Peter Sayer
Executive Editor, News

VeriSign buys Weblogs.com for $2.3 million

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Oct 7, 20051 min

VeriSign will continue to operate Weblogs.com as an 'openly available service'

VeriSign has bought network infrastructure that underlies key services for bloggers from owner Scripting News for $2.3 million in cash, the companies announced Friday.

The infrastructure includes the Weblogs.com site, which shows a list of recently updated blogs, and its “ping” server, which allows bloggers to send notifications to one another when they update their blogs.

The Weblogs.com server deals with almost 2 million pings daily, the companies said.

By moving the site’s ping function onto its servers, VeriSign will be able to deliver a more reliable and scalable service to users, it said. It intends to continue operating Weblogs.com as an “openly available service,” it said.