June 28, 2007 - (HOSTSEARCH.COM) - Web hosting provider Go Daddy is experiencing “major growth” in the use of its hosting services, it was announced yesterday. According to the company, the growth reflects “part of a big web industry trend” highlighted in two new reports.
Go Daddy quotes a survey by Netcraft, an independent Internet analyst, which suggests domain registrars and search portals are “marking large gains in web hosting”, while hosting specialists are “falling behind”.
“This month’s data yields some of the strongest evidence yet of the power shift in web hosting,” explained Rich Miller of Netcraft. “Go Daddy continues to amass huge numbers of users on its hosting platforms.”
Although Netcraft recognizes GoDaddy.com as the number one domain registrar used for hosting, the company offers a range of related services alongside hosting. “We believe customers are choosing GoDaddy.com because it’s really a full-service web company, offering not just domain registration, but also hosting, email, SSL Certificates for website security, tools to create web sites and more,” explained Warren Adelman, GoDaddy.com’s President and Chief Operating Officer.
“Hosting is an important part of what we do, and we make it easy for people – including the owners of small and medium-size businesses - to go to GoDaddy.com and get everything they need to create and host a Web site,” added Mr. Adelman. “We even offer an industry-first hosting community called Metropolis, where hosting customers can find free applications to set up a blog, share images and communicate through forums."
Analyzing 122 million websites, Netcraft’s monthly web server survey established Go Daddy’s growth in the area of shared hosting and the trend that is influencing the entire hosting industry. “This trend, along with the growth of social networks and image/video hosting services, is prompting deals in the hosting industry, as providers seek the scale and breadth of services to compete,” added Mr. Miller.
Internet analyst Tier1 Research released a report suggesting the mass-market web hosting sector is in a “critical period of transformation” with a number of companies not usually considered web hosts now becoming key players. The report also notes increased market consolidation as a response to the situation. Despite such consolidation, Go Daddy has continued to increase hosting activity and seen a major increase in domain name sales.
