The Domain provider is going to be sold according to the Wall St Journal.
“GoDaddy.com, the closely held website that registers Internet domain names, has put itself up for sale in an auction that could fetch more than $1 billion, people familiar with the matter said.
Qatalyst Partners, the boutique firm run by veteran technology banker Frank Quattrone, has been hired to shop the Go Daddy Group Inc., which runs the world’s largest domain name registrar, these people said. Private-equity firms are expected to bid for the company, which currently has more than 43 million domains under management”
Just how will this affect webmasters remains to be seen, but you can bet a price increase will come. The core part of GoDaddy will likley remain the same as thats the companies bread and butter. Some of the features on the site need improvement thats for sure. The site is notoriously slow and has issues with many website scripts.
Source WSJ