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eNom, Inc. is a domain name registrar and Web hosting company that also sells other products closely tied to domain names, such as SSL certificates, e-mail services, and Website building software. As of 2007, it was the second largest in the list of domain name registrars ranked by number of domains registered. As of February 2010, it manages over 9 million domains.
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.
Accreditations and awards
eNom is an ICANN-accredited registrar and has been a Better Business Bureau (BBB) Accredited Business since 2002. eNom has won the following industry awards from domain research corporation Name Intelligence:
* 2002-2008 Best ICANN Reseller Registrar
* 2005-2007 User’s Choice Award
* 2005-2007 Outstanding Drop Catcher
eNom was named #292 in Inc. Magazine’s 500 fastest growing private companies in 2006.
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".
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.[17] 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[18] 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.
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