GoDaddy
GoDaddy sells domain registrations, shared and WordPress hosting, a website builder, business email and SSL certificates.
- Hosting
- domains
What it is
GoDaddy sells domain registrations, shared and WordPress hosting, a website builder, business email and SSL certificates. It is the largest domain registrar in the world, so referrals tend to be people buying a first domain or standing up a small business site rather than high-value software subscriptions.
The deal
GoDaddy publishes no rate anywhere on its affiliate page. The page promises “competitive commission” and hands you to CJ Affiliate, where the actual rate card only becomes visible once you have a publisher account. The 30% figure that circulates in affiliate directories comes from a customer-facing tile on that same page reading “30% Off New Products” — a discount for buyers, not a payout for affiliates. The only commission rate GoDaddy publishes on its own site belongs to a different program: the Web Pro affiliate program for GoDaddy Pro members, which pays 10% of the referred customer’s cart value with some products excluded. Any specific percentage attached to the main program should be treated as unverified until you see it inside CJ.
Getting paid
Nothing is published for the main program. Payment runs through CJ Affiliate and follows whatever threshold, schedule and payout method CJ applies to your account. The separate Web Pro program does publish its mechanics — a first payment once commissions clear a three-figure balance, transactions locking around the 11th of each month, then direct deposit through CJ in 39 countries — but those terms belong to that program, not this one.
The rules
GoDaddy names the products that never earn a commission: premium domains, Sunrise and Landrush domain registrations, memberships or maintenance plans, additional disk space and bandwidth renewals, custom page layouts, GoDaddy branded merchandise, photos and photo products, posters, die-cast cars and gift cards. Everything about conduct — paid search, coupon traffic, self-referral — sits in the CJ program terms and is not published publicly.
What isn’t published
GoDaddy publishes an affiliate page but not the full terms. Anything it doesn’t state — thresholds, payout timing, cookie window — is left blank here rather than guessed, and shows as a dash in comparisons.
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