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.”

“IPv6 is the future of the Internet, and performance monitoring will be even more critical as a far greater number of devices are connected,” said Vadim Mazo, founder and chief technical officer of Dotcom-Monitor. “Increasingly, more companies and organizations are making the switch to IPv6, and our monitoring service helps ensure that Ipv6-enabled websites and web applications are performing as expected.”

IPv6 is the essential backbone protocol for next-generation networking on the Internet, and is replacing the current IPv4 standard. All devices that are connected to the Internet have a unique IP address as an identifier, and IPv4 can support approximately 4 billion unique addresses. It is widely estimated that all IPv4 IP addresses will be exhausted by 2011. In comparison, IPv6 will support approximately 1 doudecillion (10 to the 38^th power) IP addresses.

Dotcom-Monitor is deploying monitoring for native IPv6 end-to-end transport as well as for IPv6-over-IPv4 encapsulation, which is also known as tunneling. A number of Internet powerhouses, including Google and Alta Vista, have deployed IPv6-accessible websites, and the 2008 Beijing Olympics featured the first-ever IPv6 Olympics website as part of the world’s largest end-to-end IPv6 network. Operating systems, such as the latest versions of Microsoft Windows, include IPv6 support.

Dotcom-Monitor is an external performance monitoring service. Using computer agents strategically located in cities around the globe, Dotcom-Monitor checks websites and web applications as often as once every minute. As an external service, Dotcom-Monitor accesses websites using the same Internet services as end users, providing a true view into end-user connectivity. Dotcom-Monitor provides instant notification whenever a problem occurs.

Dotcom-Monitor’s customers include financial services companies, healthcare providers, international manufacturers, media outlets, online retailers and governmental organizations worldwide.

About Dotcom-Monitor
Dotcom-Monitor is the leader and innovator in advanced website monitoring services. Founded in 1998, Dotcom-Monitor has helped over 2,000 companies save money by insuring maximum website uptime—at a cost up to 50 percent less than other services. Dotcom-Monitor watches businesses from the outside by simulating real-world, end-user actions. The company ensures that clients are open for business around the world, 24 hours a day. No additional or no hardware is required to use Dotcom-Monitor’s services. For more about Dotcom-Monitor, go to www.dotcom-monitor.com.