Comments on: How GoDaddy is growing into a SaaS company

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 17:48:34 +0000

You SHOULD be concerned about your job and should also be actively searching for a new one! Netsol is a dead brand among the consumer and has had zero innovation in the past 6 years. With 6M domains under management (and decreasing every day), it’s only a matter of time before Netsol fully dismantles their business. Oh, and let’s not forget the 1,000+ employees that they just laid off over the past 4 years (and through the Web.com acquisition). The odds are not in your favor, Bryan.

By: Ex Go Daddy Employee

Ex Go Daddy Employee — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 23:25:02 +0000

@Bryan Coleman – You don’t want to work for Go Daddy unless you are eager to be chewed up and spat out. This applies doubly for any of the engineering positions. Go Daddy is about quantity not quality. Network Solutions still has the advantage in those areas and there will always be a market for that.

Mr Rosenthal ought to sack most of the middle management and product team heads replacing them with competent experienced technologists.

By: Vipul

Vipul — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 10:30:53 +0000

I hosted in godaddy and hostmonster. from this two i felt godaddy is not providing as web hosting features as hostmonster are providing

By: Dev Bhatia

Dev Bhatia — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 05:27:38 +0000

The partnership with Duda makes a ton of sense for GoDaddy. Having worked at mShopper, which is also in the mobile shopping sites space, I can vouch for the value of mobile commerce site creation. What I find less sensible is the foray into financial services. With mobile, GoDaddy is pitching a marketing spend to SMBs. It’s very analogous to their current Web Site Builder tools. However, with financial services, they are far removed from their core value proposition. Most small businesses view web sites, servers, and now mobile as marketing spend. It remains to be seen whether productivity can be a big part of GoDaddy’s future value proposition.

That said, there’s still lots to do in marketing/advertising. I wouldn’t be surprised to see GoDaddy partner to sell other ROI-driven and marketing-automation SaaS. Maybe Social is next.

By: Bryan Coleman

Bryan Coleman — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 04:05:42 +0000

As an employee of Network Solutions and having watching Go Daddy surpass Network Solutions as the world’s largest domain registrar, I must say, I’m a bit nervous about the longevity of my job. With GoDaddy expanding into other markets where competing registrars and web hosting companies are not, I am beginning to swing my support away from the company that pays me to what I hope might one day be a future employer.