GoDaddy SSL Certificates Explode
Scottsdale, Arizona – (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) – January 7, 2008 – Web hosting domain registrar, GoDaddy, has reported that the company is experiencing increased growth for its Secure Certificates. In the past twelve months, Go Daddy’s SSL market share has increased 63 percent.
Bob Parsons, CEO and Founder of Go Daddy remarked, ”Business owners are always looking for a great deal. Our certificates provide the identical functionality our higher-priced competitors offer. The big difference is we sell them at a fraction of the cost AND we back them up with world-class support.”
While the bulk of the growth is due to businesses, there are others who have taken advantage of Go Daddy’s Secure Certificates. Additional users include Web site login forms, online banking institutions and charity donation Web sites. In fact, there are countless ways to use an SSL Certificate to make data transactions of any kind secure on web sites.
Go Daddy is currently ranked second in market share of Certificates issued at 16.4 percent, according to Netcraft LTD. Go Daddy is the leader for Web sites hosted with SSL Certificates as well. Not bad when you consider Go Daddy started providing Secure Certificates in May 2004.
Mike Prettejohn, Director of analyst firm Netcraft Ltd. noted, ”Go Daddy had the largest increase in SSL certificates found by Netcraft on Internet Web sites of any of the certificate authorities during 2007.”
Mr. Parsons added, ”Go Daddy is growing at a rapid pace…the right way, organically. We have always been about helping customers one at a time and providing a reliable one-stop shop for people who want to be online.”
Additionally, Microsoft selected Go Daddy to provide the Secure Certificates for Windows Home Server, a new solution to help people protect, organize and share their digital content.
Steven VanRoekel, Senior Director of Windows Server Solutions at Microsoft commented, ”We selected Go Daddy to be our partner for a number of reasons. Most notably, the quality of product and a reliable customer experience. We are confident Go Daddy will help our customers realize the full benefits of Windows Home Server.”
An SSL Certificate enables encryption of online transactions and communications. GoDaddy.com SSL Certificates are offered in three assurance validation levels: Standard, Deluxe and the new Premium with Extended Validation. All GoDaddy.com certificates offer up to 256-bit encryption.
The Go Daddy Group, Inc. is a domain name registrar with more than 22 million domains under management and 24-hour-a-day customer support. More than 4 million customers are serviced by Go Daddy for domain registration, web site hosting, email and related Internet services. Go Daddy is a provider of services designed to enable individuals and businesses to establish, maintain and evolve an online presence. Go Daddy also provides a variety of on-demand and other services. 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 2006, The Go Daddy Group registered approximately one-third of all domain names registered in the top six generic top-level domains, or gTLDs, including .com, .net, .org, .biz, .info.
To learn more about Go Daddy SSL Certificates, please visit: www.godaddy.com/ssl.
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