All-New Go Daddy Girl Golfer

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (March 24, 2009) – Go Daddy hit the links today to announce its newest Go Daddy Girl, Anna Rawson. At a news conference on the grounds of this week’s LPGA tournament in Phoenix, Ariz., the company unveiled the Australian model and LPGA golfer as its newest spokesperson. The company now has four Go Daddy Girl spokeswomen.

Go Daddy, the world’s dominant Web hosting domain registrar, is known for signing good looking, confident, accomplished women as Go Daddy Girls. Anna is certainly no exception. Anna is the only runway model to become a professional golfer. She scored Top Ten finishes in the U.S., Asia, Europe and Australia. She also writes, having her own golf column syndicated in more than 20 countries around the world.

Go Daddy’s CEO and Founder Bob Parsons is known for having an eye for new talent and is very excited about the company’s newest Go Daddy Girl. “Anna is edgy, she’s hot, she’s outspoken…I ask you, what’s not GoDaddy-esque about that?”

GoDaddy-esque is a term coined by the media, meaning fun, edgy and slightly inappropriate.

Anna was especially energized at the news conference announcing her new assignment. “This is a great day for me,” she said. “Joining a dynamic company like GoDaddy.com, a company that, unlike most these days, is thriving and not afraid to make bold moves…that’s just my kind of sponsor.”

She is the second new Go Daddy Girl to be announced just this month. PokerStars Pro Vanessa Rousso was welcomed as a new Go Daddy Girl in Las Vegas, just before making history as the first woman to reach the final round of NBC’s National Heads-Up Poker Championship. Rounding out the Go Daddy ‘foursome,’ is Danica Patrick, IndyCar’s most popular driver and original Go Daddy Girl Candice Michelle.

Go Daddy is expanding its sponsorships as the company’s revenue, customer base and employee numbers explode. Evidence that Go Daddy and the Internet may, in fact, be at the heart of the new economy, as Parsons has suggested since throwing a $2MM holiday party for his employees in December.

As far as the new Go Daddy Girl’s golf resume, she was a vital member of the University of Southern California’s National Championship team in college, finished Top Ten on three different tours and has played professionally from the U.S. to Europe to the Far East, earning her LPGA card last year.

Anna is building a reputation for her activities off the course as well, having been voted one of the Top Ten Most Beautiful Female Athletes by Sports Illustrated and named Maxim’s Sexiest New Athlete in 2008.

Anna is set to compete in this week’s J Golf Phoenix LPGA International at Papago Golf Course. First though, the newest Go Daddy Girl tees it up with ‘Go Daddy’ himself, Bob Parsons, in the Celebrity Pro-Am tomorrow.

Go Daddy is a world leader in domain registration and Web hosting, as well as new SSL certificates. Go Daddy offers 40+ products backed by 24/7/365 industry-best customer care to make enhancing your image online quick, easy and affordable.

Go Daddy Can Save Online Vendors Big Bucks

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (April 16, 2009) – GoDaddy.com, the world’s dominant Web hosting domain registrar, is now competing in the online retail space with Go Daddy Marketplace. This virtual mall affords vendors a simple pricing structure – a flat fee commission and affordable lifetime membership. This means vendors don’t have to calculate different revenue formulas, deal with shifting fees or renew spiraling membership dues.

Go Daddy Marketplace opened for business earlier this year – offering products from electronics to sporting goods, jewelry to antiques. Since its debut, vendors of all kinds have joined to sell their merchandise to Go Daddy’s millions of online visitors worldwide. In fact, vendors using Quick Shopping Cart can import products directly to Marketplace with Go Daddy’s easy Import Wizard.

Go Daddy Marketplace follows Go Daddy’s core principles – offer an online product people want and need – then make it easy to use and affordable.

“Listen, you shouldn’t need to be an accountant to sell something online,” says Go Daddy CEO and Founder Bob Parsons. “The pricing structure we have put in place for Go Daddy Marketplace is simple, it’s affordable and it gives you access to millions of Go Daddy customers.”

Go Daddy Marketplace allows Internet merchants to increase their customer base exponentially. While most sole proprietor Web sites likely have hundreds – maybe even thousands – of customers who come to see their products, Go Daddy has more than 6.5 million customers and millions more online visitors drawn to the site.

Go Daddy’s push-the-envelope Go Daddy Girl advertising is by itself a true attention-getter – always encouraging viewers to visit the company’s Web site to see cliffhanger endings. Beyond the draw of advertising, Go Daddy is a world leader in domain registration, Web hosting and design and new SSL certificates, which are used to keep Web sites secure.

