Tuesday, June 01, 2010

Domain Incite: VeriSign announces bizarre ".com 25" award winners

As part of its 25th anniversary of .com celebrations, VeriSign has today announced the 25 winners of its ".com 25" award.

The award was given to "the 25 people and/or companies whose inspiring contributions were fundamental in shaping the Internet and, thereby, our worlds", VeriSign said.

The winners all seem to deserve the recognition, even if one of them, craigslist, is technically a .org.

But looking at the 75 nominees the judging panel had to choose from, I’m scratching my head on at least half a dozen of them.

What is Zappos? What does Pandora do? Why is Muhammad Yunus on the list? What on earth is TheKnot.com?

And where are Jon Postel and Paul Mockapetris, who between them basically created the domain name system in the first place?

It’s a little disappointing that the only European with a gong appears to be web inventor Tim Berners-Lee. It’s even more disappointing that I can’t think of any other deserving Europeans.

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