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Hoover's Profile: Register.com, Inc.
 
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Register.com, Inc.
575 8th Ave., 11th Fl.
New York, NY 10018-3011
NY Tel. 212-798-9100

Type: Private
On the web: http://www.register.com
Employees: 489

Still don't have an Internet domain name? Register.com can help. The company is a leading provider of Internet services, including Web hosting and the registration of Web domains ending in .com, .org, and .net. Register.com also sells registrations for domains like .biz, .info, and .name, and for more than 240 country code domains such as .co.uk for the UK, .de for Germany, and .jp for Japan. The company's customers range from individuals and small businesses to large corporations, and it manages about 3 million domain names. Register.com was acquired by private equity firm Vector Capital for about $200 million in cash in 2005.

Key numbers for fiscal year ending December, 2007:
Sales: $62.2M

Officers:
CEO: Lawrence M. (Larry) Kutscher
CFO: Jonathan H. (Jon) Stern
CIO: Myles Trachtenberg

Competitors:
Go Daddy
Network Solutions
United Internet

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Wikipedia: 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.

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