Domain Registrar, Go Daddy, Outperforms Top Competitors, in SSL Growth

Updated on Tuesday, November 14th, 2006 at 10:55 am

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Scottsdale, Arizona - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - November 14, 2006 - According to the latest Netcraft report, website hosting and domain registrar company, GoDaddy.com ”dominates in monthly Certificate Authority growth,” gaining more SSL certificates than the three nearest performers combined.

The respected industry analyst credits Go Daddy’s SSL Certificates with securing 1,337 new SSL-enabled Web sites, making it the “clear leader.”Website hosting and domain registrar company, GoDaddy.com, industry-leading growth in Web sites secured by SSL Certificates. Go Daddy is the fastest-growing certificate authority, and for the third consecutive month Go Daddy also ”continues to set the pace for SSL-enabled growth in its Web hosting operation, leading all hosting providers.” Go Daddy added 559 SSL-enabled sites; nearly double that of the next-best performer.

Rich Miller, an industry analyst for Netcraft Ltd. stated, ”Go Daddy continues to demonstrate significant growth in the secure certificate market. Their pricing and range of SSL-related products have helped Go Daddy consistently gain market share throughout 2006.”

SSL Certificates enable Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption of online transactions and communications. In addition to the Turbo SSL and High Assurance products, Go Daddy has announced plans to support the new Extended Validation certificate guidelines recently published by the CA/Browser forum and supported in Internet Explorer 7.

Bob Parsons, Founder and CEO of GoDaddy.com added, ”We are very pleased with our achievements in the secure certificate marketplace. SSL certificates are essential in helping e-commerce businesses thrive. The certificates Go Daddy offers are affordable, easy to use and come with 24/7 support.”

All of Go Daddy hosting packages are supported by world-class data centers and backed by a 99.9 percent uptime guarantee. There are no set-up fees or annual commitments required. Additionally, all hosting plans are supported by industry leading infrastructure, full network redundancy, enterprise-class backup and restore technology, as well as 24/7/365 monitoring, customer support and physical security.

Go Daddy is a leading provider of services developed to enable individuals and businesses to establish, maintain and evolve an online presence. Go Daddy provides a variety of domain name registration and web site hosting services, as well as a broad array of on-demand and other services. The Go Daddy Group is the world’s largest domain name registrar, with approximately 14.6 million domain names under management as of June 30, 2006 and North America’s largest shared web site hosting provider. During the final six months of 2005, The Go Daddy Group registered approximately one-third of all domain names registered in the top five generic top-level domains, or gTLDs, including .com, .net, .org, .biz and .info.

To learn more about Go Daddy’s SSL Certificates, please visit: www.godaddy.com/gdshop/ssl/ssl.asp.

For more information about Go Daddy, please visit: www.godaddy.com.

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