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January 3, 2007 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Domain registrar and Web hosting provider Dotster (dotster.com) announced on Wednesday that it had chosen the winners of its 2006 nationwide Search for the Dotster Dots spokesmodel talent search, as well as the winner of its $25,000 sweepstakes.
The winners were chosen after a long search that involved open auditions in Los Angeles, New York, Miami and Atlanta. The Dotster Dots will each receive a one-year contract with the company and will travel to high-profile events promoting Dotster's MyInternet Web site services. Los Angeles, California resident Kam Haynes is the winner of the Dotster Dots $25,000 sweepstakes.
"Dotster is very proud to announce the national winners of the prestigious Search for the Dotster Dots and is looking forward to a great year ahead working with some of the most beautiful, poised, knowledgeable and energetic professionals in the entertainment industry today," says Ken Harden, Dotster's VP of corporate marketing. "Dotster is currently identifying 2007 shows and events for the Dots, based on the highest value vertical markets that are best served by our MyInternet website services product set."
The Dotster Dots will attend two market events or trade shows per month this year, the first event of which will be the Consumer Electronics Show held January 8 to 11 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Dots will represent Dotster's MyInternet Web site services at the shows and events.
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October 2009 - Web Hosting's All Star Team
This has been, for us, one of the most interesting, exciting and challenging build-ups to an issue of the magazine yet, Web Hosting's All Star Team. The balloting process was our first experiment with a kind of user participation we're planning to do a lot more with in the months to come. We had thousands of ballots submitted, with hundreds of write-in suggestions and a demonstration of user engagement that has us feeling super positive about the project.
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July 2009 - What am I Worth?
One of the interesting luxuries of working on a project like the printed WHIR magazine is that it allows us to play with things like our point of view from one issue to the next. In recent months we've been giving added attention to the kind of practical and applicable advice aimed at smaller hosts and resellers. This issue carries on with that point of view, asking, in our cover story, "what am I worth?" It's a complicated question without a clear-cut answer.
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May 2009 - The Blueprint for a Small Web Host
I was a little surprised by how difficult it became to see this idea through. We set out to assemble a blueprint for a small hosting business, but butted up pretty quickly against the general impossibility of covering all the territory that was out there to be covered. The basic constraints of a printed magazine, and the less-than-infinite amount of time we had available forced us to face the fact that we could never produce an exhaustive guide to starting a hosting company.
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