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Crosses 45 Million Domain Name Mark — Go Daddy

Registrar group hits another milestone.

Yesterday at 6:02 PM MST, The Go Daddy Group topped 45 million domain names under management across its registrars. This comes regarding 9 months following the firm crossed the 40 million mark.

This is an incredible accomplishment, as the nearest competitor has regarding 10 million domain names under management. There are just over 200 million domain names registered worldwide, meaning that Go Daddy has over a fifth of the market. It also claims to register regarding half of all fresh domain name registrations.

Firms like to look at revenue per employee as a benchmark. This is certainly a good measure. But Go Daddy might also look at domains registered per employee. With 2900 employees, that’s 15,517 per employee. Not bad.

The Go Daddy Group’s two main registrars are GoDaddy.com and Wild West Domains.

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