YesDirect
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| Headquarters: | Waltham, Massachusetts |
| Country: | USA |
| Website: | yesdirect.com |
| Key People | |
| Jeffrey S. Bennett, President & CEO | |
YesDirect is a company that provides consumers access to content, targeted listings as well as offers through their network of more than 100 vertical-focused web sites[1][2] that incorporate travel, technology, health, education etc. The company assists businesses in establishing their presence on the Internet via BuyDomains and domain name sales. The headquarters of the company is located in Waltham, Massachusetts.[3][4]
BuyDomains.com[5] edit
In 2006, the business service providing wing of YesDirect, Inc, acquired 32,000 domain names[6] with .com TLD. This enhanced the portfolio of the company by more than 600,000 high performing domain names. One to two word domains are mainly focused on the advertising verticals of education, recruitment, finance and travel with the additional 32,000 domain exclusively comprise of the one and two word domains ending with “.com.”
Domain name portfolio edit
The expansion of the domain name portfolios has brought about an increase in the consumer products and business service offerings by YesDirect. The company today, has become the first of its kind in the world to offer over 600,000 domain names to its customers to help them in building their online presence. The company’s placement of domain delivers better returns to ThoughtSpeed investors.[7]
SmartName edit
The company provides consumers with best results with its partner firm SmartName. The search results include advertisements from all those advertisers who have registered their domain name with SmartName.[8]
Services edit
YesDirect is presently leading the direct browsing market with over 20 million unique visitors on a monthly basis. The various business related services offered by the company include [9]–
- domain registration
- business class web hosting
- personalized email
- DNS
- domain transfer
- renewal services
Portals Owned by YesDirect edit
YesDirect is known popularly for its wide network consisting of around one hundred portals. These portals enable customers to enjoy shopping on internet without any confusion and inconvenience. The portals owned by YesDirect are as follows:
- Shop4Christmas.com
- Shop4Christmas.com
- Shop4Computers.com
- Shop4Jewerly.com
- Shop4Cameras.com
- Shop4Phones.com
- Shop4Flowers.com
- Shop4Luggage.com
- Shop4Watches.com
- Shop4TVs.com
- Shop4Rugs.com
- ShopAround.com
- TechShopping.com.
Each of these portals is meant for shopping for your favorite products. Few other portals owned by YesDirect are:
- TravelChoices.com
- MedicalSource.com
- MusicMania.com
- PhotoConnection.com
- PureBusiness.com
Partners edit
The company YesDirect and Go Daddy signed a partnership deal according to which Go Daddy can sell YesDirect’s domain names on its auction house. the deal was beneficial for both the associated companies as it helped Go Daddy in providing its customers with great domain names. In addition, YesDirect got the exposure which it required in order to reach at higher positions.[10][11]