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GoDaddy Hiring New CEO Techcrunch Don’t Check Basic Facts

July 31, 2012 by Michele Neylon

The job vacancy may not have been announced yet, but GoDaddy will be looking for a new CEO.

Warren Adelman was officially made CEO of GoDaddy back in December of last year. Andrew Allemann of DomainNameWire was one of the first to break the story yesterday and also managed to get GoDaddy’s founder, Bob Parsons, to make a few comments on the record.

Adelman has been with GoDaddy for the last 10 years, so “moving on” now that the company is so well established isn’t that surprising.

But what’s surprising and disturbing about the story is the quality of the coverage in some quarters.

Techcrunch ran the story last night claiming that Adelman had only been in the job for less than two months:

Techcrunch didn't do basic fact checking before running a story on GoDaddy
Techcrunch didn’t do basic fact checking before running a story on GoDaddy

They updated the story at some point last night, but there’s no sign of an apology or anything else, so thousands of Techcrunch readers will have been fed false information!

So much for the quality of journalism ..

In any case .. best of luck to Warren Adelman for the future .. so now to see who will be his replacement ..

Filed Under: godaddy, news, registrars Tagged With: Adelman, Bob Parsons, Business, December, DomainNameWire, Go Daddy, godaddy, Warren Adelman

About Michele Neylon

Michele is founder and managing director of Irish domain registrar and hosting company Blacknight. Michele has been deeply involved in domain and internet policy discussions for more than a decade.
He also co-hosts the Technology.ie podcast.

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  1. Kevin Murphy says

    July 31, 2012 at 9:40 am

    I’d say a CEO only staying around for only eight months is very surprising indeed.

    • Michele Neylon says

      July 31, 2012 at 9:43 am

      Kevin
      He was with GD for about 10 years and I suspect was doing the job of CEO for a lot longer than 8 months. It looks like Bob Parsons stepped back quite a bit from the “day to day” stuff quite some time ago to focus on his other interests.
      In any case he probably got a nice pay out when the deal went through so taking a career break or whatever he’s doing isn’t that surprising
      Not having a replacement beyond an “interim” one is a little surprising though
      Thanks for your comment
      Michele

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