Go Daddy Group Inc. was sold to a group of companies of private capital in a transaction valued at $ 2.25 billion.
The purchase, which includes the support of the debt of the company, announced Friday afternoon Go Daddy and group companies of KKR & Co., Silver Lake partners and Technology Crossover Ventures.
"What are these guys is a company with many more opportunities for international and more likely to produce partnerships and acquisitions," said Bob Parsons, CEO and founder of the company. "They will help finance and they will help us to recruit talent."
Although the company of Scottsdale, Arizona, is already the leader in the industry of the registration of domain, a person familiar with the negotiations, said that the investment group is excited about the potential of growth of other Go Daddy services, such as Web hosting and marketing online.
From 2009 to 2010, the company sales increased 25% to $ 947 million and the company projects its figure for 2011 to 1.1 billion.
Go Daddy became largest domain registrar world after she began to disseminate exudes Super Bowl ads featuring bikini-clad Go Daddy girls.
Recently, Silver Lake soldcommunications company Skype Global of Microsoft Corp. for $ 8.5 billion after buying it from EBay for approximately 2 billion it two years ago.
CIA, who has already worked with Silver Lake and KKR, recently led a group of companies on the investment of $ 135 million in Facebook.
Silver Lake and KKR already worked, purchase of Avago Technologies in 2005 and in helping to address the public in 2009.
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Image: A screen capture of the racer Danica Patrick in a Go Daddy commercial during the Super Bowl XLV in 2011. Credit: GoDaddy.com
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