Godaddy
| GoDaddy, Inc.
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| legal form | Corporation |
| ISIN | US3802371076 |
| founding | 1997 |
| Seat | Scottsdale , United States |
| management | Aman Bhutani, CEO |
| Number of employees | 5,990 |
| sales | 2,232,000,000 USD |
| Branch | Internet service provider |
| Website | www.godaddy.com |
| As of August 3, 2019 | |
GoDaddy is a domain registrar and web host founded by Bob Parsons .
The Go Daddy Group is a certification authority and a market share of 6.9% (as of October 2019) is the fourth largest provider of SSL - certificates .
history
A first IPO planned for 2006 was not carried out. Although GoDaddy has traditionally only acted as a registrar , the company applied as a registry for .us in 2007 . The joint venture with Afilias could not prevail in 2007 against NeuStar .
In 2010 GoDaddy managed almost 40 million domains , making it the world's largest registrar, ahead of Enom and Tucows . The total of registered addresses was put at 55 million in March 2013, so that GoDaddy manages more than the nine other large registrars combined. 50,000 domains are added every day, and GoDaddy had a total of eleven million customers by then.
In July 2011 GoDaddy was taken over by a consortium consisting of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. and Silver Lake . The owners KKR and Silver Lake floated the company in 2015.
In December 2016 GoDaddy published a press release in which they announced that they would buy the Host Europe group for 1.69 billion euros. The takeover was completed on April 3, 2017.
criticism
In December 2011, Jimmy Wales announced on Twitter that the domain names registered with GoDaddy from Wikimedia and “several hundred” domains from Wikia would be transferred to another registrar in protest of its stance on the Stop Online Piracy Act .
Individual evidence
- ↑ GoDaddy hires former Expedia president Aman Bhutani as new CEO; Scott Wagner steps down due to health reasons. August 1, 2019, Retrieved August 3, 2019 (American English).
- ↑ a b GoDaddy 2017 Form 10-K Report , accessed May 10, 2018
- ↑ Usage Statistics and Market Share of SSL Certificate Authorities for Websites. In: w3techs.com. Retrieved October 2, 2019 .
- ↑ IPO indigestion grows as Go Daddy balks. In: USA Today . Retrieved December 30, 2010 .
- ↑ Monika Ermert: Afilias and GoDaddy want to manage .us. In: heise nets. August 4, 2007, accessed July 20, 2013 .
- ↑ Florian Hitzelberger: News from .asia, .us and .au. In: domain-right. August 13, 2007, accessed July 20, 2013 .
- ↑ Markus Franz: Domains: The 15 largest providers of Internet addresses. In: netzwelt . January 24, 2012, accessed July 13, 2012 .
- ↑ Florian Hitzelberger: The US registrar in numbers. In: domain-right. March 14, 2013, accessed March 17, 2013 .
- ↑ Florian Hitzelberger: GoDaddy sold! In: domain-right. July 7, 2011, accessed March 1, 2013 .
- ↑ GoDaddy IPO values company at $ 4.5 billion , at www.reuters.com , accessed May 10, 2018
- ^ GoDaddy Acquires Host Europe Group, Becomes Market Leader In Europe For Small Business Cloud Services
- ↑ GoDaddy Completes Acquisition Of Host Europe Group , accessed May 10, 2018
- ^ Edward Moyer: Wikipedia gone daddy from Go Daddy. In: CNET . March 10, 2012, accessed March 1, 2013 .