Herndon, Virginia - - Online solutions for small businesses, Network Solutions, welcomes Tim Kelly as the company's new President as of April 1st.  Mr. Kelly joins Network Solutions from Sprint/Nextel where he was the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO).

Roy Dunbar, CEO of Network Solutions remarked, ''I am very excited to have an executive of Tim’s caliber join our team. Tim’s marketing expertise, broad operational acumen and deep experience around the customer, make him uniquely qualified to lead us into the next phase of growth. Under Tim's leadership we will serve and delight a growing number of small businesses with best in class solutions for success on the internet.  Tim’s responsibilities will include Marketing, Product, Sales, and Customer Support.''

Honored as Arizona’s Favorite Manufacturing & Technology Business

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - Go Daddy, the world’s dominant Web hosting domain registrar, has been named 2009’s “Best of the Best” technology company by Ranking Arizona. The award honors Go Daddy as the “best” Manufacturing and Technology Company doing business in the state.

Winners were announced last night and are selected by other top-ranked businesses, a voting group comprised of 175 of Arizona’s No. 1 companies. The distinction represents the business community’s favorite companies, or the Best of the Best, in each of ten major industry categories. Go Daddy had been ranked as the top software company and edged out Cox Communications and Verizon Wireless for Best of the Best.

Multiple backorders will be accepted on domain names.

GoDaddy is changing the way it handles backorders for domains not registered at one of The Go Daddy Group’s domain name registrars.

As early as next week GoDaddy will begin accepting more than one backorder on domain names. (Currently only one is accepted). If GoDaddy successfully captures the domain name and more than one backorder was placed, there will be an auction on TDNAM for the domain. Only the people that backordered the domain can participate in the auction.

VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN: undefined, undefined, undefined%), the trusted provider of Internet infrastructure services for the networked world, and eNom, the world's No. 1 domain registrar for resellers according to Name Intelligence, today announced a new agreement to make it easier than ever for eNom resellers to offer their customers Secure Sockets Layer (SSL: 29.47, 0, 0%) Certificates. Under the new agreement, eNom will promote and distribute VeriSign(R: 24.29, 0, 0%) branded SSL Certificates through its retail and reseller channels.

"Through this new agreement, VeriSign and eNom are creating a reseller program built around the most trusted mark on the Internet," said Jeff Eckhaus, senior vice president and general manager at eNom. "Now, Web site hosting companies, registrars and resellers can provide their customers with SSL Certificates that bear the brand recognized more often than any other on the Web. With VeriSign, our resellers have an instant competitive advantage by launching the established VeriSign brand."

Software giant IBM has been selected by Melbourne's Victoria University to design and build its first green data center, which could potentially save the university more than 230 tons of carbon emissions per year.

In addition to reducing its carbon emissions, the data center will also allow the university to manage its rising need for data management and save up to $300,000 in power costs over the next 10 years, says VU's pro vice-chancellor Stephen Weller.

GoDaddy unveiled a Small Business CRM adding yet another feature to its product portfolio and a feather on its cap. A CRM application lets business owners keep track of their customer information to build better relationships and personalize contact with them.

According to the company's announcement on April 7, 2009, the 'GoDaddy Customer Manager' helps businesses stay organized & aware of the customers' needs, leading to improved customer service and ultimately, a better bottom line for growth. Go Daddy notes that it is allowing clients to do what Go Daddy has been doing for years -- cutting costs without sacrificing quality, especially customer service.