TECHNOLOGY provider GoDaddy Inc. announced on February 29 the company is making available to 11 Asian markets, including the Philippines, its suite of cloud-based products and customer care.
With the launch, GoDaddy is now in a total of 10 languages and 14 markets across Asia, including Hong Kong (English and Traditional Chinese), Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia (English and Malay), the Philippines (English and Filipino), Singapore (English and Simplified Chinese), South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam.
“Asia is home to one of the largest, most vibrant small business communities in the world,” GoDaddy CEO Blake Irving was quoted in a statement as saying. “As Internet growth and smartphone adoption continue to accelerate across the region, it’s important that these businesses are able to create strong digital identities that will help them achieve their goals and compete online.”
SMEs serve as the economic backbone in Asia, the company said. Small and medium-sized enterprises account for over 97 percent of all enterprises and employ over half of the work force across Asia Pacific economies, GoDaddy said citing data from the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum. At the same time, more people in Asia are utilizing the Internet and connected devices to stay informed and make purchases. Seventy percent of people in Hong Kong access the Internet daily and 74 percent use a smartphone, while 81 percent of people in Singapore access the Internet and 88 percent use a smartphone, the company said citing Google Inc. Overall, Internet growth across Asia has grown 1,319 percent between 2000 and 2015, GoDaddy said, citing Internet data. The impact of creating an online presence for small businesses can be significant. A RedShift Research survey of 1,000 very small businesses in Hong Kong and Singapore that built web sites for their ventures found that 45 percent saw their business increase by 25 percent or more.
As the world’s largest domain registrar with more than 62 million domains under management, GoDaddy said it would offer the largest top-level domain inventory in each of the new Asia markets.
GoDaddy hosts more than 10 million web sites across more than 55,000 servers around the world and is hyper-focused on delivering fast, reliable and easy to use Web hosting.