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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