Go Daddy announced today that is opening a permanent Seattle-area office in Kirkland or Bellevue, Washington n June.
According to a Press Release out today, Godaddy is already operating out of a temporary office near Carillon Point in Kirkland, as Go Daddy has hired “veteran executives from Microsoft, Google, Amazon and eBay, among others.
“The reason to join Go Daddy is simple … you can make a difference at a company that is hell-bent on changing the world,” Irving said. “We have the opportunity to help small businesses in ways no one else in the space is doing right now. This is a chance to change lives in profound ways, to expand the world’s economy by empowering people to start, grow and successfully run their small businesses. I’ve yet to meet a great engineer or developer who doesn’t want to leave their mark on this world in a meaningful way.”
“Irving recently hired Chief Architect Arnold Blinn, a tech heavyweight, who spent 17 years at Microsoft Corporation in senior architect roles.
“Go Daddy has hired a range of top-tier talent, with a diverse skill set, to work out of its offices in Kirkland/Bellevue, Sunnyvale, Calif., Denver, Colo., Hiawatha, Iowa and its corporate headquarters in Scottsdale, Ariz.”
“The new recruits who have joined Go Daddy include:
Chief Architect Arnold Blinn, 17-year Microsoft veteran, 25 patents issued and another 25 pending in electronic commerce, digital rights management, photo manipulation and other online services. Blinn is the founder and architect of eShop, one of the Web’s first and most successful early eCommerce businesses, which was purchased by Microsoft in 1996. Since then he has served as Partner Architect and incubation leader for some of Microsoft’s most innovative products, including Xbox Live, Windows Live and MSN.
CTO & EVP Platforms Elissa Murphy was Yahoo! VP of engineering for cloud services and helped lead Yahoo! to be a force with code contributions for the latest version of Hadoop. She also spent 13 years at Microsoft and began her technology career in computer security with 5th Gen Systems and the Norton Group, a division at Symantec responsible for Norton Antivirus and other Norton products. Murphy brings expertise in global-scale platforms, big data and predictive analytics. She was recognized as one of the Top Women in Seattle Tech by TechFlash and currently has 14 patents issued, with another 19 patents pending.
SVP and GM Hosting Jeff King is a 17-year veteran in online commerce. Most recently an executive at eBay, Jeff served in a number of roles over a 10-year span, including Head of Platform Strategy for X.commerce and Senior Director of Product management for the Search, and Trust and Safety teams.
EVP eCommerce Phil Bienert joins from AT&T, where he led the online marketplace as SVP Consumer Digital Experience. He provides broad leadership and end-to-end customer expertise in product marketing, sales, service, design, strategy, social media, technology and operations. Bienert also led Customer Experience at CitiGroup after spending his early career at Volvo and Ford Motor Company driving brand and consumer product strategies.
SVP Design and User Experience Rick Eames, worked for Microsoft most recently and Apple previously. He will focus on revamping Go Daddy’s design architecture.
VP and GM Domains Mike McLaughlin joined from eBay where he helped build eBay Motors into the world’s largest online automotive marketplace. Most recently McLaughlin was COO at Glyde, a leading marketplace for buying and selling consumer electronics.
Distinguished Engineer Scott Isaacs was a Microsoft developer best known for the development of Dynamic HTML, which is at the core of what is commonly termed Ajax.
VP and GM Site Builder Products Raj Mukherjee previously led the Google SMB application business, after a successful career at Microsoft. He is overhauling Go Daddy’s website design and eCommerce offerings.
Head of Commerce Sandeep Grover is a former Amazon Product Lead and now oversees Go Daddy’s eCommerce offerings, including Quick Shopping Cart.
Irving, who took over as Go Daddy CEO in January and marked his 100th day on the job yesterday, is the former Chief Product Officer at Yahoo! and a long-time Microsoft executive. He is evolving Go Daddy’s products and services while making them available to a wider global audience. In February, Go Daddy opened its Silicon Valley office and acquired M.dot, a mobile app that allows users to easily create a website from a smartphone.
Go Daddy now serves more than 11 million paying customers worldwide and is the largest Web hosting and domain name registrar on the planet. Go Daddy leverages its award-winning talent and personalized approach to help small businesses create their digital identity, build websites and harness the power of the Internet.””
Hello MHB,
R. E. = ” you can make a difference at a company that is hell-bent on changing the world,”
We could not agree with them more. They are Hell-Bent on decieving End-Users into thinking .Whatevers are useful Business Start ups material.
