Who owns GoDaddy Payments?
GoDaddy Payments is owned by GoDaddy (the United States, NYSE: GDDY).[1]
Evidence: GoDaddy Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-02-25, SEC EDGAR, 25 February 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- GoDaddy Inc. verified
- Owner HQ
- 🇺🇸 United States, Tempe, Arizona
- Origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Category
- Internet & digital › Digital services › Payments
- Parent ticker
- NYSE: GDDY
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About GoDaddy Payments
GoDaddy Payments is GoDaddy's card-acceptance service for merchants in the United States and Canada. Acting as a payment facilitator, it lets a business take Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover, Apple Pay and Google Pay with no long-term contract or monthly minimum, online or in person through smart terminals and Tap to Pay on a phone. In 2025 the company added GoDaddy Capital, a merchant cash advance for Payments users.
Ownership timeline of GoDaddy Payments
Where GoDaddy Payments sits in GoDaddy
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by GoDaddy
GoDaddy controls 4 brands on Brandtree, 4 of them in internet & digital.
Also in internet & digital
Other brands in payments, and who owns them
The 36 brands in payments on Brandtree belong to 19 owners. The largest is PayPal, with 4.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| GoPay | GoTo | 🇮🇩 Indonesia |
| Kaspi Alaqan | Kaspi.kz | 🇰🇿 Kazakhstan |
| Braintree | PayPal | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Afterpay | Block | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Rakuten Card | Rakuten | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| AzamPay | Bakhresa | 🇹🇿 Tanzania |
| GrabPay | Grab | 🇸🇬 Singapore |
| Mercado Crédito | MercadoLibre | 🇺🇾 Uruguay |
About the owner: GoDaddy
GoDaddy is a publicly listed company headquartered in Tempe, Arizona, United States. Brandtree records 4 brands under its control, and it is listed as NYSE: GDDY.
GoDaddy Inc. is a domain registrar and seller of website, email and payment tools to small businesses, based in Tempe, Arizona. The listed holding company was incorporated in Delaware on 28 May 2014. It had 20.4 million customers and about 81 million domains under management at the end of 2025, which it puts at roughly 21 per cent of all registered domain names, and revenue of $4,951.1 million for the year.
🇺🇸 GoDaddy Payments and other American brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 2,399 brands that began in the United States. 461 of them (19%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; GoDaddy Payments is not one of them.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of GoDaddy Payments?
The parent company of GoDaddy Payments is GoDaddy, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Is GoDaddy Payments American?
Yes. GoDaddy Payments originated in the United States and its owner, GoDaddy, is also headquartered in the United States.
Is GoDaddy Payments still owned by GoDaddy?
Yes. As of 3 October 2026, GoDaddy Payments is still owned by GoDaddy. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] GoDaddy Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-02-25 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 10-K, published 25 February 2026; retrieved 3 October 2026.
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