Bob Parsons is a crazy/interesting dude thats for sure... The complete polar opposite of any silicon valley CEO.<p>I don't get nor agree with most of what he does but I find it fascinating.. Has anyone else seen his blog? The irony is even though his video blog series - he and a busty blonde giving advice with cartoonish editing usually featuring motorcycles in some way - looks ridiculous its actually really smart, useful information<p>Doesn't surprise me he'd prefer to exit with an auction instead of IPO
It does strike me as a very low barrier to entry business.
Amazon could sell domains for 1$ more than versign charge them.<p>Google could bypass verisign completely and launch their own top level domain with their own root DNS and give away ".go" domains.
Here is a company, that since its inception, has done the exact opposite of what is published in business and entrepreneurship papers and has succeeded to great effect.<p>Explain that.
I used to have over a hundred domains with them, but they canceled one of my favorite domains because THEY didn't charge my debit card. The domain was set to auto-renew, and there was money in the account... They lost me for good.
Leveraged Buyout (LBO) city, baby!<p>Prediction: a firm like KKR or Carlyle buys GoDaddy and borrows a bunch of money (> $10B ?) on the cheap, and then uses GoDaddy's revenue to service the debt.
I have all my domains registered with them. Despite the fact that I'm registering a few domains a month and they obnoxiously upsell me every time, I've gotten used to them <i>and</i> they have decent customer support that's always been available for me, as well as rad coupons ($7.49+fee domains). I hope the sale doesn't change things up too much. When my previous web host, aSmallOrange got bought, their service became inconsistent, frustrating and all-in-all <i>horrible</i> so I switched to HostGator and have been thrilled ever since (24/7 live chat is great!).