There are hundreds if not thousands of Web hosting companies out there today. Who is the biggest? Who is hosting more Web sites than anybody else out there? It seems like 1 and 1 is still leading the pack but Go Daddy is close on it’s tail.

Internet research and analysis firm Netcraft released its Web Hosting Provider Switching Analysis, identifying 1 and 1 Internet as the largest Web host, with more than 5 million Web-facing hostnames, while it shows Go Daddy gaining on the leader, with more than 4 million hostnames. The survey shows Yahoo! and EV1Servers each surpassing the 1 million hostname mark.

1 and 1 Internet has been the largest host since Netcraft’s switching analysis was launched in 2002, but Go Daddy has lessened the gap, adding a million hostnames since January. 1 and 1 passed the 4 million site mark in July 2004, but has taken 11 months to register another million hostnames.

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I agree that the two businesses couldn’t be more different. 1 and 1 is more of your traditional Web hosting company and Go Daddy is mainly a domain name registration company. However, when you have a brand that people trust, you can go really far in the Web hosting world. I think that is Go Daddy’s main advantage right now. Competition is good for everybody though, and you can’t get more competitive than the Web hosting world, that is for sure.