Weblogs.com, a VeriSign service, is a ping server that automatically notifies subscribers when new content is posted to a website or blog. Weblogs.com is the original ping service and receives millions of pings every day from blogs that configure their publishing software to notify Weblogs.com the moment content is published.

The VeriSign-operated Weblogs.com ping server will continue to operate as an openly available service.

This benefits the entire blogosphere because:

VeriSign has acquired the assets of Weblogs.com in October of 2005 from Dave Winer, one of the founders of RSS (“Really Simple Syndication”). By migrating Weblogs.com’s pings to VeriSign’s more robust and scalable ping infrastructure, VeriSign offers the users of feed updates a more reliable and intelligent platform.

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