Go Daddy – Clearly the Consumers’ Choice for New SSL Certificates

Business Wire, May 28, 2009

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

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- 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.

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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 35 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 2008, The Go Daddy Group registered more than one-third of all new domain names created in the top six generic top-level domains, or gTLDs, including .com, .net, .org, .info, .biz and .mobi.

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