GoDaddy
American technology company
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2025 | GoDaddy returned to Super Bowl advertising after an eight-year hiatus, featuring a commercial promoting their AI service Airo with actor Walton Goggins. |
February 16 2023 | GoDaddy filed its annual 10-K report with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), revealing multiple data breaches over the past three years that impacted over one million customers. |
April 2021 | Relocated headquarters from Scottsdale, Arizona to Tempe, Arizona. |
2020 | GoDaddy completed the acquisition of domain registry services from Neustar and renamed the service to 'GoDaddy Registry', initially operating country code top-level domains .co and .us, and generic top-level domains like .biz and .club. |
January 2020 | Unveiled a new logo with a heart-shaped design spelling out 'GO'. |
September 4 2019 | Aman Bhutani assumed the role of CEO, replacing Scott W. Wagner. |
March 2018 | Announced migration of the majority of infrastructure to Amazon Web Services (AWS). |
2017 | Acquired the security platform Sucuri. |
April 2017 | Acquired Host Europe Group, including 123 Reg, Domain Factory, and Heart Internet, for 1.69 billion euros. |
April 1 2015 | GoDaddy successfully completed its IPO on the New York Stock Exchange, with stock prices soaring 30% on the first day of trading. |
2013 | GoDaddy was reported as the largest ICANN-accredited domain registrar globally, with a market size four times larger than their closest competitor. |
July 1 2011 | KKR, Silver Lake Partners, and Technology Crossover Ventures closed a deal to purchase 65% of GoDaddy for an estimated $2.25 billion. |
September 2010 | GoDaddy put itself up for auction, with reported bids exceeding $1.5-2 billion. |
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