GDDY

GoDaddy Inc.

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Is GDDY Halal?

Domain registrar with hosting — core halal but adult content ads.

What You Should Know

GoDaddy is a domain registrar and hosting provider. Its March 2026 Form 10-Q reports $8,154.4 million of assets, $3,777.6 million of long-term debt, $1,261.7 million of cash, $85.3 million of accounts and other receivables and $1,266.9 million of quarterly revenue. Debt/assets is 46.33%, liquidity/assets is 15.47%, and receivables-plus-cash/assets is 16.52%; gross interest income and a universal prohibited-revenue numerator are not separately disclosed.

⚠️ Concerns

  • Adult content hosting (15-20% of business)
  • Exploitation concerns
  • Debt/assets exceeds the examined 33.333% limits
  • Domain registry, applications and commerce mix require qualitative review

Current quantitative Sharia screen

Based on 10-Q figures for the period ended 2026-03-31; calculated 2026-07-14.

USD · millions
Interest-bearing debt / assets
46.33%Above limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

3,777.6 / 8,154.4

Cash + interest-bearing securities / assets
15.47%Within limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

1,261.7 / 8,154.4

Receivables + cash / assets
16.52%Within limit
Below 50% under FTSE Yasaar

1,347 / 8,154.4

FTSE Yasaar
v4.6, February 2026
Financial
Fails
Overall
Fails

Debt/assets is 46.33%, above the examined 33.333% limit; liquidity/assets is 15.47% and receivables-plus-cash/assets is 16.52%.

MSCI Islamic (total-assets series)
October 2024 methodology
Financial
Fails
Overall
Fails

Debt/assets is 46.33%, above the examined MSCI 33.33% limit; income and activity classification remain incomplete.

Malaysia SAC financial ratios
single 5% activity benchmark adopted November 2025
Financial
Fails
Overall
Fails

Debt/assets is above the examined Malaysia 33% limit; this is a calculation against SAC ratios, not an official classification.

Market-cap denominator methods
MSCI M-Series, S&P and Dow Jones methods differ
Financial
Not calculated
Overall
Fails

A properly licensed and reproducible historical market-cap series is not stored; the debt failure remains independently documented.

Business-activity disclosure

GoDaddy provides domain registration, hosting, applications and commerce tools. Core infrastructure services can be permissible, but hosted content, customer use and application/commerce activity require qualitative review.

Limitation: The filing does not provide a universal prohibited-content or prohibited-revenue numerator and does not separately disclose gross interest income.

Purification

GoDaddy does not separately disclose gross interest income or a complete prohibited-activity numerator; ZakatInvest does not invent a purification percentage.

Inputs, assumptions and primary sources
  • Amounts are USD millions from GoDaddy's March 31, 2026 Form 10-Q.
  • Interest-bearing debt is $15.1 million of current long-term debt plus $3,762.5 million of long-term debt, net of current portion; operating lease liabilities are excluded.
  • Cash and cash equivalents are $1,261.7 million. Registry deposits and prepaid registry fees are not added to liquidity.
  • Accounts and other receivables are $85.3 million.
  • Revenue is $1,266.9 million for the three months ended March 31, 2026. The filing reports interest expense net of interest income but does not separately disclose gross interest income.
  • Domain registration, hosting, applications and commerce activities are not reduced to a universal prohibited-revenue numerator.

This is a reproducible financial screen, not a fatwa. A failed total-assets screen can coexist with a pass under a market-cap methodology. ZakatInvest keeps the qualitative assessment separate so numerical thresholds do not erase material context.

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