ECOMMERCE
An array of companies - Concentric, EarthLink, MindSpring, PSINet - now offer all the services small and medium-sized businesses could want when they take their commerce online.
Services like domain name registration, hosting, site design, and applications management make these outfits, in effect, commerce service providers, or CSPs.
Owning the infrastructure means CSPs not only exact tolls for high-end ecommerce apps, but also levy per-transaction charges. It's this ability to get a cut of the action that makes analysts like Rick Juarez of BancBoston RobertsonStephens bullish on CSPs. Juarez's 1998 "State of Internet Service and Commerce Report," in fact, coined this market-friendly acronym du jour.
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