Recording and tabulating shareholder votes by mail, telephone, and electronic mail; provision of proxy voting services to publicly-traded companies and to shareholders of publicly-traded companies; providing of non-confidential, public information about publicly-traded companies over a global computer network; providing third parties with the information necessary for submitting shares for transfer; providing information to stock brokers about stock certificate restrictions; providing stock brokers, investment professionals, and depositories with information pertaining to the validity and status of stocks, shares, share certificates, the validity and status of publicly traded companies, current transfer fee charges, and information and documentation requirements requested from transfer agents over a global computer network; stock transfer agent services provided over a global computer network; processing transfers of corporate securities; holding and making available for inspection lists of security holders and corporate documents