E-Commerce is the buying and selling of goods and services on the Internet. Whether business-to-business, business-to-consumer, or consumer-to-consumer, web sites that support e-commerce seem to be everywhere. This chapter provides an overview of this topic.

Examples	Certificate Authorities
Amazon Sears eBay	Verisign Thawte
Demographics & Stats	Issues
Cyberatlas Online Population Study NUA Net Surveys E-Commerce Times NetFactual.com PEW Internet & American Life Project	Section 508 & Accessibility Domain Name Dispute Procedures Automatic Translation Customized Translation Customer Relations Security
Payment Processing	Instant Storefronts
Internet Cash CheckFree Authorize.Net PayPal	Yahoo! Bigstep FreeMerchant Earthstores AACart
Commercial Shopping Carts	Free Shopping Cart Scripts
Miva Mercantec	Aspcode.Net PerlShop Extropia
Web Authoring Tool Specific Solutions	Other Shopping Cart Solutions
FrontPage Dreamweaver JustAddCommerce	PayPal (tutorials) Mals-E.com

Recent Developments

Google has launched a new payment system called "Checkout" to compete with PayPal. Visit Search EngineWatch for an overview.

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