Go Daddy's Hosting Connection Makes Online Setup a Snap

More than 1,000 Installs a Day of the Most Popular Internet
Applications
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.--(Business Wire)--
What would you rather do? Figure out how to install your favorite
Web application on your hosting account or have it automatically
installed with a single click. For most the answer is the latter - as
evidenced by Go Daddy's Hosting Connection averaging more than
one-thousand application installations a day for users.

Go Daddy, North America's largest shared hosting provider, created
Hosting Connection as a way to let customers install an extensive
catalog of the most popular open source applications on the Internet,
without leaving Hosting Connection. Applications from photo albums and
blogs, to content management systems can be installed without
requiring users to create a database or set specific permissions. Go
Daddy does it all for the user automatically.

"There are a lot of free applications on the Web. Some require
instruction manuals to install if you're not a 'techie,'" said Katie
Eldridge, owner of www.PartyTrainCentral.com and Hosting Connection
user. "Hosting Connection takes the guess work out of installing and
configuring many apps. Just click install application and you're
done."

All of Go Daddy's shared hosting plans are equipped to use Hosting
Connection at no extra cost. Referred to as being "on steroids" by one
tech reporter, Hosting Connection allows users to install, rate or
even comment on applications with the click of a button. Applications
like Joomla, WordPress and Drupal are a few that can be quickly
installed within Hosting Connection. Simply answer a few questions and
Hosting Connection works its magic. Go Daddy recently added Elgg to
the lineup, an award-winning social networking engine.

Go Daddy also gives users the option to install premium
applications, including Wise-FTP, SQLYog and Community Server.
Customers can purchase these applications and have them automatically
installed through Hosting Connection.

"As online applications became more popular, Go Daddy customers
wanted a way to install applications without all the hassle. It is
obvious with more than one-thousand installs a day, Hosting Connection
is working," said Go Daddy CEO and Founder Bob Parsons. "We also
wanted to give customers the ability to share their experience with
the applications, which is why they can rate and review applications
they've installed."

This isn't the only advantage to Go Daddy's hosting services. On
top of generous disk space amounts and bandwidth, all Go Daddy hosting
accounts feature unparalleled 24x7 Customer Support, world-class data
centers and a guaranteed uptime of 99.9%.

To learn more about Hosting Connection, visit
HostingConnection.GoDaddy.com.

To find out how to register a domain name or develop your own Web
site, visit GoDaddy.com.

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 Web
site 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 Web site hosting,
blog templates and blog software, podcast packages and online photo
hosting. The Go Daddy Group, Inc. has more than 31 million domain
names under management. Go Daddy registers, renews or transfers a
domain name every second. GoDaddy.com is the world's No. 1 domain name
registrar according to Name Intelligence, Inc. GoDaddy.com is also
rated the world's largest hostname provider according to Netcraft Ltd.
During 2007, The Go Daddy Group registered more than one-third of all
domain names registered in the top six generic top-level domains, or
gTLDs, including .com, .net, .org, .info, .biz and .mobi.

- The Go Daddy Group -

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The Go Daddy Group, Inc., Scottsdale
Nick Fuller/Communications Mgr., 480-505-8800 x4435
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