Go Daddy Web Hosting Domain Registrar $100K Donation, Bolsters Humane Society.

GoDaddy.com web hosting and domain registrar, helped boost the bottom line for the Arizona Humane Society Telethon by matching every single contribution made on the Internet.

The Scottsdale-based domain name registrar and web hosting provider also doubled its own donation with a $100,000 check delivered by none other than Go Daddy CEO and Founder Bob Parsons’ dogs Max and Chief.

This is the fourth consecutive year Go Daddy delivered big for Arizona animals and in these rough economic times, when donations are more difficult to secure, Go Daddy was happy to help make a difference as the title sponsor. Total money raised in the annual telethon yesterday was more than $328,000.

Go Daddy also helped on the technical side behind the scenes, and on camera many Go Daddy employees answered telephone calls during the live broadcast. The move that really stole the show though was the company’s check delivery method, performed in GoDaddy-esque style… no, not by a Go Daddy Girl, but by the ‘Go Daddy’ dogs.

Max and Chief are Parsons’ dogs and have become regulars for the telethon’s big finish. Bob Parsons, Founder and CEO of GoDaddy noted, ”Max and Chief learn a new trick for each telethon,” referring to how Chief pulled Max in a Go Daddy chariot to deliver the $100,000 check to end the live telethon. Mr. Parsons added, ”Max and Chief even went ‘green’ this year using a chariot instead of the Go Daddy motorized car.”

Whether delivered by Border Terriers or more conventional methods, Go Daddy is continuing to make a difference in the Valley of the Sun with its charitable donations. As many companies are scaling back philanthropic donations due to the economy, Go Daddy is stepping up its charity efforts.

Guy Collison, executive director of the Arizona Humane Society remarked, ”It’s amazing to see that every year Go Daddy has been involved with the telethon they not only meet but exceed our expectations. Go Daddy keeps the telethon’s online components running smoothly and helps organize online contributions. To top it off they doubled their donation this year.”

Thousands of sick, injured and homeless animals across the state will have their lives saved or improved with the money raised through the telethon. The annual charity event not only raises much needed money for these animals, but also provides low-cost spay and neuter services and educational programs, including how to better care for pets, fight animal cruelty and adopt a pet.

Go Daddy’s philanthropic works support a wide variety of charitable and community organizations dedicated to such causes as domestic violence, child abuse, disabled children, teenage homelessness, Parkinson’s research, breast cancer and more. Go Daddy donated $1.7MM to charitable causes last year and is on pace to break its own record for 2009.

Go Daddy is a leading provider of services that enable individuals and businesses to establish, maintain and evolve an online presence. Go Daddy provides a variety of domain name registration plans and Web site design and hosting packages, as well as a broad array of on-demand services. These include products such as SSL Certificates, Domains by Proxy private registration, ecommerce Web site hosting, blog templates and blog software, podcast packages and online photo hosting. The Go Daddy Group, Inc. has more than 36 million domain names under management. Go Daddy registers, renews or transfers a domain name every second. 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 2008, The Go Daddy Group registered more than one-third of all new domain names created in the top six generic top-level domains, or gTLDs, including .com, .net, .org, .info, .biz and .mobi.

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GoDaddy, Sponsors NASCAR Southern 500

Web hosting domain registrar provider, Go Daddy, recently signed for a major NASCAR event, as a Presenting Sponsor of the Southern 500.

Bob Parsons, CEO and Founder of Go Daddy explained, ”This is a tremendous time to be out there – advertising, sponsoring events. Darlington is a great track, celebrating 60 years of racing this season. The fact many traditional sponsors are shying away because of the economy creates a great opportunity for Go Daddy.”

The Southern 500 presented by GoDaddy.com takes place Saturday at Darlington Raceway in South Carolina, as an iconic race returning to a legendary track. The event was slated to run without a presenting sponsor until Go Daddy signed on. A tough economy – full of fiscal belt-tightening – has made sponsorships hard to come by for both tracks and teams this season. NASCAR fans will watch the return of this historic 500-mile race on a track awash in green and black Go Daddy banners.

