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2026-10-16
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ICANN accreditation
Accredited entity
GoDaddy.com, LLC
IANA ID
146
Country / territory
United States of America
Status
Accredited
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Recorded events for GoDaddy
2025-01-15 – 2025-05-21 · Compliance action
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) alleged inadequate data security and misleading claims for GoDaddy’s hosting services; on 2025-05-21 it finalised an order settling the allegations.
Scope: This entry covers data security of GoDaddy’s website hosting services.
On 2025-01-15 the FTC announced action against GoDaddy; its complaint alleges that since 2018 GoDaddy failed to implement reasonable and appropriate security for its website-hosting environments and misled customers about its data security protections.[1]
On 2025-05-21 the FTC announced that it had finalised an order with GoDaddy settling these allegations.[2]
According to the FTC, the order bars GoDaddy from misrepresenting its security, requires a comprehensive information-security program, and requires an independent third-party assessor to review it.[2]
Status: Concluded (the allegations were settled and the order finalised; the order’s obligations continue); proceeding: Settled; reviewed 2026-10-15
GoDaddy said an unauthorised third party got into its cPanel shared hosting servers and installed malware that intermittently redirected some customer websites.
Scope: This entry covers GoDaddy’s cPanel shared hosting service.
A GoDaddy statement of 2023-02-16 said that from early December 2022 it received customer complaints about websites being intermittently redirected.[1]
The statement said its investigation found that an unauthorised third party had gained access to servers in its cPanel shared hosting environment and installed malware causing the redirects.[1]
Response: GoDaddy said that once it confirmed the intrusion it remediated the situation and implemented security measures in an effort to prevent future infections.[1]
Status: Not applicable; proceeding: No proceeding recorded here; reviewed 2026-10-15
GoDaddy said an unauthorised third party accessed its Managed WordPress environment, exposing email addresses and customer numbers of up to 1.2 million customers.
Scope: This entry covers GoDaddy’s Managed WordPress hosting service.
A GoDaddy announcement of 2021-11-22 said the company discovered unauthorised third-party access to its Managed WordPress hosting environment on 2021-11-17.[1]
The announcement said the third party had used a vulnerability since 2021-09-06 to access customer information, and that email addresses and customer numbers of up to 1.2 million active and inactive Managed WordPress customers were exposed.[1]
Response: GoDaddy said it immediately blocked the third party once it identified the incident and reset the affected passwords.[1]
Status: Not applicable; proceeding: No proceeding recorded here; reviewed 2026-10-15
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