Seeking to expand their service offerings, a pair of competing Internet registrars this week announced plans to offer matching toll-free telephone numbers to customers who buy dot-com Internet addresses.

Register.com today announced a deal with TeleDomains.com that will allow the domain name seller's customers to sign up for matching toll-free telephone numbers when they buy ".com" and other Internet addressees through Register.com.

Register.com hopes to paint itself as a one-stop-shop for fledgling businesses looking to build name recognition and online identity, Register.com spokesperson Shonna Keeogan said today.

The Register.com announcement comes just two days after domain name registration giant Network Solutions Inc. – Register.com's largest competitor – announced a deal with Response Marketing Group to provide toll-free numbers to Network Solutions' domain name customers.

Keeogan said that the timing of the two announcements was coincidental.

Teledomains.com, the company that Register.com has contracted to provide the toll-free telephone services, specializes in taking company names and assigning matching toll-free telephone numbers, Teledomains.com President Bernard Sonnenschein said today.

For $95, plus the cost of registering a domain name with the company, Register.com customers will be able to avail themselves of Teledomains.com's services, Sonnenschein said today.

For that flat fee, Teledomains.com staffers will work to match an available "800" number with the domain name registered by the Register.com customer.

Teledomains.com maintains access to the master directory of toll-free numbers and will often try "thousands" of combinations in an attempt to match a business name to a phone number, Sonnenschein said today.

Response Marketing Group - the company chosen by Network Solutions for its toll-free telephone service offering - bills itself as the nation's leading toll-free number provider.

In May, Network Solutions began offering a similar service that allowed customers to immediately register their toll-free numbers as domain names.

Reported by Newsbytes.com, http://www.newsbytes.com .

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