COMMERCIAL SERVICE PROVIDER

commercial service provider: translation

n.

A company that offers a complete range of services for setting up a business for online commerce (cf. Internet service provider).

"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, commercial service providers, or CSPs."

— Matthai Chakko Kuruvila, "ISPs? So 10 Minutes Ago," Wired

application service provider

B2B

clicks-and-mortar

dot com

e-business

e-commerce

e-wallet

first-mover advantage

horizontal portal

netco

portal site

vertical portal

vortal

Companies

E-commerce