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March 1, 2006 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Domain name registrar and Web host Register.com (register.com) announced on Tuesday it has introduced its new Web design service, Build-It-For-Me + eCommerce, offering small business customers a complete online storefront designed and ready in as little as a couple of weeks.
Register.com is working with eBay arm ProStores, to provide customers with online stores that include features for inventory management, shopping cart functionality, payment solutions and search engine optimization. The ProStores-based stores can integrate seamlessly with the eBay marketplace.
"We all know that big business is well established both online and in e-commerce, but small businesses - the driving force of our nation's economy - and their owners, now have an easy option to begin their own push toward e-commerce," says Monica Hodges, GM of retail at Register.com. "An online storefront that would normally cost thousands of dollars with a private Web designer can now be obtained easily and inexpensively at Register.com."
The Build-It-For-Me + eCommerce offering provides customers with professionally designed five-page Web sites, as well as a package of e-commerce software. The sites can include up to 100 products in an online catalog, integrate shipping tables with FedEx, UPS or Canada Post, use integrated storefront management tools and sign up, post and manage auction-style and fixed-price listings on eBay.
In January, Register.com announced a set of changes to its wholesale domain registration business.
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October 2009 - Web Hosting's All Star Team
This has been, for us, one of the most interesting, exciting and challenging build-ups to an issue of the magazine yet, Web Hosting's All Star Team. The balloting process was our first experiment with a kind of user participation we're planning to do a lot more with in the months to come. We had thousands of ballots submitted, with hundreds of write-in suggestions and a demonstration of user engagement that has us feeling super positive about the project.
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July 2009 - What am I Worth?
One of the interesting luxuries of working on a project like the printed WHIR magazine is that it allows us to play with things like our point of view from one issue to the next. In recent months we've been giving added attention to the kind of practical and applicable advice aimed at smaller hosts and resellers. This issue carries on with that point of view, asking, in our cover story, "what am I worth?" It's a complicated question without a clear-cut answer.
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May 2009 - The Blueprint for a Small Web Host
I was a little surprised by how difficult it became to see this idea through. We set out to assemble a blueprint for a small hosting business, but butted up pretty quickly against the general impossibility of covering all the territory that was out there to be covered. The basic constraints of a printed magazine, and the less-than-infinite amount of time we had available forced us to face the fact that we could never produce an exhaustive guide to starting a hosting company.
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