General Impression

GoDaddy.com is the world's largest domain name registrar and is the flagship company of The Go Daddy Group, Inc.

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(R), a private registration service; Starfield Technologies, a research and development affiliate; and Blue Razor Domains, a membership-based discount registrar.

As an ICANN-accredited domain registrar, Go Daddy has more names under management than any other registrar, offers products at prices up to 70% less than the competition and supports them all with world-class 24/7 live customer service.

We are the sole developer and proprietor of our technology, do not license any products from others, and do not outsource or offshore any of our operations. This enables us to provide better support and ensure the most advanced and competitively-priced products and services available today.

Founded by Bob Parsons in 1997, The Go Daddy Group has grown to include more than 10 million domains under management. We offer a complete product line, including 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.

Go Daddy has become the world's #1 choice for domains by providing innovative, competitively-priced products, delivering the highest quality customer service, and by always appreciating and listening to its customers!

Price & Cost Effectiveness

You are probably wondering how they can charge as much as 70% less than our competition and still be in business, right?

First of all, they run a tight ship. They choose their promotions carefully and ensure every advertising dollar pays for itself; they streamline their systems and billing processes; they don't have any frills (like the $5,000.00 office chairs of some of the now bankrupt dot-coms). They also don't waste money on unnecessary things like toll-free telephone numbers that are often abused anyway.

Second, they are straight shooters. There are no tricks in what they do, just good, old-fashioned, reliable business principles. Quite often they are asked if they bait their customers with low rates and then charge high renewal prices. Anybody that expects them to do that will be disappointed. They believe in the old saying, "You can shear a sheep many times but you can only skin it once." So, your renewal rates will be no higher than the rate you paid when you initially registered your domain name, or what their registration rates were when you transferred your domain name to them (the only exceptions would be if the price the registry charges us increased, or if you took advantage of a limited-time, special price. And if the registry increases their cost, yours will go up only by the amount their did, never more).

What's the end result of all this? Well, they are happy to tell you that they are a small but profitable company that expects to be in business for many years to come. All this, of course, is due to value-conscious customers like you.

Reliability

Backup, Restore and Disaster Recovery
- Enterprise-class backup and restore technology protecting your data. *
- Weekly full backups and daily incremental backups. *
- Long term off-site retention. *
*(shared hosting plans only - dedicated server plans require additional purchase)

Operating System and Application Management
- Hardened operating system builds. (hosting plans only)
- Host based security. (hosting plans only)
- Vigorous patch management. (hosting plans only)
- In-depth 24x7 monitoring help to ensure that their systems are secure. (hosting plans only)

Data Center (toured)

GoDaddy.com provides world-class hosting every bit as good and often better than that which a hosting-only company might offer.
They take pride in their operations being superior. In fact, because unlike many competitors, they own, operate and support the hosting services they provide, down to the very last cable and disk.

Bottom line: You'll be just as satisfied with our hosting as you are with our domain registrations. You'll get fast, dependable hosting, 24/7 customer support and unbeatable prices. Still not sure? Scan through the specs below and we're sure you'll agree.

World-Class Data Centers

- World-class networking including multiple OC-48, OC-12 and OC-3 connections and a fast gigabit Ethernet backbone.
- Connected to multiple diverse upstream providers totaling 4 Gbps of Tier-1 Internet Bandwidth.
- Full BGP peering with all providers.
- Fully redundant power and air conditioning supply, with state of the art fire protection providing the maximum possible protection against potential disasters that could affect your site.
- Advanced smoke detection and fire suppression systems.
- 24X7 monitoring of building and environmental alarms by a local staff as well as a centralized Network Operations Center.

24x7 Physical Security

- Closed-circuit cameras.
- 24-hour guards and physical location monitoring.
- Biometric scanners and secure card-key access.
- 'Man-trap' restricted access to the data centers.
- Locked cages enclosing all equipment.

Systems and Network Infrastructure and Security

- Best-of-breed equipment for routers, firewalls, and servers.
- Full network redundancy.
- 24x7 dedicated/prevention systems ensure network perimeter remains secure.
- Automatic email scanning for virus detection and cleaning provides complete protection.(hosting plans only)