Go
Daddy Vaults to Become Fourth Largest Certificate Authority
Group Worldwide [March 15, 2005]
SCOTTSDALE,
Ariz. (March 15, 2005) – The Go Daddy Group, Inc.,
parent company of GoDaddy.com, the No. 1 registrar of
domain names, announced today that in less than a year
since entering the Secure Certificate market, it has
grown to become the fourth largest group provider of
Secure Certificates worldwide. Go Daddy’s market
share growth was measured by Netcraft LTD (www.netcraft.com),
which, since 1995, has been a globally respected authority
on market share for hosting, encrypted transactions,
e-commerce and more.
Go Daddy’s February 2005 sales
were up over 237%, compared to April 2004. In January
of this year, Netcraft reported that Go Daddy had experienced
the largest monthly gain in the number of issued Secure
Certificates worldwide. Netcraft also found that Go
Daddy's growth in new certificates led the second-fastest
growing Certificate Authority by more than 60%.
“We are extremely pleased with
our growth in this sector,” said Bob Parsons,
president and founder of Go Daddy. “During the
past year, we worked very hard to offer a variety of
Secure Certificate products designed to meet the various
needs of consumers; and we also worked very hard to
ensure that all of our Secure Certificate products are
easy to use, affordable, and come with unparalleled
customer service. The statistics reported by Netcraft
earlier this month, as well as its data from earlier
this year, confirms that our hard work has paid off,
and that we have the best value proposition when it
comes to Secure Certificates. Of course, we will continue
to improve all of our Secure Certificate products based
on customer feedback and market demands.”
Added
Bill Dawson, Network Manager of Mizuno USA, Inc., (www.mizuno.com),
“Mizuno USA, Inc. has been a Go Daddy customer
for several years now. Our positive past experience
naturally lead us to Go Daddy when we needed a certificate
quickly for a secure portal application. After verifying
Go Daddy's certificate services carried the WebTrust
seal, we compared prices and issuance times with a certificate
purchase we made from a competitor. The Go Daddy cert
cost less than half the competitor's and we received
it in less than half the time. Go Daddy makes our jobs
here at Mizuno USA a whole lot easier.” Mizuno
USA, Inc. is an international sports equipment manufacturer,
whose golf clubs were recently named the Winner of the
2005 “Editors’ Choice” award from
Golf Digest.
About
The Go Daddy Group, Inc.
The Go Daddy Group, the industry leader in domain name
registration, enables individuals and businesses to
acquire, create and safeguard their unique identities
and brands on the Internet by offering a complete line
of web development tools, including domain name registration,
hosting, email systems, SSL certificates and complementary
products and services. Together, The Go Daddy Group
companies include three ICANN-accredited domain name
registrars: flagship registrar GoDaddy.com (www.GoDaddy.com);
membership-based registrar Blue Razor Domains, Inc.,
(www.bluerazor.com)
and reseller registrar Wild West Domains, Inc., (www.wildwestdomains.com).
The Go Daddy Group also offers private domain name registration
services through Domains By Proxy, Inc., (www.domainsbyproxy.com);
as well as SSL Certificates through its SSL Certificate
Authority, Starfield Technologies, Inc., (www.starfieldtech.com).
The Go Daddy Group registers a new domain name every
7 seconds.
Contact:
Nick Fuller
Communications Manager
480.505.8800 ext. 4435
nfuller@godaddy.com
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