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.

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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.

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Scottsdale, Arizona – (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) – October 24, 2006 – After an outage during its annual telethon threatened to prevent online donations, website hosting and domain registrar company, GoDaddy.com, assisted the Arizona Humane Society, with web hosting services, so that it could continue to maintain its place as the nation’s highest grossing pet telethon.

GoDaddy.com Founder and CEO Bob Parsons, along with his dog Max, were at the Arizona Humane Society’s telethon to match online donations, when a troubling glitch occurred. The society’s web site, which was hosted by an unnamed firm, crashed, rendering it unable to keep up with the spike in traffic spurred by Mr. Parsons’ offer, even though the staff had prepared for the surge.

During the telethon, Mr. Parsons and GoDaddy.com moved quickly and created an alternative web site address for telethon donations. The move was televised to viewers and the telethon’s Internet aspect ran smoothly for the rest of the fundraising drive. With help from GoDaddy.com, members of the community donated more than $117,000 in online donations, almost seven times the amount pledged last year. Parsons, on behalf of his company, donated $50,000 to the respected animal-welfare organization.

Cheryl Naumann, President and CEO of the Arizona Humane Society remarked, ”We agreed on the spot that we would transfer our Web hosting over to GoDaddy.com. Go Daddy’s quick response at the telethon saved our behinds. We’re the highest grossing pet telethon in the United States . Our Web site simply has to work. By switching to GoDaddy.com, we have the peace of mind that such an incident won’t happen again.”

Mr. Parsons added, ”Go Daddy’s web sites are up and running on big days and everyday, 24/7/365. The Arizona Humane Society will benefit from making the switch.”

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Go Daddy is a leading provider of services developed to enable individuals and businesses to establish, maintain and evolve an online presence. Go Daddy provides a variety of domain name registration and web site hosting services, as well as a broad array of on-demand and other services. The Go Daddy Group is the world’s largest domain name registrar, with approximately 14.6 million domain names under management as of June 30, 2006 and North America’s largest shared web site hosting provider. During the final six months of 2005, The Go Daddy Group registered approximately one-third of all domain names registered in the top five generic top-level domains, or gTLDs, including .com, .net, .org, .biz and .info.

To learn more about the Arizona Humane Society, please visit: www.azhumane.org .

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