Go Daddy expanded its NASCAR commitment in 2009 – increasing sponsorships in both the Sprint Cup Series and Nationwide Series. The company also produced several new commercials with Go Daddy spokesman and NASCAR’s most popular driver, Dale Earnhardt, Jr. and fellow driver, Brad Keselowski, and now, the Internet giant takes on title sponsorship at Darlington.

Beyond having Go Daddy’s name on the Southern 500, Parsons hopes to have a driver in the race as well. Brad Keselowski will attempt to qualify in the No. 25 GoDaddy.com Chevrolet in the Sprint Cup Series race.

Go Daddy, the world’s dominant Web hosting domain registrar, has seen tremendous gains in the midst of recent recessionary times. Unlike many U.S. companies, Go Daddy is expanding – hiring 300 employees in the first three months of this year. With 35 million domains under management and 6.6 million customers, Go Daddy is thriving. The key to Go Daddy’s success is providing people and businesses with turn-key solutions to all their Web site needs and backing those products and services with industry-best 24/7 personalized customer care.

Go Daddy is a world leader in domain registration, web hosting and design, SSL Certificates and eCommerce. The company offers more than 50 products aimed at enhancing everyone’s online image quickly and affordably.

Go Daddy is a leading provider of services that enable individuals and businesses to establish, maintain and evolve an online presence. Go Daddy provides a variety of domain name registration plans and Web site design and hosting packages, as well as a broad array of on-demand services. These include products such as SSL Certificates, Domains by Proxy private registration, ecommerce Web site hosting, blog templates and blog software, podcast packages and online photo hosting. The Go Daddy Group, Inc. has more than 35 million domain names under management. Go Daddy registers, renews or transfers a domain name every second. GoDaddy.com is the world’s No. 1 domain name registrar according to Name Intelligence, Inc. During 2008, The Go Daddy Group registered more than one-third of all new domain names created in the top six generic top-level domains, or gTLDs, including .com, .net, .org, .info, .biz and .mobi.

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GoDaddy, Premieres Instant Mobilizer from dotMobi.

Web hosting domain registrar, GoDaddy.com, has launched the Instant Mobilizer from dotMobi, a tool for transforming existing web pages into mobile content that works on any phone and any network, free of charge, with .mobi domain signup.

Trey Harvin, CEO of dotMobi remarked, ”In an increasingly competitive domain industry, dotMobi is excited to work with Go Daddy to remove the barriers to mobile web adoption by giving businesses of all sizes the tools to easily and quickly build a mobile presence. Historically, it has been difficult for small and medium sized businesses to create a mobile-friendly Web site because of the time and technical knowledge required.”

Instant Mobilizer allows users to automatically convert an existing web site into a dynamic, mobile-friendly site without any need for technical knowledge or development efforts. Since the product was launched in February 2009, hundreds of businesses have adopted Instant Mobilizer, with uniformly positive results. The availability of Instant Mobilizer from Go Daddy is expected to attract thousands more businesses onto the mobile web.

Bob Parsons, CEO and Founder of Go Daddy remarked, ”We live in an incredibly fast-paced society. More and more people – especially Internet-savvy Go Daddy customers – are linked to the Web through their mobile phones and with Instant Mobilizer, businesses can be sure anyone can get to their site, even on the go. Our goal at Go Daddy has always been to help people get online easily and affordably. Instant Mobilizer does just that.”

GoDaddy.com is a world leader for domain registration, Web hosting and SSL certificates. Go Daddy offers 40-plus products to make Web site design and eCommerce simple. The company supports its products and services with industry-best personalized 24/7 customer care.

Headquartered in Dublin, dotMobi is a worldwide leader in enabling the development and discovery of quality mobile content through innovative services, helping businesses and individuals reach the world’s billions of mobile phone users. dotMobi spurs mobile industry innovation by giving content providers the tools they need to ensure the web will work on mobile phones with speed, accuracy and relevant content. dotMobi is backed by leading mobile operators, network and device manufacturers, and Internet content providers, including Ericsson, GSM Association, Hutchison 3, Microsoft, Nokia, Orascom Telecom, Samsung Electronics, Syniverse, T-Mobile, Telefonica Moviles, Telecom Italia Mobile (TIM), Visa and Vodafone.

