GoDaddy Gives $50K to Humane Society
Scottsdale, Arizona – (Website Hosting Directory) – August 6, 2008 – The Arizona animal rescue effort, was recently given a $50,000 donation, for the Humane Society’s annual telethon, by web hosting domain registrar, GoDaddy.
Go Daddy also used its expertise to organize online donations, helped answer phones and kept the live event’s Web site running smoothly. If you watched the telethon you know Go Daddy donated in ‘GoDaddy-esque’ style too – having their CEO’s own dogs deliver the donation on live television.
Bob Parsons, CEO and Founder of Go Daddy noted, ”Max and Chief are quite the dynamic duo.”
This is the third consecutive year Go Daddy co-sponsored the telethon to help animals.
Tim Crum, Executive Director of the Arizona Humane Society remarked, ”Members of our organization are still talking about what a huge help Go Daddy was to us from the start. One year, Go Daddy jumped in to save the telethon’s online component, the next year they helped to significantly increase our online contributions and this year they helped us reach our goal in donations.”
While many companies are cutting back resources these days, Go Daddy is expanding its workforce, recorded an Internet-first for number of domain name registrations and made more charitable donations already this year than last.
In 2008, Go Daddy has helped disadvantaged children, Parkinson’s research, domestic violence victims, homeless teenagers, flood victims and now abandoned pets, which might otherwise have to be euthanized.
In a typical year, the Arizona Humane Society shelters nearly 50,000 animals. The annual telethon not only raises much needed money for these animals, but also provides educational programs, including how to better care for your pet, fight animal cruelty and adopt a pet.
The Go Daddy Group, Inc. has more than 28 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 the largest paid hosting provider in the world, 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.
GoDaddy.com has also been honored by various industry organizations and publications as Best Registrar and Best Hosting Company already this year. In 2007, Go Daddy was named Arizona’s Most Innovative Company and Business Leader of the Year.
For more about the Arizona Humane Society please visit: www.azhumane.org.
To learn more about GoDaddy, please visit: www.godaddy.com.