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30 Million Domains for Go Daddy
Go Daddy said this week that it is now managing more than 30 million domains, the latest reminder that the domain registrar has assembled one of the largest business platforms on the Internet. “Go Daddy’s market share of new domain registrations is now more than 45 percent worldwide,” Go Daddy chairman and CEO Bob Parsons said in a video blog.
It’s surprising to me that Go Daddy’s name hasn’t come up in the speculation about potential acquisitions and partnerships prompted by the Microsoft-Yahoo talks. Many Americans know Go Daddy primarily for its edgy, bazoom-filled Super Bowl commercials. But the company’s domain registry business is a powerful engine for acquiring customers for hosting and other Internet services. Go Daddy is aggressive
About Rich Miller
Rich Miller is the founder and editor-in-chief of Data Center Knowledge, and has been reporting on the data center sector since 2000. He has tracked the growing impact of high-density computing on the power and cooling of data centers, and the resulting push for improved energy efficiency in these facilities.
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Building A Cloud-Savvy Model for TCO and ROI
How Storage is Shaping The Cloud Data Center
Bringing Colo to the Customer: Modular Gets Local
Microsoft’s $1 Billion Data Center
July 2nd, 2008