GoDaddy ECONOMIC

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 ^{1, 2, 3, 4}.

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 ^{1, 2, 3, 4}. 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 OurCrowd, Pitango Growth, Mangrove Capital Partners, Armat Group, and Disruptive VC ². The $50 million is the total round, not a disclosed GoDaddy-only contribution. 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 ^{1, 2, 3, 4}.

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 linked by contemporaneous reporting to the SEC S-1 amendment’s disclosure of a 19 August 2014 business acquisition for $42 million cash plus up to $3 million payable on specified milestones.^{7, 8} The acquisition-price note does not itself name Mad Mimi; the filing separately identifies the Mad Mimi acquisition as occurring in August 2014.⁸ 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. The product’s own website states that Mad Mimi retired on 30 August 2024, directing users to GoDaddy Digital Marketing. This does not establish disposal of all acquired assets or closure of the separately registered Israeli entity ¹⁰.

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 ^{11, 12, 13, 14}. 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 ¹⁵.

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) ^{16, 17, 18}; 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 ^{19, 20, 21}; does not appear in the Who Profits Research Center companies database ²²; and is not mentioned in secondary sourcing describing the PAX/BankTrack “war bonds” underwriter research or the “Don’t Buy Into Occupation” coalition reports ^{23, 24}. 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 ¹⁹.

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 ²⁵; 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 ²⁶. GoDaddy operates a localized storefront, “GoDaddy IL” (godaddy.com/en-il), marketing domains and hosting to the Israeli consumer market ²⁷, 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 ¹¹. 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 ¹². 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 ²⁶. The company’s current headquarters remains Tempe, Arizona, USA, with no dual or legacy Israel headquarters identified ²⁶. 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 ^{28, 29}, who holds a B.S. in Engineering from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa ³⁰. 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 ^{30, 31}. 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 ^{11, 12, 13, 14}. 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 ^{13, 14, 25, 27}. 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 ^{32, 33}.

GoDaddy’s FY2024 Exhibit 21.1 expressly lists GoDaddy Israel Web Services Ltd as an Israeli subsidiary ³⁴. That primary filing confirms the group relationship, while current local headcount, precise function and financial scale remain unconfirmed.