Go Daddy's Domain Portfolio Surpasses 10 Million Mark

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., -- Oct. 18, 2005 -- The Go Daddy Group, Inc., parent company of GoDaddy.com®, www.godaddy.com, the world's No. 1 registrar both in terms of new domain names and domains under management, announced today that the domain portfolio for its three ICANN-accredited registrars has surpassed the record-breaking 10 million mark, according to statistics reported by domain industry analyst Name Intelligence, Inc. No other domain registrar has 10 million domains in its portfolio.

"Go Daddy has achieved yet another industry milestone," said Jay Westerdal, CEO of Name Intelligence, a leading industry analyst that provides a variety of tools and utilities to the domain name industry at www.whoissource.com. "Go Daddy attained the 9 million domain name mark in mid-July, and in a little more than 2 months since then, has grown its portfolio by an unprecedented 11% to surpass the 10 million domain mark." Added Westerdal, "Since bursting upon the domain name market in November 2000, Go Daddy has been a juggernaut, and doesn't appear to be slowing down."

"We were undoubtedly pleased when Go Daddy's portfolio surpassed 9 million domain names in July," said Bob Parsons, president and founder of Go Daddy. "But we weren't satisfied -- after all, it's 'the Go Daddy way' to keep moving forward. So we redoubled our efforts in order to achieve the 10 million domain name pinnacle faster than it took to grow from 8 to 9 million domains. And once again, the dedicated and relentless efforts of our employees, combined with the loyalty of millions of satisfied customers, were the decisive factors in helping us reach this milestone."

Go Daddy customers who purchase, renew or transfer a domain receive -- in addition to some of the industry's lowest prices that start at $1.99/year and premier 24x7 customer service -- the following complementary domain services, FREE of charge: Complete Email (a $9.95/year value), a personalized email address with 25 MB of storage; a 100-pack of email forwarding (increases the flexibility of a personalized email account by allowing users to set variations on their basic email address); a starter web page with customizable text, colors, graphics, and links; domain forwarding and masking; Making the Internet Work for You, a guide to domains, web sites, e-commerce, marketing and more; domain locking (automatically prevents anyone from making changes to a domain's ownership and administrative information), and much more. Additional information about all of Go Daddy's products can be found at https://www.godaddy.com.

About The Go Daddy Group, Inc.

The Go Daddy Group enables individuals and businesses to acquire, create and safeguard their unique identities and brands on the Internet by offering a complete line of web development tools, including domain name registration, hosting, personalized email, SSL certificates, domain auctions and appraisals, and complementary products and services. The Go Daddy Group includes three ICANN-accredited domain name registrars: flagship registrar GoDaddy.com®, the world's No. 1 registrar both in terms of new domain registrations and domains under management, (www.GoDaddy.com), membership-based registrar Blue Razor(TM) Domains, Inc. (www.bluerazor.com), and reseller registrar Wild West Domains®, Inc. (www.wildwestdomains.com). The Go Daddy Group also offers private domain name registration services through Domains By Proxy®, Inc. (www.domainsbyproxy.com), as well as SSL Certificates through its SSL Certificate Authority, Starfield Technologies®, Inc. (www.starfieldtech.com). The Go Daddy Group registers or renews a domain name every 3 seconds.

About Name Intelligence

Name Intelligence analyzes and tracks domain industry size and growth rates, as well as providing semantic domain name suggestion technology for registrars. They also host the Domain Roundtable, the preeminent industry conference on the international domain name marketplace. For more information please visit: http://www.nameintelligence.com.