Doorstep is a Norwegian company.

It was established in 2000, and was meant to develop a web portal

Web portal

A web portal or links page is a web site that functions as a point of access to information in the World Wide Web. A portal presents information from diverse sources in a unified way....

 for online trade. It was a cooperation between telecommunications company Telenor

Telenor

Telenor Group is the incumbent telecommunications company in Norway, with headquarters located at Fornebu, close to Oslo. Today, Telenor Group is mostly an international wireless carrier with operations in Scandinavia, Eastern Europe and Asia, working predominantly under the Telenor brand...

 and Den norske Bank

Den norske Bank

Den norske Bank or DnB was a Norwegian bank that existed between 1990 and 2003 when it merged with Gjensidige NOR to form the present DnB NOR...

. Chairman was Petter Jansen, and among the board members were Gunn Wærsted

Gunn Wærsted

Gunn Wærsted is a Norwegian businessperson, with prominent positions in finance and banking.She was born in Vråliosen as a daughter of power plant manager Atle W. Wærsted and Ester Helgerud . The family moved to Drammen when Wærsted was six years old. She graduated with the siv.øk. degree from the...

, Jon Fredrik Baksaas

Jon Fredrik Baksaas

Jon Fredrik Baksaas is the CEO of Telenor.By education, he received a siviløkonom degree from the Norwegian School of Economics and has additional academic management training from IMD's Programme for Executive Development ....

 and Ingvild Myhre. The goal was to create the largest market place of its kind in Norway. However the chief executive officer Knut Oppegaard quit in March 2001 and was replaced by Ann-Kristin Hageløkken. The portal had not yet been opened. The plans were then significantly altered in April 2001, as the plans for online trading were cut. It shared its fate with several dot-com companies

Dot-com company

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, although the company would use the .no

.no

.no is the Internet country code top-level domain for Norway. Registrations are processed via accredited registrars and internationalized domain names may also be registered ....

 top-level domain

Top-level domain

A top-level domain is one of the domains at the highest level in the hierarchical Domain Name System of the Internet. The top-level domain names are installed in the root zone of the name space. For all domains in lower levels, it is the last part of the domain name, that is, the last label of a...

 instead of .com

.com

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The company still exists, with the purpose of "business development". Jon Fredrik Baksaas is a member of the board, which is now chaired by Rune Bjerke

Rune Bjerke

Rune Bjerke is a Norwegian businessperson and politician for the Labour Party.Rune is son of Juul Bjerke and brother of Siri Bjerke. Bjerke studied economics at the University of Oslo, and has a master's degree in public administration from Harvard University.From 1992 to 1995 he was city...

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