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Deal with Andretti Family — GoDaddy Inks

Domain registrar gets in bed with another Indy deal.

Just a day following Danica Patrick disclosed her move to NASCAR full time, GoDaddy has disclosed a fresh IndyCar sponsorship.

The domain name registrar has inked a deal with all three Andretti’s — Mario, Michael and Marco Andretti — as spokespeople for the firm. It will also sponsor one of the Andretti Autosport IndyCar entries. The deal begins next year and goes through the 2013 season.

The three drivers will start appearing in GoDaddy commercials sometime this weekend. We ought to hope they don’t do a strip tease for the camera.

Any of the Andretti’s domains that weren’t by now at GoDAddy appear to have just transferred to the registrar ahead of the notice.

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