List of mergers and acquisitions by GoDaddy

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GoDaddy Inc. is an American publicly traded Internet domain registrar and web hosting company [1] headquartered in Tempe, Arizona and incorporated in Delaware. [2]

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Acquisitions

DateCompanyBusinessCountryPriceReferences
1July 2012 Outright Accounting and BookkeepingUnited States [3]
2August 2013 Locu Digital MarketingUnited States$70 million [4]
3September 2013AfternicDomain Name MarketplaceUnited States [5]
415 October 2013 Media Temple Web HostingUnited States [6]
5July 2014CanaryCalendarsUnited States [7]
620 August 2014Mad MimiEmail MarketingUnited States [8]
7April 2015EltoDomain Name MarketplaceUnited States [9]
822 April 2015MarchexDomain Name PortfolioUnited States$28 million [10]
97 December 2015Worldwide MediaDomain Name PortfolioUnited States [11]
1017 May 2016FreedomVoiceCloud VoIPUnited States$42 million [12]
116 September 2016ManageWPWeb HostingSerbia [13]
126 December 2016 Host Europe Group Web HostingUnited Kingdom$1.79 billion [14] [15]
1322 March 2017SucuriCloud SecurityUnited States [16]
1423 January 2018Main Street HubSocial Media MarketingUnited States$125 million [17] [18]
1524 September 2018PlassoE-Commerce PlatformUnited States [19]
1625 September 2018CognateBlockchain TechnlogyUnited States [20]
1710 April 2019SellbriteDomain Name MarketplaceUnited States [21]
1829 January 2020OverGraphic DesignUnited States [22]
1911 February 2020 Uniregistry Domain Registrar & Registry

Domain Name Portfolio

Cayman Islands$196.9 million [23] [24]
206 April 2020 Neustar Domain RegistryUnited States$218 million [25] [26]
2115 December 2020PoyntCommerce PaymentUnited States$365 million [27] [28]
2211 November 2021PagelyWeb HostingUnited States [29]
2323 March 2022DNAcademyDomain Name TrainingUnited States [30]
2428 June 2022Dan.comDomain Name MarketplaceNetherlands$71.4 million [31] [32]

See also

References

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  2. "EDGAR Search Results". sec.gov. Retrieved July 12, 2021.
  3. "GoDaddy Acquires Outright, Establishes Mountain View Office". TechCrunch. July 18, 2012. Retrieved July 18, 2012.
  4. "GoDaddy Acquires Merchant "Finder" Startup Locu for $70 Million". AllThingsD. August 19, 2013. Retrieved August 20, 2013.
  5. Essers, Loek. "GoDaddy buys domain marketplace Afternic". PC World. Retrieved September 20, 2013.
  6. "Momentous news: GoDaddy & (mt) Media Temple".
  7. By Barry Levine. Venture Beat."/ GoDaddy goes shopping again, picks up Canary calendar team." July 10, 2014. Retrieved July 10, 2014.
  8. By Sarah Perez. TechCrunch. "/ GoDaddy Acquires MailChimp Competitor Mad Mimi To Beef Up Its Email Marketing Service." August 20, 2014. Retrieved March 3, 2015.
  9. Perez, Sarah (April 10, 2015). "GoDaddy Acquires Marketplace Startup Elto To Expand Its Services For Web Pros". TechCrunch. Retrieved April 10, 2015.
  10. Gagliordi, Natalie (April 22, 2015). "GoDaddy buys $28 million worth of domain names from Marchex". ZDNET. Archived from the original on March 24, 2023.
  11. "GoDaddy Acquires Worldwide Media, Inc. Domain Name Portfolio". PR Newswire (Press release). December 7, 2015.
  12. "GoDaddy buys FreedomVoice to bring VoIP services to SMBs". ZDNet . Retrieved July 16, 2020.
  13. Sawers, Paul (September 6, 2016). "GoDaddy acquires Serbia's ManageWP, a multi-site WordPress management tool". VentureBeat.
  14. Sawers, Paul (December 6, 2016). "GoDaddy acquires rival Host Europe Group for $1.79 billion to grow its global footprint". VentureBeat.
  15. "GoDaddy Inc. – GoDaddy Acquires Host Europe Group, Becomes Market Leader In Europe For Small Business Cloud Services". GoDaddy. Retrieved December 9, 2016.
  16. "GoDaddy Acquires Sucuri to Advance Digital Security for Customers". PR Newswire (Press release). March 22, 2017.
  17. "GoDaddy is acquiring social media marketing platform Main Street Hub for $125M – TechCrunch". techcrunch.com. January 23, 2018. Retrieved May 29, 2018.
  18. Tepper, Fitz (January 23, 2018). "GoDaddy is acquiring social media marketing platform Main Street Hub for $125M". TechCrunch. Retrieved July 16, 2025.
  19. Meiling, Brittany (September 24, 2018). "GoDaddy acquires San Diego e-commerce startup Plasso". The San Diego Union-Tribune.
  20. Kalyanaraman, Srividya (September 25, 2018). "GoDaddy Acquires Boston Blockchain Trademark Startup Cognate". American City Business Journals.
  21. "Entrepreneurs Can Now Easily Sell Everywhere with the Launch of GoDaddy Marketplaces". prnewswire.com (Press release). Retrieved April 10, 2019.
  22. "GoDaddy continues to expand beyond websites by acquiring social content startup Over". TechCrunch. January 29, 2020. Retrieved January 30, 2020.
  23. Nicks, Paul (February 10, 2020). "Uniregistry's registrar and marketplace joining GoDaddy to bring domain investing to the next level". GoDaddy Blog.
  24. Louise, Nickie (February 21, 2020). "GoDaddy paid $196.9 million to acquire Uniregistry and 350,000 domain portfolio, annual report shows - Tech Startups" . Retrieved July 16, 2025.
  25. "GoDaddy goes vertical with Neustar registry acquisition". Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News. April 6, 2020. Retrieved April 7, 2020.
  26. Allemann, Andrew (May 6, 2020). "GoDaddy is paying $218 million for Neustar's registry business". Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News. Retrieved July 16, 2025.
  27. "GoDaddy acquires US-based payment processor Poynt for $365 million". Business Standard. December 16, 2020.
  28. "GoDaddy Acquires Dan.com". aboutus.godaddy.net. Retrieved June 29, 2021.
  29. "We did it". Pagely Blog. November 11, 2021. Retrieved July 19, 2022.
  30. "GoDaddy Acquires DNAcademy". aboutus.godaddy.net.
  31. "GoDaddy Acquires Dan.com". aboutus.godaddy.net.
  32. Allemann, Andrew (August 4, 2022). "GoDaddy paid $71.4 million for Dan.com". Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News. Retrieved July 16, 2025.