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The company was sold to Dark Blue Sea Limited, a publicly listed company in Australia in 2002.
The company was sold to Dark Blue Sea Limited, a publicly listed company in Australia in 2002.
At that time, Dark Blue Sea was an internet based company planning to register 100,000 domains in the first year of operation and therefore bought ICANN accredit registrar Domain Intellect to serve this purpose.According to Mike Robertson, Business Development Manager of Fabulous.com, Fabulous.com was originally designed to service Dark Blue Sea's own internal portfolio. <ref>[http://sullysblog.com/Do-You-Know-Mike-Fabulous Sully's Blog]</ref>
At that time, Dark Blue Sea was an internet based company planning to register 100,000 domains in the first year of operation and therefore bought [[ICANN]] accredit registrar Domain Intellect to serve this purpose.According to Mike Robertson, Business Development Manager of Fabulous.com, Fabulous.com was originally designed to service Dark Blue Sea's own internal portfolio. <ref>[http://sullysblog.com/Do-You-Know-Mike-Fabulous Sully's Blog]</ref>
About changing the name of the brand, [[Dan Warner]], CEO of Fabulous.com said, the company was looking for a more more memorable brand name and later found domain name "fabulous.com" was for sale and thus came to be rebranded as fabulous.com.<ref>[http://www.dnjournal.com/columns/cover010104.htm DN Journal.com]</ref> He also mentioned that the company researched and purchased over 120,000 domains in the first year for its domain portfolio.
About changing the name of the brand, [[Dan Warner]], CEO of Fabulous.com said, the company was looking for a more more memorable brand name and later found domain name "fabulous.com" was for sale and thus came to be rebranded as fabulous.com.<ref>[http://www.dnjournal.com/columns/cover010104.htm DN Journal.com]</ref> He also mentioned that the company researched and purchased over 120,000 domains in the first year for its domain portfolio.
At the end of December, 2008, Fabulous was managing about 1,300,000 domain names and a large portion of these domains registered by the company was also owned by the it. At that time, approximately 85% of all domains registered with Fabulous were .com domain names, .net domains make were about 9% and .org names were 5% and all other tld/cctld domain names were less than 1%.<ref>[http://www.wannadevelop.com/reviews/moniker-fabulous-top-domain-registrars/ Wanna Develop.com]</ref>
At the end of December, 2008, Fabulous was managing about 1,300,000 domain names and a large portion of these domains registered by the company was also owned by the it. At that time, approximately 85% of all domains registered with Fabulous were .com domain names, .net domains make were about 9% and .org names were 5% and all other tld/cctld domain names were less than 1%.<ref>[http://www.wannadevelop.com/reviews/moniker-fabulous-top-domain-registrars/ Wanna Develop.com]</ref>
Today Fabulous is in in the top 15 ICANN ranked registrars in terms of the number of .COM domains registered. <ref>[http://reviews.domain-hosting-comparison.com/187/best-domain-name-price-on-fabulous/ Domain Hosting Price Comparison]</ref>
== Products and Services ==
== Products and Services ==
Additionally, Fabulous has a Premium PPC Program for higher click through rates and higher traffic.
Additionally, Fabulous has a Premium PPC Program for higher click through rates and higher traffic.
The criterias for a Fabulous.com new account are the customer must transfer over 750 domains to Fabulous and the domain portfolio must generate at least $750 USD per month. <ref>[http://www.fabulous.com/informationcenter/index.htm?formcode[objective]=&formcode[event]=&formcode[registrytime]=1290752509&formcode[certificate]=9b6697323dbc8d94a769eb187ce02f1e&formdata[qid]=47 Fabulous.com ]</ref>
==Awards==
==Awards==