Register.com Roars Into First Place.NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 21, 1998-- Domain Name Service Declared Largest in the World Register.com (http://www.register.com), the fastest growing domain name registration service on the Internet, claimed the top spot among domain name registrars This is a list of domain registrars ranked in order according to ICANN statistics at [1]
prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. industry observer domainwatch.com. Domainwatch.com statistics come from the Network Solutions/Internic domain name database and reveal that register.com has become the largest single source of generic level domain name .com, .net and .org registrations, surpassing the previous leader Tabnet (Nasdaq: VRIO VRIO Virtual Reality Input Output ). According to domainwatch.com, register.com has over 96,000 generic level domain names registered in the Internic database. This level surpasses the previous leader Tabnet, which has a total of 95,000 domain names registered. Network Solutions (Nasdaq: NSOL) has registered a total of 31,000 domain names to date. -0- Company Registrations Rank 30 day Growth Register.com 96,179 1 30,000 Tabnet/Verio 95,553 2 8,000 Mindspring 42,121 4 3,000 Network Solutions/ Worldnic 31,486 6 7,000 -0- Register.com has rocketed to the top, claiming the lead in only a matter of months, after launching the service in February of this year. "We are elated by this latest news," said Richard Forman, President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of register.com. "Within eight months, register.com has paved the way towards creating a niche portal for small and medium sized businesses that want to get started on the Internet." One of example of this comes from customer Richard Keel, a typical register.com user. "I'm a small time web designer who does this (domain registration) as part of my tech support for real estate professionals. Your service is so easy to use and is a real asset to the services I provide." "Register.com has become the leading domain registration brand on the Internet," stated Sascha Mornell, Director of Marketing and Online Services at register.com. "We would like to thank the tens of thousands of customers who have used and recommended the register.com service." Register.com currently offers customers the ability to register domain names with a wide array of top level domains (TLD (Top Level Domain) The highest level domain category in the Internet domain naming system. There are two types: the generic top level domains (gTLDs) such as .com, .org, and .net, and the country codes, such as .ca, .uk and .jp. See gTLD and Internet domain name. ) extensions, including recent additions .AC and .SH. Register.com's partners include GeoCities (Nasdaq: GCTY), theglobe.com (Nasdaq: TGLO TGLO Turbine Generator Lube Oil (submarines) ), the Infoseek Corporation (Nasdaq: SEEK), Thomson and Thomson and Spree.com. About Forman Interactive Corp. Register.com is a division of Forman Interactive Corp. (FIC FIC First International Computer FIC Fogarty International Center (John E. Fogarty International Center for Advanced Study in the Health Sciences; National Institutes of Health) FIC Fellowship for Intentional Community ), a leading developer of Internet-based solutions and electronic commerce development tools for small- and medium-sized businesses. Forman Interactive Corp. was founded in 1994 and is based in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , NY. Forman Interactive was ranked by Network Computing Storing and/or running applications in servers in a network. See cloud computing and network computer. as a top five e-commerce solution for small businesses in the December 1998 issue. Domainwatch is located at http://www.domainwatch.com |
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