Tag: godaddy

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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.
by Łukasz Nowak · 24 Sep 2026 · 10 min read
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.
by Natalia Nowak · 15 Sep 2026 · 10 min read
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.
by Natalia Nowak · 1 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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
by Natalia Nowak · 24 Aug 2026 · 9 min read
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
by Natalia Nowak · 21 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
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.
by Natalia Nowak · 11 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
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
by Natalia Nowak · 4 Aug 2026 · 3 min read
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
by Natalia Nowak · 31 Jul 2026 · 6 min read
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
by Natalia Nowak · 20 Jul 2026 · 11 min read
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
by Natalia Nowak · 16 Jul 2026 · 5 min read
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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