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Parsons quits GoDaddy board

Kevin Murphy, October 3, 2018, 17:07:44 (UTC), Domain Registrars

Bob Parsons has resigned from GoDaddy’s board of directors, 21 years after he founded the company.
The registrar announced today that Parsons will leave this Friday to devote more attention to his philanthropic Bob and Renee Parsons Foundation and to the various motorcycle and golf-related businesses he runs under the Yam Worldwide brand.
He was CEO of GoDaddy from 1997 until 2011 and executive chairman until 2014.
The company is of course the runaway success story of the competitive registrar market, using a combination of cheap prices and bold marketing to eat incumbent Network Solutions’ lunch in just a few short years.
Today, it has over $2.2 billion in annual revenue and somewhere in the region of 60 million domains under management, and that’s just the gTLDs.
GoDaddy’s success made Parsons himself a billionaire.


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