GoDaddy.com puts itself up for sale: report

Reuters ^ | 9/10/2010 | (Reporting by Alexei Oreskovic and Gabriel Madway; editing by Gunna Dickson)

[knittnmom]

Internet domain name registry GoDaddy.com has put itself up for sale, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.

[knittnmom]

Excerpted, because I don't remember which sites can be copy/pasted.

[EternalVigilance]

Good. Maybe someone will buy it that will get rid of the sleaze. Which would be good. They offer some useful services.

[wally_bert]

I almost went with them. Maybe it is just as well I didn’t.

[Obadiah]

Isn’t that a porn site?

[Cowboy Bob]

Does Danika Patrick go with it?

[poobear]

:D!

[ilgipper]

What they have accomplished as a late arrival to that industry is actually remarkable. They were probably 500th to market, but actually took over massive market share.

[JerseyHighlander]

Was expecting this...
GoDaddy has been running widely distributed coupon campaigns of $0.99 and $1.77 for a yearly domain name registration in the last few months.

[KarlInOhio]

I hope whoever buys them doesn't screw it up. They were one of the early companies pushing reasonable prices for domain registration (especially compared to Network Solutions' prices). I have a few domains registered through them and I would hate to have to move them.

[Zathras]

You know a company is in trouble when the only object of interest is the spokesbabe.

[Vision]

The owner is a conservative Marine.

[thackney]

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[UCANSEE2]

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[OldDeckHand]

"Isn’t that a porn site?"

No, it's an internet address registration company. If you want your own internet address, you pay a company like godaddy.com to register such an address.

They do, however, have fairly "sexualized" commercials and marketing campaigns.

[Domandred]

I hope so too. Every single one of my domain purchases have been through GoDaddy, all at very reasonable prices.

[knittnmom]

Thank you both. I’ve put that on my profile page.

[machogirl]

this could be more bad news for AZ. we are already at a 9.7% unemployment, which i believe is more around 15% if you counting those of us which don’t receive unemployment and are still looking for a job.

[lightninglad]

They do, however, have fairly "sexualized" commercials and marketing campaigns.

Their usual tactic is to air a commercial that ends with the implication that we're about to see Danica Patrick's b00bies, with a text caption giving the URL for an "extended cut" of the commercial. News flash* -- the "extended cut" of the commerical doesn't show Danica Patrick's b00bies, either.

*pardon the pun