Company history
eNom was founded in 1997 in Redmond, Washington operating as a wholesale business, allowing resellers to sell domains and other services under their own branding. eNom also operates retail sites eNomCentral.com and BulkRegister.com.
In May 2006, eNom was one of the original businesses that were acquired to form privately held Demand Media, headquartered in Santa Monica, California. Within Demand Media, eNom continues to operate as a domain name registrar and as the registrar platform for its media properties.
In July 2006, eNom bought out competitor BulkRegister.Prior to its purchase, BulkRegister was a member-supported service where clients were not resellers, but companies large enough to pay an annual membership fee to acquire low registration fees on their domain name registrations, due to the volume they potentially register. With this acquisition, eNom rose to become the second largest domain name registrar. eNom maintains BulkRegister as a separate service.
Ownership of other domain registrars
eNom operates a large number of other domain registrars, including “Enom1, Inc.”, “Enom2, Inc.”, “Enom3, Inc.”, and additional numbered entities through “eNom1038, Inc”. eNom also operates “EnomAte, Inc.”, “Enomsky, Inc.” and other similar names.
Resellers
As of March 2008, eNom states that it has over 99,000 resellers, of which over 28,000 are active.
In February 2007, eNom dropped RegisterFly as a reseller citing consumer complaints.
Spam control
Spam, or “junk e-mail,” requires infrastructure of which domain names are one component. eNom posts a “zero tolerance spam policy”.[10] As of July 2011 eNom is listed as the #1 registrar in terms of the number of spammer registered domains listed on URIBL
Law enforcement
In March 2008, a New York Times story mentioned that eNom is known to disable domain names which appear on a US Treasury Department blacklist. It describes eNom’s disabling of a European travel agent’s Web sites advertising travel to Cuba, which appeared on a U.S. Treasury Department list published by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). The article’s sources use words varying from “scandal” to “legally required” to describe “how Web sites owned by a British national operating via a Spanish travel agency can be affected by U.S. law”, especially when the operation is as “mysterious” as that of the OFAC list.
See also
List of domain name registrars
ICANN
References
^ a b “2007 ICANN Registrar Statistics”. Name Intelligence, Inc.. 2007. http://www.domaintools.com/internet-statistics/registrar-stats-2007.php. Retrieved 2008-02-25.
^ “Current Registrar Statistics”. RegistrarStats.com. http://registrarstats.com/Public/RegistrarMarketShareMain.aspx. Retrieved 2010-02-25. [dead link]
^ “For These Sites, Their Best Asset Is a Good Name”. 2006-05-01. http://www.generation.com/2006_05_01.html. Retrieved 2008-06-01.
^ “The State of the Industry (January 2007): 15 Domain Experts Ponder What Happened in 2006 and Predict What’s Coming in ’07”. Ron Jackson. http://www.dnjournal.com/cover/2007/january.htm. Retrieved 2009-02-25.
^ “eNom BulkRegister web site”. http://bulk.enom.com. Retrieved 2008-02-25.
^ “ICANN Accredited Registrars”. Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. April 19, 2011. http://www.icann.org/en/registrars/accredited-list.html.
^ eNom Awards & Statistics
^ Burke Hansen (2007-02-19). “Registerfly on the fly, ICANN on the run”. The Register. http://www.theregister.com/2007/02/19/registerfly_angry_customers/. Retrieved 2008-02-25.
^ St Sauver, Joe (2008). “Spam, Domain Names and Registrars” (pdf). MAAWG 12th General Meeting. San Francisco, USA. http://www.uoregon.edu/~joe/maawg12/domains-talk.pdf. Retrieved 2009-02-25.
^ eNom abuse policy
^ URIBL website
^ Adam Liptak (2008-03-04). “A Wave of the Watch List, and Speech Disappears”. The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/04/us/04bar.html?_r=2&scp=1&sq=liptak&st=nyt&oref=slogin&oref=slogin.
^ “ALPHABETICAL LISTING OF SPECIALLY DESIGNATED NATIONALS AND BLOCKED PERSONS”. Office of Foreign Assets Control. http://www.treas.gov/offices/enforcement/ofac/sdn/sdnlist.txt. Retrieved 2009-02-25.