Register.com
Register.com is a web hosting and internet domain register company based on NY, USA.
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| Type: | Private |
| Industry: | Registrar |
| Founded: | USA (1999) |
| Founder(s): | Richard Foreman Peter Foreman |
| Headquarters: | 575 8th Ave., 11th FL New York, NY 10018-3011, USA |
| Employees: | 489 (2008) |
| Revenue: | 51.70 M (2008) |
| Website: | http://www.register.com |
| Key People | |
| David L. Brown, (President) Gary S. Michel , EVP and CFO | |
The company mainly sells registrations for general extension i.e. .com, .net, .org , .co , .biz and also country based extensions i.e. .uk, .us, .jp, .ca etc.The company serves an extensive range of customers from individuals and small businesses to large corporations, and it has more than 2.5 million domain names under its management. [1]
The company also offers Email Package, website hosting, website developing, security solutions, internet marketing etc services. The headquarter of Register.com is in New York city and it has has branches in Baltimore and Halifix, USA, in London, England and in Nova Scotia, Canada.
History
The company was founded in 1994 by brothers Richard Foreman and Peter Foreman as an Internet Service Provider under the name Forman Interactive. The company changed its name to Register.com in 1999.
Register.com was one of the first five testbed Registrars for the competitive Shared Registry System announced my ICANN in 1999.[2]
In 2006 the Formans sold Register.com to the San Francisco-based private equity firm Vector Capital Corporation for about 200 million dollars.[3]
Register.com was acquired by Web.com for about $135 million in mid 2010.[4]