Afilias Opens Awards for German .INFO Websites
 

Afilias, a global domain name registry, today announced that from March 17 to May 25 owners of German-speaking .INFO-Websites can apply for the .INFO-Award that will award 18.000 Euro in prize money later this year. It states that the Award is created by them in media-cooperation with Internet World Business and addresses .INFO domain owners from Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

The registry articulated that a panel of judges will create a shortlist of final contenders based on the criteria of 'presentation of content', 'functionality of the website', 'design', 'usability' and 'originality'. The shortlist of the top ten best sites will be published at www.info-award.info on April 28. From April 28 until May 25, interested Internet users can also vote for their favorite site. These scores will be combined with scores from a select panel of judges.

It claims that the .INFO-Award rewards professionally created Web sites from Germany, Austria and Switzerland that provide the best user-value. Prizes for the awards are allocated as: 10.000 Euro for the winner, 5.000 Euro for second place, and 3.000 Euro for third place. All winners will be announced by online business newspaper 'Internet World Business' in June 2008.