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GoDaddy ECONOMIC

ECONOMIC AUDIT UPDATED 2026-07-30
Economic Score 4.18 /10 D GoDaddy - BDS-1000 268
Economic 4.18

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GoDaddy - Economic Audit

Supply Chain & Sourcing Relationships

GoDaddy operates as a domain-registration, web-hosting, and SaaS company, and no evidence in the record identifies an agricultural, food, or physical-goods supply chain of any kind attached to its business model. No public evidence identified of any commercial relationship with Mehadrin, Hadiklaim, Galilee Export, Agrexco successors, or any Israeli agricultural aggregator or exporter. No importer-of-record structure exists for GoDaddy because the company has no physical goods import operations. No public evidence identified of seasonal sourcing patterns tied to Israel. No public evidence identified of third-party or indirect sourcing of Israeli-origin goods. The company’s one identifiable Israel-linked commercial relationship is financial rather than a sourcing relationship: GoDaddy’s led investment in Tailor Brands, an Israeli SaaS branding platform, involved capital deployment rather than goods procurement 1234.

Product Origin, Labeling & Regulatory Compliance

Settlement-origin product labeling requirements are not applicable to GoDaddy’s service-based business model, and No public evidence identified of any country-of-origin labeling compliance or enforcement action involving the company. No public evidence identified of a corporate labeling policy addressing goods from occupied or contested territories, consistent with GoDaddy selling no physical goods. The one regulatory-adjacent, domain-registry-specific fact identified is a market-access structural matter rather than a labeling issue: GoDaddy does not retail .co.il domains at all, since only Israel Internet Association (ISOC-IL)-accredited local registrars may register that country-code top-level domain, placing GoDaddy alongside Cloudflare, Namecheap, and other global registrars outside that market 5. GoDaddy was nonetheless party to an ISOC-IL domain dispute-resolution proceeding concerning the string “godaddy.co.il,” indicating some engagement with the Israeli ccTLD dispute apparatus despite not being a retail registrar for it 6.

Investment, Capital & Financial Exposure

GoDaddy’s most substantial direct financial exposure to Israel is its lead role in a $50 million Series C funding round in Tailor Brands, an Israeli AI branding/SaaS platform dual-headquartered in New York and Tel Aviv and founded in 2015 by Yali Saar, Tom Lahat, and Nadav Shatz, announced July 22, 2021 1234. GoDaddy itself described the round as its largest investment in a private company to date and its first investment in Israel 1. Co-investors in the round included Israeli venture firms OurCrowd, Pitango Growth, Mangrove Capital Partners, Armat Group, and Disruptive VC 2. No source reviewed discloses GoDaddy’s resulting ownership percentage in Tailor Brands, and no evidence of subsequent divestment was found, leaving the investment’s current status as of 2026 unconfirmed 1234.

A second Israel-linked capital transaction is GoDaddy’s August 2014 acquisition of Mad Mimi, an email-marketing SaaS company, for an undisclosed sum at announcement later reported via an SEC S-1 amendment as up to $45 million (up to $42 million base plus up to $3 million in performance-based consideration) 7891011. Mad Mimi was founded in Brooklyn by Gary Levitt, who had relocated to Jerusalem and ran the company remotely from Israel prior to the acquisition, and who subsequently joined GoDaddy’s leadership team while continuing to reside in Jerusalem 9. Mad Mimi’s current operational status as an active GoDaddy product or brand is not confirmed in any source reviewed.

No public evidence identified of a dedicated GoDaddy R&D facility, innovation lab, or accelerator programme located in Israel. GoDaddy Inc. is a publicly traded, independent U.S. corporation (NYSE: GDDY), and no parent company or private-equity sponsor with separate disclosed Israel exposure was identified 12131415. No public evidence identified of GoDaddy portfolio or fund exposure to Israeli sovereign bonds or Israel-focused investment funds, and no GoDaddy connection was found in the Israel Bonds (Development Corporation for Israel) underwriter listing 16.

