After seeing promising results from early customer testing, GoDaddy is launching new artificial intelligence tools for small businesses that automate the process of finding domains, building websites, and creating social… Read More
— Flexible warehousing company Flexe hired Amazon vet Lara Rogers as SVP and general manager. Rogers spent the past decade at Amazon and was most recently director of business, product… Read More
GoDaddy is teaming with Seattle-based startup Hiya to provide an answer for when not to answer your phone. In an effort to block some of the billions of unwanted robocalls… Read More
Former Expedia executive Aman Bhutani is the new leader of website hosting giant GoDaddy, taking over from CEO Scott Wagner, who is stepping down for health reasons. “GoDaddy’s extraordinary focus… Read More
Over Raghu Murthi’s career, he’s worked for leading tech companies in key sectors, including hardware-maker Intel, software giant Microsoft and enterprise and consumer behemoth Amazon. Most recently he’s taken the… Read More
Internet domain name registrar GoDaddy has signed a multiyear deal with Amazon Web Services to migrate most of its computing infrastructure on to AWS, the two companies plan to announce… Read More
GoDaddy announced Tuesday that its CEO Blake Irving is retiring from his role at the domain name giant. Irving’s last day as CEO will be Dec. 31 and he will remain… Read More
Internet companies have long operated under the principle that they are not responsible for what their users do with their services, aside from a few common-sense laws around child abuse,… Read More
KIRKLAND, Wash. — GoDaddy might not get as much attention as the Facebooks and Googles of the world, but the Scottsdale, Ariz.-based web domain, hosting and online services giant has quietly built a… Read More
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Like many other tech companies, GoDaddy is expanding its footprint in the Seattle area. The web-hosting company said today that it will expand its Kirkland, Wash. engineering office with room for… Read More
Marchex wants to get out of the domain business, and GoDaddy is helping make it happen. The Seattle-based company today announced a $34.8 million sale of its domains to GoDaddy… Read More
It’s been a nice first day as a public company for GoDaddy. The web-hosting company raised $460 million on Wednesday after pricing its IPO at $20 per share, which came in… Read More
—Tableau Software revealed in a regulatory filing that Scott Sandell will not stand for re-election to the company’s board of directors. Sandell, a general partner at New Enterprise Associates and the lead independent… Read More
The gap between men and women in tech is a touchy subject that’s been around for a bit. A new documentary, CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap tackles the question head on,… Read More
TEMPE, Ariz. — Less than two minutes after entering GoDaddy’s new engineering center in Tempe, I was taken aback when an employee whizzed down a slide from the second floor into… Read More
One of the best tech ads in Super Bowl 49 came from a non-tech company. Nine tech firms bought actual Super Bowl ad time, defined by Ad Age as, “national ads that ran… Read More
Wow, what happened to the summer? It’s already Labor Day, and the dog days of summer have simply slipped away. One of the reasons why things moved particularly fast this… Read More
Yesterday morning, Google let me into its new invite-only domain registration service, and I decided to give it a test run to figure out how scared traditional domain registration companies should… Read More
People looking for domains on the web will soon have another vendor to choose from: Google. The company announced today that it is slowly opening up access to Google Domains,… Read More
Domain giant GoDaddy filed for its initial public offering this afternoon, seeking to raise at least $100 million and providing new details of its financial condition. The company simultaneously announced that founder… Read More
Up until this year, buying a domain name was pretty straightforward. With one or two accounts at registrars like GoDaddy or namecheap, you could buy just about any domain extension.… Read More
GoDaddy is currently in talks with a number of investment banks to find a backer for an initial public offering, according to reports made by Reuters and the Wall Street… Read More
—Mason Morfit, president of ValueAct Capital, has joined Microsoft’s board and will also serve on the board’s audit committee. Morfit’s appointment is part of a prior agreement between the software giant and the San Francisco-based… Read More
There’s plenty of skin in GoDaddy’s upcoming Super Bowl campaign, but not in the way you’d expect. The company this morning released a sneak peek of one of its upcoming… Read More
GoDaddy has hired 26-year Microsoft data center and cloud computing veteran Arne Josefsberg as its new chief infrastructure officer and chief information officer — a key position for the domain company as… Read More
GoDaddy has struck an exclusive partnership with Microsoft to sell Office 365 email and productivity tools to the domain registrar’s small-business customers — including a streamlined, lower-cost Office 365 bundle.… Read More
LAS VEGAS — Nearly every Super Bowl since 2005 has featured a controversial commercial from GoDaddy that involved risque topics like nude women showering together. This February, however, you can… Read More
The views are pretty sweet from GoDaddy’s new office at Kirkland’s Carillon Point, but CEO Blake Irving knows that the prime waterfront location and unique culture aren’t the only reasons… Read More
Can’t get your favorite dot-com address? GoDaddy announced today that it will start taking pre-registrations for a quartet of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) that will become available early next… Read More