Items tagged with GoDaddy

by Tim Sweezy - Tue, Nov 23, 2021

GoDaddy Spanked For Massive Security Breach Putting 1.2M WordPress Accounts At Risk

It would seem that not even GoDaddy can keep all the children of the internet behaving as they should. The very popular internet domain registrar and web hosting giant announced yesterday that its security was compromised last week. GoDaddy announced yesterday that it had discovered on November 17th there was an... Read more...

by Paul Lilly - Thu, Mar 19, 2015

Who's Your GoDaddy? IPO Expected To Value Internet Domain Registrar At $2.87 Billion

GoDaddy, the the world's largest ICANN-accredited Internet domain registrar with more than 59 million domain names under its management, has filed for an initial public offering (IPO) of at least 22 million shares expected to be priced between $17 and $19 a pop. On the higher end, that would value the company at $2.87... Read more...

by Paul Lilly - Fri, Nov 21, 2014

Domain Registrar GoDaddy Headed For IPO Next Year, Seeks $4.5 Billion Valuation

GoDaddy, the world's largest domain name registrar with 14 facilities spread across the world, is reportedly planning an initial public offering (IPO) next year and is seeking a valuation of $4.5 billion. The paperwork for the IPO was filed by GoDaddy Chief Financial Officers (CFO) Scot Wagner back in June, and he met... Read more...

by Paul Lilly - Tue, Jan 14, 2014

Microsoft and GoDaddy Partner for Small Business Office 365 Services

Tech titan Microsoft and domain name guru GoDaddy announced a long-term strategic partnership to offer Office 365 as GoDaddy's exclusive core business-class email and productivity service to its small-business customers. This is a win-win situation for both companies -- Microsoft gains access to 12 million customers... Read more...

by Rob Williams - Wed, Sep 12, 2012

GoDaddy Offering Customers One Month Compensation for Outage

As we reported on Tuesday, GoDaddy suffered a major outage that left thousands, and potentially millions of customers with downed websites and services. While a supposed member of the Anonymous collective took credit for an attack, GoDaddy has since concluded that no hack or distributed denial of service attack took... Read more...

by Seth Colaner - Tue, Sep 11, 2012

GoDaddy Goes Down, Lone Anonymous Hacker Claims Credit

On Monday around mid-morning, a lone hacker claiming association to hacker collective Anonymous attacked GoDaddy.com, taking down many of the personal and small business websites that GoDaddy hosts. GoDaddy posted some vague Tweets throughout the day, assuring its customers that it was aware of and working on the problem, and the following... Read more...

by Paul Lilly - Fri, Dec 23, 2011

GoDaddy Pulls an About-Face, No Longer Supports SOPA

Internet domain registrar GoDaddy isn't afraid to ruffle a few feathers, because if it was, it would never run all those sexually suggestive ads during the Super Bowl and at other times during the year. But what really got GoDaddy in hot water was the fact that it was supporting the "Stop Online Piracy Act," or SOPA. When word got out that... Read more...

by Paul Lilly - Mon, Jun 27, 2011

GoDaddy.com Sale Reportedly Imminent, Will Fetch $2 Billion or More

Domain registrar GoDaddy.com has been on the auction block since September of last year, and it appears the site has finally found a buyer willing to pay a high enough asking price. Actually, three buyers, including private equity-firms KKR & Co. and Silver Lake Partners, and private equity and venture capital... Read more...