Tag: godaddy

GoDaddy averages 24 million domains per brand. team.blue averages 163,000. Two opposite ways to consolidate a hosting market, measured.

Montenegro is nationalizing .me: a state company will take over the million-domain ccTLD now run by GoDaddy and Identity Digital.

GoDaddy added 22,000 customers in Q2 2026 and still grew revenue 6.6%. The growth comes from the base paying more, not from new accounts.

Every layer of hosting got a new price, owner or regulator in H1 2026. Our half-year of instruments, synthesized: growth by invoice, not by customer.

GoDaddy opened its domain API to AI agents, but unlike the first wave, it writes a recorded consent step and scoped spending into the purchase itself.

We mapped the hosting industry's owners and debt against our renewal-price index: the operators machines cannot price are the ones with liens on the renewal premium.

Hosting's roll-ups are chasing science-based climate targets, but every acquisition imports emissions. team.blue's report documents the tension.

GoDaddy is appealing a Delhi High Court ruling forcing registrars to unmask domain owners and drop default WHOIS privacy, warning it may exit India.

Wix spent $514M to lose subscribers; GoDaddy's customer base fell for a second year while ARPU jumped. Filings show hosting CAC quietly inflating.

A quarter into Visa's April 2026 VAMP change, the "excessive disputes" threshold now sits at 150bps, a live margin cost for hosting's renewal model.