Interlink Co. Ltd Announces Winner in World Domain Cup
Japanese Internet Service Provider, Interlink Co. Ltd., published the final results of the World Domain Cup (WDC) today.
The World Domain Cup, the only contest of its kind, officially kicked off in June 2009 and throughout the course of the contest over 11,000 entries with nearly 4,000 unique strings were submitted by Internet users from all over the world including Japan, USA, UK, Germany, France, China and South Korea.
The strings submitted by the users were eventually narrowed down to the final 15 by a group of panelists. Once the final cut was made, open voting began and over 7,500 unique votes were received throughout the period.
Internet users around the world were overwhelmingly in favor of .earth, which accounted for around 44% of votes. The runners up were .inc and .free.
The final results are published on the official World Domain Cup site. A copy of the official press release (pdf) is available here in Japanese.
