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day Thanksgiving weekend. Americans spent $305 million online Friday, up 22% from the same day a year ago, according to research firm comScore Networks. NetRatings said its Holiday eShopping Index, which tracks traffic to 100 Web sites, jumped 29% Friday from a year earlier. While complete data on Cyber Monday sales won't be available until later this week, the experience of Timberland and of other online retailers suggests that yesterday was a very strong Internet shopping day.

Business Hosting Provider Web (AXcess News)Reno - Survey results from Neilson/NetRatings' Holiday eShopping Index shows that online shopping from home is up 29 Percent over the Black Friday holiday shopping period year-over-year on the day after Thanksgiving.

Ý The term Cyber Monday refers to the Monday immediately following Black Friday, off of the holiday online shopping season in the United States between Thanksgiving Day and Christmas. mortar stores, “Cyber Monday” symbolizes a busy day for online retailers.

Ecommerce Hosting Email Neilson/NetRatings Holiday eShopping Index showed that online shopping web sites garnered a unique audience of 17.2 million across more than 100 representative online retailers compared with 13.3 million on Black Friday last year.

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Cheap Web Hosting Neilson/NetRatings attributed the rise in online holiday shoppers to rising energy prices that the rating service says is straining family budgets. It also said that Americans are becoming more accustomed to using the Internet and that the Web has become a vital component in many Americans' holiday shopping preparations.

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Small Business Hosting Heather Dougherty, senior retail analyst, Nielsen/NetRatings said, "While many shoppers headed out to the stores over the weekend, the majority first turned to the Internet to check prices and product availability."

Last year, the Monday after Thanksgiving was the peak day for online transactions, according to VeriSign Payment Services, a unit of eBay Inc.'s PayPal that processes electronic payments for about 150, 000 online merchants. Some 77% of online retailers said their sales increased noticeably that day, commerce company Shopzilla Inc. and industry group Shop.org, part of the National Retail Federation, which is calling the day "Cyber Monday."

Web Hosting Domains "Now that the 2005 holiday shopping season is underway, traffic to retail sites will climb as shoppers head back to work on Monday ready to make headway on their holiday shopping lists. Cyber Monday will bring additional growth in traffic for online retailers by luring shoppers to their sites through sales promotions and free shipping incentives," said Dougherty.

Web Hosting Domain Names Nielsen/NetRatings said EBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) was the top online retailer on Black Friday, with 9.5 million unique visitors, followed by Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) and Wal-Mart Stores (NYSE: WMT), which drew 4.6 million and 3.4 million unique visitors, respectively. Target (NYSE: TGT) and BestBuy.com (NYSE: BBY) rounded out the top five online shopping destinations, attracting unique audiences of 2.9 million and 2.1 million, respectively. These same retailers led the top online shopping destinations last year on Black Friday and were joined this year by Circuitcity.com (NYSE: CC), Dell Computer (Nasdaq: DELL), and Shopzilla.com Network in the top 10.

Domain Name Registration The fastest growing retail category on Black Friday was toys/video games, with a 152 percent week-over-week growth, Neilson/NetRatings said. Consumer electronics followed close behind with 142 percent growth, and computer hardware/software rounded out the top three with 102 percent growth. Overall week-over-week growth for the Holiday eShopping Index was 39 percent.

Hosting Web Hosting "The toys and video games category experienced the largest increases in traffic fueled by the release of Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) Xbox 360 video game console and the continued popularity of portable game consoles. The consumer electronics and computer hardware categories also attracted holiday shoppers to the Web to research and purchase this year's hottest gift items, including flat-screen TV's, iPods and other MP3 players," said Dougherty. "Price slashing and heavy demand will drive significant sales in these categories this holiday season."

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