Hoster GoDaddy buys domain auction Afternic

One of the world's largest commercial hosting providers GoDaddy acquired Afternic from NameMedia. Now GoDaddy will develop a line of offerings for small businesses. This absorption is to GoDaddy 's fourth in the past 14 months.

The company also reported that acquires from NameMedia service domain parking service and SmartName Domain Name Generator NameFind. FINANCING side agreements are not publicly disclosed.

Afternic auction physically based in the U.S. state of Massachusetts, it provides opportunities for domain owners to sell them . Listing Afternic now has more than 5,000,000 domains , domain search system of monthly processes more than 75 million requests.



Elizabeth Driscoll, vice president of GoDaddy, said that the recent takeover - it moves to implement its strategy to improve service to small businesses. As of today, GoDaddy has more than 12 million customers , most of them - it's small businesses, employing 4-5 people. According to her, in the past GoDaddy preferred to build their own services, but now the company is more focused on mergers and acquisitions.

GoDaddy previously acquired companies Locu, M.dot and Outright.