GoDaddy Creates Webmasters Day
Scottsdale, Arizona - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - April 17, 2008 - Go Daddy web hosting domain registrar, has instituted a special designated day to honor Webmasters, by declaring April 29th as Webmasters’ Day.
Most companies now consider their web site a key aspect of their business plan and bottom line success. According to IDC, two-thirds of small to medium sized business have their Webmaster in-house. Webmasters are typically responsible for the content and stability of Web sites. Having a good Webmaster is invaluable to any company with an online presence. GoDaddy.com has decided to build momentum toward officially honoring these critical professionals.
It’s a move Webmasters organizations applaud and are helping publicize.
Bill Cullifer, Executive Director, World Organization of Webmasters noted, ”We think it’s great Webmasters are being recognized for their efforts. Webmasters are not geeks’ who sit in the server closet, they are integral parts of companies now. During the last ten years, the Internet changed the way we as a society interact. Webmasters are key to Internet development.”
Bob Parsons, CEO and Founder of GoDaddy commented, ”The Internet wouldn’t be where it is today without this underappreciated group who keep content on the net fresh. I think a day to remind everyone of how vital Webmasters are is way overdue.”
April 29, which falls on Tuesday this year, is a time to celebrate the hard work and dedication Webmasters put in each day. Bake them a cake, give them a gift or send them an e-card.
Mr. Parsons added, ”It’s just the right thing to do for our industry and for hard working Webmaster professionals.”
GoDaddy has created an opportunity to select a card to send to the person responsible for maintaining a business’ web site. Once the card is selected, it will be automatically delivered April 29. There is no cost, nor obligation.
Go Daddy is a provider of services designed to 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 28 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 the largest paid hosting provider in the world, 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.
To learn more about webmaster’s day and to select a greeting card, please visit: www.godaddy.com/webmastersday.
For more information about GoDaddy, please visit: www.godaddy.com.
April 18th, 2008 at 1:18 am
Seems like a nice thought. Now let’s see if we can get congress to pass Webmasters Day as a national holiday.
April 29th, 2008 at 10:36 pm
More like Irony Appreciation Day… So much for Webmaster Appreciation Day. GoDaddy actually declared today, April 29th, the first annual Webmaster’s Appreciation Day - ahead of their “unscheduled network outtage.” So much for appreciation! Their whole network, DNS, Microsoft SQL Server farms, and everything else went DOWN for hours. But wait, it’s not over… Many, many businesses and individuals (Webmasters?) hosting their websites with GoDaddy were seriously out of luck - they too were off-line and unavailable. Pings timed out, n-maps failed, and FTP sessions failed authentications. Zillions of websites were simply unavailable… to take orders, serve support & information, and everything else we have come to take for granted - especially the Webmasters!
The real question is: What will GoDaddy do for their customers now? Will they credit them money or services? Will they even publicly apologize?
This is a huge opportunity for the world’s largest ICANN registrant and web hosting company to step up and make a difference. GoDaddy could choose to capitalize on this the right way. They could take advantage of the spotlight (they do like the spotlight re: SuperBowl Ads) and show what it means to appreciate a webmaster! Bob Parson’s is something of a legendary maverick, with his retired Marine Corp swagger. The next news cycle will tell. Comments and input in the blogspace will tell. Or… GoDaddy will simply say, “What outtage?”