ENom

Type:	Privately Held
Industry:	Internet, online domain name registration
Founded:	Bellevue, WA (1997)
Ownership:	Demand Media (2006)
Headquarters:	15801 NE 24th Street St. Bellevue, WA 98008
Website:	http://eNom.com
Twitter:	@enom
Key People
Jeff Eckhaus Chris Sheridan (Vice President of Sales) John Kane (Vice President of Business Development)

Company History

eNom, a technology provider in the domain name services industry, was started in 1997 by founder and CEO, Paul Stahura.

In May 2006 eNom was acquired by Demand Media

As of August 2006, eNom was the second largest domain registrar in the world with 8 million registered domain names. eNom's resellers are mostly web hosting and web development companies and use eNom's application programming interface (API) to buy and sell domain names on their own web sites, or eNom's hosted reseller solution - a customer retail website branded as the reseller's but hosted by eNom.

Their back-end systems can handle about 2 billion DNS queries a day, and maintains its name server constellation across six datacenters around the world. They forward over 11 million emails and block over 28 million spam messages every day.

In October, 2007, eNom sunsetted its drop catcher website (ClubDrop.com) to partner with (Network Solutions) to create the aftermarket auction venue (NameJet.com). NameJet became the auction venue for the expired domain inventory of Network Solutions.

The site auctions active names, dropped names, and names that are post-expiration. Much of the Network Solutions inventory is classified as "Pre-Release" names. Features include public auctions, private auctions, ascending-price and reverse auctions, proxy bidding, reserve price auctions, buy-it-now auctions.

eNom's reseller model

eNom sets up resellers two ways, through eNom's PDQ tool, a semi-customizable domain name selling kit, or through the API.

eNom resellers add revenue streams to their domain name businesses by offering eNom's Value Added Services (VAS). eNom's VAS products and services include web site hosting, web site creation kits, SSL Certificates, ID protection services, email services, website monitoring and traffic-counting tools.

People

• Sarah Akhtar, General Counsel
• Paul Stahura, Chief Strategy Officer
• Michael Blend, President
• Jeffrey Eckhaus, General Manager
• Chris Ambler, Chief Software Strategist
• Billy Watenpaugh, product manager and registry liaison

Affiliations

• Registrars Constituency

External Links

• eNom Corporate Website