March 20, 2007 – (HOSTSEARCH.COM) – The latest report from analyst Netcraft suggests web hosting provider Go Daddy (http://www.godaddy.com) is leading the SSL hosting market, it was announced yesterday.
“Go Daddy has shown steady growth since emerging as a Certificate Authority and continues to add new SSL-secured sites faster than any other host,” suggested Netcraft analyst Mr. Rich Miller. “As a growing number of website operators seek to add ecommerce capabilities, Go Daddy’s SSL offering has proven to be a popular way for hosting customers to secure their sites.”
Go Daddy became a certificate authority three years ago and has quickly achieved dominance in the area. “We are honored to be the largest SSL hosting provider in the world. From the inception of our efforts as a certificate authority, we have always worked to bring together the right combination of product, price and service," explained Go Daddy’s President and COO, Warren Adelman. “As both a hosting company and a certificate authority, we believe we are uniquely positioned to meet our customers’ needs.”
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificates allow online transactions and communications to be encrypted and Go Daddy offers 256-bit encryption with three levels of validation levels - Turbo (medium assurance), High and Extended Validation.
