Estimated Value $1.2 billion

Last Year’s Rank  Valuation #9  $1.4 billion

Business Domain registration and hosting

Location Scottsdale, Arizona

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CEO Bob Parsons

Investors Self-Funded

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Analysis In a report from the Wall Street Journal, Bob Parsons is tuckered out. GoDaddy is on the auction block, hiring Qatalyst Partners (the boutique firm run by veteran technology banker Frank Quattrone) to find a buyer.  We think there is more room to grow in the domain registration and hosting space, especially as it becomes easier for people to build websites. Obviously it will be difficult for the company to achieve the kind of rapid growth it saw since its 1997 launch.

We estimate GoDaddy will generate $1 billion in revenue this year, up from between $750 and $800 million last year. We apply just over a 1x revenue multiple (1.2x) resulting in a $1.2 billion valuation.