Vistaprint purchases Webs.com, pushing further into domain registrar territory

Vistaprint bolsters its modest business web site offerings with buyout.

If you think Vistaprint is just regarding “free” business cards, you are mistaken.

It’s actually a big competitor in the modest business domain registration and web site business. It offers domain names and web sites on a monthly billing basis.

How big is its web site operation? Its nameservers for the product, vpweb.com, host over 333,000 domain names as stated by DomainTools.

Now the firm is getting even bigger with the buyout of Webs, Inc. The firm offers do-it-yourself web site creation along with other tools. It claims 20,000 fresh users sign up every day for its products. It has regarding 100,000 paying subscribers.

Can you say “cross sell opportunities”?

Vistaprint is no dummy when it comes to the value of good domain names, either. It forked over $1.25 million for Vista.com back in 2007.

If domain name registrars that cater to modest businesses haven’t yet taken notice of VistaPrint, they certainly are now.

Perhaps this is one of the reasons GoDaddy filed a patent application for selling business cards along with a domain name.