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Scottsdale, Arizona - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - October 4, 2006 - Website hosting and domain registrar company, GoDaddy.com’s Founder and CEO, Bob Parsons, expressed his support in connection with the U.S. Commerce Department extending its oversight of the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the organization responsible for governance of the Internet.

Mr. Parsons remarked, ”As the leader of the Internet domain name market, Go Daddy is a strong advocate for our customers – and all users of the Internet. The decision by the Commerce Department to extend its oversight of ICANN for another three years aligns with Go Daddy’s advocacy efforts. ICANN isn’t ready to be fully independent – and no other international body is yet prepared to provide the leadership necessary to protect the Internet for all users. Over the next three years, Go Daddy looks forward to working with others in the industry to ensure that an appropriate, impartial international body will be identified to provide the leadership ICANN needs in setting policies and creating a strategy which impacts every user of the Internet. After Go Daddy’s efforts to inform Congressional leaders of our concerns over the future of Internet governance, we are pleased to see positive results and recognition that there are issues requiring resolution to ensure an open, transparent system for managing the Internet.”

On Sept. 20, Go Daddy General Counsel, Christine Jones, testified before a subcommittee of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation. Jones spoke of the issues plaguing ICANN and why Go Daddy believed it was necessary to continue U.S. oversight.

Ms. Jones testified, ”The future of ICANN rests with the public that it was formed to benefit. That community’s confidence in ICANN has been shaken by the lack of openness and transparency; by the apparent unwillingness of the ICANN Board of Directors to be accountable to anyone but itself and the giant step backwards that is now being taken by the introduction of anti competitive registry agreements that threaten to undo what progress has been made. The Memorandum of Understanding between the Department of Commerce and ICANN should be extended and modified to stress the need to correct these deficiencies and require a clear road map from ICANN as to how it will regain the confidence of the community upon which its existence relies.”

As the Commerce Department and ICANN enter into a new three-year agreement, with an initial review in 18 months, Go Daddy officials said the company will continue pressing for reforms in how ICANN conducts its business to ensure that broad input is sought and considered, and to help protect the interests of all Internet users.

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, please visit: www.godaddy.com.

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