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Ten
Finalists Named in
the 2009 .INFO Awards Contest - Top Three in Public
Voting This Week Will Split $15,500 in Prize Money .INFO
registry operator Afilias
opened its 2009
.INFO Awards to public voting today. Anyone
can now vote
for their favorite .INFO site among 10 finalists selected
by a panel of judges from a field of more than 50
original entrants. The finalists are:
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You
can cast your vote at www.info-award.info
from now until voting ends at 11:59pm
(US Eastern time), Friday, November 6.
The Public votes will be combined with
the judges scores to select the top
three sites. |
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$7,500
will go to the winner, $5,000 to
the runner up and $3,000 to the
site placing third. The winners of
the .INFO Awards will be announced on November
9.
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Roland LaPlante, Senior
Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer for Afilias,
said “The .INFO domain is the global home for anyone
with information to share. The submissions for this
year’s awards program reflect .INFO’s global appeal
and the inherent usefulness of an Internet domain
entirely devoted to information."
The most popular categories for
site submissions included special interest web sites (28%),
private web sites (23%) and business/corporate
web sites (17%). You can see the complete
breakdown in the chart below.
Afilias said that interest in the
.INFO Awards was truly global with submissions being
entered from 18 countries. 31% of
submissions came from Germany, followed by the United
States at 19% and Russia at 12%.
The UK accounted for 6% of submissions,
while India and France each had 4%.
The 2009 panel of judges included:
Dominik Grollman – Editor in Chief of Internet World Business (Germany),
Peter Prestipino - Editor in Chief of Website Magazine ,
Gautam Chatur – Senior Director at Qorvis Communications ,
Michael Stephanblome – Managing Director AdJug UK ,
Katy Tafoya – Editor ConstantChatter.com , and
Philipp Grabensee – Chairman of the Afilias Board of Directors. |
