GoDaddy.com

godaddy.com is a publicly traded American web hosting and Internet domain registrar with its main office in Tempe, Arizona, and its incorporation in Delaware.
More than 21 million clients and 6,600 workers globally work for GoDaddy as of December 2021. The business is renowned for its television and newspaper advertising. It has been at the center of various disputes involving censorship and questionable commercial activities.
== History ==
Entrepreneur Bob Parsons established GoDaddy in 1997 in Phoenix, Arizona. Parsons sold his financial software services business, Parsons Technology, to Intuit for $65 million prior to launching GoDaddy. In 1997, he came out of retirement to found Jomax Technologies, which later changed its name to GoDaddy Group Inc. and was named after a road in Phoenix, Arizona. In 2011, the private equity groups KKR, Silver Lake, and Technology Crossover Ventures made a strategic investment in GoDaddy.
Up until April 2021, the company's headquarters were in Scottsdale, Arizona, but they were then moved to Tempe, Arizona.
=== Company name origin ===
During a brainstorming session in 1999, a number of Jomax Technologies employees agreed to change the company name. How about Big Daddy, asked one of the workers. The domain name had already been acquired though, so Parsons retorted, "How about Go Daddy?" He bought the name since it was available. The corporation persevered with the moniker, according to Parsons, since it was memorable and made people grin. In February 2006, the business moved from being known as "Jomax Technologies" to being known as "GoDaddy."
A man with unkempt hair and sunglasses appeared in the first GoDaddy logo. GoDaddy released a new logo in January 2020 that features "GO" written in a heart-shaped design next to straightforward sans-serif font.
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