VeriSign snags Weblogs.com for $2.3 Million
Internet domain registrar VeriSign acquires Weblogs.com and its “ping” service in a $2.3 million cash deal. Before I read this article I didn’t know that Weblogs.com does 6,000 updates everyfive minutes. Pretty impressive if you ask me.
With the acquisition from Scripting News, VeriSign said Friday that it is seeking a slice of the rapidly growing blogging community. VeriSign, which operates the Internet registry for .com and .net domains, is the latest large industry player to announce a blog-related acquisition. The acquisition is unrelated to America Online’s announcement Thursday that it plans to acquire blog publisher Weblogs Inc. Weblogs.com’s ping service alerts people when new content posts to a Web site or blog. Weblogs.com, for example, currently lists nearly 6,000 updates from the past five minutes.
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