[November 05, 2010]

Go Daddy "Steps into the Scrum" Sponsoring Irish Rugby Broadcast

A good pass, a good tackle and … a great website! Those are the ingredients viewers can get excited about as they watch Rugby International games on Ireland's Setanta Sports broadcast network starting tomorrow. The aggressive sport may have met its match with aggressive Internet leader GoDaddy.com. The world's largest domain name registrar and top Web hosting provider is stepping up to sponsor the rugby broadcasts through November.

Tomorrow, as Irish rugby fans around the world tune in to the international TV network to watch Ireland take on South Africa, they can expect to see Go Daddy advertising spots encouraging them to "Get Online" and learn "How Websites Work."

Go Daddy, already a household name in the United States, serves more than 8.5 million people around the world, including customers in Ireland. Go Daddy is known as "the on-ramp to the Internet" and helps individuals and businesses looking to build an online presence easily and affordably with 24/7 telephone support.

"We've been helping Internet users in Ireland build their own websites for some time now," said Go Daddy CEO and Founder Bob Parsons (News - Alert). "When the opportunity for Go Daddy to sponsor such a popular sporting event in Ireland came to us, we jumped at the chance. Rugby fans are fiercely loyal an this seems like a fun way to reach them."

Parsons heard about the opportunity to sponsor the broadcast when another sponsor dropped out, just days before tomorrow's match. Go Daddy's Setanta Sports sponsorship supports Rugby broadcasts throughout the month of November, giving Go Daddy plenty of commercial airtime and an opportunity to connect with Irish expatriates watching the network not only in Ireland, but around the globe.

Go Daddy has experienced explosive growth, in spite of a struggling world economy. This year, the Ariz.-based Go Daddy opened data centers in Europe and Asia. The Internet titan has donated nearly $3 million to charities this year, including a half-million dollars to help Hope for Haiti within 24-hours of the tragic earthquake.

Setanta Sports plans to air the Ireland-South Africa match-up live from Dublin Saturday, at 1730 GMT.

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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 website 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 website hosting, blog templates and blog software, podcast packages and online photo hosting. The Go Daddy Group has more than 44 million domain names under management. Go Daddy registers, renews or transfers a domain name every second. GoDaddy.com is the world's largest Web hosting provider and is the world's No. 1 domain name registrar according to Name Intelligence, Inc. During the first half of 2010, The Go Daddy Group registered more than one-third of all new domain names created in the top six generic top-level domains, or gTLDs, including .com, .net, .org, .info, .biz and .mobi.

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