Go Daddy SSL Market Share Hits All-Time High

Go Daddy now holds a 20.5 percent share of the SSL market, according to a leading industry analyst firm. This is significant on its own, but especially impressive considering Go Daddy began offering SSL Certs only a little more than four years ago. Unlike other leading SSL providers, Go Daddy achieved the milestone through pure organic growth, meaning it was not artificially cultivated with mergers or acquisitions.
SSL Certs (Secure Sockets Layer Certificates) are critical when it comes to protecting sensitive information online.
"Our market share has grown so fast for one simple reason," said Go Daddy CEO and Founder Bob Parsons. "Our SSL Certs have all the functionality our higher-priced competitors offer - but at a fraction of the cost! Think about it, if you can get the identical product for a much lower price, backed by world-class support, why wouldn't you? That's why we have grown, month after month after month."
Analysts also point out how the Go Daddy growth has been noticeably strong and steady.
"Go Daddy has increased its SSL market share every single month since June 2007," said Mike Prettejohn, Director of analyst firm Netcraft Ltd. "In the space of just one year, Go Daddy's SSL certificates have grown by more than 80 percent."
In the August Netcraft report, Go Daddy tracked the largest absolute growth, gaining 8,693 SSL Certificates. Go Daddy is the leader for Web sites hosted with SSL Certificates as well and is the world's second largest SSL provider.
SSL Certs enable a browser and server to establish a secure, encrypted connection and is the de facto standard for protecting sensitive information from identity theft, hacking and tampering. Businesses, for example, rely on SSL Certificates to stop hackers from accessing credit card information during online transactions.
Growing businesses can also leverage Go Daddy's generous policy when it comes to using SSL Certs. Most competitors require a new license for each server on which a certificate is installed. Go Daddy allows companies to purchase one certificate and use it on every server hosting the domain. This potentially saves owners of high traffic Web sites thousands of dollars.
GoDaddy.com offers SSL Certificates with three assurance validation levels: Standard, Deluxe and Premium with Extended Validation. All Go Daddy certificates offer up to 256-bit encryption and are backed with unparalleled 24/7 customer support.
Go Daddy is the world's leading domain name registrar as well. In June, Go Daddy made Internet history, hitting the 30 million domain name mark. Go Daddy is now three times the size of its closest registrar competitor and is also one of the top Web host companies in the world.

Domestic Market Share for 2007-08

Domestic Market Share for 2007-08
CVs 5.05%
Total Passenger Vehicles 16.4%
Total Two Wheelers 75.13%
Three Wheelers 3.78%

Market share

Market share, in strategic management and marketing, is the percentage or proportion of the total available market or market segment that is being serviced by a company.
It can be expressed as a company's sales revenue (from that market) divided by the total sales revenue available in that market. It can also be expressed as a company's unit sales volume (in a market) divided by the total volume of units sold in that market.
It is generally necessary to commission market research (generally desk/secondary research, although sometimes primary research) to estimate the total market size and a company's market share.
Increasing market share is one of the most important objectives used in business. The main advantage of using market share is that it abstracts from industry-wide macroenvironmental variables such as the state of the economy, or changes in tax policy. According to the national environment, the respective share of different companies changes and hence this causes change in the share market values; the reason can be political ups and downs, any disaster, any happening or mis-happening.
Other objectives include return on investment (ROI), return on assets (ROA), and target rate of profit. Market share has the potential to increase profits as profit leads to more customers with a higher demand for a particular product

Basic Rules of Indian Stock Market

# Whenever Market is High It Will Fall
# Whenever Market is Low, If there is no external Factor, It Will rise
# Same Rules Applies To Stocks Scripts Also

Rupee falls by 22 paise

The Indian rupee turned weaker by 22 paise at 42.57/58 against the greenback on heavy month-end demand for dollar from oil refiners amid capital outflows.

At the Interbank Foreign Exchange (Forex) market, the domestic currency opened lower at 42.44/46 a dollar from yesterday’s close of 42.35/36 and declined further to settle the day lower at 42.57/58 per dollar.

During the day, it moved in a narrow range of 42.44 and 42.58 a dollar.

Forex dealers said a rise in global crude oil prices above $126 a barrel forced oil companies to buy dollars for their month-end import requirements, pushing the rupee downwards.

The central bank said that it was ending a two monthold scheme of providing foreign exchange to oil companies in return for oil bonds. The step could lead to dollar demand from these companies in the currency market.

DLF Q1 result defies rate hike

DLF Ltd, India’s largest-listed realty firm, on Thursday reported a consolidated quarterly profit rise of 23 per cent as it sold more houses and offices than a year earlier despite a string of interest rate rises.

New Delhi-based DLF said net profit rose to Rs 1,864 crore in its fiscal first quarter ended June from Rs 1,515 crore in the year-ago quarter. Total revenue was up 23.2 per cent at Rs Rs 3,846 crore from Rs 3,121 crore a year earlier.

DLF’s closest rival Unitech on Wednesday reported a 15.6 per cent rise in quarterly profit and its managing director expected growth to continue despite high lending rates, which have crimped demand and increased developers’ borrowing costs.

Property developers are selling stakes in individual projects to private equity firms to help fund expansion amid tight credit markets and as turbulent market conditions have forced them defer share sales.

DLF has shelved a planned $1.5 billion initial public offer for its property trust in Singapore.

Shares in DLF, valued at about $20 billion, rose 3.8 per cent, ahead of the results announcement in a Mumbai market that gained 0.5 per cent. The shares are down more than 50 per cent in 2008, compared with a nearly 30 per cent drop in BSE. DLF is spending about Rs 1,100 crore to buy back up to 1.3 per cent of its shares, joining other firms that have announced similar plans to stem sliding stock prices.

Inflation nears 12%

Inflation rose mar ginally to 11.98 per cent for the week ended on July 19 as compared to 11.89 per cent in the previous week.

The inflation rose due to high prices of moong, urad, arhar, condiments spices and some manufactured products. Inflation stood at 4.65 per cent in the corresponding week a year ago.

ICICI Securities economist A. Prasanna said the inflation has a kind of stabilised. “Inflation has reached near its peak. It can go up to 12.5 to 13 per cent in August and then it should start coming down,” he said.

The finance ministry said consumer price indices show some decline in inflation in June as against May.

“Inflation, on a week-onweek basis, has continued to remain stable,” it said.

HDFC, ICICI hike loan rate

If you have taken a Rs 10 lakh home loan your EMI will increase by Rs 510 for a term outstanding of 20 years. This steep rise has come in the wake of the strong message sent out by the RBI governor, Mr Y.V. Reddy that money should not be leant cheap.

The country’s two biggest home loan lenders HDFC and ICICI Bank announced a steep hike in interest rates on loans on Thursday.

HDFC has revised its floating interest rates on home loans for both existing and new customers by 0.75 per cent with effect from August 1, 2008, while ICICI Bank has increased its interest rates for various tenors of retail fixed deposits by 0.75 per cent to one per cent. It also increased its floating reference rate for consumer loans (including home loans from 13.50 per cent to 14.15 per cent. This follows the hike in the CRR and repo rate announced in the credit policy on Tuesday.