GoDaddy.com
SSL Certificate Authority Continues Double Digit Growth
[May 17, 2005]
SCOTTSDALE,
Ariz. (May 17, 2005) – The Go Daddy Group, Inc.,
parent company of GoDaddy.com, the No. 1 registrar of
domain names, announced today that its unprecedented
growth in the Secure Certificate market is continuing.
Go Daddy’s secure certificate sales for April
exhibited a 20% increase in market penetration from
the prior month according to Netcraft LTD (www.netcraft.com),
a globally respected authority on market share for hosting,
encrypted transactions, e-commerce and more. In less
than a year since entering the Secure Certificate market,
Go Daddy has grown to become the fourth largest group
provider of Secure Certificates worldwide, and at its
current growth rate, will become the third largest group
provider before the end of 2005.
“We continue to be very pleased with our achievements
in the secure certificate marketplace,” said Bob
Parsons, president and founder of The Go Daddy Group,
named the fastest growing technology company (ranked
# 8 overall) on the Inc. 500 List of America’s
Fastest Growing Private Companies. “Still, we
are committed to improving the value proposition of
all our product offerings. For example, all Go Daddy
secure certificates support the industry standard 128-bit
encryption level, as well as high-grade 256-bit encryption.”
Added Chris Kouzios, Director of Network Services for
SXC (www.sxc.com),
“SXC selected Go Daddy as our vendor of choice
for all our web needs, due to its reasonable pricing
and breadth of services. We use the High Assurance SSL
certificates and the High Assurance WildCard certificates
on our servers. Go Daddy allows us to ensure that our
certificate expiration dates are tracked in one central
location that we can access from any of our North American
offices.” SXC is a leading provider of pharmacy
dispensing and benefits processing solutions to the
pharmaceutical benefits industry.
About The Go Daddy Group, Inc.
The Go Daddy Group is the world’s No. 1 domain
name registrar both in terms of new registrations and
domains under management. The Go Daddy Group 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.
The Go Daddy Group includes 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
6 seconds.
Contact:
Nick Fuller
Communications Manager
480.505.8800 ext. 4435
nfuller@godaddy.com
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