News: GoDaddy Web Hosting Firm, No. 5 Chevrolet, Wins Montreal NASCAR
Scottsdale, Arizona - (Website Hosting Directory) - August 4, 2008 - Web hosting domain registrar, GoDaddy, recently added a NASCAR victory to go along with its IndyCar win this season.
Ron Fellows drove the No. 5 GoDaddy.com Chevrolet at the NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal, Canada.
This was Fellows' first time behind the wheel of the GoDaddy.com sponsored race car and the first NASCAR win for Go Daddy. Go Daddy Girl Danica Patrick made history this year being the first woman to win an IndyCar Series race by winning the Japan 300.
Mr. Fellows remarked, ''First - I want to thank Dale Earnhardt Jr. and GoDaddy.com. This was good fun. Now I need to beg Dale Jr. to let me run next week.''
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Fellows took over the lead thanks to some strategic pit stop planning. He then led the historic race, this is the first time Nationwide Series has run rain tires, by more than 45 seconds when it was called due to extremely low visibility.
Bob Parsons, CEO and Founder of GoDaddy.com remarked, ''It's exhilarating Ron Fellows brought the No. 5 GoDaddy.com Chevrolet to Victory Lane. All the pieces just came together…the race was in Canada, Ron is a Canadian fan favorite and he’s a road course expert.''
GoDaddy.com is the sponsor of the No. 5 GoDaddy.com Chevrolets in six of this season's Nationwide Series races. Earnhardt, a GoDaddy.com spokesman and NASCAR's most popular driver, designed the No. 5 GoDaddy.com Chevrolets along with racing the car April 5 in Texas. Earnhardt will take the wheel again at the Watkins Glen next Sunday, Aug. 9. Mark Martin then pilots in Michigan Aug. 16 and in Kansas Sept. 27.
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.
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News: Search Firm, Clickable, Finalizes $14.5 Million Series B Funding
New York, New York - (Website Hosting Directory) - August 4, 2008 - Search and media company, Clickable, has completed $14.5 Million Series B Funding, with investment venture capital firms: Founders Fund, Union Square Ventures and FirstMark Capital.
The funding amounts to a total of $22.5 million in capital, raised over the past 12 months. It will be used to accelerate Clickable's momentum as the preeminent advertising solution for small and midsize marketers. In February 2008, Clickable entered limited commercial availability with a rapid innovation and development cycle, including a major product release every four weeks, informed by Clickable's growing customer base.
Justin Fishner-Wolfson, a Principal at Founders Fund, who joins Clickable's board of directors noted, ''Clickable's tools allow users to track and manage campaign performance across multiple ad networks with a comprehensive, easy-to-use dashboard. Clickable's intuitive technology makes it easy for advertisers and agencies to realize the true potential of search ads.''
Clickable CEO, David S. Kidder remarked, ''These investors are behind some of the Web's pioneering and most successful businesses, including PayPal, Facebook, Feedburner, Twitter and Del.icio.us. Their experience and vision will help Clickable accelerate product innovation and commercial expansion, while polarizing the marketplace with the idea of simplicity.''
Strategic individual investors will continue their involvement in Clickable, including: Jonathan F. Miller, former America Online Chairman and Chief Executive, and a Clickable and Yahoo board member; and Peter Thiel, Managing Partner of The Founders Fund and Co-founder of PayPal.
Clickable's Series B Funding Follows a Series of Key Milestones over The Past 12 Months:
Beta launch of Clickable Community, a learning portal to help small and midsize advertisers succeed. It includes Clickable University, best practices, a full product user guide, case studies, an introductory movie and The Official Clickable Blog. It is integrated seamlessly into the Clickable Dashboard, and also is available to all on the Clickable Home page.
Ongoing product innovation and development, including, most recently: goal-based recommendations to drive profitability; bulk actions to drive efficiency; a macro view of all advertising network accounts; and dashboard improvements to simplify advertising across all major ad networks.
Appointment of seven executives from leading Web and technology companies including Google, Microsoft, Leapfrog Online and others.
Winner of several prestigious awards, including: Ernst and Young's Entrepreneur of The Year; AlwaysOn's OnMedia 2008 Newcomer of The Year; and Finalist in TechCrunch 40 and the American Business Awards.
Clickable is an online solution that makes search advertising simple, instant and profitable. Clickable's immediate activation and intuitive user experience make it easy for marketers to manage performance across all major search-ad networks, including Google, Yahoo and Microsoft.
Clickable is expanding its sales, product and engineering teams.
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News: Web Hosting Provider, Host Department, Debuts Website Relaunch
Wilmington, Delaware - (Website Hosting Directory) - August 1, 2008 - Web hosting and domain name registration provider, Host Department, has officially launched its redesigned corporate website.
With the new skin, the company is re-focusing on its vision - professionalism, prompt support and quality hosting service. Host Department made the adjustments, in response to customer input concerning crowding, causing visitors difficulty in finding items of interest. To solve the issue, a new site design was created. In order to make sure customers and visitors are able to easily find what they need quickly, the company decides to keep a similar site structure and only re-design the skin. The Domain Name Registration section had yet to be updated due to some minor difficulty in the coding structure.
