CommerceNet

Site:
http://www.commerce.net/

Category:
The Internet

Review (in 1996):

CommerceNet is a non-profit consortium that provides "the first large-scale trial to support electronic commerce via the Internet". The point, in other words, is to help make the Internet an easy-to-use and secure tool for businesses. Here you can explore this new business frontier and even join a subscription program to get your business up on the Web with an electronic storefront.

For most users, the best resources here are the directories of companies providing Internet services; the "Getting Started" Web design tutorial is also quite helpful. You'll find plenty of menus before you get tot he main course; we'd like to see a search engine to make it easier to get around. Still it's a valuable service if you're looking for examples of the Net's commercial sites.

As reviewed in the 1996 "World Wide Web Top 1000" - a review of the Top 5% of all Web Sites in 1996.