directNIC

directNIC is a company that provides a number of services related to internet commerce, including:
 * Domain Registration (see Domain Registrar) and DNS Services
 * Domain Web Hosting
 * Credit Card Processing (see Merchant Card Processing)
 * SSL Certificates

They are operated by Intercosmos Media Group, Inc.

Their Merchant Card Processing "free signup" special appears to be a chronic floater, in that it always claims to end the next day (as of 2005-12-05 and -12-06). As such, it appears to be an extremely good deal, as the rest of the terms are quite favorable as well.

Links

 * directNIC home
 * card processing
 * status after Hurricane Katrina
 * Discussion
 * datacenter in New Orleans remained operational thru Katrina &amp; Rita: includes link to a quite amazing blog on LiveJournal
 * webhostingtalk 2002-04-22