Go Daddy Rooting for Their 'Girl' to Rule the Pool!

Business Wire, June 30, 2008

'Go Daddy Girl' Amanda Beard Swimming for Her Spot on Team USA

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Starting today, the best swimmers in the U.S.A. will be vying for their chance to compete in Beijing - the big question is will seven-time medal winner Amanda Beard get her shot at an eighth? GoDaddy.com believes she will.

"Amanda is as focused as any athlete," said GoDaddy.com CEO and Founder Bob Parsons. "She's been working hard, she's passionate, but most of allO she has the experience. You don't win seven medals at that level just because you're lucky!"

Amanda won a gold medal and two silvers at just 14 years of age and grabbed headlines for clutching her teddy bear on the podium. She went on to win four more medals in the 2000 and 2004 games.

Amanda has also developed a career as a spokesperson and model. She's one of the most downloaded athletes in the world, was voted the world's sexiest athlete and posed for the coveted Playboy cover last summer.

Go Daddy has a reputation for its risque advertising dating back to the legendary 2005 Super Bowl controversy and made the sexy swim star an official Go Daddy Girl and spokesperson last year. Shortly thereafter, Amanda starred in a GoDaddy.com commercial also featuring nine-time medalist Mark Spitz.

"My attraction to Go Daddy and Bob Parsons is about so much more than any edgy Super Bowl ad," Amanda said. "They are the best in the world, bar none! In fact, they are almost three times the size of their closest competitor. Now that's saying something when you consider how competitive the Web industry is."

Go Daddy is the world's largest provider of Web site addresses, officially called domain names. Go Daddy is also a world leader when it comes to hosting and creating Web sites. Go Daddy prides itself on offering everything needed to establish or enhance an online presence at affordable prices.

Join Go Daddy in cheering for Amanda as she competes in three different races, starting today at the time trials in Omaha. The Go Daddy Girl is set to compete in the 100 meter breast stroke today and the 200 meter individual medley and the 200 meter breast stroke later in the week.

You can read Amanda's Web blog at www.GoDaddy.info/Amanda.> To find out how Go Daddy can help you get online without spending a lot of money or being a tech whiz, visit www.GoDaddy.com.

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 plans and Web site design and hosting packages, as well as a broad array of on-demand services. These include products such as SSL Certificates, Domains by Proxy private registration, ecommerce Web site hosting, blog templates and blog software, podcast packages and online photo hosting. The Go Daddy Group, Inc. has more than 30 million domain names under management. Go Daddy registers, renews or transfers a domain name every second. GoDaddy.com is the world's No. 1 domain name registrar according to Name Intelligence, Inc. GoDaddy.com is also rated the world's largest hostname provider according to Netcraft Ltd. During 2007, The Go Daddy Group registered more than one-third of all domain names registered in the top six generic top-level domains, or gTLDs, including .com, .net, .org, .info, .biz and .mobi.

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