By Mukundan Sivaraj · AIM Media House
GoDaddy ended 2025 with higher margins and steady growth, and management used its fourth-quarter earnings call to position artificial intelligence as increasingly embedded across the business. The company reported nearly $5 billion in revenue for the year, up about 8% from 2024.
Normalized EBITDA margin reached 32%, and free cash flow rose 19% to roughly $1.6 billion. Management guided to further margin expansion in 2026. On the call, CEO Amanpal Bhutani described AI as central to how the company builds and sells products.
“AI tools are now generating the majority of our code,” he said, adding that “new code bases are almost entirely AI-generated.” CFO Mark McCaffrey tied those shifts to profitability, saying “continued operational execution aided by AI-driven efficiencies were the main drivers of expansion.” The margin gains are reported.
Revenue from AI-specific products is not disclosed separately. AI Is Showing Up in Margins Profitability has expanded over multiple years, and management now expects normalized EBITDA margins to exceed 33% in 2026. Bhutani described internal systems that generate most new code and automate customer interactions.
The company said an internal AI sales agent handled thousands of calls and chats in early 2026. Industry data show similar changes across software development. The 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey reports broad engagement with AI tools and large language models.
Academic research analyzing GitHub repositories has documented autonomous coding agents generating complete pull requests across multiple programming languages. AI-assisted engineering workflows are spreading across the sector. GoDaddy’s acquisition engine remains stable.
Verisign’s Domain Name Industry Brief reported roughly 386.9 million domain registrations worldwide in the fourth quarter of 2025, reflecting year-over-year growth.
Domains continue to serve as the company’s primary funnel, described by Bhutani as a “strong, durable cash-generative engine.” Higher margins, continued domain growth, and expanded use of AI tools appear together in the company’s results.
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