The 2010 .INFO Awards Program highlighted some of the best .INFO sites of 2010 and awarded the top three .INFO sites with cash prizes totaling over US$15,000. First place was awarded to greentravelclub.info, a portal where site visitors can search for eco-friendly hotels while traveling throughout Europe. Second place was awarded to glutenfreehelp.info, a website dedicated to providing information on the subjects of gluten intolerance, gluten sensitivity and celiac disease. Third place was awarded to klimaretter.info, an information source on climate change and global warming.
Hi I'm Roland LaPlante, Chief Marketing Officer for Afilias, the registry for the dot INFO domain.
Today we are excited to announce the winners of our .INFO Awards program. As you may recall, the INFO Awards program opened in August and celebrates the useful, intuitive and unique sites that exist in the .INFO domain.
.INFO was the first new top level domain launched, ever. Opened over 9 years ago for registration, it now has nearly 7 million domains and continues to grow as the natural home for INFOrmation on the web.
The .INFO Award winners for 2010 have now been selected and it is my honor to announce them today. Both our judges and thousands of .INFO fans from around the globe have voted and we are pleased to be able to announce our winners to you.
The Award for Third place, winning $3000, is: Klimaretter.info
"We are happy to be one of the three best info-homepages in the world. It rewards us for our hard work, we've invested in the new design of the klimaretter.info homepage, which we started only in June. We hope that through the prize we can extend our readership. We know that we do well journalism by providing the relevant Information on climate change and clean energy. "
The Award for Second place, winning $5000 is: Glutenfreehelp.info
""To be a winner on the 2010.INFO award is nothing to take lightly. I love what I do through my .INFO site and I am more than pleased that my site was recognized as a site truly worthy of this recognition. .INFO says it like it is and my site is an "INFOrmation" source for the world, making many changes and helping thousands. Thank you Afilias and to everyone who voted!"
And the Award for FIRST place, winning $7500 and honors as the best .INFO website of 2010 is: Greentravelclub.info
"We are overwhelmed by this amazing success for our brand new company and website. Our entire office is on cloud 9 today and we can hardly belief that we won! This is definitely a testimonial for the great work our team has done on the website. And also a confirmation that we are on the right track with our idea of making green hotels known and available to the world! With your votes you have helped to save the environment and to change the world! Thank you for being part of a bigger picture!
And, as an additional prize this year, we've selected one lucky voter to win an iPad just for participating in voting in our program. This year's winner is Nadia Chatwick.
Congratulations!!
The .INFO Awards are now officially over. In closing, I'd like to congratulate the winners and thank our distinguished panel of judges, the thousands of voters and especially the .INFO registrants who submitted their terrific sites -- we wish you all the best in the years ahead
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one of the best homepages I've ever seenby radicalbusiness427 views
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