Cross-checks against authoritative watchlists returned no GoDaddy matches: the company is not identified in the OHCHR database of business enterprises linked to Israeli settlements (including its September 2025 update) 171819; is not named in secondary reporting on UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese’s July 2025 report “From economy of occupation to economy of genocide” (A/HRC/59/23), whose company list includes Microsoft, Alphabet, and Amazon among others 202122; does not appear in the Who Profits Research Center companies database 23; and is not mentioned in secondary sourcing describing the PAX/BankTrack “war bonds” underwriter research or the “Don’t Buy Into Occupation” coalition reports 2425. The primary A/HRC/59/23 text was not independently re-fetched and searched line-by-line in this review, so this remains a secondary-source finding rather than a confirmed absence 20.

Operational Presence & Market Activity

A corporate registry search surfaced an entry for “GODADDY ISRAEL WEB SERVICES LTD” (company no. 515118859), listed at Habad 58, Tel Aviv-Jaffa 26; this finding rests on a search-result snippet only, as the direct registry page returned an HTTP 403 error, and no incorporation date, officer information, or activity status could be independently verified. By contrast, GoDaddy’s own investor-relations global-offices listing, as summarized by a third-party dossier, enumerates Tempe, Arizona (headquarters), Kirkland, Washington, Iasi, Romania, Belgrade, Serbia, Gurgaon, India, and Nottingham, UK - no Israel office is listed among these 27. GoDaddy operates a localized storefront, “GoDaddy IL” (godaddy.com/en-il), marketing domains and hosting to the Israeli consumer market 28, and was a party to the ISOC-IL “godaddy.co.il” dispute proceeding noted above 6.

No public evidence identified of an Israel-specific employee headcount in GoDaddy’s SEC filings. The company’s FY2017 Form 10-K states GoDaddy had 5,990 employees worldwide, with employees “substantially” located in the U.S. and Europe, plus roughly 1,900 third-party-employed Customer Care specialists in Bulgaria, China, Colombia, India, Mexico, the Philippines, and the UK - Israel is not named among any employee location in the filing text located 12. The FY2020 Form 10-K notes that 47% of GoDaddy’s customers are international, naming the UK, Canada, Germany, India, and Australia as notable markets, with Israel not named as a specific market in the sections reviewed 13. No public evidence identified of GoDaddy characterizing Israel as a “strategic growth market” in investor materials beyond the Tailor Brands transaction being labeled its “first investment in Israel” 1.

Corporate Structure & Foundational Ties

GoDaddy was founded in the United States in 1997 by Bob Parsons in Scottsdale/Tempe, Arizona, and No public evidence identified contradicts this U.S. founding or suggests any original incorporation in Israel 27. The company’s current headquarters remains Tempe, Arizona, USA, with no dual or legacy Israel headquarters identified 27. No public evidence identified of an Israeli state ownership stake, Israeli government board appointees, Israeli government contracts, or a critical-national-infrastructure designation involving GoDaddy. No public evidence identified of structural governance features - such as golden shares, founder shares, or charter restrictions - tying GoDaddy to Israeli state or policy objectives.

The clearest board-level nexus to Israel is independent director Sigal Zarmi, appointed to GoDaddy’s board effective January 25, 2023 2930, who holds a B.S. in Engineering from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa 31. Zarmi also serves on the board of JFrog Ltd., an Israeli-founded software company, effective November 1, 2025, as well as on the boards of ADT Inc. and Global Atlantic Financial Group 3132. No evidence found of IDF service, Unit 8200 affiliation, or defense-industry ties for Zarmi in the sources reviewed.

Profit Repatriation & Economic Contribution

No public evidence identified of Israel being broken out as a distinct revenue segment in GoDaddy’s disclosed geographic financial reporting across the 10-K filings reviewed 12131415. As a U.S.-domiciled, non-Israeli-owned public corporation, any revenue GoDaddy derives from Israel - whether via the GoDaddy IL storefront or the registered “GoDaddy Israel Web Services Ltd” entity - would presumptively flow to the U.S. parent, but no disclosed financial figures were identified to confirm the scale of any such flow 14152628. No public evidence identified of GoDaddy holding any designated economic-ecosystem role or government designation within Israel. GoDaddy maintains a general corporate-giving program (“GoDaddy for Good”) and an employee gift-matching program, but no source reviewed ties either program to Israel-specific causes or organizations 3334.

