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. Usually, the home page is located at the Root directory, root of the website's Domain name, domain or subdomain. For example, if the domain is example.com, the home page is likely l ...

service with synchronised bookmarking and

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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 built on a .Net SQL CLR development platform with an html

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

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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 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

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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

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

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(TLD) globally. Myhomepage had trust seals certificates from

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and TrustE linked to the

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including Yourhomepage.com in line with the

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(DNSSEC).

References

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Background

Tucows Inc.

See also

References