Call for Participation in the Dotcom-Monitor All-Star Website Performance Award Program

MINNEAPOLIS, MN--(Marketwire - September 22, 2009) - Dotcom-Monitor, a trusted industry provider of a Unified Performance Monitoring™ suite of advanced yet affordable externally-hosted network & IT monitoring services, today announced a call for participation in its new All-Star Website Performance Award Program. The program is designed to monitor, measure, and analyze the availability and performance of participating websites, and then to recognize top-performing sites across all industries with three award designations and associated logos, which are displayed prominently on each participant's website.

The submission form and additional information is available at http://www.dotcom-monitor.com/website-performance-award.asp.

In today's Internet-driven economy websites have become the leading source for knowledge and information for most businesses and consumers. With millions of websites in existence, it has never been more important for organizations to establish their website as a credible, high performance operation. The Dotcom-Monitor All-Star Website Performance Award program was created to help each participant's website stand out from the crowd with a stamp of prestige signifying world-class excellence from the industry's leading global authority on website performance monitoring and reliability.

How it Works

The Dotcom-Monitor All-Star Website Performance Award is the IP industry's most prestigious award for website availability as it holds participants to the highest known standards of uptime/performance excellence.

    -- each month during program participation, nominated companies will
       automatically receive the appropriate award logo based on their
       website's composite performance score over the course of the month
    -- the website administrator must copy a few lines of HTML code into
       the appropriate page on their website for the award logo to
       automatically appear
    -- three awards designations and associated logos are available based
       on website availability;
          - 5-star "Best of Industry" for > 98% availability
          - 4 star "Outstanding" for > 95% availability
          - 3-star "Standard of Excellence" for > 90%
          - websites with < 90% availability do not receive an award for
            that month
    -- Sites that receive the highest average score within a given industry
       category are also awarded a "Best of Industry" Dotcom-Monitor
       All-Star Performance Award logo for their promotional purposes, as
       well as inclusion in a press release sent to major media
    -- all websites will initially receive a 4-star logo during the first
       2 weeks of participation to allow time for accurate performance data
       collection
    -- there is a $100/month fee to participate in the program, which is
       designed to minimize the participation of low-quality websites and
       to help offset the cost of the competition

"Websites today have taken on a role of almost Herculean importance in most organizations, as a highly visible symbol of the company's brand, marketing, service quality, reliability, customer service, and operational integrity," said Vadim Mazo, founder and chief technology officer of Dotcom-Monitor. "While there are myriad industry award programs that reward website design, the Dotcom-Monitor All-Star Website Performance Award program is setting the industry standard for website performance, reliability and quality, giving organizations a highly credible stamp of approval for their website, and for all that is represents."

Enter Now

The Dotcom-Monitor All-Star Website Performance Award program is open for participation effective immediately, and is available to companies and website of all types. To learn more, or to nominate your company's website, please visit: http://www.dotcom-monitor.com/website-performance-award.asp.

About Dotcom-Monitor:

Since 1998, thousands of companies worldwide have trusted Dotcom-Monitor to deliver the ultimate value in a unified suite of advanced, externally-hosted solutions for proactively monitoring the uptime and performance of websites, web applications, and Internet network infrastructure. Dotcom-Monitor's modular design and ultra-reliable platform enable organizations to combine powerful monitoring, reporting, notification, escalation, and analysis options in tailored packages designed to best fit their needs. To discover the power, simplicity, and affordability of Dotcom-Monitor's innovative suite of monitoring services, including: website monitoring, network monitoring, web load stress tests, video stream monitoring, SIP monitoring, and much more, please visit www.dotcom-monitor.com or call 1-888-479-0741.

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