Reglikedomain industry desk

Brian Sharples joins GoDaddy Board — HomeAway CEO

Brian Sharples joins GoDaddy Board — HomeAway CEO

Co-founder of vacation rentals site joins GoDaddy’s board and audit committee.

sharplesHomeAway co-founder and CEO Brian Sharples has been elected to GoDaddy’s (NYSE:GDDY) Board of Directors.

Sharples term will run through the annual meeting of stockholders in 2018. He was also appointed as a member of the Audit Committee, replacing Lee Wittlinger.

HomeAway was founded in Austin in 2005 as a rollup of vacation rental properties. The firm owns a number of vacation rental sites with great domain names, such as VacationRentals.com and BedandBreakfast.com. One of the reasons it paid $35 million for VacationRentals.com was for the domain name. It also purchased a handful of good .com.au domain names when it purchased Stayz in 2013.

The firm went public in 2011 and was purchased by Expedia last year for $3.9 billion.

Also on the wire

Other reporting from the domain desk.

Get Best Prices for .Co Sunrise and Landrush Domain Names — Where toDomain RegistrarsGet Best Prices for .Co Sunrise and Landrush Domain Names — Where toInteresting 2023 domain data — Namecheap publishesDomain RegistrarsInteresting 2023 domain data — Namecheap publishesMDomain RegistrarsMore fresh TLD complexity: transferring premium domain namesOff 17% of staff — Tucows laysDomain RegistrarsOff 17% of staff — Tucows laysRegister.com’s Client Service LieDomain RegistrarsRegister.com’s Client Service LieGoDaddy.com adds two factor authenticationDomain RegistrarsGoDaddy.com adds two factor authentication$Domain Registrars$50-$75 million annual registry revenue in 3-5 years — Rightside targetsCloudflare discloses no-markup domain name registrarDomain RegistrarsCloudflare discloses no-markup domain name registrarSDomain RegistrarsSurvey: Price, Security Most Notable When Choosing Domain Registrar