GoDaddy seeks executive to take over for Kevin Doerr.
GoDaddy is looking for a new person to lead its domain name business.
The President, Domain Registrar & Investor Business, will oversee GoDaddy’s largest business segment. GoDaddy confirmed to me that Kevin Doerr, who was SVP of Domains for the company, has left and this position is his replacement.
The role oversees all of the company’s domain name business, including the aftermarket. Responsibilities include:
- Define and execute strategy to grow our Domains Registrar and Investor business and strengthen GoDaddy’s leadership position in Domains and Naming
- Manage P&L to deliver short term results AND long term growth trajectory
- Ensure security, performance, availability and quality for GoDaddy’s DNS infrastructure, a core component of the global internet infrastructure
- Deliver continuous cadence of customer-centric product innovation
- Lead a distributed team consisting of engineering, product management and sales
- Build GoDaddy’s reputation and engagement in key Domain’s policy forums and act as GoDaddy’s primary public face to Domain Name Industry
- Identify attractive opportunities for M&A
- Collaborate with internal and external partners to create solutions that globally scale and meet our rapidly growing business needs
Prior experience in domain names is not required, and GoDaddy has historically hired people for its senior roles that don’t come from the domain name business. However, there are several people in the domain industry that are probably qualified for this role. This might also be an opportunity to hire from within.
The position will be located in Seattle, Sunnyvale or Phoenix/Scottsdale.
Mark Thorpe says
Whoever replaces Kevin has their hands full!
GoDaddy needs to connect with the average person better. People still don’t understand domains, because it’s online and not offline.
20+ years later and most people still do not know what a domain name is or care about domains if they do. Domains and websites are like a chore or homework to most people.
GoDaddy needs to make domains more fun for people.
They also need to market their company outside of their business bubble better. Advertise at big events like ComicCon and Gamescom.
Think outside of the bubble!
Peter J. Mills says
Here in Australia, GoDaddy employs veteran soap star Ray Meagher. Saturation advertising on mainstream TV networks.
https://au.godaddy.com/blog/ray-meagher-uses-godaddy-website-builder-to-launch-another-business/
Andrew Allemann says
I’m confused about your statement on marketing their company outside of their business bubble. They do lots of sports sponsorships. You think they should expand this to other types?
Mark Thorpe says
They need to market their business to ALL types of businesses.
They need more than awareness at this point, they need more engagement from end-users.
Ben says
GoDaddy Domain Manager is down again. GoDaddy Nightmare!!!
VERY Frustrating!!! 5 days Passed still not Fixed!!
You cant update your Domains Contact, you cant see your domains, you cant do anything…
Yes 5 days ago we reported many times but they dont fixed.
GoDaddy losing many customers because of this but i dont think they care about customers.
What’s going on with Godaddy? Why they dont fix it, why it takes long time… Why always such problems happening with GoDaddy???
Andrew Allemann says
I made many of these changes yesterday. Try doing a hard refresh and deleting your cookies.
Ben says
We did all. Still not working. GoDaddy Domain Manager cant opening. So slow.
Ben says
” Your domains could not be loaded “
Desiree Boxberger says
The average person still has difficulty understanding how all of the pieces of the DNS puzzle fit together to make the magic of a website happen (domain, hosting, Namesservers, A Records, MX Records, SEO, SEM, SSL, etc). A domain is really the glue that binds all pieces together. A domain is meaningless without a vision of what it could become. Making all the pieces come together to create the vision is the challenge.