GoDaddy Inc

In addition to the primary compensation components described above, our executives’ total compensation packages include the broad-based employee benefits and executive severance benefits described below.

NEO perquisites and personal benefits

We do not provide excessive perquisites to our NEOs. However, considering the rising threat of personal cyber-attacks targeted at corporate executives due to their level of access, their financial and reputational status and their use of digital devices for remote work, we cover the costs of cybersecurity protection for certain of our NEOs, including our CEO. These payments are described in Footnote 4 to the Summary Compensation Table.

Broad-based employee benefits

Our compensation program for our executive officers, including our NEOs, includes benefits generally available to our other full-time employees. Offering these employee benefits serves to attract and retain our employees, including our NEOs. We periodically review our employee benefits programs to ensure they continue to serve these purposes and remain competitive.

We maintain a tax-qualified Section 401(k) retirement savings plan for our U.S. employees who satisfy the eligibility requirements. Under this plan, participants may elect to make pre-tax or Roth contributions of up to a certain portion of their current compensation, not to exceed the applicable statutory income tax limitation. Currently, we provide matching contributions made by participants in the plan up to a maximum of 3.5% of eligible compensation annually, subject to limitations in our 401(k) plan applicable to highly compensated employees. We intend for the plan to qualify under Section 401(a) of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), enabling contributions by participants to the plan, and income earned on plan contributions, to not be taxable to participants until withdrawn from the plan. Additional benefits provided to our U.S. employees consist of medical, dental, vision, short-term disability, long-term disability and life insurance benefits, and flexible spending accounts. Our U.S.-based NEOs receive these benefits on the same basis as our other full-time U.S. employees. Our NEOs are also eligible to participate in our employee stock purchase plan, which is a purchase plan that allows our U.S. and non-U.S. employees to purchase shares at a discount on specified purchase dates during the year, on the same terms as other U.S. employees.

Employment agreements and post-termination severance and change in control benefits

We consider maintaining a stable and effective management team, through entry into competitive employment agreements and offer letters, to be essential to protecting and enhancing the best interests of our Company and stockholders. In 2019, we entered into an employment agreement with Mr. Bhutani in connection with his hiring that provides terms that we believe offers a competitive compensation package that serves to retain and incentivize him to perform at the highest levels. Mr. Bhutani’s employment agreement also provides for certain payments and benefits upon certain terminations of employment with us, both in connection with and not related to a change in control. The terms of Mr. Bhutani’s employment agreement are set forth below in the section titled “Potential and Actual Payments Upon Termination or Change in Control.”

Similarly, in connection with their hiring in 2021, we entered into offer letters with each of Mr. McCaffrey and Ms. Lau, which provide standard employment and compensation terms and conditions. We entered into employment agreements with Mr. Chen in January 2022 and July 2022 in connection with his appointment as Chief Operating Officer and his relocation from China to Singapore, respectively, the latter of which includes standard employment and compensation terms and conditions consistent with such terms and conditions in Singapore. In connection with his appointment as the Company’s Chief Strategy & Legal Officer, we entered into an employment letter with Mr. Sine in February 2024 as described under “Compensation Decisions for 2024—Chief Strategy & Legal Officer Compensation and New Hire Awards” above.

In addition, our Board has adopted a form of change in control and severance agreement (a “CIC and Severance Agreement”) for certain executive officers and key employees designated by the Compensation Committee to be party to such an agreement. These agreements provide assurances of specified severance benefits to each such individual whose employment is subject to involuntary termination other than for cause or voluntary termination for good reason. We believe it is important to provide such

individuals with severance benefits upon certain qualifying terminations of employment to secure their continued dedication to their work, without the distraction of negative economic consequences of potential termination. We believe these severance benefits, as compared with similarly situated individuals at companies with which we compete for talent, are appropriate since the benefits are subject to the individual’s entry into a release of claims in our favor. For more detail, see the section below titled “Potential and Actual Payments Upon Termination or Change in Control.”