GoDaddy Inc. (GDDY)

GoDaddy Inc. is the world’s leading specialized platform for entrepreneurs and small businesses, currently led by CEO Aman Bhutani. The company’s mission is to empower its global community of over 20 million customers by providing all the help and tools they need to grow online. As of late 2025, GoDaddy has successfully transitioned from a simple domain registrar into a high-tech "Agentic AI" powerhouse. GoDaddy Inc. stock is now viewed by investors as a premier play on the democratization of AI, as the company integrates its "Airo" platform across its entire ecosystem to automate website creation, marketing, and customer service for micro-businesses. The company maintains a dominant strategic position with over 84 million domains under management, serving as the foundational entry point for the digital economy.

The company’s business operations are divided into Applications & Commerce (A&C) and Core Platform segments, with A&C now driving double-digit growth and higher margins. In 2025, GoDaddy launched its "Agent Name Service" (ANS), a pioneering identity protocol built on DNS infrastructure that allows AI agents to be securely discovered and validated across the open web. This initiative has solidified GoDaddy’s role in the "Agentic Internet," where autonomous AI agents handle transactions and scheduling on behalf of small business owners. Future strategy for 2026 involves the aggressive expansion of its integrated payments system and the rollout of vertical-specific AI agents for industries like professional services and retail. Its competitive moat is built on a massive, low-churn subscriber base and a proprietary data set of small business interactions that is unmatched in the industry.

GoDaddy is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker GDDY stock. In late 2025, the company has consistently exceeded free cash flow targets, reaching an annualized run rate of approximately $1.6 billion. Financial analysts and tech investors monitor the GDDY stock price as a primary indicator of the health of the global "solopreneur" economy and the adoption rate of AI-driven business tools. By December 2025, GoDaddy remains a top-performing mid-cap tech holding, recognized for its rare combination of market-leading scale and accelerating product innovation in the generative and agentic AI eras.