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== People == | == People == | ||
# [[Clint Page]] President and CEO[http://www.dotster.com/about/clintpage.php] | |||
# [[Brian Unruh]] Sr. Vice President and CFO[http://www.dotster.com/about/brianunruh.php] | |||
==External Links== | ==External Links== | ||
# [http://www.dotster.com Dotster.com] | |||
# [http://www.emailbrain.com Email Brain] | |||
[[Category: Companies]] | [[Category: Companies]] | ||
[[Category: Registrars]] | [[Category: Registrars]] | ||
Revision as of 16:40, 1 October 2010
Dotster is a domain name registration service held by the Baker Capital Equity Firm, founded in 1995 that offers hosting, email, security and marketing services to it's clients. Dotster is run by CEO Clint Page joining in 2000 and CFO Brian Unruh who joined in March 2005. The company headquarters is in Vancouver, Washington, USA.
Dotster is one of the world's largest domain name registrars holding more than 3 million domain under management and providing support and services to thousands of customers daily [1]
Email Brain
Email Brain, which provides email marketing services was bought by Dotster in 2008. The company originally was founded in 2003 by Aurelio F Rodriguez. Email Brain allows the customers to send and keep track of promotions and newsletters. [2]
Happy Hour Promotion
On June 24, 2008 Dotster held a happy hour promotion from 9am to 4pm(PDT). Dotster distributed 400 free coupons that were redeemable for .com, .org, or .net domain name. They gave fifty free coupons every hour on a first come first served basis.
While talking about the promotion Clint Page, CEO of Dotster, said,
Dotster has already helped approximately one million businesses get up and running on the Web and 'Happy Hour' is our way of giving back to help a few more. It's a great opportunity for businesses to experience the full power of online Web marketing with Dotster, which includes Web hosting, customized Web site designs, Search Engine Optimization, and now Social Networking with Dotster Connect. [3]
Dotster Connect
Dotster launched Dotster Connect on January 22, 2009, which is an all-in-one product that helps businesses and people to tap into the power of social networking. When Dotster connect was launched it was the only one of its kind product. Dotster connect comes in four packages silver, gold, platinum and enterprise, the enterprise package being with the highest number of features.[4]
The main features of dotster connect are Forums & Polls, Events Management, Submittal Processing, User Profiles and Awards, Media Sharing, Newsletters and more.
Awards
On May 26th 2008, VeriSign presented Dotster a Domain Pioneer award, which implements that dotster has played a vital role in the expansion of .com domains. [5]
People
- Clint Page President and CEO[6]
- Brian Unruh Sr. Vice President and CFO[7]