Hagen Oey, Product Manager of Host Department remarked, ''We want visitors to easily find what they need and reduce the effort they have to make in getting their website up. The new site will definitely help a lot in minimizing it.''
Host Department's new site reflects the philosophy of professionalism that includes $3.95 exclusive hosting package, smart domain name registration, reseller hosting, and web development solution.
In addition, Host Department debuted summer and autumn discounts, with its No Limit Hotdeal and Mega Saver Resellers offering. Host Department offers the No Limit Plans with very affordable prices and technologically advanced features. To complete the hosting experience, they now introduce the No Limit Hosting Hotdeal plans, enabling customers to host their sites with bountiful discounts between 10% for their developer plan and 50% for the ecommerce plan.
However, these discounts are only available with an annual payment or above. The No Limit Hosting Hotdeal plans also provide another 6 months free hosting for two years sign up. Going together with the No Limit Hotdeal to answer resellers' demand, Host Department also launches the Mega Saver Plans - Mega Saver Premium and Blowout Reseller, allowing resellers to maximize their profit margin and reduce their overhead cost in the long run.
With Mega Saver Resellers, 12 months subscription entitles customers to 24 months hosting (one year free) and 60 months hosting (three years free) for 24 months subscription. The best deal is for the 36 months subscription, where customers gets an additional five years free hosting, equaling to 8 years hosting.
Established in 1997, Host Department is based in Wilmington, DE with data centers located in Fremont and Santa Clara, CA. Host Department emphasizes service to individuals, small / medium sized businesses (SMBs), and large corporations, designed for e-commerce. The company is currently serving over 550,000 customers worldwide with reseller / premium / specialty / free web hosting and domain name registration services supported by an unwavering commitment to 24/7 support. The company also offers web design and development services, as well as search engine submission.
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News: Yahoo! Search Engine Web TV Show, Engages Celebrity Hosts
Sunnyvale, California - (Website Hosting Directory) - August 1, 2008 - Yahoo! global search engine and web hosting firm, has engaged celebrity guests, to host a week of its popular online TV web show, sponsored by Verizon.
Yahoo!'s ''Primetime in No Time,'' the popular watercooler recap show, airs every Monday through Friday on Yahoo! TV and has generated more than 75 million streams since launch. Host Frank Nicotero, a Los Angeles-based comedian, delivers his quick quips on the previous night's standout primetime TV moments in less than five minutes for time-starved pop culture junkies.
Friday, 8/1 will feature comedienne, Margaret Cho (VH1, The Cho Show).
Yahoo! Entertainment brings the best in movies, music, television, celebrity, games, original and consumer-generated content to its passionate community of fans. Consistently the top-ranked entertainment online destination, Yahoo! Entertainment offers film trailers, full streaming television episodes, behind-the-scenes features, photo galleries and the largest database of music videos. Yahoo! Entertainment also creates compelling online shows including ''Primetime in No Time'' (http://primetime.tv.yahoo.com/), and Nissan Live Sets on Yahoo! Music (http://music.yahoo.com/nissanlivesets/).
Yahoo! Entertainment is the place where everyone can be a critic, a creator, or a fan, offering the sites and services to fill every entertainment need. To join the most comprehensive and engaging entertainment community online, visit Yahoo! Entertainment (http://entertainment.yahoo.com).
Yahoo! Inc. is a leading global Internet brand and one of the most trafficked Internet destinations worldwide. Yahoo! is focused on powering its communities of users, advertisers, publishers, and developers by creating indispensable experiences built on trust. Yahoo! is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.
To learn more about Yahoo!, please visit: www.yahoo.com.
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News: Web Hosting Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Demonstration, by Microsoft
Chicago, Illinois - (Website Hosting Directory) - July 31, 2008 - Microsoft, at the just completed web hosting industry premiere event, HostingCon 2008, showcased the rapid adoption of Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V by hosting providers.
Since its general availability, the platform has been validated as a leading virtualization technology for maximizing datacenter efficiency, scalability and manageability at a lower cost.
Key highlights include:
With Hyper-V, Microsoft is enabling hosting providers to increase server efficiency and reduce many of the costs associated with running and managing datacenters by consolidating resources. In doing so, hosting providers are continuing to run heterogeneous environments by running both Windows and Linux on the same server using a single management interface.
In just over a month, four hosting providers have already deployed Hyper-V, including Layered Technologies, Hostbasket, SoftCom and SoftLayer.
The announcement also highlights hosting providers enrolled in the SQL Server 2008 Go Live program. To date, 16 hosting providers are enrolled in the program, and 10 have already extended live offers.
For more information, please see the Q and A with Microsoft executive John Zanni, General Manager of Worldwide Hosting, posted on the Microsoft PressPass website.
For more information about Microsoft, please visit: www.microsoft.com.
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