GoDaddy Web Hosting and Domain Registrar Services Provider, at NASCAR Las Vegas

The Nationwide Series race took place at Las Vegas Motor Speedway and was broadcast on ESPN2.

In early January, Go Daddy anounced its return to NASCAR for the 2009 season with an expanded sponsorship of Earnhardt Jr., JR Motorsports and Hendrick Motorsports. This season's Go Daddy sponsorship features Dale Jr. and protégé Brad Keselowski in both the Nationwide and Sprint Cup Series.

Go Daddy is the primary sponsor for 20 Nationwide Series races with Earnhardt driving the No. 5 GoDaddy.com Chevrolets and Keselowski driving the No. 88 GoDaddy.com Chevrolets.

Go Daddy also sponsors Keselowski in the No. 25 GoDaddy.com Chevrolets for seven Sprint Cup Series races this season. This first race in that car could come this Sunday. Keselowski will attempt to qualify for Sunday’s Sprint Cup race in the No. 25 GoDaddy.com Chevrolet tomorrow at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

Dale Earnhardt Jr., who helped design the No. 5 GoDaddy.com Chevrolets, became a Go Daddy spokesman after first being a Go Daddy customer. Earnhardt visited Go Daddy’s Scottsdale, Ariz. corporate campus last fall. Afterward, he remarked on his impressions of both the technology and the people.

Mr. Earnhardt Jr. noted, ''I consider myself quite knowledgeable when it comes to computers and the web. It’s fun to be able to bounce ideas off each other in making this partnership really click.''

This has been a tough year for NASCAR drivers in terms of sponsorships. Economic struggles have forced many longtime sponsors to pull out. Go Daddy, however, experienced unprecedented success in 2008 and, in turn, expanded this year’s NASCAR sponsorship.

Bob Parsons, CEO and Founder of Go Daddy remarked, ''When we talked about sponsoring Dale Jr., it was a no-brainer. He's a great driver, NASCAR is non-stop action and it has the most fun-loving, loyal fans out there.''

Go Daddy's foray into racing sponsorships started in 2006 with the company’s support of IndyCar's Danica Patrick. That sponsorship continues this year as well. Patrick, a Go Daddy Girl and IndyCar’s most popular driver, made history last season as the first woman ever to win in the IndyCar Series.

Go Daddy offers a wide array of services far beyond domain name registration. The company is a world leader in web site hosting, new SSL certificates, as well as offering web site design, Quick Shopping Cart for online vendors and - new in 2009 – Go Daddy Marketplace, an online shopping mall where Go Daddy leverages the draw of its popular global Web site to showcase customer products.

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 Web site 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 Web site hosting, blog templates and blog software, podcast packages and online photo hosting. The Go Daddy Group, Inc. has more than 33 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 rated the world’s largest hostname provider according to Netcraft Ltd. During 2008, 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.


Source: thehostingnews.com