Domain Registration Related News
VeriSign buys weblogs.com for $2.3m
October 2005
Domain name registrar VeriSign has acquired the assets of
Weblogs.com for $2.3m in cash.
Weblogs.com was set up by blog and RSS pioneer Dave Winer, and
operates a so-called 'ping server' which allows blog operators to send
out a notification that their site has been updated.
Search engines and news aggregators can use this information to update
their databases.
The alternative would be to periodically scan each site, which could
result in a time lapse of several days between the posting and the
inclusion in the search engine database.
Weblogs.com's ping server receives up to two million pings a day.
Winer is selling the service because he cannot keep pace with the rate
at which it is growing.
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