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Go Daddy is an Internet domain registrar and web hosting company that also sells e-business related software and services. In 2009, it reached more than 36 million domain names under management."RegistrarStats"> Go Daddy is currently the largest ICANN-accredited registrar in the world, and is three times the size of its closest competitor."RegistrarStats"/> GoDaddys domain reseller division is Wild West Domains (wildwestdomains.com), and Wild West uses the secureserver.net domain for many of their webhosting servers.http://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/wwd_landing.asp?app_hdr0&ci8157http://www.aboutus.org/SecureServer.net
History
Go Daddy was founded in 1997 as Jomax Technologies by Bob Parsons, who previously founded the software development company Parsons Technology, Inc.
The company changed its name to Go Daddy in 1999 when a group of employees were brainstorming on a more memorable name than Jomax Technologies. Someone said "How about Big Daddy?" A quick check revealed that it was taken. Then Parsons said "How about Go Daddy?" The name was available, so he bought it."BobParsons.me"> CEO Bob Parsons states the company stuck with the name because it made people smile and remember it."BobParsons.me"/>
Go Daddy has grown to become the largest ICANN-accredited registrar on the internet. In 2001, soon after Network Solutions lost its monopoly, Go Daddy was approximately the same size as competitors Dotster and eNom. In April 2005 it surpassed Network Solutions in market share in terms of total domain names registered. By 2009, Go Daddy had become 3.5 times the size of eNom and 30 times the size of Dotster.
In 2002, Go Daddy sued VeriSign for domain slamming: VeriSign slammed for domain renewal scam and again in 2003 over its Site Finder service. This latter suit caused controversy over VeriSigns role as the sole maintainer of the .com and the .net top-level domains. VeriSign shut down Site Finder after receiving a letter from ICANN ordering i read more at » http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go+Daddy
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