Go Daddy is expanding its global presence. Today, the world’s largest domain name registrar and top-paid Web hosting provider, which already serves more than 7 million customers worldwide, announced a new European data center located in the Netherlands¹. The new data center is designed to bring Go Daddy services closer to European Internet users, providing even faster access to their hosted Web sites.

The data center is expected to grow the company’s expanding European customer base by providing Go Daddy’s brand of reliable uptime, speed and security to more Web hosting customers.

“No one will take better care of our customers than we will – no one,” said Go Daddy CEO and Founder Bob Parsons. “By spending the money up front and not outsourcing operations, we control key factors like uptime, security and speed.”

European customers serviced by the new data center will be able to have their Web sites served faster to European visitors, based on the distance the data is travelling. The data center is backed up by Go Daddy’s well-known reliability and support. The company is planning to include Web-based email and virtual dedicated servers in the near future.

Go Daddy is the world’s dominant Web hosting domain registrar, and has been looking to grow its customer base in places like Germany, France, the U.K. and Spain, where Internet penetration is more than double the world average.²

As part of the European expansion, Go Daddy is also offering Spain’s national domain name extension, .ES. Customers in Spain also have a localized phone number with Spanish speaking support. In addition to .ES, the company also offers .EU, .DE, .NL and more than two dozen other country code TLDs.

If you live in Europe and want to see more about Go Daddy European Web hosting plans, please visit www.GoDaddy.com/Hosting. If you want to learn more about Go Daddy’s European Web hosting plans and live outside of Europe, please contact Customer Support³.

To learn more about the .ES and other country code domain names, please visit: www.GoDaddy.com.

About The Go Daddy Group, Inc.

Go Daddy is a leading provider of services that 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 36 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 rated the world’s largest hostname provider according to Netcraft Ltd. During 2008, The Go Daddy Group registered more than one-third of all new domain names created in the top six generic top-level domains, or gTLDs, including .com, .net, .org, .info, .biz and .mobi.

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¹ Image of inside the Netherlands Data Center available upon request

² InternetWorldStats.com – June 2009

³ Image of European Web hosting page is available upon request