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(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Domain registar and web hosting provider Go Daddy (www.godaddy.com) announced on Thursday it continues to lead the market's SSL certificates sales, showing the largest net growth 11 of the last 12 months.
According to Netcraft's (www.netcraft.com) May 2009 Trends Report, Go Daddy accounted for 44 percent of the overall net growth in SSL certificates in May.
Meanwhile, VeriSign issued less than half as many net-new SSL certificates as Go Daddy.
"This should not surprise anyone," says Go Daddy CEO and Founder Bob Parsons. "Go Daddy offers low cost SSL certificates and allows customers to purchase one cert to cover all of a company's servers. Try getting that from VeriSign -- it won't happen."
While these Netcraft statistics are entirely accurate, they do not include the full picture of the SSL certificates market as they pertain strictly to domain-only validated SSL certificate sales.
Netcraft separates the SSL certificates sales results into the categories of domain-only validated SSL certificates, organization or business validated SSL certificates, and extended validation SSL certificates.
A look at Netcraft's February 2009 Trends Report findings show VeriSign leading in organization validated SSL certificate sales with 49.83 percent, or 261,987 certificates.
Following in second place is Comodo with 25.75 percent, or 135,349 certificates.
Meanwhile, Go Daddy has just 2.07 percent of the market with 10,877 organization validated SSL certificate sales.
Unlike other companies, Go Daddy offers an unlimited server license, so that one certificate can be used across multiple servers and help to save companies thousands of dollars beyond the base price.
The company offers SSL certificates with three validation levels, including standard, deluxe and premium extended validation.
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