Go Daddy Can Save Online Vendors Big Bucks

Go Daddy ‘Marketplace’ Offers Affordable Lifetime Membership & Flat Fee Commission

April 16, 2009; 08:25 AM

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--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.

For more information on getting started, visit Go Daddy Marketplace or Quick Shopping Cart.

For answers to commonly asked questions about Go Daddy Marketplace, click here.

To learn how to get online quickly and affordably, 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 34 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. 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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Contacts:

The Go Daddy Group, Inc.
Lisa Contreras/Senior PR Specialist
480-505-8800 x4641
[email protected]

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