Go Daddy’s mission is putting people and businesses online easily and affordably. Go Daddy Marketplace brings buyers and sellers together in a secure environment backed by Go Daddy stability and innovation.

Go Daddy’s New Products Make Life Easier

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (April 20, 2009) – In the United States alone, there are nearly eight million small and medium sized businesses hard at work in this difficult economy. Go Daddy, the world’s dominant Web hosting domain registrar, provides businesses turnkey solutions to their Internet needs.

Go Daddy is unveiling several money-saving and money-making products to help businesses and online entrepreneurs excel. These include a simple-to-use survey tool for instant customer feedback, a service allowing access to hosting accounts while protecting the owner’s confidential information, a new catchy domain extension and a product providing a hassle-free way to make money with parked domains.

What business owner wouldn’t love more customer feedback? Trouble is most never have the time to stop and ask. Go Daddy Site Surveys makes it easy to request, track and measure customer attitudes and preferences anytime.

“Rule No. 9 of my 16 Rules of Success is to measure everything of significance,” said Go Daddy CEO and Founder Bob Parsons. “Anything that is measured and watched, improves. Go Daddy Site Surveys gives business owners that ability. It’s easy-to-use and affordable to boot.”

Go Daddy Site Surveys is extremely easy to use. So much so, initial testing shows it is one of the company’s most user-friendly products. Among a number of features offered by Go Daddy Site Surveys, users can choose the best questions to ask with an easy drag-and-drop Web interface and receive advanced real-time reporting.

Go Daddy also introduced Go Daddy Hosting AccountExec for everyone who has ever felt like they don’t have the time or the know-how to manage their own hosting account. Many people would love to share the responsibility with others in their company or maybe a tech-savvy friend, but are afraid of losing control of their site and domain. Go Daddy Hosting AccountExec allows any person or business to assign trusted individuals limited access to a hosting account, while passwords and account details remain confidential and the domain owner remains in control.

Parked domains don’t have to sit idle, collecting virtual dust. They can be effective money makers for owners, even those who don’t have the time or knowledge to create a content rich site on their own. Go Daddy Quick Content is an easy-to-use service that can instantly boost the value of parked domains by turning them into fully-functional Web sites. Go Daddy Quick Content provides professionally written search engine optimized content and allows you to enable monetization options like Google AdSense, Kontera and Shopping.com. Hosting comes built-in and it’s easy to tie it to your Google Analytics account and monitor traffic.

If you’re looking to create buzz online, .BZ – now offered at GoDaddy.com – provides fresh opportunities to market to today’s social consumers by creating a “buzz” about your business. .BZ is the country code Top Level Domain of Belize on the east coast of Central America – but as has been the case with .IN and .ME – this domain extension is showing popularity far beyond its nation’s borders.

Go Daddy has become the world leader in placing people online quickly and affordably. The company offers 40-plus products to make life online easy for everyone, particularly online entrepreneurs.

All of Go Daddy’s products and services are cloud-based computer technology – which means you don’t have to invest in a high-end laptop or home computer, you don’t have to worry about saving that information on hard drives at home, you don’t even have to understand how the technology works to make it work for you. Everything an entrepreneur would need to run their online business is saved, stored and protected by the professionals at Go Daddy.

Go Daddy manages more than 34 million domains and has more than 6.6 million customers. That global success is due in large part to Go Daddy’s low-cost product and services offerings, in-house product development and industry-best 24/7 customer care.

Go Daddy Dominates Industry

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (April 23, 2009) – Go Daddy posted more growth as a provider of SSL certificates than any other company so far this year. In fact, according to an April 2009 Netcraft Ltd. report, Go Daddy has been the leader in industry growth for seven consecutive months.

Go Daddy provided consumers with more than 40 percent of the net-new SSL certificates found by Netcraft last month alone. According to the report, Go Daddy added nearly three times the number added by VeriSign in the same time period.

“Go Daddy has had the largest growth of any Certificate Authority for each of the last seven consecutive months,” said Mike Prettejohn, Director of analyst firm Netcraft Ltd. “It has almost 25 percent of the market, achieved entirely through organic growth.”

“The reason for Go Daddy’s SSL success is simple. People aren’t willing to waste money these days,” said Go Daddy CEO and Founder Bob Parsons. “We offer the same high-quality protection for a fraction of what other companies charge. And you can buy one SSL cert from us and use it on multiple servers. You can’t get that at VeriSign.”

A Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Certificate enables a browser and server to establish a secure, encrypted connection for online transactions and communications. GoDaddy.com SSL Certificates are offered in three assurance validation levels: Standard, Deluxe and Premium Extended Validation SSL.

