Farewell Kagi
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Farewell Kagi
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#2That's too bad.
Kagi is not a name that comes up very often anymore, but they were a shareware payments processor. Back in the day, (90s!), charging credit cards was exceedingly difficult for small software businesses, so they essentially rented out a merchant account and (optionally) working shopping cart in exchange for 10%~15% of the transaction price.
There used to be many of these smaller payment processors. Most of the ones in the software space joined Digital River or went under.
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#3Kagi was 22 years in business and they write this:
> We are sorry we failed you.
Kagi, you did not fail. You provide an essential service for what was then called Shareware when it was really hard to do online payment processing.
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#4Does anyone know what the fraud incident was that they reference? I couldn't find anything on Google and don't remember any news, either...
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#5https://web.archive.org/web/20160801094831/http://www.kagi.c...
Site seems to be dead already. This seems awfully fast, given that they only ceased operations yesterday and still have a couple of things left to do, so the site might come back up for a bit. But here's a link to a snapshot just in case.
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#6Very sad to hear this. Out of curiosity, is the domain name up for sale?
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#7I wonder if they could sell their domain name to cover some of their debt... 4 letter .com domains are hard to come by.
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#8I extracted quite a sizable part of my income from Kagi shareware payments over the 90's and early 00's. Sad to see them go. I'm sure the nice people who worked there will become nice people working at any other places...
They were absolutely amazing to have in the days before the Paypals and international credit cards!
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#9I wonder if they could sell their domain name to cover some of their debt... 4 letter .com domains are hard to come by.
And that name could certainly be of some interest for people in the security or cryptography fields (kagi meaning key in Japanese)
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#10For those who didn't know about Kagi, from an archived version of their site:
Welcome to Kagi. We provide the technology that makes it easy for you to open and operate your online store, so you have time to focus on managing your business. We offer a complete range of store solutions, including order pages, shopping carts and payment processing—all tailored to fit your needs. We give you the keys that unlock your online store's potential.