GoDaddy's IPO Yanked Just As Quickly As Its Superbowl Ad
from the try-again-later dept
For all the buzz and hype about how the tech world is back (or that there's a new "bubble") one thing that has worried more than a few people is the lack of any real market for tech IPOs. Some may say this is a good thing -- as it was IPO madness that fueled much of the last bubble. However, a really weak IPO market where even legitimate companies are limited can spell a lot of trouble both for tech companies and their investors. Vonage tried to prove that the IPO window was back open, but we all saw how that turned out. Earlier this year, though, we noted that if a company like GoDaddy could make it out, that would be a catalyst for other tech firms to start marching down Wall Street. So much for those plans. Following Vonage's dismal debut, and other companies like Clearwire decide that the private investment market was a better bet, GoDaddy has decided to pull its IPO filing, citing the ever popular "market conditions." Of course, these things can change in an instant. It's widely forgotten, but in the middle of the last bubble (summer of '98), the bottom dropped out of the IPO market and lots of companies pulled their plans. Late that fall, however, EarthWeb and TheGlobe both took their chances and blew open the IPO window with record setting (if ridiculous) debuts. While we wait for the 2006 or 2007 equivalent, however, feel free to check out the celebrity blank-check and no-business-model IPOs that are still going on.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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Money Vs Service
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people complain a lot about not getting service for free that they should be paying a webmaster a lot of $$$ for
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Yup Yup Y'all
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Vonage Failure
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A bit off-topic
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I don't know if anyone has noticed...
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Re: Pants?
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Bottom line:
scummy company, stay away
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GODADDY CANCELS DOMAIN FORWARDING
As a public company these type little tricks would of gotten GoDaddy in a bunch of trouble perhaps.
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How can godaddy survive ?
Their process ist simple - their rules are clear : do not care about customer problems.
They should go off the market as soon as possible. Even the Mullahs in Iran run better hosting services as godaddy does. Never go there, if you need to rent windows dedicated servers.
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GoDaddy
I have seen more people come back to complain about the lack of something when they basically got that something at a highly reduced or no cost price.
Some how when it's free or close to free that means that it should have more value than a brand new f-16 fighter jet loaded with all options, bullets included.
Looking at past posts and various blogs about GoDaddy's bad reputation, I usaly find that the person doing the complaining did not read the terms of agreement which basically states — Hey this falls under the not out responsibility but yours – clause. This is particularly true with the techies that want to impress every one with there coding prowess, which GoDaddy clearly states that is not their problem but yours. It's up to you to make your fancy code work .
Says it right there in black and white.
As to GoDaddys other faults, I have used them on and off in the past and have never had a problem with canceling or credit card , or any other of the many problems listed. Which leads me back to the stupid problem.
As to the IPO issue, GoDaddy is making big bucks. They don't need to have investors, and last I looked it was not against the law not to go the IPO route.
I say Mr. Parson is smart, why give up control of a cash cow just to give the milk money away. After all it is his business to do what he pleases with.
Oh and by the way, I have seen major companies come and go. If GoDaddy is doing bad things they will eventually go. But I don't see that happing in the
near future. Now I know I'll catch some flame on this opinion of mine and to those I direct this note — you guys better start dumping some chlorine in the gene pool
or your headed the way of the dodo
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