Entrepreneur’s .NET 100
Complied & edited by Peter/CXO Wiz4biz 4/14
Welcome to the .Net100 – a ranking that measures the top sites on the web with the .net domain extension. Entrepreneur [Magazine] & Verisign came together to assemble the ranking, which is based on quantitative factors and the feedback from Entrepreneur’s audience of sophisticated, successful business owners. Together, we then gathered traffic & social metrics for each site, as well as your votes to determine the rankings
#1. SlideShare claims to be the largest network for uploading & sharing presentations, with an estimated 60 million users & 130 million Page Views. Everyone from teachers, businesses & government agencies use it to pass around & edit presentations. That has made the company, based in San Francisco, one of the top 200 visited sites in the world.
#2 PHP is an all-purpose scripting language used in Web development, though it is also used in general programming. PHP.net is the hub for the language, allowing for free downloading & sharing. PHP has grown in popularity because it is easy to use for beginners and compatible with just about all the servers used today.
#3 Battle.net Do you like Blizzard games, like World of Warcraft , Diablo III & Hearthstone? Then Battle.net is your home. The site is a community for gamers, set up by Blizzard Entertainment to keep their users talking — & gaming — together in one place. It also serves as an eCommerce platform for Blizzard.
#4 Behance.net, owned by Adobe, is a portfolio for creative people. The goal? Put people’s creative work in front of the companies looking to hire talent. The company lets people upload their work, then makes that available to other sites & companies looking for new employees.
#5 SpeedTest.net Ever wonder whether you’re really getting the fastest speed from broadband? Ookla’s Speedtest is a “free” tool that tests broadband speed. The company claims to perform 50 million tests every month, through the web, but also through iPhones and Android phones.
#6 Explosm is an Internet Comics site, filled with online favorites like Cyanide & Happiness. Read the Comic, check out dates for Comic Show appearances & buy plushy toys.
#7 SourceForge.net is a community-collaboration “open source” SW-development site owned by Slashdot Media. The company claims to be the home of 3.4 million developers, working on 324,000 projects. There are an estimated 4 million downloads.
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