Category: GoDaddy

Starboard Acquires Stake Worth $800 Million in GoDaddy

December 27, 2021
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Activist investor Starboard Value LP has purchased a 6.5 percent stake in web services firm GoDaddy Inc. worth about $800 million, according to a regulatory filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Shares of GoDaddy, which have dropped 8 percent so far this year, rose 2.6 percent in premarket trading. Starboard said that GoDaddy’s shares…

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GoDaddy Gets Hacked, 1.2 Million Customer Accounts Exposed

November 23, 2021
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Web registrar and hosting company GoDaddy announced Monday that email addresses of up to 1.2 million active and inactive Managed WordPress customers were accessed by an unauthorized third party using a compromised password. In a disclosure filed with the SEC, GoDaddy Inc. said that the data breach incident was discovered on Nov. 17. “Upon identifying…

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Amazon Partner GoDaddy Removes Gun Website From Its Servers

January 12, 2021
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An Amazon partner on Monday removed a gun website from its servers. AR15.com announced it had gone down. “We’ve been booted from GoDaddy and are looking for an alternative solution,” it said in a social media statement. GoDaddy couldn’t be reached. AR15.com, which hosts a forum and publishes resources for gun owners, appeared to be…

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