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class="infobox ib-company vcard"><caption class="infobox-title fn org">Authorize.Net</caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image ib-company-logo logo"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Authorize.Net,_A_Visa_Solution_wordmark.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/Authorize.Net%2C_A_Visa_Solution_wordmark.svg/220px-Authorize.Net%2C_A_Visa_Solution_wordmark.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="49" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/Authorize.Net%2C_A_Visa_Solution_wordmark.svg/330px-Authorize.Net%2C_A_Visa_Solution_wordmark.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/Authorize.Net%2C_A_Visa_Solution_wordmark.svg/440px-Authorize.Net%2C_A_Visa_Solution_wordmark.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1587" data-file-height="354" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Current logo, after Visa 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type</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/Subsidiary" title="Subsidiary">Subsidiary</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Industry</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/Internet" title="Internet">Internet</a>, <a href="/wiki/Telecommunication" class="mw-redirect" title="Telecommunication">Communications</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founded</th><td class="infobox-data">1996<span class="noprint">; 28 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">1996</span>)</span> in <a href="/wiki/American_Fork,_Utah" title="American Fork, Utah">American Fork, Utah</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Defunct</th><td class="infobox-data">1999<span class="noprint">; 25 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="dtend">1999</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Fate</th><td class="infobox-data">Acquired several times since 1999: by <a href="/wiki/Go2Net" class="mw-redirect" title="Go2Net">Go2Net</a> in 1999, then by Lightbridge in 2004, then by <a href="/wiki/CyberSource" title="CyberSource">CyberSource</a> in 2007; CyberSource acquired by <a href="/wiki/Visa_Inc." title="Visa Inc.">Visa</a> in 2010</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Headquarters</th><td class="infobox-data label"><a href="/wiki/Foster_City,_California" title="Foster City, California">Foster City, California</a> (2007–2010)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Services</th><td class="infobox-data category">eCommerce Payment Management</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Parent_company" class="mw-redirect" title="Parent company">Parent</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/CyberSource" title="CyberSource">CyberSource</a> (<a href="/wiki/Visa_Inc." title="Visa Inc.">Visa</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.authorize.net/">www<wbr />.authorize<wbr />.net</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Authorize.Net, A Visa Solution</b> is a United States–based <a href="/wiki/Payment_gateway" title="Payment gateway">payment gateway</a> service provider, allowing <a href="/wiki/Merchant" title="Merchant">merchants</a> to accept <a href="/wiki/Credit_card" title="Credit card">credit card</a> and <a href="/wiki/E-check" class="mw-redirect" title="E-check">electronic check</a> payments through their <a href="/wiki/Website" title="Website">website</a> and over an <a href="/wiki/Internet_Protocol" title="Internet Protocol">Internet Protocol</a> (IP) connection. Founded in 1996 as <b>Authorize.Net, Inc.</b>, the company is now a <a href="/wiki/Subsidiary" title="Subsidiary">subsidiary</a> of <a href="/wiki/Visa_Inc." title="Visa Inc.">Visa Inc.</a> Its service permits customers to enter credit card and shipping information directly onto a web page, in contrast to some alternatives that require the customer to sign up for a payment service before performing a transaction.<sup id="cite_ref-Arc17_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Arc17-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span 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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Authorize.Net_wordmark.svg/220px-Authorize.Net_wordmark.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="29" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Authorize.Net_wordmark.svg/330px-Authorize.Net_wordmark.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Authorize.Net_wordmark.svg/440px-Authorize.Net_wordmark.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="2249" data-file-height="296" /></a></span><div class="thumbcaption" style="display:table-caption;caption-side:bottom;box-sizing:border-box;">Original logo of Authorize.Net </div> </div> </div> <p>Authorize.Net was founded in 1996, in <a href="/wiki/Utah" title="Utah">Utah</a>, by Jeff Knowles.<sup id="cite_ref-Practical10_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Practical10-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As of 2004, it had about 90,000 customers.<sup id="cite_ref-Wired04_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wired04-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Authorize.Net was one of several companies acquired by <a href="/wiki/Go2Net" class="mw-redirect" title="Go2Net">Go2Net</a>, a company backed by <a href="/wiki/Microsoft" title="Microsoft">Microsoft</a> founder <a href="/wiki/Paul_Allen" title="Paul Allen">Paul Allen</a>, in 1999,<sup id="cite_ref-Forbes00_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Forbes00-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> for <span style="white-space: nowrap">US$</span>90.5 million in cash and stock.<sup id="cite_ref-WSJ99_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WSJ99-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Go2Net was acquired by InfoSpace in 2000 for about $4 billion;<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Authorize.Net was acquired by Lightbridge in 2004 for $82 million<sup id="cite_ref-Wired04_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wired04-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and then by <a href="/wiki/CyberSource" title="CyberSource">CyberSource</a> in 2007.