GoDaddy - How do we earn money?

How does GoDaddy earn money?

Even if you are not completely familiar with the website creation business, you have probably heard of GoDaddy, because of their amazingly popular NASCAR and Super Bowl commercial companies.

Or you may be an owner of one, or a couple, domains from this company, but you have no idea who they are. GoDaddy – is the world’s biggest domain registrar.

So, how do they make their money?

The company has posted their revenue list for the year 2014. GoDaddy earned $1 billion from three spheres of their activity:

• Domain Registration – 55.5% оf GoDaddy’s total income.
• Hosting Services – 36% of GoDaddy’s total income.
• Business Applications – 8.0% of GoDaddy’s total income.

Domain Registration Services from GoDaddy.

The biggest percent of their income is made through GoDaddy’s wide line of domain registration offers. The packages may include all the needed certificates, domain privacy, backorders and advertising solutions. The income they make from every offer may be completely different, which depends on a variety of aspects. For example, today they will charge you for $8.99 per year for .com registration. Domains .org and .net today will cost you the same amount of money, when the strange domain .today cost 24.99% per year.

GoDaddy made over $564 million from their domain registration services in the year 2014.

Hosting Services.

The second biggest sphere of activity of GoDaddy – are their hosting services. All the diverse packages will offer you a variety of services – SSL certificates, SEO, website constructors, private IP-addresses and many other interesting offers.

If you want a qualitative and reliable hosting, GoDaddy has something to offer – VPS, dedicated, and shared servers for just a few $/month for domain. All the packages contain free access for their amazing website builder, which has been created in order to give everyone the possibility to start their online business.

GoDaddy made over $370 million from their hosting services in the year 2014.

Business Applications.

The third biggest sphere of GoDaddy’s activity is about Business Application development. This area contains online payment systems, email marketing, bookings, data storage services and e-commerce solutions.

GoDaddy has something more to offer its clients:

• Microsoft Office 365 - $5/Month per user.
• Email marketing – $10/month per thousand of subscribers.

GoDaddy made over $82 million from their Business Application solutions in the year 2014.