Chinese Firm to Buy Godaddy.com?

China and its leading Google competitors may soon be shopping down Godaddy’s lane. Bob Parsons may need to be raising some extra cash because Godaddy.com is up on the auction block. Reliable news or rumor? Domainers were stunned today when the Wall Street Journal announced the celebrated blog-era registrar and massive hosting company Godaddy.com is for sale.

Priced at about 9or over) $1 billion, Godaddy owns a significant share of both all internet domain name business and beginner-to-intermediate web hosting enterprises online. Domainers mourned that the days of the dollar discount and Godaddy coupon codes may sadly be over. Whomever buys Godaddy will have 43 million domain name contracts with ICANN intact, and the owners reading their new partner’s email at rapt attention.

Godaddy is in decent shape for an auction. The company posted revenue (after a few choppy years in a row) between $750 million and $800 million in 2009, and has a whopping 50% of web hosting market share hands down. This is one of the healthiest industries in America today.

Godaddy enjoys a reputation among online customers a reliable warhorse with flexible hosting plans for every level of computer user. Domain names and bundled third party applications canted at the beginner webmaster through the career website administrator regularly accompany domain sales.

The Scottsdale, Arizona company offers tiered web hosting services and discount-code name promotions that have kept Godaddy hopping with the general public and industry regulars.Internet pricing wars between web hosting companies led Godaddy to scale its offerings in every shape and size, including online carts, forums, security, and traffic building.

After several hard years shaking off many smaller hosting competitors,  and promotional representation by Danica Patrick (et.al) Godaddy is archly the common friend/enemy of most domainers.  Yet almost every domain name owner has a Godaddy account and/or hosting plan. Godaddy antics have been chewed over in the blogosphere by domainer cognoscienti daily.

Why sell Godaddy.com now? Speculators wonder if Parsons is low on cash or simply looking to take a profit in the best domainer tradition. Google has been suggested as a buyer, but more interesting acquisitions of Godaddy.com might be by Oracle, a company long rumored to try and match its hardware industry presence with online services and interactive client sales potential.

Certainly Oracle (or Sun, for that matter) could power their Sparcstations with self telephony and owned packets for a lower price that leased VPS or whatever redundancy they have now. If Hewlett Packard somehow assembled a leadership squad, then they might arise anew as the Internet business phoenix of all time.

Could Conde Nast or Trump be thinking of expanding online?

Or could China, newly emerging as the era’s leading moneymaker, pick off Godaddy and suddenly own 50% of the Western world’s hosting files? If a China firm marshals one of the private equity bidders to acquire the webhost monolith, China could grasp a tenterhook on Western media and global consumer eyeballs in a one-check power play. (And become Paypal’s new best friend).

Godaddy.com goes on sale shopped by Qatalyst Partners of London and San Francisco. (Danica Patrick not included).

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