Whois & Analysis for giftcards.com

GiftCards.com is an online gift card retailer based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

The company sells gift cards for thousands of different large corporate retailers and small businesses including Best Buy, Barnes & Noble, Sephora, Coach, Amazon.com, and others.

The company also offers prepaid Visa and MasterCard gift cards.

GiftCards.com is considered the largest online gift card retailer and has appeared on the Inc. 5000 list multiple times (most recently in 2015).

The company is currently owned by Blackhawk Network Holdings after its purchase of the retailer in 2016.

A gift card (also known as gift certificate in North America, or gift voucher or gift token in the UK) is a prepaid stored-value money card usually issued by a retailer or bank to be used as an alternative to cash for purchases within a particular store or related businesses.

Gift cards are also given out by retailers and marketers as part of a promotion strategy, to entice the recipient to come in or return to the store, and at times such cards are called cash cards.

Gift cards are generally redeemable only for purchases at the relevant retail premises and cannot be cashed out, and in some situations may be subject to an expiry date or fees.

Visa and MasterCard credit cards produce generic gift cards which need not be redeemed at particular stores, and which are widely used for cashback marketing strategies.

A feature of these cards is that they are generally anonymous and are disposed of when the stored value on a card is exhausted.

Visa Inc. (or) (also known as Visa, stylized as VISA) is an American multinational financial services corporation headquartered in Foster City, California, United States.

It facilitates electronic funds transfers throughout the world, most commonly through Visa-branded credit cards and debit cards.

Visa does not issue cards, extend credit or set rates and fees for consumers; rather, Visa provides financial institutions with Visa-branded payment products that they then use to offer credit, debit, prepaid and cash-access programs to their customers.

In 2015, the Nilson Report, a publication that tracks the credit card industry, found that Visa’s global network (known as VisaNet) processed 100 billion transactions with a total volume of US$6.8 trillion.

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A website may be accessible via a public Internet Protocol (IP) network, such as the Internet, or a private local area network (LAN), by referencing a uniform resource locator (URL) that identifies the site.