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GoDaddy hires former Expedia president Aman Bhutani as new CEO; Scott Wagner steps down due to health reasons

by James Thorne on August 1, 2019August 1, 2019 at 2:45 pmComment

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

Working Geek: Long-time techie Raghu Murthi of GoDaddy aims for a big impact in massive markets

by Lisa Stiffler on May 31, 2018May 31, 2018 at 9:19 amComment

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

GoDaddy signs multiyear deal with Amazon Web Services for ‘vast majority’ of its computing infrastructure

by Tom Krazit on March 28, 2018March 28, 2018 at 12:04 amComment

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

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GoDaddy CEO Blake Irving to retire after five-year run at domain name giant

by Clare McGrane on August 22, 2017August 22, 2017 at 2:40 pmComment

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

After GoDaddy boots Daily Stormer, will other tech companies have to follow suit?

by Tom Krazit on August 14, 2017August 15, 2017 at 6:07 pm1 Comment

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

Inside GoDaddy’s rapidly growing Seattle-area engineering office, with CEO Blake Irving

by Todd Bishop on January 27, 2017January 27, 2017 at 7:44 am1 Comment

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

Tinder for startup ideas: GoDaddy’s ‘Flare’ gives entrepreneurs feedback on concepts with a swipe

by Monica Nickelsburg on May 26, 2016May 25, 2016 at 4:50 pm1 Comment

Swipe right if you’re interested, left to dismiss, and tap if you want to learn more. That recipe for landing a date Saturday night could also help you discover the… Read More

GoDaddy expands Seattle-area office, now has space for 225 employees

by Taylor Soper on August 20, 2015August 21, 2015 at 12:06 pmComment

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 sells 200K domains to GoDaddy for $28.1M, shifts focus to mobile advertising

by Taylor Soper on April 22, 2015April 22, 2015 at 8:32 am1 Comment

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

GoDaddy raises $460M in IPO as stock surges more than 30% in NYSE debut

by Taylor Soper on April 1, 2015April 1, 2015 at 11:03 amComment

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

Tech Moves: Sandell leaves Tableau’s board; Lisa Chin to depart Year Up; and more

by Blair Hanley Frank on March 27, 2015March 27, 2015 at 5:18 pm 3 Comments

—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

GoDaddy CEO helps produce ‘CODE,’ a documentary about the gender gap

by Molly Brown on March 24, 2015March 24, 2015 at 9:09 amComment

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

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Pedal carts, skate parks, and giant slides at GoDaddy’s new Tempe engineering center

by Taylor Soper on March 1, 2015March 1, 2015 at 9:36 am 8 Comments

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

Review: The best technology ads in Super Bowl 49, and the rest

by Frank Catalano on February 2, 2015February 8, 2015 at 6:45 pmComment

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

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The Seattle freeze is real; the geekiest bicycle in the world; and other top posts of the month

by John Cook on September 1, 2014November 9, 2017 at 9:41 amComment

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

Watch out, GoDaddy: Google’s no-fuss domain service poses threat to traditional registrars

by Blair Hanley Frank on August 26, 2014September 1, 2014 at 8:03 am 17 Comments

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

Google hops into domain registration business, going after GoDaddy and others

by Blair Hanley Frank on June 23, 2014June 23, 2014 at 3:07 pm 5 Comments

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

GoDaddy files for $100 million IPO, founder Bob Parsons resigns as chairman

by Todd Bishop on June 9, 2014September 1, 2014 at 11:58 pmComment

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

Buying a new gTLD domain name? The process .sucks

by Kevin Lisota on June 7, 2014April 11, 2017 at 7:38 am 10 Comments

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 prepping for IPO

by Blair Hanley Frank on March 14, 2014March 14, 2014 at 6:24 pmComment

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

Tech Moves: Microsoft gains activist board member; Ex-Apple VP becomes first female director at GoDaddy; etc.

by Blair Hanley Frank on March 11, 2014January 13, 2015 at 9:42 pmComment

—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

Danica Patrick in a muscle suit? GoDaddy’s new Super Bowl ad breaks with tradition

by Todd Bishop on January 22, 2014January 22, 2014 at 10:23 am1 Comment

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 hires Microsoft vet Arne Josefsberg as CIO to build out cloud infrastructure

by Todd Bishop on January 14, 2014January 14, 2014 at 4:09 pm 5 Comments

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 to offer Microsoft Office 365 under exclusive deal, including new low-cost bundle

by Todd Bishop on January 13, 2014January 13, 2014 at 8:31 am1 Comment

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

GoDaddy’s 2014 Super Bowl ads will actually teach you something about the company

by Taylor Soper on January 8, 2014January 9, 2014 at 1:59 amComment

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

GoDaddy opens Seattle-area engineering office, already planning to expand

by Todd Bishop on November 21, 2013November 21, 2013 at 4:46 pmComment

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

Way beyond dot-com: New era begins with orders for .menu, .luxury and other ‘gTLDs’

by Blair Hanley Frank on November 8, 2013November 8, 2013 at 11:56 am 2 Comments

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

Relive the GeekWire Summit with photos, Twitter reaction

by Taylor Soper on September 13, 2013April 10, 2017 at 7:46 am1 Comment

From a fantastic talk with Rich Barton and Bill Gurley to a former Amazon exec comparing shopping to sex, the 2013 GeekWire Summit was one to remember. Thanks to the… Read More

GoDaddy CEO: ‘Our outcome would be very good if we went public today’

by Taylor Soper on September 12, 2013September 30, 2014 at 12:07 pm 3 Comments

GoDaddy is bringing in $1.4 billion in revenue this year and has more than 12 million paying customers, but the online services company led by former Yahoo and Microsoft executive Blake… Read More

GoDaddy relaunches its brand, with a little help from Jean-Claude Van Damme

by Todd Bishop on September 5, 2013September 5, 2013 at 2:38 pm 4 Comments

GoDaddy, the online services company led by former Yahoo and Microsoft executive Blake Irving, relaunched its brand today with a makeover of its notoriously cluttered website and a new ad… Read More