PODGORICA, Montenegro--(BUSINESS WIRE)--.ME Registry, the provider of the personalized domain name extensions and ccTLD for Montenegro is partnering with GoDaddy.com, the world's largest provider of Web hosting, domain name registrations and new SSL Certificates, to offer 10 eligible students $10,000 each for college tuition. This is the second annual .ME Scholarship Program for technology focused students and the March 30 deadline is fast-approaching.
“We feel that there is nothing more important or valuable than education,” said Predrag Lesic, Executive Director of the .ME Registry. “We are excited to partner with Go Daddy again to offer the dot-ME Scholarship in order to help technology focused students get the resources they need to further their knowledge and skills.”
"Go Daddy is stepping up to support the future of the technology industry," said Go Daddy CEO Warren Adelman. "By investing in these tech-driven students, we are investing in the future of Go Daddy. These scholarship recipients may well be our future employees the next generation of Go Daddy technologists.”
Last year’s Go Daddy .ME Scholarship winners are close to completing their freshman year in top-ranked universities, nationwide including Emory University, the Georgia Institute of Technology and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.
In the days leading up to the application deadline, the .ME Registry will feature interviews with several 2011 scholarship winners on the .ME blog. These students will share how winning a Go Daddy .ME Scholarship has contributed to their personal, technical and academic development.
To apply for the Go Daddy .ME Scholarship, applicants must be pursuing an undergraduate degree in fall 2012, have a minimum 3.0 GPA and have scored higher than 1000 on the SAT or 21+ on the ACT. Applicants need to submit two letters of recommendation and write a 500-word essay describing how the Internet or Internet technology has helped them in the course of their studies, and how they envision benefiting from it in the future.
The final submission date is Friday, March 30, 2012 at 11:59 p.m. (PT) Winners will be announced on or around April 25, 2012.
For more information about the Go Daddy .ME Scholarship program, please visit www.GoDaddy.com/MEscholarship.
To learn more about the .ME Registry, how to develop a .ME business idea through non-auction allocation of a .ME Domain, or to find out how to register a .ME domain, go to www.Domain.Me.
About the .ME Registry:
.ME Registry (the d.b.a. of doMEn, d.o.o.) was chosen by the government of Montenegro to operate the new .ME domain name extension..ME Registry partners include ME-net, GoDaddy.com and Afilias Limited. Me-Net is located in Montenegro and its principals have been leaders in the ICT sector in Montenegro, including the privatization of its largest ISP. GoDaddy.com is located in the USA and is the world’s largest domain name registrar and the largest paid hostname provider in the world, according to Netcraft Ltd. Afilias Limited is headquartered in Ireland and is a leading registry services provider, supporting more than 13 million domains worldwide.
About Go Daddy
Go Daddy is the world's largest domain name provider, Web hosting provider and new SSL provider, focused on helping small businesses grow larger. Go Daddy provides dozens of cloud-based services and is the largest worldwide mass-market hosting provider by annual revenue according to Tier1 Research (Mass-Market Hosting Report-Winter 2011) and is the #1 provider of net-new SSL certificates for 2011, according to the Netcraft, LTD Secure Server Survey. To learn more about the company, visit www.GoDaddy.com/PR.
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