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Go Daddy Expanding in Iowa

Go Daddy Expanding in Iowa

Domain registrar expands footprint in Iowa.

GoDaddy.comDomain name registrar GoDaddy is bulking up its client service operations near Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The fresh client service facility ought to be running by this spring. The firm is looking to hire 60 people in the next eight weeks, but the facility has 50,000 square feet and can accommodate 500 employees.

Cedar Rapids by now houses a number of GoDaddy employees in marketing, development, legal and business intelligence. These employees will move to GoDaddy’s fresh building at 1 Parsons Drive.

Street name sound familiar? Yes, it’s named following GoDaddy founder Bob Parsons. But it’s not a fresh street; the firm is buying the building Parsons previously used for Parsons Technology, a firm he sold to Intuit for $64 million in 1994.

In addition to its Scottsdale headquarters and Iowa, the firm has offices in Denver and Washington, D.C., as well as a data center in the Netherlands.

Job listings for the firm are available at GoDaddy.com/jobs — or GoDaddy.jobs for all the domainers out there.

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