Domain registrar continues growth, lands on Inc 5000 again.
GoDaddy continues its growth, landing on the Inc 5000 again in 2010. As the company gets bigger it makes it harder to turn in huge percentage growth numbers, but Inc reports 153% growth over the past three years.
The revenue number for 2009 was reported as $610.3 million. Earlier I had reported $750 million in 2009 revenue, but this was not a GAAP number. I’m talking to GoDaddy in the next couple weeks to get a better handle on their numbers of the past few years.
While there are other domain companies on the Inc 500 list, one traditional company caught my eye: Tortuga Rum Cake. The company turned in $4.8 million in revenue last year. I believe this is where Frank Schilling orders his Rum Cakes from that he delivers to lots of people over the holidays.
mansour says
Andrew good luck to you finding out. I don’t believe that Godaddy is willing to give this information out. If they were profitable, they would have gone public a long time ago. You can’t charge $7.49 for a domain name when you are paying VeriSign $7.44 per domain. I know they up sell, but I see that they are spending more money than any other registrar on advertising and email, and they have the largest number of employees per domain than any other registrar I know of. The secret lies with Bob. If you can figure out his formula, I would be delighted to hear about it.