GoDaddy.com
Go Daddy is an Internet domain registration service provider and a web hosting company that also sells e-business related software and services. The Go Daddy Group of companies also includes Wild West Domains, Inc., a reseller of domains and domain-related products and services; Domains by Proxy ®, a private registration service; Starfield Technologies, a research and development affiliate; and Blue Razor Domains, a membership-based discount registrar. The group was founded by Bob Parsons in 1997.
As an ICANN-accredited domain registrar, Go Daddy has more names under management than any other registrar. In 2010, it reached more than forty million domain names under management. Go Daddy is currently the largest ICANN-accredited registrar in the world. The hugeness of business of this service provider can be imagined by the fact that it is almost three times larger in the size from that of its closest competitor.
Go Daddy companies are the sole developer and proprietor of their technology and they do not license any products from other developing or service providing companies. They even do not outsource or offshore any of their operations. This enables them to provide better support and ensure the most advanced and competitively priced products and services available today. Go Daddy offers products at prices up to 70% less than its major competitors and supports them all with world class 24 X 7 live customer support service.
Go Daddy offers to its customers a complete product line that includes comprehensive hosting solutions, Web site creation tools, Secure SSL certificates, personalized email with spam and anti-phishing filtering, e-commerce tools and more. Go Daddy is widely recognized for its success, having been ranked #8 on the 2004 Inc. 500 list of the nation’s fastest-growing privately held companies; #20 on the 2005 Deloitte Technology Fast 500 (growing 8,274 percent!); and having won the CNET Editor’s Choice award in 2001, the Name Intelligence Largest Net Gain Award in 2002, 2003 and 2005; the Name Intelligence Users’ Choice Award in 2005 as well as the #1 Best Overall Registrar in 2003.
Go Daddy also won the Arizona Corporate Excellence Award for fastest growing privately-held company in 2003 and Most Innovative Large Company in 2004. In 2010, Go Daddy is ranked as one of three finalists in the BBB of Great Arizona Business Ethics Awards. BBB’s Board of Directors and Foundation established the BBB Business Ethics Awards to recognize those firms whose business practices and related activities exemplify the BBB’s mission and principles, and to ensure the marketplace remains fair and honorable. In 2009 Go Daddy was voted as the “Best Registrar” in the Domain Name Wire Annual Survey for the 4th consecutive year.
Go Daddy has become the world’s number one choice for domains by providing innovative, competitively-priced products, delivering the highest quality customer service, and by always appreciating and listening to its customers. It is very well known for its racy marketing.
Major offerings by Go Daddy
Go Daddy is the world leader and the top choice of service buyers for the following major services -
* Virtual Dedicated Servers Hosting Service
* Dedicated Servers Hosting Service
* Mac Hosting Service – Mac Powered Cloud Servers
* Web Hosting Service
* Word Press Hosting Service
* Blog and Podcast Hosting Service
* SSL Certificates Solutions
* Business Hosting Solutions
* Incorporation Services
* Email Hosting Service
* Hosted Exchange Email Service
* Quick Shopping Cart Service
* Merchant Accounts Service
* Brand Identity Service
* Domain Name Registration Service
* Transfer Domain Service
* Bulk Registration Service
* Bulk Domain Transfers Service
* Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) Service
* Discount Domain Club Service
* Domain Buy Service
* Video.ME Service
* Social Networking Service
* Dedicated IP Service
* Go Daddy Hosting Connection Service