GoDaddy

Tagline

Make Your Own Way

Net Worth

$12,570,000,000

Started in (City)

Baltimore

Started in (Country)

Incorporation Date

01st December, 1997

Bankruptcy Date

Founders

Bob Parsons

About

GoDaddy is a service platform which provides tools to entrepreneurs around the globe and assist in expanding their business. They start by understanding small business and then nurture them by providing a global online presence for better outreach. Their advertisements are not limited to online platforms but are also featured on TV and newspapers (sometimes). GoDaddy came into being in 1997 and was founded by Bob Parson. Before GoDaddy Parson was known as the owner of a financial service company called the Parsons Technology. After years of toil and hard work Parson sold his financial service company to Intuit for $65 million in 1994. Later in 1997 he launched another company called Jomax which was renamed to GoDaddy Group, Inc. in 2006. The company\’s logo features a cartooned man with messy hair and sunglasses.

Beginning

Go Daddy is an Internet domain registrar and web hosting company, which also sells e-business related software and services. Founded in 1997 by Bob Parsons, who previously founded the software development company Parsons Technology, Inc., Go Daddy has become the largest ICANN-accredited registrar and the only registrar to ever surpass Network Solutions in total domain names registered. Go Daddy won the CNET Editor’s Choice award in 2001 and the Name Intelligence Largest Net Gain Award in both 2002 and 2003, jumping from fifth largest registrar to third largest overall, trailing only Network Solutions and Tucows. The Go Daddy Group, which includes Wild West Domains, its resale brand as well as Blue Razor, is currently the largest registrar in the world. One employee said, "How about Big Daddy?" However, the domain name had already been purchased, so Parsons replied, "How about Go Daddy?" The name was available, so he bought it. Parsons said that the company stuck with the name because it made people smile and remember it. The company changed its name branding from "Jomax Technologies"[to "GoDaddy" in February 2006. GoDaddy's original logo featured a cartoon-styled man with messy hair wearing sunglasses. In January 2020, GoDaddy unveiled a new logo with a simple, sans-serif type accompanied by a heart-shaped design that spells out "GO".

Road to Success

Part of what has made GoDaddy so successful is its ability to create a readily identifiable brand. Nearly every person on the Internet has heard of GoDaddy and a majority of sites are registered with the company. The power of this brand has come from its extensive advertising. GoDaddy has received a lot of attention, both negative and positive, in the past two decades since its inception. The company did not start with the right foot. It was initially known for its sexist ads and work environment. Things seem to turn around when Blake Irvin joined the firm as the CEO. He wanted to remake the company\’s online infrastructure. In 2001, soon after Network Solutions was no longer the only place to register a domain, GoDaddy was approximately the same size as competitors Dotster and eNom. In April 2005, GoDaddy became the largest ICANN-accredited registrar on the Internet. As of 2018, GoDaddy is the world's largest web host by market share, with over 62 million registered domains. In March 2018, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced that GoDaddy is migrating the vast majority of its infrastructure to AWS as part of a multi-year transition.

Challenges

The IT industry is constantly evolving, and 2018 will most likely present significant software upgrades that will be incompatible with dated technology. As a developer, some requirements must be met to avoid coding flaws. This creates a conflict that IT managers must acknowledge and resolve for modern programmers to ensure accuracy and quality. Programmers will also be expected to keep up with the latest software trends in 2018 because new product releases will be emerging for IT professionals to utilize regularly. Language skills are invaluable in today’s job market because businesses rely on people skills and effective communication to build a larger network. Like most businesses, IT companies want to increase their reach on an international level.In the early years of building and manipulating software, developers did all the grunt work as they were writing code. Most of today’s working developers write code with database assistance that manages software tools — but this method might soon be outdated as well.

Failures

In 2002, GoDaddy sued VeriSign for domain slamming and again in 2003 over its Site Finder service. This latter suit caused controversy over VeriSign's role as the sole maintainer of the .com and the .net top-level domains. VeriSign shut down Site Finder after receiving a letter from ICANN ordering it to comply with a request to disable the service. In 2006, GoDaddy was sued by Web.com for patent infringement. On December 19, 2006, GoDaddy received a third party complaint of invalid domain contact information in the WHOIS database for the domain FamilyAlbum.com. On January 24, 2007, GoDaddy deactivated the domain of computer security site Seclists.org, taking 250,000 pages of security content offline. The shutdown resulted from a complaint from MySpace to GoDaddy regarding 56,000 user names and passwords posted a week earlier to the full-disclosure mailing list and archived on the Seclists.org site as well as many other websites. Seclists.org administrator Gordon Lyon, who goes by the handle "Fyodor", provided logs to CNET News.com showing GoDaddy de-activated the domain 52 seconds after leaving him a voicemail and he had to go to great lengths to get the site reactivated.

Achievements

GoDaddy won for Best Engineering Team 2021
2021 Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service
In 2020, GoDaddy won for Best Professional Development

Subsidies

Poynt
Etlo

CEOs

Aman Bhutani
Blake Irving