[February 09, 2010] ".com 25" Nominees Announced as 25th Anniversary of .com Approaches Tweet MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA, Feb 09, 2010 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- VeriSign, the long-time operator of the .com domain, announced last week it will recognize 25 years of Internet innovation with a year-long celebration of how far the consumer Internet has come, the impact it's had on our daily lives and, more important, what the next 25 years holds. A cornerstone of this campaign will be the recognition of the ".com 25," the pioneering companies and individuals who have had a lasting impact on the Internet's development. The winners will be announced during an evening gala in San Francisco, at San Francisco City Hall on May 26, 2010. The 25 Years of .com Gala, hosted by comedian Dana Carvey, will be a festive evening event focused on celebrating the ".com 25." Selected by a distinguished panel including some of Silicon Valley's leading observers, the .com 25 honors the remarkable innovators, entrepreneurs and companies whose inspiring contributions were fundamental in shaping the Internet and, thereby, forever changing the way we think and act as individuals and as a society. .com 25 Nominees Seventy-five people and companies have been nominated and ratified by the judging panel. The list includes luminaries like John Chambers of Cisco, Jeff Bezos of Amazon and Tim Berners-Lee, as well as pioneering companies like Google, Facebook and eBay. For a full list of the nominees, please see below or visit www.25yearsof.com. .com 25 Judges From the list of nominees, a distinguished panel comprised of some key Internet's influencers will select the winners of the .com 25. The judges are: -- Steve Blank, Retired Entrepreneur and Stanford and Berkeley Adjunct Professor -- David Kirkpatrick, Journalist and Author (The Facebook Effect), co-founder of Techonomy -- Kevin Maney, Technology Author and Journalist -- Dan Scheinman, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Cisco Media Solutions Group -- Drew Schutte, Senior Vice President & Chief Revenue Officer, Conde Nast Digital -- Jonah Seiger, Founder, Managing Partner at Connections Media LLC -- Ikhlaq Sidhu, Founding Director of UC Berkeley's Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology The judges will make the final selection of the .com 25, but the public is also encouraged to weigh in on their favorites at www.25yearsof.com. A web site -- www.25yearsof.com -- will host a variety of multimedia content throughout the coming months, showcasing the innovators and entrepreneurs who have shaped the Internet. 25yearsof.com is a year-long celebration of Internet innovation, all of which can be followed at: Twitter: Keep up with our latest news at @25yearsofdotcom Facebook: Friend us at facebook.com/25yearsofdotcom Video: Watch people from leading Internet companies answer the question "How Do You .com?" at 25yearsof.com The .com 25 Award Nominees 1. Al Gore, Former Vice President 2. Alibaba Group, Chinese holding company of Internet-based businesses 3. Amazon.com, Jeff Bezos 4. Andy Grove, Intel 5. AOL, Steve Case 6 Apple, Steve Jobs 7. Baidu, Chinese search engine 8. Barry Diller, IAC 9. BEA, enterprise application infrastructure solutions 10. Blogger.com, blog development/creation service 11. Cisco, John Chambers 12. CitySearch, online city guide 13. Cnet, news service 14. CNN.com, news service 15. Craigslist, online classifieds 16. Digg, content sharing service 17. eBay, Pierre Omidyar 18. eHarmony, dating service 19. ESPN, sports information 20. eTrade, financial services 21. Evite, invitation service 22. Expedia, travel service 23. Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg 24. Fandango, movie info/sales 25. FedEx.com, shipping service 26. Flickr, photo sharing 27. Gawker, celebrity gossip 28. Google, Larry Page & Sergey Brin 29. Huawei, networking and telecomm equipment provider 30. Huffington Post, news service 31. Hulu, video content service 32. IMDB, movie/television information 33. Infosys (India), IT services company 34. James Gosling, creator of Java 35. Jim Clark, Netscape/WebMD 36. LinkedIn, professional networking 37. Mapquest, travel service 38. Match.com, dating service 39. Microsoft/MSN/Gates Foundation, Bill Gates 40. Monster.com, career resource service 41. Motley Fool, financial services 42. MSNBC.com, news 43. Muhammed Yunus, Bangladeshi banker and economist 44. MySpace, social networking 45. Napster, Sean Fanning 46. Netflix, movie rentals 47. Netscape, Marc Andreessen 48. Opentable, restaurant info/reservations 49. Oracle, Larry Ellison 50. Overstock.com, retail 51. Pandora, music sharing 52. Paypal, payment service 53. Priceline.com, travel service 54. Salesforce.com, SaaS company 55. Salon.com, news service 56. Shutterfly, photo-sharing service 57. Skype, Niklas Zennstrom & Janus Friis 58. Slate.com, news service 59. Snapfish, photo-sharing service 60. Sun Microsystems, Scott McNealy 61. The Onion, news satire 62. TheKnot, wedding service 63. Tim Berners-Lee, engineer and computer scientist 64. TMZ, celebrity gossip 65. Travelocity, travel service 66. TripAdvisor, travel service 67. Twitter, social networking and micro blogging service 68. Vinod Khosla, Indian-American Venture Capitalist, Co-founder Sun Microsystems 69. Vint Cerf, computer scientist 70. Walmart.com, retailer 71. WebMD, health information service 72. Wired, monthly magazine and online periodical 73. Yahoo, Jerry Yang 74. YouTube, video sharing website 75. Zappos, shoe retailer About VeriSign VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN) is the trusted provider of Internet infrastructure services for the networked world. Billions of times each day, VeriSign helps companies and consumers all over the world engage in communications and commerce with confidence. Additional news and information about the company is available at www.verisign.com. Press Contact: VeriSign PR Deana Alvy Email: [email protected] Office: 703 948-4179 SOURCE: VeriSign, Inc. mailto:[email protected] [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]