Local, national and international charities have benfited from the record hand-out, which beat their previous year’s total of $1.4 million.

Bob Parsons, GoDaddy CE, explained, “Why not give back? Our company had its best year ever … Considering our country is in the midst of an economic recession now is exactly the time to help out good organizations and people less fortunate.”

Causes supported by GoDaddy cover areas such as Parkinson’s research, breast cancer, child abuse, disabled children, domestic violence, teenage homelessness, and animal shelters.

Charities who benefited include:

• Arizona Children’s Association
• Mothers Against Drunk Driving
• Make A Wish Foundation
• Toys for Tots
• Arizona Humane Society
• Phoenix Zoo, Chrysalis
• HomeBase Youth Services
• The Salvation Army

As the world’s leading provider of services that enable individuals and businesses to establish, maintain and evolve an online presence, GoDaddy  currently manages more than 32 million internet domain names.

The Arizona Humane Society was able to reach its goal in donations, largely to the generosity and participation of Go Daddy, which has co-sponsored the telethon for the 3rd consecutive year. Not only did GoDaddy present a donation, but the domain registrar provided online support for the event’s website, answered phones, and helped organize online donations.

With today’s troubling economy, many companies are cutting back resources these days, where as GoDaddy is expanding its workforce, recorded an Internet-first for number of domain name registrations and made more charitable donations already this year than last.

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