How many companies use GoDaddy?
As of October 2026, 245,997 companies show public evidence of using GoDaddy across the 1,791,079 company domains runsonwhat tracks. That makes GoDaddy the most used of the 9 DNS tools with confirmed customers, ahead of Amazon Route 53 (81,864). The number is a lower bound: a company counts only when a public record, such as a DNS entry or GoDaddy's code on its website, shows the tool in use.
Which companies use GoDaddy?
Companies that use GoDaddy include Domaincontrol, Calculator, Bpcl, Tvinteractive and Ad-score, according to runsonwhat's public-record scans (October 2026). The biggest industries among GoDaddy customers are IT services (14%) and real estate (8.1%). The full list of 245,997 companies can be filtered by industry, company size and country on runsonwhat's GoDaddy page.
What industries use GoDaddy the most?
The industries with the most GoDaddy customers are IT services (14%), real estate (8.1%) and healthcare (7.4%), based on the 169,820 companies with a known industry. Relative to all companies runsonwhat tracks, GoDaddy stands out most in real estate (1.5× the average rate) and health, wellness and fitness (1.4× the average rate).
Is GoDaddy more popular with startups or large companies?
GoDaddy is used mostly by small companies: of the 231,798 companies with a known size, 68% have up to 50 employees, 30% have 51 to 1,000 and 2.3% have more than 1,000.
Which countries use GoDaddy the most?
Most GoDaddy customers runsonwhat has found are based in the United States (60%), India (13%) and the United Kingdom (7.7%), out of 215,920 companies with a known country. Outside the United States, the biggest markets are India and the United Kingdom.
Is GoDaddy gaining or losing customers?
In the 90 days to October 2026, 11 companies started using GoDaddy and 13 companies stopped, a net loss of 2. runsonwhat counts a start or a stop only between two checks of the same company done the same way, so a change in how a site is scanned never shows up as churn.
What are the most popular alternatives to GoDaddy?
By the number of companies using them, the most used DNS tools other than GoDaddy are Amazon Route 53 (81,864), Namecheap (18,924), NS1 (11,867) and Gandi (8,923), according to runsonwhat (October 2026). Not every tool in a category does the same job, so check each one's page; runsonwhat ranks all DNS tools at https://www.runsonwhat.com/tools/dns-providers.
How long have companies been using GoDaddy?
At least 10 companies that use GoDaddy today have done so since before 2026, going by the first certificate of the subdomain each one points at GoDaddy. The earliest go back to 2015, and the most common start year among them is 2018.
How does runsonwhat know a company uses GoDaddy?
runsonwhat reads public records only. For GoDaddy, that means email records (SPF, MX or DKIM) that authorize GoDaddy, a subdomain that points at GoDaddy, name servers run by GoDaddy or GoDaddy on the company's own subprocessor list. A company is listed only when one of these direct records is present, and each match keeps the record it came from. DNS is rechecked weekly and websites about monthly.
