Register.com is an American domain name registrar founded in 1994.
History
The company was founded in 1994 as Forman Interactive Corp by brothers Peter and Richard Forman and their brother-in-law, Dan B. Levine as a provider of website creation software.[1] 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 7, the company began operations under this name as a paid registrar in the .com, .net, and .org domains and soon became the first of the five testbed registrars to come online. It was initially selling 3,000 to 4,000 domain names per day.[2]
In March 2000, at the peak of the dot-com bubble, the company became a public company via an initial public offering.[3] The stock price peaked at $116 per share; 1 year later the stock traded at $5 per share.[1]