Web.com
Reports Significant Growth and Key Milestones in 2003
[17th December 2003]
BROOKFIELD, Connecticut, December 17,
2003—Web.com, a Web hosting and dedicated server
provider, announced today that it has experienced significant
growth and achieved key milestones in 2003. Among the
company’s achievements is a 200% increase in revenue
over the previous year, numerous awards, and an expanded
service portfolio designed to help organizations more
effectively utilize the Internet.
Web.com’s growth was fueled in
large part by the addition of over 100,000 new domain
name, e-commerce and dedicated server customers. In
order to accommodate the accelerated growth, Web.com
increased the number of servers in its data center by
300% and more than doubled its staff. By automating
their hosting provisioning system, Web.com reduced new
domain processing time from 48 hours down to less than
a minute, and increased network operations, technical
support and administrative efficiency by more than 50%.
Web.com was also awarded several top
honors in the Web hosting industry this year for its
superior customer service and flexible and customizable
solutions. In December, Web.com was voted the number
one hosting company by TopHosts, the premiere Web hosting
resource site. The award was based on rigorous production
testing and user feedback from the hundreds of thousands
of webmasters who visit TopHosts.com. In November and
December, Web.com was recognized for its powerful and
scaleable hosting plans and voted the number one dedicated
hosting provider by Web Host Directory, another leading
industry resource.
In order to meet the needs and demands
of its growing customer base, Web.com expanded its service
portfolio. Web.com extended additional value to its
customers by offering build-it-yourself Web design tools
with all hosting packages and, towards the latter part
of the year, launched full-service Web design. To help
its customers promote their businesses online and harness
more of the Web, Web.com introduced ‘Search Lightning’,
a professional Web site submission tool that allows
users to submit their Web site to over 400 search engines.
In the fall, Web.com established a flexible, three-tiered
partnership program that enables anyone with an online
presence to add an important revenue stream simply and
efficiently.
Will Pemble, CEO of Web.com said, "We
are very proud of our numerous milestones and achievements
this year. We look forward to executing on a highly
aggressive 2004 business plan, which includes the rollout
of new products and services, and to realizing our vision
of becoming a leading Web services provider.”
About Web.com:
Since 1996, Web.com has served more than 300,000 customers
providing domain names, e-mail service, Web hosting
and eCommerce solutions, consistently ranking among
the Top 20 domain name providers. Web.com’s approach
to hosting hinges on flexibility, customization and
customer control coupled with service excellence, value-added
services and highly competitive pricing. Both Web.com’s
shared hosting services and dedicated servers ensure
technical compatibility with all industry standard systems
– UNIX/Linux, Windows, ColdFusion, etc. –
with extensive flexibility in terms of features, security,
bandwidth and system capacity and site management. For
more information on Web.com, please visit www.web.com.
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For more information: http://www.web.com
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Courtney Chauvin
Affect Strategies
37 West 37th Street 12th Floor
New York , NY 10018 USA
courtney@affectstrategies.com
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