October 24, 2003 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — VeriSign (verisign.com) has moved into the top 50 Internet properties, according to comScore Media Metrix’s (comscore.com) Internet property rankings for September 2003, released this week.
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According to the rankings, VeriSign was ranked as the 11th highest Internet property with 30,787,000 unique visitors, representing a jump of over 100 places from its previous position of 135. comScore Media Metrix said the jump was the largest increase in the month with the second largest increase representing a rise of only 15 places.
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comScore Media Metrix said the rise in traffic to VeriSign sites, coming in at a rate of 541 percent, was attributed to VeriSign’s recently launched Site Finder Service, which redirects mistyped and misspelled URLs.
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Heading the top 50 list of Internet properties was MSN-Microsoft sites with 110,167,000 unique visitors, followed by AOL, Yahoo!, ebay and Google. Positions 6 through 10 were occupied by Terra Lycos, About/Primedia, Amazon Sites, Gator Network and Excite Network.
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comScore also reported that the Internet’s user population surpassed the 150 million mark for the first time ever.