GoDaddy is a provider of services designed to enable individuals and businesses to establish, maintain and evolve an online presence. GoDaddy provides a variety of domain name registration plans and web site design and hosting packages, as well as a broad array of on-demand services. These include products such as SSL Certificates, Domains by Proxy private registration, ecommerce web site hosting, blog templates and blog software, podcast packages and online photo hosting. The GoDaddy Group, Inc. has more than 34 million domain names under management. GoDaddy registers, renews or transfers a domain name every second. GoDaddy.com is the world’s No. 1 domain name registrar according to Name Intelligence, Inc. GoDaddy.com is also the largest paid hosting provider in the world, according to Netcraft Ltd. During 2007, The GoDaddy Group registered more than one-third of all domain names registered in the top six generic top-level domains, or gTLDs, including .com, .net, .org, .info, .biz and .mobi.

Posted by Admin on April 3rd, 2009 | 1 Comment
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GoDaddy Web Hosting Features KickApps Small Business Social Media Solution.

On-demand social media, video player and widget platform, KickApps, has been added to GoDaddy’s Hosting Connection service, to enable customers to easily add social and media capabilities to websites.

Alex Blum, CEO, KickApps explained ”Today’s web has evolved dramatically from static and boring destinations that do little to truly engage a website’s audience or a company’s customers. Using KickApps’ solutions for social and media applications, any small business or organization can cost-effectively reinvent their website with meaningful results. Our offering to Go Daddy customers is a message to small businesses and non-commercial organizations around the world that they too can take advantage of everything that today’s web has to offer.”

Under the agreement, GoDaddy’s hosting customers will be eligible for special offers and pricing on KickApps solutions. The KickApps solution lowers the barriers to adoption of social and media applications on websites for small businesses, organizations and individuals seeking to engage customers and unite people and content to build a resourceful and trustworthy community.

Social media has evolved from being a novel way for people to connect online to a meaningful vehicle for driving deeper customer relationships, growing online audiences, raising awareness about critical issues and organizing online, as well as creating new revenue and donation opportunities. With KickApps, small businesses and non-commercial organizations can easily create highly engaging social, interactive, distributed, and data-informed websites. Using the same simple-to-use drag-and-drop online applications that are used by numerous global brands, small business owners and non-profits can deploy their own KickApps powered social networks, custom video players, photo and video sharing, blogs, message boards and widgets on their websites.

Alexa Raad, CEO, .ORG, The Public Interest Registry added, ”The strength of a community�comes from its ability�to transform ideas into action through shared activities. Social media tools�power up�web addresses to�create dynamic relationships fastern. We are excited to see Go Daddy and KickApps partner to offer comprehensive tools and resources to the .ORG community.”

Go Daddy hosting clients use Hosting Connection to install an extensive list of popular applications for their websites with a single click, including Joomla, WordPress and Drupal. The addition of KickApps adds the industry’s leading self-service hosted social and media platform to its catalog of essential tools for creating websites. As a one-stop-shop for hosting needs, Go Daddy’s hosting services provide generous disk space amounts and bandwidth, 24/7/365 Customer Support, world-class data centers and a guaranteed uptime of 99.9%.

Bob Parsons, CEO and Founder of Go Daddy remarked, ”Go Daddy is all about doing things easily and affordably. That’s why we created Hosting Connection. It’s just one more way we provide our customers an easy solution for their needs. Adding KickApps to the lineup gives our customers even greater flexibility to get their site just how they want it.”

Selected by BusinessWeek readers as Best of the Web 2008, KickApps provides brands, enterprises and web publishers with solutions that enable social, interactive, dynamic, distributed and data-informed web experiences. KickApps solutions consist of a suite of hosted social and media applications and services that are used by some of the world’s largest websites and brands to grow and engage their online audiences and foster deeper relationships with customers. Clients include: Special Olympics, CW Television, Guinness World Records, HBO, Cinemax, Cox Television, the Phoenix Suns, the New York Knicks, the New York Rangers and thousands of other sites.

