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GoDaddy Inc. is an American publicly traded Internet domain registrar and web hosting company headquartered in Tempe, Arizona, and incorporated in Delaware.
As of December 2022, GoDaddy has around 21 million customers and over 6,900 employees worldwide. The company is known for its advertising on TV and in newspapers. It has been involved in several controversies related to unethical business practices and censorship.
GoDaddy was founded in 1997 in Phoenix, Arizona, by entrepreneur Bob Parsons. Prior to founding GoDaddy, Parsons had sold his financial software services company Parsons Technology to Intuit for $65 million in 1994. He came out of his retirement in 1997 to launch Jomax Technologies (named after a road in Phoenix Arizona) which became GoDaddy Group Inc. GoDaddy received a strategic investment, in 2011, from private equity funds, KKR, Silver Lake, and Technology Crossover Ventures.
The company headquarters was located in Scottsdale, Arizona up until April 2021, when it was moved to Tempe, Arizona.