Myhomepage.com was founded in 2009 becoming a

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ed personalised

homepage A home page (or homepage) is the main web page of a website. The term may also refer to the start page shown in a web browser when the application first opens. Usually, the home page is located at the root of the website's domain or subdomain ...

service with synchronised

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and

password manager A password manager is a computer program that allows users to store and manage their passwords for local applications and online services. In many cases software used to manage passwords allow also generate strong passwords and fill forms. Pas ...

software.

Background

The

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was initially listed for $250,000 by Buydomains.com but later sold for $50,000 by

Tucows Tucows Inc. is an American-Canadian publicly traded Internet services and telecommunications company headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and incorporated in Pennsylvania, United States. The company is composed of three independent business ...

. In 2010 myhomepage.com became a

Microsoft Certified Partner A Microsoft Certified Partner (MCP) is a firm that provides Microsoft-related products or services, or support for such. It is part of the Microsoft Partner Network. They are confirmed by Microsoft to be official, and that they work effectively, a ...

built on a .Net

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development platform with an html

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front end system a

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due to its collaboration with Axosoft. The company subsequently raised $1.2 million through German Startups Group Berlin AG. Myhomepage Ltd. was incorporated at

Companies House Companies House is the executive agency of the company registrars of the United Kingdom, falling under the remit of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. All forms of companies (as permitted by the Companies Act) are i ...

in 2009 by its two founding

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Max Aengevelt and Massimo 'Max' Agostinelli. In 2010 both Aengevelt and Agostinelli were interviewed in

Tavria-V Tavria V ( uk, Таврія В) is a chain of 119 shopping centers in Odesa, Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi, Izmail, Chornomorsk, Mykolaiv, Khmelnytskyi, Kharkiv, Kyiv Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It i ...

by OK TV.

Tucows Inc.

In 2009 the leading news site covering the domain name industry 'Domain Name Wire' reported that one of

' subsidiaries, "BuyDomains has sold the

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Myhomepage.com for $50,000. - "The buyer appears to be in

Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...

and the page currently resolves to WhyPark’s name servers". - "This will be one to watch, as the buyer clearly has plans for it". wrote Andrew Allemann. According to the 'DN Journal Top 20' the domain name was ranked #3 by Godaddy's AfternicsDSL. The

Uniform Resource Locator A Uniform Resource Locator (URL), colloquially termed as a web address, is a reference to a web resource that specifies its location on a computer network and a mechanism for retrieving it. A URL is a specific type of Uniform Resource Identifi ...

(URL) myhomepage.com is ranked among the index of

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(TLD) globally. Myhomepage had trust seals certificates from

Verisign Verisign Inc. is an American company based in Reston, Virginia, United States that operates a diverse array of network infrastructure, including two of the Internet's thirteen root nameservers, the authoritative registry for the , , and gener ...

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and

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linked to the

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including Yourhomepage.com in line with the

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(DNSSEC).http://www.eurocomdomains.com/Sales.php?Detail=M

References

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Background

Tucows Inc.

See also

References