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Norton’s Owner Has Approached GoDaddy. The Market Marked the Target Up 8.7 Percent and the Bidder Down 6.1.
The Financial Times reports that Gen Digital, owner of Norton and Avast, has approached GoDaddy. The target rose 8.7 percent, the bidder fell 6.1.
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We Ranked Hosting Two Ways. We Resolved 108 GoDaddy Domains: 96 Point at Amazon.
Our hosting count records whose address space a site is served from. We sampled GoDaddy's domains and most of them resolve into Amazon's.
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DigitalOcean’s Market Cap Is Now Higher Than GoDaddy’s. What Five Public Multiples Say About Hosting Valuations.
Five public hosting, cloud and domain companies trade between 8x and 40x EBITDA. The spread shows what buyers pay for: growth, cash conversion, stickiness.
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GoDaddy Is Sued Over the .com Promotion That Worked Too Well
GoDaddy's discounted one-year .com pulled its domain count back into growth and cut quarterly bookings growth from 9.1% to 5%. Investors have now sued.
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GoDaddy Launches Node.js Hosting, and Publishes the Rules Apps Must Follow
GoDaddy added Node.js hosting to its Web Hosting plans, and published a deploy contract stating what an app must do to run.
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GoDaddy Averages 24 Million Domains Per Brand. team.blue Averages 163,000.
GoDaddy averages 24 million domains per brand. team.blue averages 163,000. Two opposite ways to consolidate a hosting market, measured.
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Montenegro Is Taking .me Back: A State Company Will Run the Million-Domain ccTLD
Montenegro is nationalizing .me: a state company will take over the million-domain ccTLD now run by GoDaddy and Identity Digital.
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GoDaddy Q2 2026: More Revenue From the Same Customers
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.
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H1 2026: The Six Months That Repriced Hosting
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.
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GoDaddy Opens Its Domain API to AI Agents, With Guardrails Built In
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.
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