Category: Domain names

Greatresponder.com – 2011-08-02 – On Thursday, the web hosting and domain name registrar Go Daddy made the announcement that it has now names Andrew Kline, former Obama policy advisor and attorney the new deputy general counsel for global policy of Go Daddy. This announcement came in in about a week after the web hosting provider officially launches the 4^th Generation of their cloud-based web hosting services.

Thanks to his new position, Andrew Kline will help the web hosting company expand internationally. He will also help as combat online illegal activities such as rogue Internet pharmacies and copyright infringement.

Kline will be based in Washington, DC and joins vice president for government relations Martha Johnston, who joined Go Daddy in December of 2005.

“After seeing Go Daddy’s commitment and pledge to ‘do the right thing,’ I was inspired … and knew I could go into the private sector and make a difference. Go Daddy has demonstrated its commitment to keeping the Internet safe in a way that gets results and I want to be a part of that team.” said Andrew Kline.

Andrew Kline has spent many years in his career focusing on said Go Daddy CEO and founder Bob Parsons. Kline was previously a federal prosecutor.

“Andrew’s record speaks for itself. Like our General Counsel Christine Jones, Andrew is an attorney who knows how to get things done, a leader and a person who works to make a difference … and as fast as the Internet is growing, Go Daddy is going to stay ahead of it,” said Go Daddy CEO and founder Bob Parsons.

The web hosting company recently announced that it has plans to have a partnership with KKR, Silver Lake and Technology Crossover Ventures. The investments are allegedly estimated at around $2.3 billion.

Greatresponder.com – 2011-07-04 – Go Daddy web hosting and domain registrar giant has sold a major piece to a business group of private equity for around $2.5 billion USD. As reported just week ago, the group is led by KKR & Company, Silver Lake Technology Crossover Ventures and will assume all of Go Daddy Inc.’s debt as well as its assets.

As the world bigest domain registrar company, GoDaddy have over 9.4 million customers and manages over than 48 million domain names in different domain zones. Despite such impressive stats, Go Daddy web hosting and domain registrar has reported consecutive annual losses with very small growth only during the latest fiscal year.

For at least the time being, current CEO and President mr. Robert Parsons will remain in that position, and has stated the company’s plans to expand its offerings by increasing its international presence and moving its hosting solutions into the cloud based infrastructure. Mr. Parsons founded Go Daddy web hosting company in 1997 year and in 2006 failed in his attempt to go public, citing poor market conditions when withdrawing its IPO.

Whether this acquisition is considered an investment or a purchase, mr. Parsons is reported to remain GoDaddy’s biggest single shareholder while the new private equity group of companies becomes the biggest corporative investor.

Silver Lake has a great experience of flipping and growing different Internet companies, with the sale of Skype communicator for around $8.5 billion to Microsoft Corporation, after purchasing it from EBay corporation several years ago for only $2 billion. KKR and Silver Lake are familiar partners with their 2005 group investment of Avago Technologies, while TCV leads a group of firms that has invested a reported $135 million in Facebook. Silver Lake and TCV are co-investors in the leading daily deal site Groupon and the social gaming company Zynga.

In conclusion we just want to note that $2.5 billion USD is a biggest investment for hosting company ever made before.

Greatresponder.com – 2011-06-27 – SpamExperts well known anti spam solutions developer strengthened its position in the local web hosting market by announcing several days ago a partnership with web hosting company Hosting Ireland, one of the most popular .ie tld domain registrar and web hosting provider in Ireland and in the UK. Hosting Ireland company offer email hosting solutions, advanced spam filtering and reliable anti-virus protection. In addition to its range of various web hosting services, Hosting Ireland provides dedicated servers and VPS. With this partnership Hosting Ireland will offer industry leading professional email security products to its clients, protecting email boxes from any sort of spam, phishing attacks, and virus attacks as well as securing their IP ranges with outgoing spam filtering. SpamExperts offers a wide range of very different and unique email security solutions ideal for web hosting businesses like Hosting Ireland who in turn need to offer solutions to their client base of Corporate and Small Medium Enterprises.

“Becoming a partner with SpamExperts antispam solutions company has allowed us to offer professional unique and rich solution to protect the network of our clients. This type of product is not always available from other web hosting companies and provides us with a competitive advantage in the web hosting market place. By positioning e-mail security products alongside our core solutions, we are able to match the individual requirements of our customers, as well as attract a wider audience,” says Jonathan Bate, Managing Director of Hosting Ireland. “We are delighted with our partnership with SpamExperts, as it demonstrates our commitment to developing our portfolio of products something that our customers have come to expect from Hosting Ireland.

“We are delighted that after only a year of being our valued customer, Hosting Ireland has committed to a more intense partnership!” says Sam Renkema, CEO of SpamExperts. “We look forward to a long and beneficial relationship with this leading Web Hosting company from Ireland.”

Small summary on SpamExperts company:
SpamExperts company offers leading anti spam solutions for web hosting companies and other online business. Company originated in Netherlands with head office in Amsterdam.

Small summary on Hosting Ireland company:
Hosting Ireland is one of Ireland’s leading domain registrar and web hosting company. Hosting Ireland is an accredited .ie domain registrar. Hosting Ireland web hosting company provides hosting services to small medium enterprise and corporate across Ireland, the UK and mainland Europe. Hosting Ireland also provides VPS and Dedicated server solutions.