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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>
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>
==Vector's acquisition of Register.com==
Register.com launched very successful IPO in 2000 and one of the pionneer company in internet business for 4-5 years. However, during 2005 as demand for domain names slowed, Register.com’s revenues and market value fell significantly and the company began to face different challenges. <ref>[http://www.vectorcapital.com/portfolio/casestudy/4 Vector Capital Case Studies]</ref>The company developed a strategy to focus on small business and providing online services to serve that segment of the market but still kept underperforming in terms of revenues and on the stock market.<ref>[http://www.redherring.com/Home/13093 Red Herring]</ref>
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