web founded 1997 headquarters 12808 gran bay parkway w. jacksonville florida u.s. key people david l. brown chairman president and ceo 1 industry internet products websites website design website hosting internet marketing lead generation ecommerce revenue 106.5 million usd 2014 2 operating income 10.32 million usd 2014 gaap 2 employees 2 200 2015 3 website web.com alexa rank 8 404 march 2015 update 4 web.com group inc. is a provider of web services catering to small and medium sized businesses . as of december 2014 web.com had over 3.3 million subscribers . 5 it is headquartered in jacksonville florida . company history and acquisitions edit the web.com group was formed as a result of the merger of web.com inc. nasdaq web 6 and website pros inc. wsp nasdaq wspi . 7 website pros was founded in 1999 by darin brannan with a goal of becoming the largest nationwide website design and related value add services company to the small and mid sized market in a subscription model saas . the idea was to provide these services at 1 10 the cost and time of that offered by thousands of small web design shops dominating the cottage industry . it went public in 2005 . the company was initially funded with 65 million from norwest venture partners crosspoint ventures chase verizon bell atlantic office depot and dell ; and subsequently by insight venture partners just prior to its ipo . the company used a portion of this initial money to acquire both the saas sitebuilder platform company first in the market and the servicing infrastructure company technical call center atlantic teleservices inc. founded and ceo d by david brown . the company recruited a professional management team and board senior officers from office depot kmart and intel among others to begin executing on the operational and sales plan . as the market pre bubble was flush with cash it could afford both a direct sales through two kinko s like sales offices and indirect channel sales strategy . when the market downturn hit in 2000 the company quickly shut down the direct sales model and focused exclusively on the less expensive indirect channel strategy consolidated operations in florida where the call center was acquired and let go of the expensive senior management team in favor of a leaner operation to survive the post . com bubble era . david brown was asked to return to the company as ceo and pursue the vision with the new leaner operations . the company was successful in landing enterprise channel partners and in focusing on the fundamentals of building this business model . the company completed several acquisitions along the way including netobjects innuity leads.com renovation experts submit a website eboz and 1shoppingcart . 8 9 in 2007 website pros acquired web.com and the combined company changed their name to web.com group in 2008 . web.com was originally started as micron electronics and sold computers mostly to government entities . under the leadership of ceo joel kocher micron shuttered the pc business and entered the web hosting business through a series of acquisitions . after its largest acquisition micronpc changed its name to interland in 2000 . 10 while the company grew to be the largest hosting company in the world its growth stalled after the company stopped making acquisitions . kocher was replaced by a turn around team led by jeffrey stibel in 2005 . 11 stibel changed the name from interland to web.com . 12 13 and quickly turned the company around and delivered record organic revenue growth and led the company to its largest subscriber count in the company s history until it merged with website pros in 2007 . 14 at the time of the merger with website pros the company s stock closed at 7.15 which represented more than a threefold increase since new management joined in august 2005 . 15 16 17 18 web.com group sold netobjects fusion in early 2009 and acquired solid cactus in late 2009 from scott sanfilippo and joe palko . the company purchased register.com for 135 million in 2010 and network solutions in 2011 for 405 million . 19 in 2012 web.com acquired naming rights to the pga tour s developmental tour replacing nationwide insurance and re branding it as the web.com tour . 20 in 2014 web.com acquired uk based business directory service scoot 21 references edit board of directors . web.com group inc. retrieved 2015 01 15 . a b web.com reports second quarter 2014 financial results . web.com group inc. retrieved 2014 08 14 . web.com investor relations fact sheet about web.com pdf . web.com group inc. retrieved 2015 05 31 . web.com site info . alexa internet . retrieved march 31 2015 . http files.shareholder.com downloads wspi 0x0x818762 1d1f889b 3011 47e7 840b 059d09783c03 2014 annual report.pdf web.com announces ticker symbol change to web nasdaq wwww . ir.web.com . retrieved 2015 11 10 . website pros completes transaction with web.com . website pros . retrieved october 1 2007 . website pros acquires leads.com and eboz inc. 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