Individuals & Businesses Can Get Started for Just $3.95/Month

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Aug. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- GoDaddy.com(R), the No. 1 registrar of domain names worldwide, today announced that it has added to its family of Windows and Linux web hosting plans, a low-priced, feature-rich Windows-based hosting package. For just $3.95/month, individuals and businesses can host their Windows-based web site with GoDaddy.com's "Economy Plan for Windows.(1)"

Go Daddy's Economy Plan for Windows hosting includes: 500MB of disk space, 25GB of monthly bandwidth, 100 email accounts (each with spam, fraud and virus protection and 10 MB of storage), 50 email forwarding accounts, and database support. An additional cost savings of 20%/month is available for those who sign up for 12 months of Economy Plan for Windows hosting.

Like all of its hosting packages, Go Daddy's Economy Plan for Windows is supported by world-class data centers which include multiple OC-48, OC-12 and OC-3 connections, a fast gigabit Ethernet backbone, and multiple diverse upstream providers totaling 4 Gbps of Tier-1 Internet bandwidth. In addition, the Economy Plan for Windows is supported by best-of-breed router, firewall and server equipment, full network redundancy, enterprise-class backup and restore technology (daily incremental and weekly full backups), 24 x7 monitoring and security, and much more.

"We developed and introduced a low-priced Windows hosting plan because our customers asked for it," said Bob Parsons, president & founder of Go Daddy. "Like all the hosting packages we have introduced over the years, the response has been tremendous."

"We are pleased with the positive customer response Go Daddy has received not only for the Economy Plan for Windows, but for all its Windows-based hosting packages," added Pascal Martin, General Manager of the Platform and Application Hosting Solution Team at Microsoft Corp. "We have worked closely with Go Daddy to enhance all its Windows hosting packages, and plan to augment them even further in the coming months to help Go Daddy's Windows-based hosting business become even more profitable."

"GoDaddy.com's low-priced Windows hosting plan was exactly what we needed," added Tim Buche, principle of http://www.party-gras.com/. "As a major provider of corporate entertainment, we specialize in delivering exactly what our clients are looking for -- and it all begins with a guided tour of http://www.party-gras.com/, which is powered by GoDaddy.com's Windows hosting plan. We couldn't be more pleased with GoDaddy.com's hosting plan, as well as all of its other products that we utilize."

About The Go Daddy Group, Inc.

The Go Daddy Group is the world's No. 1 domain name registrar both in terms of new registrations and domains under management. 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, email systems, SSL certificates and complementary products and services. The Go

Daddy Group includes three ICANN-accredited domain name registrars: flagship registrar GoDaddy.com (http://www.godaddy.com/), membership-based registrar Blue Razor Domains(TM), Inc. (http://www.bluerazor.com/), and reseller registrar Wild West Domains(R), Inc. (http://www.wildwestdomains.com/). The Go Daddy Group also offers private domain name registration services through Domains By Proxy(R), Inc. (http://www.domainsbyproxy.com/), as well as SSL Certificates through its SSL Certificate Authority, Starfield Technologies(R), Inc. (http://www.starfieldtech.com/). The Go Daddy Group registers a new domain name every 6 seconds.

(1) The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the

trademarks of their respective owners.

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CONTACT: Douglas Preston Jr., Public Relations Specialist of GoDaddy.com, +1-480-505-8800, ext. 4061, douglas@godaddy.com

Web site: http://www.godaddy.com/ http://www.bluerazor.com/ http://www.wildwestdomains.com/ http://www.domainsbyproxy.com/ http://www.starfieldtech.com/

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