GoDaddy’s new CEO wants to change the world, one domain name at a time

With new leadership, new branding, and a new vision, GoDaddy stands poised to transform the opportunities for small businesses If the team can shake off years of controversy and build a world-class platform, that is.

Top female executive leaves Yahoo to become Go Daddy’s CTO (updated)

Elissa Murphy, Yahoo's VP of engineering for cloud services, is the second employee in two weeks to leave Yahoo to work for Blake Irving, Yahoo's former CPO who now heads up Go Daddy.

GoDaddy acquires mobile website building app M.dot

Domain registrar and web services company GoDaddy has purchased mobile website builder startup M.Dot.

GoDaddy apologizes for massive outage, gives one free month of service

Web services provider GoDaddy has apologized to its customers for the outage Monday that crippled countless sites across the web, and it is offering one free month of service to nullify complaints.

GoDaddy claims outage wasn’t caused by hacker, blames ‘internal network events’

After an investigation, web services company GoDaddy claims that its major outage yesterday was "not caused by external influences" and that a DDoS attack or a hack weren't to blame.

GoDaddy sites mostly back online after massive outage

Popular web hosting company GoDaddy has restored most of it services after a member of hacker collective Anonymous attacked the site.

GoDaddy outage takes down tons of sites around the web

A member of hacker collective Anonymous has claimed responsibility for the outage, and they said GoDaddy's DNS servers were all taken offline.

NameCheap offers you a discount to leave SOPA-supporting domain hosting services

Following GoDaddy’s recanted support for SOPA, domain hosting site NameCheap is looking to lure in domain owners who no longer want anything to do with GoDaddy or SOPA supporting services.

NameCheap has annouced MoveYourDomainDay, which aims to get customers from …

IPv6 adoption has grown 1,900%, largely due to GoDaddy

Love ‘em or hate ‘em (or their ads), the GoDaddy folks have been the main force behind driving IPv6 adoption, according to a recent census.

The IPv6 Census shows that over the past year, the percentage of zones under .com, …

Web.com acquires Network Solutions for $405M plus stock

Web.com is buying Network Solutions, a domain registration company dating back to the 1970s and the origins of the Internet.

The terms of the deal include $405 million in cash plus 18 million shares of Web.com stock.

At current share …