GoDaddy Inc.
For the period ended Dec 31, 2025. Filed Feb 25, 2026.
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FY2025 · Filed Feb 25, 2026
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Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data
| Index to Consolidated Financial Statements | |
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| Page | |
| Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm (PCAOB ID: 42) | 77 |
| Consolidated Balance Sheets | 79 |
| Consolidated Statements of Operations | 80 |
| Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income | 81 |
| Consolidated Statements of Stockholders' Equity (Deficit) | 82 |
| Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows | 84 |
| Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements | 85 |
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
To the Stockholders and the Board of Directors of GoDaddy Inc.
Opinion on the Financial Statements
We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of GoDaddy Inc. (the Company) as of December 31, 2025 and 2024, the related consolidated statements of operations, comprehensive income, stockholders' equity (deficit) and cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2025, and the related notes (collectively referred to as the "consolidated financial statements"). In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company at December 31, 2025 and 2024, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2025, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.
We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB), the Company's internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2025, based on criteria established in Internal Control—Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (2013 framework), and our report dated February 24, 2026 expressed an unqualified opinion thereon.
Basis for Opinion
These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the PCAOB and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.
We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
Critical Audit Matter
The critical audit matter communicated below is a matter arising from the current period audit of the consolidated financial statements that was communicated or required to be communicated to the audit committee and that: (1) relates to accounts or disclosures that are material to the consolidated financial statements and (2) involved our especially challenging, subjective or complex judgments. The communication of the critical audit matter does not alter in any way our opinion on the consolidated financial statements, taken as a whole, and we are not, by communicating the critical audit matter below, providing a separate opinion on the critical audit matter or on the accounts or disclosures to which it relates.
| Revenue Recognition | |
| Description of the Matter | As more fully described in Note 2 to the consolidated financial statements, the Company generates its revenue primarily from fees for domain registrations, website hosting, website security, and applications and commerce products, which are generally recognized ratably over the related contractual terms. The majority of the Company's revenue recognition process involves the use of numerous systems responsible for the processing and recording of significant volumes of data and transactions, as well as the calculation of revenue in accordance with the Company's accounting policies. Auditing certain portions of the Company's revenue recognition process was challenging and complex due to the high volume of transactions and the dependency on the design and operation of multiple proprietary information technology systems |
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| How We Addressed the Matter in Our Audit | We obtained an understanding, evaluated the design, and tested the operating effectiveness of internal controls over the certain portions of the Company's revenue recognition process. Specifically, we tested controls over the initiation and billing of sales, the recognition of revenue and deferred revenue and the Company's cash to billings reconciliation process. We also tested, with involvement from information technology professionals, application controls related to appropriate revenue recognition and application controls related to the interfaces between key systems, which included controls related to access, data and the configuration of these key systems. Our audit procedures for the certain portions of the Company’s revenue, included, among others, testing on a sample basis the completeness and accuracy of the underlying data within the Company’s billing and revenue systems, testing samples of sales transactions to source documentation, performing substantive analytical procedures and testing the Company's cash to billings reconciliations. We also evaluated the appropriateness of the Company's related disclosures in the consolidated financial statements. |
/s/Ernst & Young LLP
We have served as the Company's auditor since 2004.
Phoenix, Arizona
February 24, 2026
Consolidated Balance Sheets
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