Blogs for Dogs: Web Host Offers Domains for Your Pets; Hostway Helps Pet Owners Create Web Sites for Dogs, Cats and Other Pets.Business Editors CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 21, 2003 What do you get the pet that has everything? How about its own domain on the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the ? Web-services leader Hostway [Due to repeated reversion controversial content on data center has been moved to discussion page] Hostway is a multinational web hosting company headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, United States, founded in 1998. Corp. has announced the launch of DomainsForYourPet.com, a new online service to register a Web site address for your dog, cat or any other non-human companion. The U.S. pet population numbers 353 million companion animals, including 141 million cats and dogs Cats and Dogs A slang term referring to speculative stocks that have short or suspicious histories for sales, earnings, dividends, etc. Notes: In a bull market analysts will often mention that everything is going up, even the cats and dogs. (about 65 million dogs and 75 million cats), with an estimated 62 percent of all U.S. households owning at least one pet, and three quarters of those households owning two or more pets. Within households reporting annual incomes greater than $60,000, 25 percent own dogs and 23 percent own cats. "We know how passionate people are about their pets, so we think it's it's 1. Contraction of it is. 2. Contraction of it has. See Usage Note at its. it's it is or it has it's be ~have a doggoned good idea to have a customized Web site for showcasing your pet to friends and family. It's said that every dog has its day. Now every dog can have its own domain," said John Lee, director of marketing for Hostway. "This is another example of the trend we see in which everyone eventually will have a personal Web site to use as the basic platform for communication. Getting to that point requires an easy, low-cost way of registering an Internet domain name An organization's unique name on the Internet. The chosen name combined with a top level domain (TLD), such as .com or .org, also called a "domain extension," makes up the Internet domain name. For example, computerlanguage.com is the domain name for the publisher of this Encyclopedia. . We're we're Contraction of we are. we're we are pleased to provide that part of the solution, as well as a variety of value-packed Web-hosting plans." For $6.95 pet owners or their friends can use DomainsForYourPet.com to establish full ownership of a Web site name for Spot or Tabby, set up a free "under construction" page, and have access to an online control panel for managing the site. And why stop with the domain name? Another $12.95 will gain access to Hostway's InstantSite service that enables proud pet owners to build a customized Web site, providing a place for sharing pictures, training-graduation announcements, milestone moments, whimsical whim·si·cal adj. 1. Determined by, arising from, or marked by whim or caprice. See Synonyms at arbitrary. 2. Erratic in behavior or degree of unpredictability: a whimsical personality. Weblogs or "blogs," and more. (NOTE: For an example pet site hosted by Hostway, please see http://boula.com. For a screen shot of another example site, please see www.domainsforyourpet.com/ilsa-smudge.htm.) About Hostway Hostway Corporation provides Web hosting Making a Web site available on the Internet. Many ISPs host a few personal Web pages for an individual at no additional cost above the monthly service fee, but the address is subordinate to the ISP; for example, www.friendlyisp.com/pat_smith. and managed technology services to more than 300,000 customers worldwide. Hostway helps individuals, small businesses and large enterprises achieve more value from state-of-the-art Web-based technologies by reducing their complexity and cost. Founded in 1998, Hostway is one of the five largest Web hosting companies in the world with offices in the Americas (Chicago, Tampa and Vancouver), Europe (London and Amsterdam) and Asia (Seoul and Sydney). For more information about Hostway Corporation, please visit www.hostway.com or call 1-888-290-5170. |
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