<sup id="cite_ref-Practical10_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Practical10-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Visa_Inc." title="Visa Inc.">Visa Inc.</a> acquired CyberSource in 2010 for $2 billion.<sup id="cite_ref-Bglobe07_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bglobe07-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Practical10_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Practical10-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Visa has maintained Authorize.Net and Cybersource as separate services,<sup id="cite_ref-TechCrunch12_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TechCrunch12-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> with Authorize.Net concentrating on small- to medium-sized businesses and Cybersource concentrating on international and large-scale payment processing.<sup id="cite_ref-Wired12_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wired12-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the time of the 2010 acquisition, the company's CEO identified three priorities: expanding the <a href="/wiki/E-commerce" title="E-commerce">ecommerce</a> market, enhancing fraud detection and prevention, and improving data security.<sup id="cite_ref-PractEC10_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PractEC10-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As of 2014, along with parent CyberSource, it had about 450,000 customers.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Outages">Outages</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Authorize.Net&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Outages"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In September 2004, Authorize.Net's servers were hit by a <a href="/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack#Distributed_DoS" title="Denial-of-service attack">distributed denial-of-service</a> (DDoS) attack.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The DDoS attack lasted for over one week and caused a virtual shut down of the <a href="/wiki/Payment_gateway" title="Payment gateway">payment gateway</a>'s service. The attackers demanded money from Authorize.net in exchange for stopping the attack. </p><p>On July 2, 2009, at 11:00 p.m. PST, the entire web infrastructure for Authorize.Net (main website, merchant gateway website, etc.) went offline and stayed down all morning July 3, 2009.<sup id="cite_ref-fire2009_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fire2009-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> None of the over 200,000 merchants who used Authorize.Net payment gateway at the time were able to process credit cards. Authorize.Net's phone numbers were closed July 3 because of the July 4th holiday as previously announced on their website (though the website was down at the time).<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other companies that have nearby offices have reported to the media that there was a fire.<sup id="cite_ref-fire2009_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fire2009-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Authorize.net started a <a href="/wiki/Twitter" title="Twitter">Twitter</a> account that morning, but did not update their phones to give notice to customers until July 5 when they reopened phones.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Services">Services</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Authorize.Net&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Services"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Authorize.Net processes <a href="/wiki/Card_payment" class="mw-redirect" title="Card payment">card</a> and <a href="/wiki/Automated_Clearing_House" class="mw-redirect" title="Automated Clearing House">ACH payments</a> for companies from <a href="/wiki/Small_and_medium-sized_enterprises" title="Small and medium-sized enterprises">small and medium-sized merchants</a>. It offers fraud protection services, recurring billing subscriptions, and simple checkout options.<sup id="cite_ref-HuffPo17_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HuffPo17-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For developers, it provides an <a href="/wiki/Application_programming_interface" class="mw-redirect" title="Application programming interface">application programming interface</a> (API) and <a href="/wiki/Software_development_kit" title="Software development kit">software development kits</a> for Android and iOS.<sup id="cite_ref-PW15_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PW15-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Its virtual terminal and invoice features can process manual payments. It also offers recurring billing and a plugin for the integration with Authorize.Net, and technical support is available for merchants. </p><p>Authorize.Net has the most customers of any payment processor as of 2015<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and has been described as one of the more senior players in the payment processing industry, retaining a "decent portion" of the industry's market share.<sup id="cite_ref-HuffPo17_20-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HuffPo17-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Authorize.Net&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Electronic_funds_transfer" title="Electronic funds transfer">Electronic check</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Merchant_account" title="Merchant account">Merchant account</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shopping_cart_software" title="Shopping cart software">Shopping cart software</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Authorize.Net&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output 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