The Mass Deception Continues!
Warning End-Users don’t drink their Kool-Aid it is fundamentally flawed and dangerous to your Online success. Best educate yourselves before you make any mistakes.
Gratefully, Jeff Schneider (Contact Group) (Metal Tiger)
Godaddy’s New gTLD page:
http://www.godaddy.com/tlds/gtld.aspx
First Google, now Godaddy. Internet behemoths fully on board with New gTLDs
Winds of Change they are a blowin’
Hello MHB,
There are rules of any game for decency an honesty in being truthfull to consumers and End-Users and small businessmen and then there are the ARROGANT MANIPULATORS that lie for their own GREED.
The MASS DECEPTION CONTINUES.
Gratefully, Jeff Schneider (Contact Group) (Metal Tiger)
.whatever = right of the dot
right of the dot= mike berkens
Jeff, are you calling Mike an “ARROGANT MANIPULATORS that lie for their own GREED”
If so you are not playing nice and he mihgt not invite you back into his living room.
Just sayin.
Hello Owen,
Perhaps everyone should draw their own conclusions. Its pretty obvious don’t you think!
History records us.
Gratefully, Jeff Schneider (Contact Group) (Metal Tiger)
R. E. = ” .whatever = right of the dot
right of the dot= mike berkens
Its one thing to manipulate domainers its another thing to change a thirty year consumer habit at the right of the dot.
I would say we have a fool here, and over at Go Daddy as well.
Gratefully, Jeff Schneider (Contact Group) (Metal Tiger)
The smart money will be JVing or buying the .COM profit centers that will be the end target for gTLDs. This is obvious to those in the know.
Of course the elephant shooter, will try and bag as many domainers as he can.
Gratefully, Jeff Schneider (Contact Group) (Metal Tiger)
wow, OK a 30 year habit huh? way to stretch it out.
by the way, it isnt 2015 yet and none of us were visiting domains in 1985 so lets get back to reality.
The Smart money knows:
If you want to do business in Columbia you buy the .co
If you want to do business GLOBALLY, the smart money buys the .COM
Gratefully, Jeff Schneider (Contact Group) (Metal Tiger)
Jeff,
make up your mind. either the new gTLD’s will be utilized by new businesses or they wont.
if they WONT be used – then this whole talk of .COM profit centers is idiotic.
if the spillover traffic to the .COM is massive then that means the new gTLD’s are getting used by real people.
ontheinterweb, interesting ghost name
.COM is the wild card in the deck!
enjoy the bleed traffic from .co – OR – UDRP the .co
P. S. .co is a GLOBAL MISFIT
Cheers
Gratefully, Jeff Schneider (Contact Group) (Metal Tiger)
well Jeff,
i figure our names have something in common. we’re both nobody.
at least thats what a google search reveals… unless blog comments make you somebody.
anyway, what do you think about people living/doing business within the USA operating solely on a .US domain ?
R.E. = ” anyway, what do you think about people living/doing business within the USA operating solely on a .US domain ?
Perhaps you will get UDRPd / Are you feeling Lucky?
Smart money doesn’t like to gamble.
Gratefully, Jeff Schneider (Contact Group) (Metal Tiger)
right, cause nobody ever UDRP’s .com’s…
If you are starting a busines and you own the.co you are the Gambler and the .COM is the HOUSE, Want to gamble? follow Parsons brilliant advice.
Gratefully, Jeff Schneider (Contact Group) (Metal Tiger)
Jeff,
im talking about .US – not .CO
what does starting a business on a .US domain has to do with getting a UDRP?
ontheinterweb,
I,m talking about .co – not .us
No matter how much BS you sling it will never change a .whatever into a .COM Profit center.
Get educated before three years from now when you look back on how much you really don’t know. Due dilligence.
Gratefully, Jeff schneider (Contact Group) (Metal Tiger)
Jeff,
you said a .US domain would be gambling a UDRP.
why? please make sense for a second.
you said this. now quit going off topic and explain why.
ontheinterweb
You dont even reveal your real name = no credibility = another cyberghost
Gratefully, Jeff Schneider (Contact Group) (Metal tiger)
Jeff,
stop trying so hard to emulate Rick. people notice this and its annoying.. anyway, its just a question on a blog dude.. we’re not dating.
why is setting up a business on a .US domain gambling a UDRP?