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2021: Purchase of 30 domain zone management rights for $120 million
Go Daddy announced the purchase of 30 domain zone management rights for a total of $120 million. These include domains controlled by the MMX registry, as well as.CLUB and.DESIGN domains, the .RU/.PF Domain Coordination Center reported on April 8, 2021.
Go Daddy is known primarily as the world's largest domain registrar, but in 2020 it already "debuted" as a registry, acquiring domains previously managed by Neustar.
The MMX portfolio includes 28 domains, the largest of which are.VIP (about 900 thousand registrations) and.WORK (about 650 thousand). Also under the control of Go Daddy are the domains of the subsidiary structure of MMX - the company ICM Registry. It manages four adult domains -.XXX,.PORN,.ADULT, and.SEX. Such a step is quite unexpected: recently, Go Daddy has been actively cultivating the image of a company committed to family values, the Domain Incite resource indicated.
Separately, the Coordination Center noted the acquisition of.CLUB and.DESIGN. The first is the most successful of all purchased - the number of registrations in it exceeds 1 million. The second cannot boast of such figures, about 120 thousand names are registered in it. But more importantly, both domain zones show stable organic growth, while avoiding simple and obvious techniques like large discounts. In addition, Go Daddy also becomes the technical operator of the domain zones.RUGBY,.BASKETBALL and.ALLY. Thus, the number of shared top-level domains in one form or another controlled by Go Daddy exceeded 240.
2011
Unsupported SOPA
In 2011, the company, among several other organizations, openly supported the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) bill, which caused a widespread protest movement. As a result of the proposed boycott of the company's services, which was supposed to encourage it to abandon support for SOPA, GoDaddy suffered significant losses, losing more than 72,000 domains in less than a week. In particular, the Wikimedia Foundation decided to change the provider of the delegation of its domains; Jimmy Wales [1] the corresponding decision on his Twitter {{cite [2] 24 December 2011}}.
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Sale of the company's share to investment funds
On July 1, 2011, the company announced the attraction of investments by partial sale to investment funds KKR & Co, Technology Crossover Ventures, Silver Lake Partners. The amount of the transaction was not announced, but experts say that we are talking about the amount of about 2 billion. dollars Prior to the transaction, 78% of the company was controlled by its founder Bob Parsons, the rest were owned by top managers and some employees of the company through options. It is assumed that investment funds will not only make cash injections into the company, but also share their experience in foreign markets, as well as help modernize the technical component[4]
2010: Revenue - about $800 million
GoDaddy Group supports more than 35 million domain names in the largest first-level domain zones, including COM, ORG, NET, BIZ, INFO. The company remains a leader in the domain registration market.
The company's revenue, according to unofficial data, amounted to about 800 million US dollars.
In addition, according to the site webhosting.info GoDaddy ranks second in the ranking of host companies. Moreover, in the summer of 2010, the company was GoDaddy in the first position.
2006
Undue domain closure scandal
June 14, 2006 according to the official press release of the Russian company Majordomo [5], the company GoDaddy suspended the work of 1399 registered Majordomo domains on unreasonable charges. spam For unlocking domains, the company asked for 199 $ for each domain.
According to the website http://nodaddy.com/ (closed at the initiative of GoDaddy), a fairly large number of users suffered from the company's policy GoDaddy to close the domain on an unverified complaint, offering to unlock for a certain amount.
A new community of GoDaddy-affected users was created - http://gohelldaddy.com.
IPO cancellation
In 2006, the company set out to place shares on the stock exchange, but canceled the IPO due to "market uncertainty."
Notes
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- ↑ web 'last = Wales' first = Jimmy 'title = Jimmy Wales Twitter post' url = https://twitter.com/# !/jimmy_wales/status/ 150287579642740736/| accessdate =
- ↑ 23 декабря 2011 года топ-менеджмент GoDaddy объявил, что «больше не поддерживает законопроект SOPA»Lowensohn, Josh Go Daddy spanks SOPA, yanks support. CNET News (December 23, 2011). Архивировано из первоисточника 27 февраля 2012.Go Daddy No Longer Supports SOPA. Go Daddy. Архивировано из первоисточника 27 февраля 2012. Проверено 22 декабря 2011., сменив вскоре это заявление на «GoDaddy ПРОТИВ SOPA»Шаблон:Citation.
- ↑ Billionaire involuntarily: a telephone interview with Go Daddy founder Bob Parsons.
- ↑ Majordomo: The company GoDaddy.com blocks the domains of Russian users
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