GoDaddy is a provider of services designed to enable individuals and businesses to establish, maintain and evolve an online presence. GoDaddy provides a variety of domain name registration plans and web site design and hosting packages, as well as a broad array of on-demand services. These include products such as SSL Certificates, Domains by Proxy private registration, ecommerce web site hosting, blog templates and blog software, podcast packages and online photo hosting. The GoDaddy Group, Inc. has more than 34 million domain names under management. GoDaddy registers, renews or transfers a domain name every second. GoDaddy.com is the world’s No. 1 domain name registrar according to Name Intelligence, Inc. GoDaddy.com is also the largest paid hosting provider in the world, according to Netcraft Ltd. During 2007, The GoDaddy Group registered more than one-third of all domain names registered in the top six generic top-level domains, or gTLDs, including .com, .net, .org, .info, .biz and .mobi.

Posted by Admin on April 1st, 2009 | 1 Comment
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GoDaddy Became Microsoft BizSpark Partner.

Web hosting domain registrar, GoDaddy.com, has become a Hosting Partner in the Microsoft BizSpark program. As part of this new alliance with Microsoft, BizSpark participants can utilize Go Daddy’s services as part of a network of unique offerings provided for qualified Internet start-up businesses.

Bob Parsons, CEO and Founder of Go Daddy remarked, ”Go Daddy is all about doing things easily and affordabl. That’s why we’ve joined the Microsoft BizSpark program as a Hosting Partner. It’s just one more way we can provide Internet entrepreneurs a simple, cost-effective solution to their registration, hosting and SSL cert needs.”

The announcement of Go Daddy’s participation in this international program was made today during Microsoft’s keynote address at the MIX09 conference for web designers and developers in Las Vegas, Nevada.

BizSpark is a global program designed to help accelerate the success of early stage start-ups by providing them with three critical needs – software, support and visibility – throughout a company’s first three years in operation when these tools are the most valuable and least affordable.

GoDaddy itself was an Internet start-up just a decade ago. Go Daddy CEO and Founder Bob Parsons charged ahead with his entrepreneurial ideas in the midst of the dotCOM bust. Now, Go Daddy is a world leader in Web access, with more than 6.4 million customers and 34 million domains under management.

Mr. Parsons believes the Internet will soon be seen as the saving grace of a new global economy and encourages entrepreneurs to seek out new opportunities like the BizSpark program as a way to launch their ideas in tough economic times.

As a BizSpark Hosting Partner, Go Daddy will offer BizSpark members a wide range of essential applications and services including domain registration, hosting and SSL certificates for an extremely affordable price. Go Daddy will be the first Microsoft BizSpark Hosting Partner to provide member start-ups with this combination of services. In addition, these new companies will have access to Go Daddy’s industry-best personalized customer service 24/7/365.

Dan Lewin, corporate vice president of Strategic and Emerging Business Development at Microsoft Corp. remarked, ”We are excited to have Go Daddy as a Hosting Partner for the Microsoft BizSpark program. Go Daddy’s excellence in hosting services combined with Microsoft’s software platform provides start-ups with a unique opportunity to grow their businesses.”

In the BizSpark program, a start-up can download free Microsoft software for development, test and demonstration purposes and use Microsoft software hosted ”production licenses” free of charge for up to three years. For an online start-up to participate in the BizSpark program, it must be privately owned, in business less than 3 years and grossing less than $1MM.

In the coming months, both Microsoft BizSpark and Go Daddy will detail more about how to participate in this venture on their respective Web sites.

