{"id":15228,"date":"2011-06-28T09:06:40","date_gmt":"2011-06-28T07:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=15228"},"modified":"2011-06-28T09:06:40","modified_gmt":"2011-06-28T07:06:40","slug":"godaddy-is-being-sold-to-silver-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/06\/28\/godaddy-is-being-sold-to-silver-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"GoDaddy is being sold to Silver Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2011\/06\/24\/go-daddy-poised-to-sell-out-to-kkr-and-silver-lake\/\">GigaOm<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Go Daddy, the largest domain registrar and a web hosting provider, is reportedly close to being sold to a group of private equity firms including KKR and Silver Lake Partners. The purchase price is about $2 \u2013 2.5 billion, according to several news outlets.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s the same Silver Lake that helped so much to <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/06\/25\/unstable-company-of-skype\/\">screw up Skype<\/a>. \u00a0If you haven&#8217;t yet found an alternative to GoDaddy, you should be looking. \u00a0That reminds me that <a href=\"http:\/\/ma.tt\/2010\/10\/registrar\/\">Automattic has become a domain registrar<\/a> quite some time ago and I haven&#8217;t heard any updates on that.<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>According to GigaOm: Go Daddy, the largest domain registrar and a web hosting provider, is reportedly close to being sold to a group of private equity firms including KKR and Silver Lake Partners. The purchase price is about $2 \u2013 2.5 billion, according to several news outlets. That&#8217;s the same Silver Lake that helped so &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/06\/28\/godaddy-is-being-sold-to-silver-lake\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">GoDaddy is being sold to Silver Lake<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,62,1334],"tags":[2288,1762,2470,2857,1035],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-15228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technology","category-web-work","tag-automattic","tag-domain-names","tag-godaddy","tag-silver-lake","tag-skype"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13481,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2010\/10\/20\/automattic-becomes-domain-registrar\/","url_meta":{"origin":15228,"position":0},"title":"Automattic becomes domain registrar","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"October 20, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Matt Mullenweg reports in his blog that Automattic became a domain registrar. 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