Web.com (1995 – 2007)
| Subsidiary | |
| Industry |
Web hosting Design e-commerce Marketing |
| Founded | 1995, as MicronPC |
| Headquarters | Jacksonville, FL, USA |
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Key people
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Jeff Stibel, President & CEO Gonzalo Troncoso, President, Web Services |
| Products | Site Builder, Hosting Suite |
| Revenue |
 ~$53 Million US$ (annualized) |
| Parent | Website Pros (NASDAQ: WSPI) |
| Website | www.web.com |
Web.com, Inc, formerly Interland, Interland was founded by Waldemar Fernandez and Ken Gavranovic in 1997 out of Atlanta Georgia. Mr. Fernandez the Chairman and largest shareholder resigned in 2000 shortly after Interland went public, Interland a provider of websites and web services to small businesses and consumers, based in Atlanta, Georgia. Web.com's services included do-it-yourself and professional website design, web hosting, e-commerce, web marketing, and e-mail. As of March 2007, there were approximately 166,000 paid hosting subscribers in 2007.
Along with various web products and services, Web.com provided small businesses, entrepreneurs and consumers with advice and tips for developing a strong online presence. It owned the brands Web.com, Interland, Trellix, and Hostpro.
On September 30, 2007, Web.com merged with Website Pros, forming the new Web.com.
The company was founded as MicronPC, a multi-billion PC manufacturer, but later merged with Interland, which was another public company based in Atlanta, Georgia. The combined company changed its name to Interland and sold the PC business to focus on Internet hosting. Interland's primary business was providing web services, such as shared and dedicated hosting. Interland acquired numerous hosting companies between the years 2001 and 2006, including HostPro, Worldwide Internet Publishing Company, Innerhost, Dialtone, Interland, Burlee, Trellix, Communitech and WazooWeb. The company acquired Web.com in December 2005 for $4.8 million and changed its name from Interland to Web.com. In August 2005, Interland's Board of Directors decided to bring in new management with the goal of turning around the company. It removed its former CEO, Joel Kocher, and replaced him with Jeff Stibel. Over the next several months the company also brought in a new Chief Technology Officer, Vikas Rijsinghani (former founder and CTO of VerticalOne) and a new Chief Marketing Officer, Judy Hackett (former CMO of CareerBuilder).
Web.com held 21 registered patents and claimed to have the primary underlying technology for various aspects of web hosting, software as a service, customer-facing control panels, and website builders. Some of these patents were licensed to Hostopia, a wholesale web hosting provider. On February 1, 2007, Netcraft named Web.com one of the most reliable hosting companies.
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