Go Daddy Gets Sued

The Go Daddy Group, the Internet domain registrar that plans to go public, is being sued for patent infringement by Web.com(WWWW Quote), which provides services to business Web sites.

Web.com sued Go Daddy on Monday in U.S. District Court in Atlanta, seeking both unspecified monetary damages and an injunction. A spokeswoman for Go Daddy, one of the best known Internet brands thanks to its racy Super Bowl TV commercials, declined to comment.

At issue in the suit is a patent that enables customers to manage or change their Web sites remotely through a control panel which Web.com received in 2004, when the company was called Interland. The company changed its name to Web.com in March. ...