Leading Domain Name Registrar eNom Passes Milestone Five Million Names, Anticipates Further Global Growth.BELLEVUE, Wash. -- eNom, Inc. (www.enom.com), one of the world's largest Internet domain name An organization's unique name on the Internet. The chosen name combined with a top level domain (TLD), such as .com or .org, also called a "domain extension," makes up the Internet domain name. For example, computerlanguage.com is the domain name for the publisher of this Encyclopedia. registrars, announced that it has passed the milestone of five million domain names under management. During 2005, eNom also moved up to the ranking of world's third largest registrar of domain names. The nine-year-old, privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. continues growing at a remarkable pace, reflected by 2005 growth of: --Domain name registrations up 29% --Revenues (GAAP GAAP See: Generally Accepted Accounting Principles GAAP See generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). ) up 43% --Staff up 34%. "For a mature, accomplished company to be showing such strong growth is a tribute to strategic direction and excellent implementation of technology in an ever-changing field," explains Paul Stahura, eNom founder, president and chief executive officer. "Our emphasis on empowering volume-oriented, independent resellers around the globe is what most distinguishes eNom." The company introduced an unprecedented number of new offerings last year, including five new country-code top level domains (ccTLDs), SSL certificates from Secure Business Services and a multilingual version of PDQ (Parallel Data Query) A query optimized for massively parallel processors (MPPs). The software breaks down the query into pieces so that several parts of the database can be searched simultaneously. See SMP. , its popular domain name reselling kit. The Spanish beta version has been introduced, with additional languages to come this year. The company's base of nearly 14,000 active resellers (such as web hosting companies) depends on "powered by eNom" tools that privately brand domain management and other web services. In addition, eNom hosts the largest domain aftermarket drop-catching tool, called Club Drop, and provides value-added services, such as web site hosting, ID protection services, POP email and a web-site-creator tool. About eNom eNom, Inc. is an ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, www.icann.org) A non-profit, international association founded in 1998 and incorporated in the U.S. It is the successor to IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority), which manages Internet addresses, domain names and the huge number accredited accredited recognition by an appropriate authority that the performance of a particular institution has satisfied a prestated set of criteria. accredited herds cattle herds which have achieved a low level of reactors to, e.g. , profitable, privately held company offering world-class Internet domain name services at competitive prices. In business since 1997, eNom specializes in domain name registration and related services, and is the #1 reseller registrar, according to Name Intelligence(R), with the largest and most active distribution network in the domain industry. eNom currently ranks as the third largest domain name registrar An organization that manages Internet domain names. Any person or company that wants a presence on the Internet must register a unique name with one of the many registrars, such as Network Solutions (www.netsol.com) or Go Daddy (www.godaddy.com). worldwide. More information: http://www.enom.com. |
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