June 28, 2007; 01:50 AM 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.
The development is part of a big Web industry trend, according to two
new reports. A new survey by independent Internet analyst
Netcraft, LTD, shows domain registrars and search portals are marking
large gains in Web hosting. 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 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 for Web site security, tools to create Web
sites and more,” said GoDaddy.com President and Chief Operating Officer
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.
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