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Scottsdale, Arizona - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - September 27, 2006 - Website hosting and domain registrar company, GoDaddy.com, testified before a U.S. House of Representatives committee that a unified, comprehensive front is required to combat online sexual exploitation of children.

Citing its own partnerships with law enforcement and a policy of quickly responding to concerns from employees and members of the Internet community to help protect children, Go Daddy General Counsel, Christine Jones, testified before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. Discussing the role of domain name registrars and web site hosting providers in the fight against child pornography and so-called ”child modeling” web sites, last year, Go Daddy investigated nearly 2,000 customers representing several thousand domain names over allegations of child pornography or inappropriate child modeling web sites.

According to information released by GoDaddy, Ms. Jones testified: ”The problem of online exploitation of children generally, and child pornography specifically, is a growing and unacceptable menace that must end.” Adding that many of the sites are operated in Eastern Europe, ”Go Daddy is committed to taking whatever steps are necessary and feasible to assist in ending this practice and we would challenge our counterparts on the Internet to make the same commitment.”

Inappropriate child modeling web sites do not generally rise to the level of pornography, but Ms. Jones testified that Go Daddy classifies these sites as ”morally objectionable” under the company’s terms of service. Ms. Jones continued, ”We tend to be more aggressive than most registrars on child modeling sites. We typically remove them even if we can’t find child pornography because our experience has been that the operators of child modeling sites tend to be associated … with child pornography in some way.” The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, led by Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-Ky.), has been reviewing various strategies for halting child pornography operations on the web through a series of related hearings.

Last week, the committee heard testimony from credit card companies about cutting the financial streams supporting child exploitation. The subcommittee has two hearings on the issue scheduled this week. The Go Daddy Group, with a full-time presence in Washington, D.C., is taking an active role in issues impacting the Internet community. Last week, Ms. Jones testified before a Senate committee examining accountability of the Internet’s governing board, ICANN, and the role of the NTIA.

Bob Parsons, CEO and Founder of The Go Daddy Group, Inc. remarked, ”Strong advocacy is required to protect the Internet and ensure that all users — including children — can have a fun, productive experience online without fear of sexual predators. Go Daddy will fight for our customers and all users of the Internet.”

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.

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