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Register.com was acquired by [[Web.com]] for about $135 million in mid 2010.<ref>[http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/web-com-register-com/19520249/ Daily Finance ]</ref>
Register.com was acquired by [[Web.com]] for about $135 million in mid 2010.<ref>[http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/web-com-register-com/19520249/ Daily Finance ]</ref>
==ICANN Registrar Accreditation==
In march 1999, ICANN Board posted the Statement of Registrar Accreditation Policy to implement a program for registrar accreditation for the .com, .net, and .org top-level domains. From March 11 to April 8, 1999, ICANN accepted applications from entities seeking accreditation to participate as one of the five domain name registrars in the SRS Testbed Program.<ref>[http://www.icann.org/en/registrars/accreditation-history.htm ICANN.org ]</ref>
On April 21, 1999, ICANN announced Register.com was one of the first five testbed registrars for the competitive Shared Registry System. On June 7, the company began operations under this name as a paid registrar in the .com, .net and .org domains along with [[AOL]], [[CORE]], [[France Telecom]]/[[Oléane]] and [[Melbourne IT]]. Register.com is the first registrar to come online on 7 June. <ref>[http://www.wallonie-isoc.org/Internet_Documents-en-francais/Hobbes_Internet-Timeline_trad.htm Robert H'obbes' Internet Timeline ]</ref>
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