|
The
.com extension
turned 25 years old this year and as part of
a year-long celebration to mark the anniversary
of the world's most popular extension, Verisign
(the operator of the .com registry) will hold a
special 25
Years of .Com Gala, hosted by
comedian Dana Carvey, on |
|
Wednesday
(May 26) in San Francisco. One of the
special guests who will be recognized at the
event will be Aron Meystedt, the current
owner of the first .com domain ever registered -
Symbolics.com. Meystedt, who runs XF.com
Investments, was profiled in our September
2009 Cover Story.
The
25YearsOf.com
website said the Wednesday gala will honor
"the innovators, entrepreneurs and
companies whose inspiring contributions were
fundamental in shaping the Internet and,
thereby, forever changing the way we think and
act as individuals and as a society."
A
highlight of the day will be recognition of the .Com
25 - "the 25 people and/or companies
whose inspiring contributions were fundamental
in shaping the Internet and, thereby, our world."
A panel of Silicon Valley influencers
will select the ".Com 25" honorees who
will be recognized
|
Aron
Meystedt - owner of Symbolics.com
(The first .com domain ever registered) |
|
at a dinnertime
awards ceremony Wednesday. The .com 25 will be
selected from a group of 75 people or companies
who were nominated (you can see the full
list of nominees here). We'll
get a first hand account from Aron after the
Gala to let you know what it was like to be
there.
By the way, there
are some very interesting video interviews on
the 25YearsOf.com
website featuring CEOs from ten of the biggest
companies in the Internet business, including Bob
Parsons (GoDaddy.com), Richard Rosenblatt
(Demand Media), Jeff Kupietzky (Oversee.net),
Bhavin Turakhia (Directi) and Tim
Kelly (Network Solutions) to name a few. To
view the videos go to this
page and look in the right hand
column (headlined Meet the Domain Pioneers).
Under the headline you will see 10 company logos
with a brief description of each company. Click
on the More link next to each logo to
bring up the page with the interview featuring
that company's CEO.
|
