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Afilias
Announces .INFO Website Award Winners - Hands Out Over
$15,000 in Cash Prizes
Afilias,
the operator of the .INFO Registry,
today announced
the winners
of their 2010 .INFO Awards. A panel
of judges selected the top three
websites built on .INFO domains from a field of
more than 130 entries submitted from over 20
countries around the globe. At stake was a $7,500
first prize, $5,000 for 2nd place and $3,000
for third...and the winners are
(drum roll please):
First
Place: GreentTravelClub.info,
a portal where site visitors can search for
eco-friendly hotels while traveling throughout
Europe.
Second
Place: GlutenFreeHelp.info,
a website dedicated to providing information on
the subjects of gluten intolerance, gluten
sensitivity and celiac disease.
Third
Place: Klimaretter.info,
an information source on climate change and
global warming.
.INFO
has posted a video
on YouTube featuring audio quotes
from this year's award winners. First
prize winner Yvette Schlutter from
GreenTravelClub.info said “We are
overwhelmed by this
amazing
success for our company and website. This
is definitely a confirmation that we are
on the right track and have been able to
successfully spread the word about
eco-friendly hotels on the Web.”
Roland
LaPlante, Senior Vice President and
Chief Marketing Officer for Aflias, said
".INFO has proven itself as an
intuitive top-level domain with millions
of great websites. Our 2010 winners have
embraced the need to globally share
information on the Web with a secure and
information driven domain name.”
To
encourage more voter participation, .INFO
also gave away a free Ipad to a
voter chosen at random. The
lucky winner of the Ipad was Nadia
Chatwick.
Roland
LaPlante
Sr. VP, Afilias
One
other note today. Over the weekend
our latest newsletter
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It included a breakdown of 3Q-2010 domain sales reported to DN Journal. A lack of 7-figure blockbuster sales
in the latest quarter caused the total
dollar value of reported sales to fall
slightly (-3%) from the
same quarter a year ago but a big 15%
jump in the median sales price showed increasing
values in the market at large.
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email Sunday, you will still want
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the addition of some late data
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