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 & Rita: includes link to a quite amazing blog on LiveJournal
  • webhostingtalk 2002-04-22