Divestiture • Internet Software and Services

GoDaddy Acquires NeuStar - Registry business

On April 6, 2020, GoDaddy acquired internet software and services company NeuStar - Registry business from NeuStar

Acquisition Context
  • This is GoDaddy’s 21st transaction in the Internet Software and Services sector.
  • This is GoDaddy’s 17th transaction in the United States.
  • This is GoDaddy’s 1st transaction in Virginia.

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M&A Deal Summary

Date April 6, 2020
Target NeuStar - Registry business
Sector Internet Software and Services
Buyer(s) GoDaddy
Sellers(s) NeuStar
Deal Type Divestiture

Target Company

NeuStar - Registry business

Sterling, Virginia, United States
NeuStar, Inc. - Registry business includes an extensive portfolio of top-level domains, including .biz, .co, .in, .nyc and .us, and supports more than 215 TLDs and approximately 12 million domains.
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Buyer Overview 1

Buyer

GoDaddy

Tempe, Arizona, United States

Category Company
Founded 1997
Sector Internet Software and Services
Employees5,518
Revenue 4.6B USD (2024)
DESCRIPTION
GoDaddy's corporate headquarters in Scottsdale, Arizona.
GoDaddy's corporate headquarters in Scottsdale, Arizona.

GoDaddy is a provider software and tools for consumers and businesses. GoDaddy's software solutions include a variety of domain name registration plans, website design and hosting packages, and cloud-based solutions. Specific products include SSL Certificates, Domains by Proxy private registration, ecommerce website hosting, blog software, search engine optimization utilities, email marketing tools, website design services, website security software and online storage solutions. GoDaddy was formed in 1997 and is based in Tempe, Arizona.


Deal Context for Buyer #
Overall 23 of 27
Sector: Internet Software and Services 21 of 24
Type: Divestiture 4 of 4
State: Virginia 1 of 1
Country: United States 17 of 20
Year: 2020 3 of 5
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2020-02-11 Uniregistry

Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands

Uniregistry Corp. is a domain registrar and marketplace businesses. Uniregistry Corp. is a more intuitive and user-friendly domain management registrar, and an award-winning premium domain brokerage service.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2020-09-14 SkyVerge

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

SkyVerge is a WooCommerce product developer. SkyVerge has more than 60 WooCommerce extensions, spanning payments, email marketing, and memberships, used by over 100,000 eCommerce merchants for high-performance online stores.

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Seller Profile 1

SELLER

NeuStar

Reston, Virginia, United States

Category Company
Founded 1996
Sector Information Services
Revenue 1.1B USD (2015)
DESCRIPTION

NeuStar is a global information services provider driving the connected world forward with trusted, holistic identity resolution. The company serves many of the world’s brands to grow and guard their businesses with the most complete understanding of how to connect people, places, and things. The combination of Neustar’s unique, accurate and real-time identity system and its cloud-based workflow solutions empower businesses to make actionable, precise, and valuable decisions across marketing, risk, IT/security, network & operations departments. As the current sole provider to the U.S. Number Portability Administration Center, Neustar also facilitates the routing of all telephone call and text messages in the U.S. NeuStar was formed in 1996 and is based in Sterling, Virginia.


Deal Context for Seller #
Overall 1 of 1
Sector: Internet Software and Services 1 of 1
Type: Divestiture 1 of 1
State: Virginia 1 of 1
Country: United States 1 of 1
Year: 2020 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2018-11-29 TRUSTID

Lake Oswego, Oregon, United States

TRUSTID, Inc. serves organizations that need to authenticate callers to protect account access, prevent fraud or comply with regulations. Deploying its patented telephone network forensic approach, TRUSTID delivers caller authentication, identity and risk solutions. TRUSTID uses a caller’s phone as an ownership-based authentication token and puts trusted callers into the fast lane, before their calls are even answered, while assessing the risk of others. Through its full suite of software-as-a-service products, TRUSTID helps clients reduce contact center costs, improve the customer experience and increase the efficiency of fraud-fighting efforts.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2020-11-02 Verisign’s Public DNS Service

Reston, Virginia, United States

Verisign’s Public DNS Service provides an enterprise-grade, cloud-based authoritative DNS service that securely delivers fast and accurate query responses to websites, and Neustar UltraDNS Firewall, a cloud-based security solution built on top of Neustar’s recursive DNS service that delivers reliable built-in security and threat protection.

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