It was 1997 and Bob Parsons started a little company called Jomax Technologies. The Jomax name itself came from an old dirt road that Bob would pass on his drive into work.
Moving forward two years and Jomax was ready to launch a product (Web Site Tonight) and feared nobody would remember the company name Jomax Technologies. The renaming process began with many tries at coming up with a name that people would remember easily, while also having the domain name available. This was not happening.
One day somebody offered up "How about Big Daddy!" The domain was taken and Bob said "How about Go Daddy!". After checking the domain, it was available and the newly named company went from Jomax Technologies to Go Daddy Software, Inc.
Something that is seen A Lot now is the little Godaddy Guy with the Godaddy Logo. How did he come about and what’s his name and reason.
Since the company was getting a new name, a new logo was also needed and Bob reached out to Connie, a designer friend of his. Connie fired off several logo designs over a couple weeks and nothing seemed to be just right.
One night Connie and her daughter were playing on the computer drawing stuff and Connie happened to like the image they drew up enough to submit it as a logo design.
When Go Daddy saw the image for the first time, they knew it was the right one.
The Go Daddy Guy was created!
Bob is often asked if the Go Daddy Guy is him.
"well I don’t have orange wavy hair, don’t own a pair of green sunglasses and I’m three dimensional." *grin* The Go Daddy Guy was never intended to be me.
Godaddy.com has now grown to be the worlds #1 domain name registrar, offering tons of products and services on it’s website that help companies get online. Godaddy’s logo is world famous and is seen on TV, Print, Race Cars, Godaddy Girls, Clothing and a wide range of websites.
Godaddy has more then 36 Million domain names under management and registers, renews or transfers a domain name Every Second!
owen frager
Another proof source for the naysayers on Genrics- as discussed on Mike Berken’s blog about Auction.com recenty. GoDaddy does just fine without it’s name being domain.com. But certainly having those keyword names feeding into it, the more avenues of customer reach, the better.
Dan Bell
It’s funny how he just came up with the domain name and logo. I believe it’s the simplicity of it that makes it work.
BullS
All it takes is creativity and a good catchy domain name!!
just like BullS
BullS
http://www.dnfame.com/
what wrong with that site? the owner is not going to renew? It was a good working site.
Jessica
I hate the logo