quarter results 2022
According to the report published by GoDaddy, the company's revenue increased by 9% year-over-year and net income increased by 93% ...
GoDaddy acquires Dan.com
The world’s biggest registrar company, GoDaddy has announced its accusation of Dan.Com with a mission to allow entrepreneurs and make ...
GoDaddy automating sales tax with Avalara partnership
GoDaddy has launched its new Websites + Marketing Commerce Plus plan equipped with Avalara AvaTax, an automated sales tax solution ...
Malware found in GoDaddy Managed Hosting websites
Wordfence announced that they have noticed an increase in infected websites hosted on GoDaddy’s Managed WordPress service, including MediaTemple, tsoHost, ...
GoDaddy promotes Paul Nicks to President of Domains
Web hosting giant, GoDaddy promoted Paul Nicks to its leadership team as President of Domains. Paul Nicks, who joined the ...
GoDaddy Names Roger Chen as Chief Operating Officer
GoDaddy is an internet domain registrar and web hosting company. It also provides SSL certification, website security, email marketing, e-commerce ...
Starboard has invested in GoDaddy
The activist investor Starboard Value invested in web hosting, domain, and cloud services company GoDaddy. The company has acquired 6.5% ...
GoDaddy data breach spreads to its brands
The hosting giant, GoDaddy announced that they have suffered a data breach a few days ago. Wordfence stated that they ...
1.2 million GoDaddy users’ data exposed
Hosting solutions giant, GoDaddy announced that they have detected unauthorized third-party access. The company stated that attackers breached GoDaddy's Managed ...
GoDaddy to acquire Pagely
GoDaddy had an agreement to acquire Pagely, the company that invented Managed WordPress Hosting. Pagely started its managed WordPress services ...
GoDaddy announced third-quarter financial results
GoDaddy reported its financial results for the third quarter of 2021. The company announced that revenue was increased by 14% ...
GoDaddy introduces WooCommerce integration for POS solutions
Shortly after the launch of its POS solutions allowing organizations to sell, track, and manage sales, GoDaddy Payments announced that ...
GoDaddy expands partnership with Vimeo
GoDaddy announced that the company has expanded the partnership with Vimeo, the all-in-one video software solution. Surveys show that 84% ...
GoDaddy launches two new POS devices
Hosting giant, GoDaddy announced that the company is expanding GoDaddy Payments with the launch of two new point of sale ...
GoDaddy updates website builder metrics dashboard
GoDaddy introduces new and deeper business insights to the GoDaddy Website + Marketing metrics dashboard. The updated dashboard puts business ...
GoDaddy to integrate dashboard with Facebook + Instagram ad
GoDaddy integrated Facebook and Instagram ad builder directly into its websites + marketing and digital marketing suite dashboards to help ...
GoDaddy reports financial results for 2nd quarter
The world's biggest domain services provider, GoDaddy reported financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2021. According to ...
ICANN approves transfer of MMX TLDs to GoDaddy
Top-level domain registry company, Minds + Machines Group announce that it has received consent from the Internet Corporation for Assigned ...
GoDaddy and Google teaming up to help SMBs
GoDaddy and Google are teaming up to help small businesses to increase their reach and boost online sales. The new ...
Afternic’s seller systems in beta rolls out
Domain name provider GoDaddy updated its domain name aftermarket Afternic's seller systems in beta. A randomly selected group of 10% ...