All Go Daddy certificates include an unlimited server license, meaning one Certificate can be used on multiple servers, potentially saving companies thousands of dollars above and beyond the base price

Show Your Web Pro a Little ‘Love’

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (April 28, 2009) – Alert the media. Mark your calendars. The second annual Web Professionals’ Day is tomorrow, April 29. Go Daddy, the Internet’s top Web address company, created the holiday to honor all online professionals – the people who help develop, run, secure and repair Web sites around the world.

According to IDC, two-thirds of small to medium sized business have their Web Professional in-house, elevating the importance of a company’s Web professional.

“We believe the Internet is the heart of the new economy,” said Go Daddy CEO and Founder Bob Parsons. “If you are in business these days, you really do need an online presence. Keeping your site up and running with fresh content is what it’s all about, so if you work with a Web professional, why not give them your appreciation?”

Go Daddy introduced the holiday last year and is keeping the tradition alive by offering an animated greeting, specially designed for Web professionals.

“Web Professionals are diverse and provide a great skill set for any organization,” said Bill Cullifer, Executive Director, World Organization of Webmasters, a not-for-profit professional association serving Web professionals worldwide. “Considering the key role the Internet plays in businesses today, these professionals are proving their worth day in and day out.”

Go Daddy’s Web Professionals’ Day animation does not require users to be customers or to provide contact information.

The greeting is a link that can be copied and emailed directly or sent through a “Share with a Friend” page. The greeting affords both users and Web pros a promotional code to save money on any of Go Daddy’s 50-plus products, most of which are aimed at creating, designing and protecting Web sites

Go Daddy Takes Center Stage

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (May 6, 2009) – At a time when many corporate sponsors are scaling back or pulling out of auto racing altogether, Go Daddy is placing its name on a major NASCAR event – signing on as Presenting Sponsor of the Southern 500.

The Southern 500 presented by GoDaddy.com takes place Saturday at Darlington Raceway in South Carolina. It’s an iconic race returning to a legendary track.

The Southern 500 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 & 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.

“This is a tremendous time to be out there – advertising, sponsoring events,” said Go Daddy CEO and Founder Bob Parsons. “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.”

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

Do Daddy’s ‘Ace’

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (May 14, 2009) – The stage is set for a dramatic end to the 2009 NBC Heads-Up Poker Championship sponsored by GoDaddy.com. Viewers are getting a real show as the Go Daddy Girl rips through poker’s top players to earn a seat in the semi-finals.

Go Daddy introduced Vanessa Rousso, Team PokerStars Pro as a new Go Daddy Girl just days before the 5th annual National Heads-Up Poker Championship. Rousso is among 64 of the world’s elite poker professionals vying for the $1.5MM in combined prize money. Only one other woman in history has made it this far.

In this one-on-one competition, Rousso has already taken out some of the hottest names in the poker world. In the first round Rousso defeated Doyle Brunson, World Series of Poker back-to-back title winner. Rousso went on to beat Phil Ivey, Paul Wasicka and Daniel Negreanu. Next, she faces renowned Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier.

“Vanessa’s road to the semi-finals couldn’t have been more difficult,” said Go Daddy CEO and Founder Bob Parsons. “Go Daddy played its cards right sponsoring Vanessa and this poker tournament. Both are paying off in spades!”

Earlier this month the Go Daddy Girl won the European Poker Tournament’s “High Roller” event in Monte Carlo, taking home nearly $1MM – the biggest single payday in her career. Rousso is one of the top female money earners on the circuit and has won some $3MM playing poker.

Viewers can see Rousso in action during NBC’s broadcast of the National Heads-Up Poker Championship sponsored by GoDaddy.com. Watch history unfold on NBC Sunday at Noon ET.

During the broadcast, edgy poker-themed Go Daddy commercials are airing. Look for Go Daddy Girl Vanessa Rousso, Team PokerStars Pro, to be featured in the ads with Go Daddy Girl and IndyCar Series’ most popular driver, Danica Patrick, original Go Daddy Girl Candice Michelle and Go Daddy’s CEO and Founder Bob Parsons. You can ‘bet’ this quintessential GoDaddy-esque ad has a cliffhanger and will push viewers to see the rest of the edgy storyline at www.GoDaddy.com.

Go Daddy is a world leader in domain registration and Web hosting, as well as new SSL certificates. Go Daddy makes getting online easy and affordable by offering products like WebSite Tonight, Go Daddy Marketplace and Quick Shopping Cart, voted most popular shopping cart in a survey by Practical eCommerce. All Go Daddy products are backed by 24/7 industry-best customer care.

