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 StatesUndisclosed [3]
2August 2013 Locu United States$70 million [4]
3September 2013AfternicDomain ParkingUnited States [5]
415 October 2013 Media Temple Web Hosting ServiceUnited States [6]
5July 2014CanaryCalendar ServiceUnited States [7]
620 August 2014Mad MimiEmail Marketing ServiceUnited States [8]
7April 2015EltoMarketplaceUnited States [9]
822 April 2015MarchexDomain PortfolioUnited States$28 million [10]
97 December 2015Worldwide MediaDomain PortfolioUnited States [11]
1017 May 2016FreedomVoiceCloud-based VoIPUnited States$42 million [12]
116 September 2016ManageWPWeb Hosting Service (WordPress)Serbia [13]
126 December 2016 Host Europe Group Web Hosting ServiceUnited Kingdom$1.79 billion [14] [15]
1322 March 2017SucuriCloud SecurityUnited States [16]
1423 January 2018Main Street HubUnited States [17]
1524 September 2018PlassoUnited States [18]
1625 September 2018CognateUnited States [19]
1710 April 2019SellbriteMarketplaceUnited States [20]
1829 January 2020OverUnited States [21]
1911 February 2020 Uniregistry Cayman Islands [22]
206 April 2020 Neustar Domain Name Registry ServiceUnited States [23]
2115 December 2020PoyntCommerce Payment SolutionUnited States$365 million [24] [25]
2211 November 2021PagelyWordPress managed hostingUnited States [26]
2323 March 2022DNAcademyDomain name training platformUnited States [27]
2428 June 2022Dan.comMarketplace for domain namesNetherlands [28]

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  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 20 September 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.
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  10. ↑ Gagliordi, Natalie (22 April 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). 7 December 2015.
  12. ↑ "GoDaddy buys FreedomVoice to bring VoIP services to SMBs". ZDNet . Retrieved 16 July 2020.
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  14. ↑ Sawers, Paul (6 December 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 2016-12-09.
  16. ↑ "GoDaddy Acquires Sucuri to Advance Digital Security for Customers". PR Newswire (Press release). 22 March 2017.
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  19. ↑ Kalyanaraman, Srividya (25 September 2018). "GoDaddy Acquires Boston Blockchain Trademark Startup Cognate". American City Business Journals.
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  21. ↑ "GoDaddy continues to expand beyond websites by acquiring social content startup Over". TechCrunch. 29 January 2020. Retrieved 2020-01-30.
  22. ↑ Nicks, Paul (February 10, 2020). "Uniregistry's registrar and marketplace joining GoDaddy to bring domain investing to the next level". GoDaddy Blog.
  23. ↑ "GoDaddy goes vertical with Neustar registry acquisition". Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News. 2020-04-06. Retrieved 2020-04-07.
  24. ↑ "GoDaddy acquires US-based payment processor Poynt for $365 million". Business Standard. 16 December 2020.
  25. ↑ "GoDaddy Acquires Dan.com". aboutus.godaddy.net. Retrieved 2021-06-29.
  26. ↑ "We did it". Pagely Blog. 11 November 2021. Retrieved 2022-07-19.
  27. ↑ "GoDaddy Acquires DNAcademy". aboutus.godaddy.net.
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