Domain registrar and Web hosting provider Go Daddy announced on Monday that The Arizona Humane Society had switched its hosting over to Go Daddy after an outage during their annual telethon threatened to prevent online donations.

Go Daddy Founder and CEO Bob Parsons was at the Arizona Humane Society’s telethon to match online donations when the glitch occurred. The society’s Web site, which was hosted by another Web hosting company, crashed, unable to keep up with the spike in traffic even though the staff had prepared for the surge.

Go Daddy says almost immediately the company created an alternative Web site address for telethon donations and the Internet operation ran smoothly for the rest of the fundraising drive. By the end, members of the community donated more than $117,000 online, almost seven times the amount pledged last year. Parsons, on behalf of his company, donated $50,000 to the animal-welfare organization.

“We agreed on the spot that we would transfer our Web hosting over to Go Daddy,” says Cheryl Naumann, Arizona Humane Society president and CEO. “Go Daddy’s quick response at the telethon saved our behinds. We’re the highest grossing pet telethon in the United States. Our Web site simply has to work. By switching to Go Daddy, we have the peace of mind that such an incident won’t happen again.”