Go Daddy Awards Big Bucks

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (May 18, 2009) – Turning a domain name into a Web site should not be intimidating – even if you don’t have any technical skills. That’s why Go Daddy created SmartSpace – an extremely affordable Web site building tool that quickly and easily allows a domain name to be transformed into a Web site – packed with a person’s favorite content – in just a few clicks.

Jerry Fleming’s DenverSportsBlog.com is a great example. Fleming had been looking for a way to turn his passion for the Denver sports scene into an online business, but he couldn’t figure out how to make it happen until he discovered SmartSpace.

“Before I started using Go Daddy, I had great ideas but no way to put them together,” said Fleming. “With SmartSpace, I put together a professional-looking site quickly and with no graphic design schooling. What started as a fun side project now has paid advertisers and regular contributors.”

Fleming earned 5,000 bucks for telling that story and entering Go Daddy’s SmartSpace contest!

In March and April, Go Daddy put out the call asking the company’s SmartSpace users to describe the creative ways they have used the Web builder and then awarded $25,000 in prize money for the most creative submissions. Fleming and 12 other SmartSpace customers won.

Go Daddy’s SmartSpace makes creating a personal or potentially profit-making Web site simple for anyone with a Go Daddy domain name. SmartSpace customers can personalize their Web site with photos, videos, blogs, RSS feeds, even material from social media sites like Digg, Facebook, Flickr and YouTube.

“It was impressive to see all the different uses of SmartSpace people submitted for our contest,” said Go Daddy CEO and Founder Bob Parsons. “As easy as this is to use, anyone who ever wanted a Web site, but was worried about having to be tech savvy to get it done, can just throw those worries out the window!”

In all, three grand prize winners were awarded $5,000 each. Another 10 runners-up were awarded $1,000 each. Go Daddy awarded all 13 winners free use of SmartSpace for life!

Huge Traffic Spike With Danica’s New Indy 500 Ad

Go Daddy Girl Also Drives into Record Books with Historic Indy Finish!

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (May 24, 2009) – Go Daddy Girl Danica Patrick made history today at the Indianapolis 500 with her third place finish, the best ever by a woman at the legendary Brickyard.Danica also drove tremendous Web traffic to GoDaddy.com – doubling last year’s campaign results. In her new cliffhanger commercial specially created for the GoDaddy.com sponsored broadcast, Danica told viewers to, “See what happens next at GoDaddy.com” and viewers responded almost as fast as an open-wheeled race car crossing the finish line. In fact, traffic to Go Daddy’s Web site exploded following a mere ‘tease’ to Danica’s “Speeding” commercial early in the pre-race broadcast. Web traffic spiked 163 percent during today’s broadcast, as compared to last year’s. Even more people logged on to GoDaddy.com immediately after the race this year, with an overwhelming 570 percent lift in Web site visits.

Consumers’ Choice for SSL Certificates

Latest Report Shows Go Daddy Provided 44% of All Net-New SSL Certs Issued

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (May 28, 2009) – Go Daddy is establishing a trend as the consumers’ choice for SSL certificates, showing the largest net growth 11 of the last 12 months!According to Netcraft Ltd’s May 2009 Trends Report, Go Daddy was responsible for 44 percent of the overall net growth in SSL certificates found by Netcraft this past month. VeriSign, the old guard provider, slipped yet again in May, issuing less than half as many net-new SSL certs as Go Daddy.The report states “VeriSign has again seen its market share decline…and Go Daddy has seen another increase in both total certificates and market share this month.” “This should not surprise anyone,” says Go Daddy CEO and Founder Bob Parsons. “Go Daddy offers low cost SSL certificates and allows customers to purchase one cert to cover all of a company’s servers. Try getting that from VeriSign – it won’t happen.” “Our results show Go Daddy has seen steady and continuous growth in global market share as a certificate authority,” said Mandy Davis, Operations Manager at analyst firm Netcraft Ltd. “Go Daddy’s SSL certificate offerings appear to be growing in popularity, as the company now holds a 25 percent global market share.” A Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Certificate enables a browser and server to establish a secure, encrypted connection for online transactions and communications. GoDaddy.com SSL Certificates are offered in three assurance validation levels: Standard, Deluxe and Premium Extended Validation SSL. All Go Daddy certificates include an unlimited server license, meaning one Certificate can be used on multiple servers, potentially saving companies thousands of dollars above and beyond the base price. For more information about GoDaddy.com SSL Certificates visit www.GoDaddy.com/SSL. Go Daddy is the largest hosting provider of secure Web sites in the world, in addition to being the world’s top domain name registrar. For more information about getting online quickly and easily, visit www.GoDaddy.com.