GoDaddy is a provider of services designed to enable individuals and businesses to establish, maintain and evolve an online presence. GoDaddy provides a variety of domain name registration plans and web site design and hosting packages, as well as a broad array of on-demand services. These include products such as SSL Certificates, Domains by Proxy private registration, ecommerce web site hosting, blog templates and blog software, podcast packages and online photo hosting. The GoDaddy Group, Inc. has more than 34 million domain names under management. GoDaddy registers, renews or transfers a domain name every second. GoDaddy.com is the world’s No. 1 domain name registrar according to Name Intelligence, Inc. GoDaddy.com is also the largest paid hosting provider in the world, according to Netcraft Ltd. During 2007, The GoDaddy Group registered more than one-third of all domain names registered in the top six generic top-level domains, or gTLDs, including .com, .net, .org, .info, .biz and .mobi.

Posted by Admin on March 24th, 2009 | 2 Comments
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GoDaddy Web Hosting and Domain Services Provider, at NASCAR Las Vegas.

Go Daddy spokesman, Dale Earnhardt Jr., raced the No. 5 GoDaddy.com Chevrolet at the car’s season debut in the Sam’s Town 300 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

The Nationwide Series race took place at Las Vegas Motor Speedway and was broadcast on ESPN2.

In early January, Go Daddy anounced its return to NASCAR for the 2009 season with an expanded sponsorship of Earnhardt Jr., JR Motorsports and Hendrick Motorsports. This season’s Go Daddy sponsorship features Dale Jr. and prot�g� Brad Keselowski in both the Nationwide and Sprint Cup Series.

Go Daddy is the primary sponsor for 20 Nationwide Series races with Earnhardt driving the No. 5 GoDaddy.com Chevrolets and Keselowski driving the No. 88 GoDaddy.com Chevrolets.

Go Daddy also sponsors Keselowski in the No. 25 GoDaddy.com Chevrolets for seven Sprint Cup Series races this season. This first race in that car could come this Sunday. Keselowski will attempt to qualify for Sunday’s Sprint Cup race in the No. 25 GoDaddy.com Chevrolet tomorrow at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

Dale Earnhardt Jr., who helped design the No. 5 GoDaddy.com Chevrolets, became a Go Daddy spokesman after first being a Go Daddy customer. Earnhardt visited Go Daddy’s Scottsdale, Ariz. corporate campus last fall. Afterward, he remarked on his impressions of both the technology and the people.

Mr. Earnhardt Jr. noted, ”I consider myself quite knowledgeable when it comes to computers and the web. It’s fun to be able to bounce ideas off each other in making this partnership really click.”

This has been a tough year for NASCAR drivers in terms of sponsorships. Economic struggles have forced many longtime sponsors to pull out. Go Daddy, however, experienced unprecedented success in 2008 and, in turn, expanded this year’s NASCAR sponsorship.

Bob Parsons, CEO and Founder of Go Daddy remarked, ”When we talked about sponsoring Dale Jr., it was a no-brainer. He’s a great driver, NASCAR is non-stop action and it has the most fun-loving, loyal fans out there.”

Go Daddy’s foray into racing sponsorships started in 2006 with the company’s support of IndyCar’s Danica Patrick. That sponsorship continues this year as well. Patrick, a Go Daddy Girl and IndyCar’s most popular driver, made history last season as the first woman ever to win in the IndyCar Series.

Go Daddy offers a wide array of services far beyond domain name registration. The company is a world leader in web site hosting, new SSL certificates, as well as offering web site design, Quick Shopping Cart for online vendors and – new in 2009 – Go Daddy Marketplace, an online shopping mall where Go Daddy leverages the draw of its popular global Web site to showcase customer products.

Go Daddy is a leading provider of services that enable individuals and businesses to establish, maintain and evolve an online presence. Go Daddy provides a variety of domain name registration plans and Web site design and hosting packages, as well as a broad array of on-demand services. These include products such as SSL Certificates, Domains by Proxy private registration, ecommerce Web site hosting, blog templates and blog software, podcast packages and online photo hosting. The Go Daddy Group, Inc. has more than 33 million domain names under management. Go Daddy registers, renews or transfers a domain name every second. 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 2008, The Go Daddy Group registered more than one-third of all new domain names created in the top six generic top-level domains, or gTLDs, including .com, .net, .org, .info, .biz and .mobi.

Posted by Admin on March 5th, 2009 | 3 Comments
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