Idk who governs this stuff but someone needs to take an audit on GoDaddy's corporate buy ups. Surely they're just going around buying up the competition. I see they bought Over https://www.prnewswire.com/news-rel...engaging-visual-content-online-300994980.html. Seems like an odd buy for a domain registrar, until you realise they probably just want people to use their shitty website builder instead.
Big news, but not really surprising. As a major holder of above average but generally not spectacular .coms, I imagine he's been looking for a way to liquidise his portfolio...rising renewal costs and static or reducing value in the portfolio - makes sense. Good luck to him - back in the day I sold a few decent two word .coms to him and they were great to deal with.