{"id":11155,"date":"2026-11-02T19:42:34","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T23:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hostingdiscussion.com\/news\/?p=11155"},"modified":"2026-11-02T19:42:34","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T23:42:34","slug":"godaddys-domains-carry-q3-while-the-rest-of-core-shrinks-faster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hostingdiscussion.com\/news\/godaddys-domains-carry-q3-while-the-rest-of-core-shrinks-faster\/","title":{"rendered":"GoDaddy\u2019s domains carry Q3 while the rest of Core shrinks faster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.godaddy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">GoDaddy<\/a> grew its revenue 6% to $1.342 billion in the third quarter, and the Applications and Commerce segment outpaced Core Platform for another quarter. The headline figure hides a lopsided Core segment, though. Domains are doing the heavy lifting.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hostingdiscussion.com\/news\/godaddy-still-rules-domain-registration-but-faces-shifting-digital-market\/\">Domain revenue<\/a>, aftermarket included, rose $40.6 million to $636.5 million. Everything else in Core fell $7.4 million to $181.0 million, a 3.9% drop. That category has now shrunk year over year in all three quarters of 2026, and this is the steepest fall. The first two quarters shaved off $3.5 million and $3.6 million.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Be careful about what that line holds. GoDaddy books hosting and <a href=\"https:\/\/hostingdiscussion.com\/news\/godaddy-launches-90-day-automated-ssls-simplifies-website-security\/\">website security<\/a> in Core only when it sells them on their own. When it bundles them with GoDaddy software, they land in Applications and Commerce instead. So the shrinking line is not a clean read on hosting. It also holds other Core products, and the filing gives no finer split than domains and everything else.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Stretch the view to nine months and the gap widens. Non-domain Core revenue fell $14.5 million, or 2.6%, to $547.4 million, while domains added $98.0 million.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The aftermarket is where GoDaddy earns a cut when registered domains change hands. It brought in $151 million, up 10% from $136 million, and the average sale rose to $357 from $345. Domain Name Wire reports that GoDaddy warned on its second quarter call that a strong third quarter in 2025 would limit growth, then credited large transactions on the latest call. <a href=\"https:\/\/hostingdiscussion.com\/news\/godaddy-faces-securities-fraud-suit-over-promotion\/\">GoDaddy<\/a> calls the business transactional and keeps it out of its annualized recurring revenue metric. One strong quarter proves little.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Applications and Commerce grew 9% to $524.3 million at a 46.9% segment EBITDA margin, against 32.9% for Core. Airo, GoDaddy\u2019s AI product for small businesses, now has an annualized bookings run rate above $100 million, more than double the figure from a quarter earlier. Email is a soft spot, since customers renewed with fewer seats.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">GoDaddy ended September with 20.5 million customers, up 40,000 from June. It expects full year revenue toward the high end of $5.215 billion to $5.255 billion, with Core growing about 4%, and it plans to refresh select financial targets at an investor night on December 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GoDaddy grew its revenue 6% to $1.342 billion in the third quarter, and the Applications and Commerce segment outpaced Core Platform for another quarter. The headline figure hides a lopsided Core segment, though. Domains are doing the heavy lifting. 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