EURid Web Award Nominations Open

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EURid’s annual “web awards” are now open for nominations.

The 2016 event will be the 3rd year that EURid runs the awards which are aimed at helping to raise the profile of European businesses and organisations that are actively using a .eu web address.

The categories this year are:

  • The Leaders: The website represents an established national business that is currently in operation and possesses multiple years of industry experience, more than 10 employees and a stable yet growing customer base.
  • The Rising Stars: The website represents a start-up company that is in a process of development and finding its niche in the marketplace in addition to having no more than 3 years of industry experience and less than 10 employees.
  • The Laurels: The website represents an institution such as a school, a training program, a charitable organisations, etc., that promotes ongoing education/pan European projects.
  • The House of .eu: The website, or blog, represents companies or private persons in the news, media or entertainment industry such as news portals, advertisement agencies, etc.
  • The Better World: The website encourages green initiatives and diffuses ecological information with regards to environmental protection as well as the promotion of green projects and environmentally-friendly businesses.

Nominations are open from 2 May 2016 (12:00 PM CEST) until 2 September 2016 (11:59:59 PM CEST).

Finalists will be announced on October 3 2006, with the awards being presented at an event in Brussels on November 16.

Full rules are on the EURid site. EURid accredited Registrars cannot enter 🙂

By Michele Neylon

Michele is founder and managing director of Irish domain registrar and hosting company Blacknight. Michele has been deeply involved in domain and internet policy discussions for more than a decade. He also co-hosts the Technology.ie podcast.

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