November 4, 2011 – (HOSTSEARCH.COM) –
Go Daddy is asking you to join in the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) Walk to Cure Diabetes this weekend. The fund-raising walk commences at 7:30 a.m. Saturday and is one of the largest family-friendly charity events in Arizona.
Go Daddy, the world's largest provider of Web hosting, domain name registrations and net-new SSL Certificates, has more than 700 employees set to walk for the cure. There's still time for you and your family to participate. You can register online or show up with your walking shoes Saturday morning at one of the two Valley locations - Tempe Town Lake or Wet n' Wild in Glendale.
Why walk? When you walk you become part of finding the cure for diabetes ... type 1 is a costly, $14.9 billion annual healthcare cost in the U.S. and a devastating chronic illness that leaves you insulin dependent for life. JDRF has provided more than $1.5 billion for diabetes research since its founding in 1970. Join us in our search for ways to cure, better treat and prevent type 1 diabetes ... every step you make gets us one step closer to making diabetes a memory!
"We've seen progress in the fight against diabetes, but there's much more work to be done," said Go Daddy CEO and Founder Bob Parsons. "Go Daddy signed on five years ago because we wanted to help make a difference in the lives of children and families. We can't think of a better way to do that than by helping JDRF beat this terrible disease."
Since 2007, Go Daddy employees, family and friends have participated in the JDRF walk, making Go Daddy one of the top fundraising teams. All of the support has helped raise more than $732,000 for the cause over the years.
"Go Daddy is the kind of sponsor every group would love to have onboard," said Executive Director of JDRF Desert Southwest Chapter Ken Brissa. "Their employees are dedicated and passionate about helping JDRF raise both awareness and money to help our cause. Go Daddy doesn't just talk about stepping up to help, they do by giving their time, money and enthusiasm."
This year, in addition to Go Daddy's volunteer support, sponsorship and team donations, Go Daddy selected JDRF as a recipient of its "Round Up for Charity" initiative. The program offers Go Daddy customers the chance to "Round Up" to the nearest dollar on their purchases with money benefiting selected charities.
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, as well as website design and hosting packages. Go Daddy has a broad array of cloud-based products and services. These include products such as SSL Certificates, Domains by Proxy private registration, ecommerce website hosting, blog software, search engine optimization utilities, podcast packages and online photo hosting. The Go Daddy Group has more than 50 million domain names under management. Go Daddy registers, renews or transfers more than one domain name every second of every day. GoDaddy.com is the largest worldwide mass-market hosting provider by annual revenue according to Tier1 Research (Mass-Market Hosting Report-Winter 2011) and is the world's No. 1 domain name registrar according to Name Intelligence, Inc. In 2010, 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.
