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Scottsdale, Arizona - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - March 20, 2007 - Domain registrar and web hosting firm, GoDaddy.com, has been named the world’s top SSL Hosting company, according to the latest Netcraft report.

The industry analyst’s March report from Netcraft, shows Go Daddy led all hosting companies in SSL-enabled sites. Go Daddy became a Certificate Authority just three years ago. By 2006, Go Daddy dominated SSL hosting growth, leading the competition in 11 of the 12 months. Already this year, GoDaddy.com was able to leapfrog the long-time leader for the undisputed top spot.

Rich Miller, an analyst for Netcraft, Ltd. remarked, “Go Daddy has shown steady growth since emerging as a Certificate Authority and continues to add new SSL-secured sites faster than any other host. As a growing number of Web site operators seek to add e-commerce capabilities, Go Daddy’s SSL offering has proven to be a popular way for hosting customers to secure their sites.”

Warren Adelman, President and COO of GoDaddy.com added, “We are honored to be the largest SSL hosting provider in the world. From the inception of our efforts as a certificate authority, we have always worked to bring together the right combination of product, price and service. As both a hosting company and a certificate authority, we believe we are uniquely positioned to meet our customers’ needs.”

In their latest report, Netcraft reiterates, “The change on the leader-board reflects Go Daddy’s rapid progress in transforming itself from a domain name specialist into a full-service hosting provider.” An SSL Certificate enables Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption of online transactions and communications. GoDaddy.com SSL Certificates are offered in three assurance validation levels: Turbo (medium assurance), High Assurance and the new Extended Validation. All GoDaddy.com certificates are 256-bit encryption enabled. A vetting process is done for all Go Daddy SSL Certificates. Once approved, the certificate is automatically installed on all Go Daddy shared hosting, Website Tonight and Quick Shopping Cart plans, designed to save customers time and effort.

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.

For more information about Go Daddy SSLs, please visit: www.godaddy.com/gdshop/ssl/ssl.asp

To learn more about Go Daddy, please visit: www.godaddy.com.

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