Go Daddy Experiences Enormous Growth in Hosting.Trend Shows Large Gains, Prompting Industry Deals to Compete SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Customers are flocking to GoDaddy.com for their Web site hosting needs, creating major growth in the use of the company's Web hosting services A web hosting service is a type of Internet hosting service that allows individuals and organizations to provide their own websites accessible via the World Wide Web. Web hosts are companies that provide space on a server they own for use by their clients as well as providing . The development is part of a big Web industry trend, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. two new reports. A new survey by independent Internet analyst Netcraft, LTD LTD 1 Laron-type dwarfism 2 Leukotriene D 3 Long-term depression, see there 4. Long-term disability , shows domain registrars See domain name registrar. and search portals are marking large gains in Web hosting Making a Web site available on the Internet. Many ISPs host a few personal Web pages for an individual at no additional cost above the monthly service fee, but the address is subordinate to the ISP; for example, www.friendlyisp.com/pat_smith. . At the same time, hosting specialists are falling behind. "This month's data yields some of the strongest evidence yet of the power shift in Web hosting," said Rich Miller of Netcraft. "Go Daddy Go Daddy is an Internet domain registrar and web hosting company, which also sells e-business related software and services. Founded in 1997 by Bob Parsons, who previously founded the software development company Parsons Technology, Inc. continues to amass huge numbers of users on its hosting platforms." Netcraft recognizes GoDaddy.com as, by far, the number one domain registrar used for hosting. However, GoDaddy.com actually offers a wide variety of services. "We believe customers are choosing GoDaddy.com because it's really a full-service Web company, offering not just domain registration, but also hosting, email, SSL Certificates Refers to the digital certificate used with the most popular security protocol on the Internet. When you make a purchase on the Web and notice the closed lock icon at the top or bottom of your browser or the HTTPS:// prefix in the URL, it means you have established a secure SSL connection. for Web site security, tools to create Web sites and more," said GoDaddy.com President and Chief Operating Officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. , Warren Adelman. "Hosting is an important part of what we do, and we make it easy for people - including the owners of small and medium-size businesses - to go to GoDaddy.com and get everything they need to create and host a Web site," said Adelman. "We even offer an industry-first hosting community called Metropolis, where hosting customers can find free applications to set up a blog, share images and communicate through forums." The monthly Netcraft Web server survey looked at responses from more than 122 million Web sites. Netcraft notes Go Daddy has seen "enormous growth" in shared hosting operations. The data also shows the overall Web hosting shift is affecting the entire hosting industry. "This trend, along with the growth of social networks and image/video hosting services, is prompting deals in the hosting industry, as providers seek the scale and breadth of services to compete," said Miller. For example, Netcraft recently reported on two separate mergers between companies that specialize in hosting. According to Netcraft, these deals were designed to provide the combined companies with the scale and resources to compete with "Internet titans like Microsoft, Google, Yahoo! and Go Daddy." Another independent Internet analyst, Tier1 Research, just released a report saying the mass-market Web hosting sector is in a critical period of transformation with Web service firms not normally thought of as "hosters" now successfully entering the sector. Like the Netcraft research, the Tier1 report also notes an increase in market consolidation to deal with the issue. Despite other companies' merger efforts to keep up, Go Daddy continues to experience this major spike in hosting, along with a big jump in domain names under management. Go Daddy currently has more than 22 million domains in its portfolio. Go Daddy continues to increase its popularity with customers by offering new products, affordable prices and top-notch 24-hour-a-day customer service. About The Go Daddy Group, Inc. 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 and Web site hosting services, as well as a broad array of on-demand and other services. The Go Daddy Group, Inc. has more than 22 million domain names under management. Go Daddy registers, renews or transfers a domain name every 1.3 seconds. GoDaddy.com is the world's No. 1 domain name registrar An organization that manages Internet domain names. Any person or company that wants a presence on the Internet must register a unique name with one of the many registrars, such as Network Solutions (www.netsol.com) or Go Daddy (www.godaddy.com). according to Name Intelligence, Inc. GoDaddy.com is also rated the world's largest hostname provider according to Netcraft Ltd. During 2006, The Go Daddy Group registered approximately one-third of all domain names registered in the top six generic top-level domains See Internet domain name. , or gTLDs, including .com, .net, .org, .biz biz n. Informal Business. biz Noun Informal business Noun 1. , .info. Copyright (c) 2007 GoDaddy.com, Inc. All Rights Reserved. |
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