Easyspace kicks off 10th anniversary celebrations with Pele & Maradona Prizes

Easyspace’s Ten Best competition offers signed Pele & Maradona Shirts, 10 Best Films, 10 Best Wii Games, 10 Best Books & 10 Best Albums London, UK, 20th June 2007 – Easyspace, one of Europe’s largest hosting and managed service companies, has today kicked off its 10^th Anniversary celebrations by offering 5 lucky winners the chance to win one of its amazing 10 Best Prizes.  Every day from Monday 16th to Friday 20th of July visitors to Easyspace’s web sites will have the chance to win an Easyspace 10 Best Prize in a free prize draw. 

• Monday 16th – Total Film’s 10 Best Films of All Time on DVD
• Tuesday 17th – Rolling Stone’s 10 Best Albums of All Time on CD
• Wednesday 18th – BBC’s The Big Read 10 Best Books of All Time
• Thursday 19th – 10 Best Wii Games
• Friday 20th – Signed Shirts from the Best 10s of all Time – Pele & Maradona 

Sarah Haran, Easyspace’s Managing Director, stated: “We wanted to launch our 10^th Anniversary celebrations with something that was fun and different. When we started out back in 1997, we were the UK’s first ICANN registrar and our main line of business was domain name management. Over the past decade we have significantly grown our business to include operating our own data centres and managing complex hosting for enterprises, but the domain name was where we started.” Sarah continued: “We were recently named as one of the world’s Top 10 Domain Registrars and inclusion in this list provided us with the creative catalyst for our competition. The 10 Best/Top 10 theme appeared an appropriate way to recognise both our anniversary year and our origins”. 

Phil Worms, Head of Marketing, added: “The biggest challenge for us in creating the promotion was to determine the actual Best 10’s to use. We felt pretty comfortable with the Rolling Stone, Total Film & The BBC lists, but found that the most heated office debate centred on who was the Greatest Footballer to wear the Number 10? Pele or Maradona? In the end we decided that we couldn’t split the two legends, so we managed to procure a signed shirt from each player.” Sarah added: “We don’t intend to stop with this launch competition; we will be offering promotions, special offers and more competitions throughout our 10^th year.” 

Entry to the prize draw is completely free and no purchase is necessary.   Full details of the prizes, terms and conditions and entry registration can be found at: www.easyspace.com & www.easyspacehosting.com 

Atlanta, Georgia – (Website Hosting Directory) – March 13, 2007 – Dedicated web hosting and managed services company, VIA Networks USA, is sponsoring WebChallenge 2007, an annual educational event of the Technology Association of Georgia (TAG) and web design competition, providing scholarships for Georgia high school students.

Started in 1998, WebChallenge has served as an annual Technology Association of Georgia (TAG) educational event designed to get Georgia high school students excited about using Web and Internet technologies.

WebChallenge 2007 participants will create web sites based on the theme, “Entertaining the Web.” Winning teams will compete for up to $15,000 in college scholarships. The winners are selected based on their creative approach to designing and developing an entertaining web site.

Darin Elkins, Managing Director of VIA Networks explained, “WebChallenge is one of the most exciting youth events in Georgia’s technology community. Today’s high school students know more about designing and creating engaging and entertaining web sites than many college graduates and long-time professionals.”

VIA Networks USA joins a group of leading businesses in Georgia that support Web Challenge, including SAP, The TAG Foundation, Georgia Institute of Technology, Four Spots, Webmasters International and GlobalSpeak.

Mr. Elkins continued, “WebChallenge is a great opportunity for our youth to gain hands-on training with today’s technologies. Many of these students have the capability and desire to become tomorrow’s technology leaders. We want to be connected with them along the way as they shape the future of our business.”

VIA USA is one of the oldest Microsoft hosting companies in existence today, having served the Microsoft hosting community for more than a decade. The company provides a full range of Internet-based solutions focused on small to medium businesses. VIA USA is a fully owned subsidiary of the Claranet Group, the UK’s largest non-telco ISP and serves customers in 85 countries around the globe.

For more information about WebChallenge 2007, please visit: www.webchallenge2007.org.

To learn more, please visit: www.vianetworks.net.