March 3, 2011 – (HOSTSEARCH.COM) –
Go Daddy, the world's top Web hosting provider and domain name registrar, now employs more than 3,000 people and is looking to hire at least 350 more in the weeks ahead.
A majority of Go Daddy's employees work in the legendary Customer Care centers, all based in the U.S. These are the people standing by the phones to help any of Go Daddy's nearly nine million customers.
The company has doubled in size in fewer than four years, even as the world economy sputtered.
What is the key to Go Daddy's fast-paced growth? "We know people like to use the Internet to communicate, shop, research, play games and more," said Go Daddy CEO and Founder Bob Parsons. "But when it comes to solving a problem or figuring out how to improve their website ... people want to talk to people!"
Go Daddy's round the clock, personalized brand of customer service is considered industry-best. The company provides extensive training for its recruits and looks to hire people passionate about the Internet.
Not all of Go Daddy's open positions are in the Customer Care. Go Daddy is hiring in a wide range of disciplines, including Linux and .NET engineers, I-T development, marketing, accounting and facilities.
Recognized as one of the Best Places to Work, Healthiest Employers and top Workplaces for Women, Go Daddy provides a variety of generous employee benefits including three-week paid vacations starting in the first year of employment and 100 percent company-paid medical and dental plans. There are also team building initiatives, financial incentives, bonuses and prizes for top performers that range from cars, parties, all expense-paid vacations and trips inside the Go Daddy "cash machine."
"It pays to treat your people well," Parsons said. "A happy employee is a productive employee. I like knowing when a customer calls us for help, they are going to get an enthusiastic person excited to help."
Parsons founded Go Daddy and became a domain name registrar in 2000 after recognizing a need for better service and lower prices. Parsons' formula of low-priced, feature-rich products and customer support, along with aggressive marketing, has proven very successful. Currently, Go Daddy holds a more than 53 percent market-share of the world's new domain names and registers more than one domain name every second of every day.
The Scottsdale, Ariz.-based company has facilities in Phoenix, Tempe, Gilbert, as well as offices in Hiawatha, Iowa; Denver and Washington, D.C. In recent years, Go Daddy has expanded with a facility in Toronto, Canada and state-of-the-art data centers in The Netherlands and Singapore.
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 website 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 website hosting, blog templates and blog software, podcast packages and online photo hosting. The Go Daddy Group has more than 46 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 world's largest Web hosting provider and is the world's No. 1 domain name registrar according to Name Intelligence, Inc. During the first half of 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.
