Host Gator Celebrates 200,000 Domain Milestone and New Year

BOCA RATON, Fla., -- Jan. 31, 2005 -- Host Gator, a leading provider of shared, dedicated and reseller hosting, today announced that it now hosts over 200,000 domains. To celebrate the milestone and kick off the New Year, Host Gator is launching the "Extreme Web Makeover" promotion in conjunction with WiredByDuffy, a Web design and development firm based in Folsom, California.

Businesses submit their web sites for consideration, with the lucky winner receiving a complete web site makeover and re-design from WiredByDuffy in addition to one free year of Host Gator's Diamond Reseller Plan, valued at $99.95 per month. The web site re-design from WiredByDuffy is valued at over $1,500.

This marks an increase of 150,000 domains over January of last year for Host Gator. Host Gator credits its fast-growing reseller program as the main reason for the substantial increase that took place in just one year.

"We see high demand for reseller hosting from our regular web hosting customers who are looking to make a few bucks by selling hosting themselves," said Host Gator president and co-founder Brent Oxley. "Many customers also have multiple web sites needing hosting under a single plan. Both these factors have contributed to Host Gator's exceptional growth in 2005 and we anticipate even more in 2006."

"We are pleased to be working with WiredByDuffy, a leading web design shop that builds attractive and well-designed Web sites for small and medium-sized businesses at an affordable price," said Oxley.

The contest runs from January 28th to February 28th. For full contest rules and details, visit www.hostgator.com/makeover. Anybody with an incorporated small or medium-sized business is eligible.

About Host Gator

Host Gator is a provider of shared, dedicated and reseller web hosting services focused on the consumer and small business markets. Founded in 2002, Host Gator has become a leader in reseller hosting, helping over 7,000 businesses become Web hosting companies. Host Gator has offices in Boca Raton, Florida and its data center operations are co-located out of The Planet's facility in Dallas, Texas, enabling it to access Tier-1 backbone providers such as UUNet, Sprint, Level 3, Global Crossing, Verio and AT&T.