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Page Through the Years — GoDaddy’s Home

Page Through the Years — GoDaddy’s Home

Go Daddy home page past and present.

I was doing some research on DomainTools recently when I came across thumbnails of the GoDaddy.com home page going back to 2004. It tells and interesting story; seeing the thumbnails right next to each other shows how the site became incredibly cluttered from 2005-2009 ahead of “opening” up again.

As a point of reference, here’s GoDaddy.com a few weeks ago:

Here’s the home page at the height of cluttered-ness in 2005-2006:

Yikes!

In 2007-2009 the home page gradually started to open up. But there was an unfortunate period where lots of the page had a black background, like this shot from 2009:

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