Go
Daddy and Sister Company Wild West Domains Awarded Three
Name Intelligence Registrar Awards for 2003
[28th October 2003]
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Oct. 28, 2003 – GoDaddy.com
today announced that it was
awarded two Registrar Awards from Name Intelligence
for 2003: No. 1 for Overall Best and No. 1 for Largest
Net Gain. Go Daddy led the Net Gain category by 1,125,212
of .com, .net, .org, .info, .biz and .us (CNOIBU) domain
names under registration at the end of the third quarter
2003. Go Daddy is the recipient of the Largest Net Gain
Award for the second consecutive year.
In addition, Name Intelligence awarded Wild West Domains,
a Go Daddy sister
company and reseller provider, No. 1 for Largest Position
Jump. Wild West launched as a new, ICANN-accredited
registrar in 2002 and by year-end, it had climbed from
No. 133 to No. 40. By the end of the third quarter 2003,
it ranked No. 18 with 362,213 CNOIBU domain names under
registration.
“We’re thrilled to have received three of
Name Intelligence’s four prestigious annual
awards,” said Bob Parsons, president and founder
of GoDaddy.com and Wild West
Domains. “This is a testament to Go Daddy customers
and Wild West resellers; I’m
especially pleased that Wild West Domains is blazing
a successful trail of its own.”
Name Intelligence is an independent domain information
company that computes daily statistics of all registrars,
tracking changes in the CNOIBU registries. Every year,
it awards four registrars with the company’s “top
honors,” the Name Intelligence Registrar Awards.
The awards are given in the areas of No. 1 for Overall
Best, No. 1 for Net Gain, No. 1 for Resellers and No.
1 for Largest Position Jump.
About GoDaddy.com (formerly Go Daddy Software,
Inc.)
ICANN accredited GoDaddy.com is the No. 1 registrar
of net new domains and provider of complementary software
products and services. Other companies within The Go
Daddy Group, Inc. family include Starfield Technologies,
Inc., developer of software systems and services; Wild
West Domains, Inc., ICANN accredited reseller provider;
and Domains By Proxy, a private registration service.
GoDaddy.com, together with its sister companies, enables
individuals and businesses to acquire, create and safeguard
their unique identities and brands on the Internet.
About Wild West Domains, Inc.
Wild West Domains, Inc., is an ICANN accredited registrar
and all-inclusive reseller
provider. As a part of The Go Daddy Group, Inc. family
of companies, Wild West
Domains offers an array of competitively priced products
and services to facilitate entry into the high-growth
reseller market for such Internet professional as ISPs,
hosting firms, Web designers and developers, Internet
entrepreneurs and system integrators.
Contact:
Kimberly Cecere
480.505.8862
kcecere@godaddy.com
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