Tag: GoDaddy

Starboard Acquires Stake Worth $800 Million in GoDaddy

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…


GoDaddy Gets Hacked, 1.2 Million Customer Accounts Exposed

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…


Amazon Partner GoDaddy Removes Gun Website From Its Servers

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…