End Notes

Footnotes

  1. https://www.israelhayom.com/2021/07/22/godaddy-makes-1st-investment-in-israeli-company-tailor-brands/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  2. https://nocamels.com/2021/07/godaddy-50m-investment-israel-tailor-brands/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  3. https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3913079,00.html ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  4. https://www.pymnts.com/news/investment-tracker/2021/godaddy-leads-50m-series-c-funding-in-tailor-brands/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  5. https://www.best-domain-registrars.com/countries/israel/ ↩

  6. https://en.isoc.org.il/il-cctld/dispute_resolution/godaddycoil ↩ ↩2

  7. https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/business/2014-08-25/ty-article/.premium/godaddy-buys-u-s-israeli-mad-mimi/0000017f-e761-d97e-a37f-f7654b4a0000 ↩

  8. https://domainnamewire.com/2014/10/22/godaddy-45-million-mad-mimi/ ↩

  9. https://www.timesofisrael.com/american-oleh-sells-e-mail-service-mad-mimi-to-godaddy/ ↩ ↩2

  10. https://jewishbusinessnews.com/2014/08/23/israeli-startup-mad-mimi-bought-by-godaddy/ ↩

  11. https://nocamels.com/2014/08/godaddy-acquires-email-marketing-service-mad-mimi/ ↩

  12. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001609711/000160971118000035/a12312017-10k.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  13. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1609711/000160971121000017/gddy-20201231.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  14. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1609711/000160971125000023/gddy-20241231.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  15. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1609711/000160971124000022/gddy-20231231.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  16. https://www.israelbonds.com/About-Us/Corporate-FAQs.aspx ↩

  17. https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/09/un-human-rights-office-updates-database-businesses-involved-israeli ↩

  18. https://www.ohchr.org/en/hr-bodies/hrc/regular-sessions/session31/database-hrc3136 ↩

  19. https://www.opensanctions.org/datasets/ps_ohchr_settlement/ ↩

  20. https://www.un.org/unispal/document/a-hrc-59-23-from-economy-of-occupation-to-economy-of-genocide-report-special-rapporteur-francesca-albanese-palestine-2025/ ↩ ↩2

  21. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/1/un-report-lists-companies-complicit-in-israels-genocide-who-are-they ↩

  22. https://law4palestine.org/summary-of-the-un-special-rapporteurs-report-on-corporate-complicity-in-the-economy-of-occupation-and-genocide-including-a-list-of-referenced-companies/ ↩

  23. https://www.whoprofits.org/ ↩

  24. https://www.banktrack.org/news/seven_underwriters_of_war_bonds_instrumental_in_enabling_israel_s_assault_on_gaza_new_research_finds ↩

  25. https://cihrs.org/cross-regional-dont-buy-into-occupation-coalition-exposes-ties-between-european-financial-institutions-and-companies-arming-israel/?lang=en ↩

  26. https://en.checkid.co.il/company/GODADDY+ISRAEL+WEB+SERVICES+LTD-K5bVb0K-515118859 ↩ ↩2

  27. https://www.clay.com/dossier/godaddy-headquarters-office-locations ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  28. https://www.godaddy.com/en-il ↩ ↩2

  29. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1609711/000160971123000009/exhibit991-bodupdates.htm ↩

  30. https://www.citybiz.co/article/373680/godaddy-appoints-srini-tallapragada-and-sigal-zarmi-as-independent-directors/ ↩

  31. https://aboutus.godaddy.net/investor-relations/governance/person-details/default.aspx?ItemId=ad03eb36-be78-46ba-a623-90c0673fbe6a ↩ ↩2

  32. https://investors.jfrog.com/news/news-details/2025/JFrog-Appoints-Seasoned-CIO-and-Digital-Transformation-Executive-Sigal-Zarmi-to-its-Board-of-Directors/default.aspx ↩

  33. https://www.godaddy.com/godaddy-for-good ↩

  34. https://doublethedonation.com/matching-gifts/godaddy ↩