Weblogs.com is a website created by

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and later maintained by

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. It launched in late 1999 as a free, registration-based

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monitoring weblogs, was converted into a

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in October 2001, and came to be used by most

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applications. Web-services like Feedster and

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monitor Weblogs.com for its list of the latest blog posts, generated in response to pings via

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. The site also provided free hosting to many early bloggers.

History

In mid-June 2004, there was a short outage as services transitioned between providers. Criticism from many

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was intense as many users initially feared their data was lost. Dave Winer, who had originally promised to get the blogs back up and running within a two-week period, was able to restore them much faster thanks to help from

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. According to Wired Magazine, "What was decried as the death of a blog universe when Dave Winer shut down free blog host Weblogs.com turned out to be little more than a four-day server outage surrounded by a heck of a flame war." In October, 2005,

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bought the Weblogs.com

from Winer, promising that services currently free there would still be free. The

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-related web site audio.weblogs.com was also included in the $2.3 million deal. In May 2009 Weblogs.com was sold to a private investor group as part of the deal that saw

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divested from VeriSign.Moreover 3.0: We divest out of VeriSign
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