Go Daddy launched Get Paid today a new mobile payment service that partners with Paypal, Stripe and Dwolla. Tech Crunch covered the launch. These types of products are the ever continuing push to focus on small business and become a player in areas where Go Daddy did not compete prior to Blake Irving becoming CEO. From the article: As GoDaddy gears up for a $100 million IPO, the domain and web … [Read more...]
Go Daddy Now Carrying $1.5billion in debt
Jeff Bailey wrote a good piece on Seeking Alpha about the upcoming Go Daddy IPO. This article is worth reading for those contemplating investing in Go Daddy. Bailey does a good job at looking at the metrics Go Daddy uses and a look at their past financial history. As far as metrics go Bailey points out that Go Daddy likes to focus on bookings rather than revenue. In its IPO filing, GoDaddy … [Read more...]
ReTweet.com Is Over $11K On Godaddy With 2+ Hours to Go
I just noticed a pretty interesting auction going on Godaddy.com right now The domain is ReTweet.com The high bid as of publication is $11,250 There are 127 bids as of the moment and 19 bidders The auction closes at 01:09 PM (PDT) subject to Godaddy's auction closing rules. I'm not going to get into the possible TM issues, or lack thereof, but its a very interesting domain that … [Read more...]
Godaddy Auction Of Premium .Futbol, .Ninja & .Reviews Domains Closes Tomorrow; App.Reviews Over $1K
The Godaddy auction of premium . Futbol, .Ninja and .Reviews domain names closes tomorrow Wednesday June 18th at 5pm PST and several domain names already have multiple bidders Leading domain names in the auction is App.Reviews which has 7 bidders and as of publication has a high bid of $1,050. A single letter domain that will carry a normal renewal price e.ninja has a high bid of … [Read more...]
Godaddy/Afternic Sales Total Just Over $1.3 Million
Godaddy/Afternic reported its weekly sales which totaled just over $1.3 Million dollars. All sales were led by Suzies.com for $62,050 which was owned by a Scottcraft Label Co. out of Marlton, NJ .COM … [Read more...]
New York Times Reports On Godaddy IPO: Its Go Time
The New York Times is reporting that talk of a Go Daddy IPO is just like their new slogan states, Its Go Time, as it filed it S-1 with the SEC today. According to the New York Times, Godaddy had 57 million domains under management as of Dec. 31. GoDaddy reported $1.1 billion in revenue for 2013, a 24% increase from the previous year but continues to lose money as it reported a $199.9 million … [Read more...]
Godaddy/Afternic Sales Total $2.1 Million
GoDaddy and Afternic’s reportable weekly domain sales for the week of 5/26/14 – 6/1/14 totaled $2,109,201 All sales were led by a very nice, highly brandable domain name, PerfectBalance.com for $28,450 Here are the reportable sales: Total Sales: $2,109,201 .COM … [Read more...]