---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001609711-25-000124"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GDDY"
cik: "0001609711"
company_name: "GoDaddy Inc."
filed_at: "2025-06-10T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-19T15:43:22.075421+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# GoDaddy stockholders approve officer liability limit, declassify board; bylaws updated

## Summary
- Stockholders approved charter amendment to limit officer liability (103.4M for, 14.5M against).
- Charter amendments remove references to classified board and Class B common stock (zero shares outstanding).
- Board adopted Third Amended and Restated Bylaws clarifying stockholder nomination and proposal procedures.
- All nine director nominees elected (e.g., Aman Bhutani 119.3M votes for, 42k against).
- Advisory say-on-pay approved (110.4M for, 7.1M against); Ernst & Young ratified as FY2025 auditor.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001609711-25-000124
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GDDY
- cik: 0001609711
- company_name: GoDaddy Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-06-10T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1609711/000160971125000124/0001609711-25-000124-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1609711/000160971125000124/gddy-20250604.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001609711-25-000124
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001609711-25-000124.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  GoDaddy Inc.: Amended certificate of incorporation to limit officer liability and remove references to classified board and Class B common stock (effective 2025-06-05).
  - Change: charter amendment
  - Effective: 2025-06-05
  source text: At the 2025 annual meeting of stockholders (the “Annual Meeting”) of GoDaddy Inc. (the “Company”) held on June 4, 2025, the Company’s stockholders approved certain amendments (the “Charter Amendments”) to the Company’s Restated Certificate of Incorporation to (i) limit liability of officers as permitted by law, and (ii) implement miscellaneous changes that will eliminate references to (x) the classified board structure as the Board of Directors (the “Board”) was fully declassified beginning with the Annual Meeting, and (y) Class B common stock as there are no outstanding shares of Class B common stock.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1609711/000160971125000124/0001609711-25-000124-index.htm
- Governance Changes
  GoDaddy Inc.: Amended and restated bylaws to clarify procedural requirements for stockholder nominations and proposals and make other administrative changes (effective 2025-06-04).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2025-06-04
  source text: On June 4, 2025, the Board approved the Company’s Third Amended and Restated Bylaws (the “Bylaws”), which included amendments that clarify the procedural requirements for stockholder nominations and proposals and provide for other administrative changes.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1609711/000160971125000124/0001609711-25-000124-index.htm

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