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Ever since GoDaddy cooperated with Google by offering “Google Apps for your domain” there where rumours about Google acquiring Godaddy. And it’s been a while now that such rumours appear in articles and in blogs. Speculations could be read at Domainnamewire and eWeek (excellent article by the way) for instance. Now that Yahoo! Finance also throws some fuel on the fire, I’d like to summarize the speculated indicators for the “marriage”:

• The above mentioned cooperation
• Google recently became accredited registrar (according to them to “understand the domain system to improve Google Apps”)
• Bob Parsons is usually very outspoken about his plans. Remember when he had to withdraw the IPO in 2006? He refuses to comment on this one though. (When asked he only said “I have no comment on that, but I’d like to.”)
• Bob recently filed patent applications for search, VOIP, e-mail and domain technologies. This makes him very yummy for Google

Reasons for Google to take over GoDaddy:

• $$$
• More knowledge, know-how and information about Webmasters
• Incredible amount of information and know-how about domains
• Sell webspace AND domain
• GoDaddy patents
• Google would avoid that GoDaddy switches its huge parking pages pool over to Yahoo!
• GoDaddy’s applications would perfectly fit into Google’s applications offering
• Google could effectively clean its databases for instance when domains expire, are unused or have afterwards different content.
• POWER
• EVEN MORE DATA

One thing is for sure, Bob is a very appealing target for Google. An acquisition would make perfectly sense for Google and it would be very lucrative for Bob. But on the other hand, Bob “16 rules” Parsons, ex-Marine, dedicated 100% entrepreneur, selling his assets to Google? Selling his baby to a predator? I cannot imagine that he would accept loosing control over his business (which surely would happen).

Such a mega deal would be a real shake-up in the domain industry!

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