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GoDaddy 2025 Global Stakeholder Impact Report: A Message From Our CEO
NORTHAMPTON, MA / ACCESS Newswire / May 21, 2026 /Originally published in GoDaddy's 2025 Global Stakeholder Impact Report The internet was built to be open - and when it's open, opportunity expands for everyone. At GoDaddy, our purpose has always ...
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NORTHAMPTON, MA / ACCESS Newswire / May 21, 2026 / Originally published in GoDaddy's 2025 Global Stakeholder Impact Report The internet was built to be open - and when it's open, opportunity expands for everyone. At GoDaddy, our purpose has always been to make opportunity inclusive for all. In 2025, the internet entered a new era - one shaped by AI agents acting on behalf of people and organizations. These agents are not just tools. They are becoming participants in the digital economy - researching, transacting, supporting customers, and enabling growth at scale. The question we focused on this year was clear: How do we ensure this next era of the web remains open, trusted, and accessible to entrepreneurs? Our answer is infrastructure. Democratizing the Agentic Open Web This year we enhanced Agent Name Service (ANS) - a global open standard for AI agents, which began with a publicly available Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Internet-Draft. Just as domain names established ownership of digital presence, ANS extends that ownership into the agentic era - enabling verified, portable identities for AI agents across the web. Identity builds trust.Trust enables commerce.Commerce creates opportunity. Without open identity infrastructure, agents risk operating only inside closed ecosystems. With ANS, entrepreneurs maintain control of their agents, data, and customer relationships - reinforcing the openness that made the internet transformative in the first place. This is not about adding complexity or promoting a product. It is about making sure the internet is accessible to all. Impact Through Practical Innovation Across our business, we continued to align innovation with measurable outcomes for our AI transformation. Consistent with our data-driven approach, we focus less on labels and more on results. This year was no different. Our approach is straightforward: build durable systems, report transparently, and tie impact directly to long-term value creation. Building for the Long Term Every major shift involving the internet - from domains to mobile to cloud - expanded access for entrepreneurship. The rise of AI agents is another such shift. Our responsibility is to make sure this transition strengthens the open web rather than fragmenting it. ANS is one step in that direction. It reflects our belief that infrastructure matters - and that the nex...