Go Daddy Experiences Web Hosting Surge, According to Netcraft Research

Updated on Thursday, June 28th, 2007 at 10:41 am

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Scottsdale, Arizona - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - June 28, 2007 - Domain name registrar and web hosting company, GoDaddy.com, has reported a comprehensive growth trend in its web hosting services. According to a new survey by independent Internet analyst Netcraft, LTD, domain registrars and search portals are marking large gains in web hosting.

Rich Miller of Netcraft explained, ”This month’s data yields some of the strongest evidence yet of the power shift in Web hosting. Go Daddy continues to amass huge numbers of users on its hosting platforms.”

Netcraft has recognized GoDaddy.com as the number one domain registrar used for hosting. However, GoDaddy.com actually offers a wide variety of services.

Warren Adelman, President and Chief Operating Officer of GoDaddy.com added, ”We believe customers are choosing GoDaddy.com because it’s really a full-service web company, offering not just domain registration, but also hosting, email, SSL Certificates for Web site security, tools to create web sites and more. Hosting is an important part of what we do, and we make it easy for people - including the owners of small and medium-size businesses to go to GoDaddy.com and get everything they need to create and host a web site. We even offer an industry-first hosting community called Metropolis, where hosting customers can find free applications to set up a blog, share images and communicate through forums.”

The monthly Netcraft Web server survey looked at responses from more than 122 million web sites. Netcraft notes Go Daddy has seen enormous growth in shared hosting operations. The data also shows the overall Web hosting shift is affecting the entire hosting industry.

Mr. Miller added, ”This trend, along with the growth of social networks and image/video hosting services, is prompting deals in the hosting industry, as providers seek the scale and breadth of services to compete.”

Netcraft recently reported on two separate mergers between companies that specialize in hosting. According to Netcraft, these deals were designed to provide the combined companies with the scale and resources to compete with ”Internet titans like Microsoft, Google, Yahoo! and Go Daddy.”

Another independent Internet analyst, Tier1 Research, just released a report saying the mass-market Web hosting sector is in a critical period of transformation with web service firms not normally thought of as hosters now successfully entering the sector. Like the Netcraft research, the Tier1 report also notes an increase in market consolidation to deal with the issue.

Despite other companies’ merger efforts to keep up, Go Daddy continues to experience a major spike in web hosting, along with a big jump in domain names under management. Go Daddy currently has more than 22 million domains in its portfolio. Go Daddy continues to increase its popularity with customers by offering new products, affordable prices and 24-hour-a-day customer service.

Go Daddy is a provider of services designed 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, Inc. has more than 19 million domain names under management. Go Daddy registers, renews or transfers a domain name every 2 seconds. GoDaddy.com is the world’s No. 1 domain name registrar according to Name Intelligence, Inc. GoDaddy.com is also rated the world’s largest hostname provider according to Netcraft Ltd. During 2006, The Go Daddy Group registered approximately one-third of all domain names registered in the top six generic top-level domains, or gTLDs, including .com, .net, .org, .biz, .info.

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

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