May 2008dk holding added an Orlando Florida office to better help our East Coast clients.
January 2008 dk holding had aquired Red Apple Media (www.redapplemedia.com), an internet media delivery company that helps studios delivery their music and videos online through our Video on Demand (VOD), Pay Per View (PPV), and Quicktime, Flash, Windows streaming. In addition we are able help studios develop a more traditional e-commerce delivery system using a proprietary shopping cart technology that can securely deliver files with and without DRM using standard merchant account and a membership based payment system.
July 2007 dk holdings enters into property management with a luxury vacation rental, Casa Santo Tomas ( www.casasantotomas.com ) in the heart of Rancho Mirage and Palm Springs California. February 2007 dotCOM host has formed a partnership with pay Quake, online payment solutions for merchant accounts. (www.payquake.com). This will also smaller merchant to credit card processing to their e-commerce sites for a lower cost then they can find anywhere else. November 2006 dotCOM host has formed a partnership with swSoft, maker of Plesk, Virtuozzo, and sitebuider. swsoft (www.swsoft.com) dotCOM host objective in this partnership is to offer our resellers and partners more tools from VPS, billing, and reseller options. January 2006 dotCOM Designers changes it's hosting name to reflect it's core business. dotCOM Host (www.dotcomhost.com). June 2004 dotCOM Designers will add two more companies; www.1Userverhosting.com and www.XLwebhosting.com. This will allow us to expand into co-location services, managed and unmanaged services, and general high end hosting leveraging our backbone multi-line providers in our new state of the art facility. May 2004 Michelle Walterhouse has joined our hosting division as Regional Manager / Client Advocate. She has been working with our dk Financial division for over 2 years and she bring with her great ability and energy. She will work to acquire new clients and build our network of partners. January 2004 Steven Daris, CEO of dk Holdings, has accepted the volunteer role of Director of the National Association of Financial Wholesalers. The non-profit organization has been the main resource for financial wholesalers since 2000. Mr. Daris will continue as CEO of dk Holdings while taking the volunteer role. November 2003 dotCOM designers became a Verisign Partner and reseller for Verisign's PayFlow product line of online e-commerce payment gateways. PayFlow Pro and Link are the best rated payment gateway systems for e-commerce web sites. Their speed allows online credit card capture to be processed under 2 seconds. We offer these two products at a discount to our hosting clients as well as clients located at other hosting companies. September 2003 dotCOM designer's Remik Kolodziej is featured in the press release for Ensim software products. As a beta reviewer for Ensim WEBppliance, dotCOM designer's hosting division supplied important suggestions that were later applied to the commercial release. January 2003 dotCOM Designers enters into a marketing agreement with Urchin to offer the web based software to other hosting companies putting dotCOM designers as a value based reseller for products and services outside of our own hosting clients. It is now possible to offer Urchin web stats to web sites not even located on our own servers. Interested web site owners, ISPs, and webmasters should contact sales@dotcomdesigners.com . [demo Urchin here] May 1, 2000 dk Holdings spins off its web design and print design divisions into new, independent entity, under the name of dotCOM designers. This follows our recent acquisition of a San Diego based web hosting company. The two combined companies will collaboratively provide graphics design, print media advertising and promotional materials, web site design and maintenance, web site hosting, and e-commerce integration services for the B2B and B2C markets. Visit dotCOM designers web site: http://www.dotcomdesigners.com January-March 2001 dotCOM designers acquires two of its California allies in the digital design marketplace: Calver Graphics (calvergraphics.com) and PIX-elated (pix-elated.com), and integrates them into one company under the common name of dotCOM designers. Both Calver Graphics and PIX-elated are chosen on basis of mutual compatibility with dotCOM designers' existing services offerings, excellent reputation among their respective clients, and a perfect fit within dotCOM designers' corporate culture. Management positions are extended to, and accepted by, original executive staff from Calver Graphics and PIX-elated. "Welcome to the family!"