Register.com

Register

Type	Private company
Founded	New York, NY 1999
Headquarters	New York, NY, USA
Key people	Larry Kutscher, Chief Executive Officer Gary Michels, Chief Financial Officer Myles Trachtenberg, Chief Information Officer Roni Jacobson, EVP Product and General Counsel Stuart Horowitz, SVP Human Resources Doug Shuman, SVP Customer Marketing Sandy Ross, SVP Canadian Sales & Service
Industry	Domain Registrar
Products	Web services
Revenue	$100.9 million December 2004
Website	http://www.register.com

Register.com (previously Forman Interactive) was founded as a provider of Internet services by brothers Richard and Peter Forman in 1994. In 1999, the company officially changed its name to Register.com.

On April 21, 1999, ICANN announced Register.com was one of the first five testbed registrars for the competitive Shared Registry System. On June 7th, the company began operations under this name as a paid registrar in the .com, .net and .org domains. It was the first of the five testbed registrars to come online.^[1]

In 2000, Register.com issued an IPO and began trading on the NASDAQ under ticker symbol RCOM. By 2004 the company was managing over three million domain names and was listed by VeriSign as one of the top domain name registrars in the world.^{[citation needed]}

In November, 2005 Register.com was acquired by Vector Capital Corporation. Register.com became a private company once again and stopped publicly trading on NASDAQ. In the same year, the company received recognition for “An Outstanding Customer Service Experience” when it became the first Online Services Industry organization to receive the J.D. Power and Associates Call Center Certification.

In November, 2006 Larry Kutscher joined Register.com as Chief Executive Officer. Kutscher came to Register.com from Dun & Bradstreet where he served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Small Business Group.^[2]Under Kutscher’s leadership, Register.com adjusted their strategy to focus on the needs of Small Business owners and entrepreneurs.

The company employs about 400 people in the US, Canada and the UK. Register.com is headquartered in New York City with satellite offices in Baltimore, Maryland and London, England. Register.com’s Sales and Service center operates in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia; over 300 of Register.com’s employees are at this center. Since mid 2007 Register.com had also added an office in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Register.com's Halifax office employs almost 40 staff and is rapidly expanding.^{[citation needed]}

Register.com has remained one of the largest registration companies despite being both more expensive and offering inferior services.^[3][4][5][6] The company currently has an rating of "unsatisfactory" by the New York state Better Business Bureau.^[7]

On April 1, 2009, Register.com suffered a major DDoS attack, downing thousands of web sites. The FBI and The Department of Homeland Security were engaged to assist. Services were restored through counter-measures and minimized the disruption; some services were unavailable for 3 days. Twitter, a social networking service, was used to update customers on the status throughout the attack.

References

See also

• List of domain name registrars
• Domain Name System

External links

• Register.com
• Register.com Customer Support
• Register.com's Twitter Page