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WordPress Now Offers a 100-year Domain and Hosting Plan for $38K

WordPress Now Offers a 100-year Domain and Hosting Plan for $38K

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In a move that’s shaking up the world of digital legacies, WordPress has just introduced an extraordinary 100-year domain and hosting plan, designed to ensure the preservation of online assets for generations to come. 

WordPress Now Offers a 100-year Domain and Hosting Plan for $38K
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The renowned platform, synonymous with website creation and content management, unveiled this groundbreaking initiative as a means to safeguard individuals’ and families’ digital footprints well into the future.

The central concept behind the 100-year plan, as outlined in an official company blog post, revolves around preserving the stories, memories, and multimedia that constitute one’s digital heritage. Tailored to meet the needs of families, founders, and individuals alike, the plan offers a novel solution to secure and document online presence for a century.

“Your domain stands as your most invaluable digital possession. While conventional domains typically remain active for a decade, our trailblazing 100-Year Plan empowers you to protect your domain for an entire century,” said WordPress in their official statement.

In exchange for a one-time payment of $38,000, subscribers gain exclusive access to an array of cutting-edge features. WordPress takes security and continuity seriously, boasting multiple content backups across dispersed data centers, automatic submission to the Internet Archive for public sites, and an optional locked mode. Additionally, the platform extends its support to cover the entire transition process, whether it involves gifting a website to a newborn or ensuring a seamless ownership transfer.

The WordPress.com 100-Year Plan takes user experience up a notch with personalized, dedicated support. Furthermore, users enjoy the perks of unmetered bandwidth, top-tier speed, and unparalleled security, all bundled conveniently into a single package.

Standard domain registrations typically span around a decade, making this 100-year proposition a truly revolutionary leap. WordPress frames this plan as an “investment in tomorrow,” encouraging users to think beyond short-term online strategies and consider the long-lasting impact they can leave on the digital landscape.

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This bold move not only caters to the needs of individuals who wish to preserve their personal narratives but also caters to founders who seek to chronicle their company’s journey through time. With technology’s rapid evolution, having a stable, adaptable online platform becomes increasingly crucial. The 100-Year Plan directly addresses this concern, offering a flexible and customizable online space that can seamlessly accommodate the ever-changing tech landscape.

In an era where digital legacy is becoming as significant as physical heirlooms, WordPress emerges as a pioneer, allowing users to make a lasting mark on the internet. As the world grows more connected, the 100-year domain and hosting plan stands as a testament to the platform’s commitment to embracing the future while preserving the past.

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Verizon to Sell Tumblr to Automattic the WordPress.com Owner

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Verizon Media, who last year acquired the microblogging site Tumblr has agreed to sell it off to Automattic Inc. According to The Wall Street Journal reports, the WordPress owner company, Automattic, will be acquiring Tumblr for an undisclosed amount soon.

Verizon bought Tumblr after it had acquired Yahoo, last year. Tumblr was the Yashoo’s subsidiary, and for the last year, Verizon Media was taking care of its operations and actions. The company had also imposed a ban on the adult content sharing over the platform, which got the platform to lose most of its user base.

Tumblr was one of the first and the most popular social media platform, but for the past couple of years, it has been struggling with its position in the market. Though before Verizon bought the company, many preferred Tumblr over any other social media platform. The ban that Verizon had put on the company has made many of its users boycott the platform. Since then, the companies, including Instagram and Snapchat, that came after Tumblr into the field of social media, are taking over the whole business game.

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Even though the ban has led to the fall in the number of users for Tumblr, Automattic Inc. has no plans to remove the ban and continue with the Tumblr operations as it is.

“Adult content is not our forte either, and it creates a huge number of potential issues with app stores, payment providers, trust and safety,” said Automattic’s CEO Matt Mullenweg on Monday. “It’s a problem area best suited for companies fully dedicated to creating a great experience there. I have very liberal views on these things, but supporting adult content as a business is very different,” he added further.

Mullenweg also said that the company would be using Tumblr as complementary to its current platforms, and it won’t receive any changes shortly. Since Tumblr also has its app, Automattic may use its app for the expansion for its other products and services.

“Today’s announcement is the culmination of a thoughtful, thorough and strategic process,” Verizon Media CEO Guru Gowrappan said. “Tumblr is a marquee brand that has started movements, allowed for true identities to blossom and become home to many creative communities and fandoms. We are proud of what the team has accomplished and are happy to have found the perfect partner in Automattic.”

But for everyone’s surprise, according to a report from Axios, the acquisition will take place for a sum of 3 million, which is way less than the amount that Yahoo paid for to buy it in 2013, i.e. $1.1 billion.

Matt Mullenweg : The Founder and CEO of WordPress

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Breaking the stereotype, many common people coming from nowhere, have become the most important and influential leaders of the tech industry. Few names like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, etc., pop up in each person’s mind as their innovations are playing an so important role in our lives. These innovations have also introduced new trends. One such trend is blogging. And when we hear the word ‘blog’ how can anyone forget the name of WordPress?

WordPress is an open source platform for creating websites, preferably used by most of the bloggers, small businesses, etc. It is one of the best CMS available, which does not require much knowledge of coding language to set up one’s own website. Introduction of WordPress revolutionized the whole internet and today 30% of the internet sites work on the WordPress. That’s a huge achievement. And all the credit goes to the man behind the idea – Matt Mullenweg.

Early Life

Born on 11th January 1984, in Houston, Texas, US, Matt went to High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. He studied jazz saxophone in his school. Further, he went to the University of Houston to pursue the degree in Political Science. But, soon he dropped out in 2004 and accepted a job at CNET Networks. He worked at CNET for two years then quit to start his own venture Automattic.

Matt was never into computer programming. When he was just 18, he used to post blogs on b2/cafelog, an open-source blogging platform. But, after some time, he came to know that the lead developer of this platform had quit and the company had stopped developing it any further. This is when Matt decided to develop the b2 codebase blogging platform according to the web standards of that time. He posted this information on his own blog and soon was joined by his fellow coder Mike Little. They made some key improvements and added some more features to the platform, and this is how the revolutionary WordPress was born, in January 2003.

Rise of Career

Soon after, Matt and Mike were joined by the original b2 developer Michel Valdrighi in the development of WordPress. Matt was just a newbie in his college at that time, and he had already co-founded his another venture Global Multimedia Protocols Group, in March 2004. Next, Matt launched a hub, where one could get notifications about blog updates called Ping-O-Matic.

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WordPress was still seeking a huge audience to get on the global level. In May 2004, a strong competitor of WordPress, called Movable Type, made some changes in their prices, which led thousands of people looking out for an alternate platform. Fortunately, WordPress was available and caught everyone’s attention.

Now that WordPress was receiving a good response, CNET offered to recruit Matt to work on WordPress for them. He grabbed the opportunity and dropped out of college and moved to San Francisco. A couple of months later, came the big announcement of bbPress. And, in February 2005, Matt along with the WordPress team released WordPress 1.5 ‘Strayhorn’. It introduced several top features like themes, moderation features, and redesign of front and back end.

Matt left CNET, in October of the same year to focus completely on WordPress. Just within a few days, he announced Akismet – an effort to stop comment and trackback spam. Later, in December, there came another venture called Automattic, the original company behind all his other ventures. Matt under Automattic, recruited all the people who had contributed to the development of WordPress.

In January 2006, Toni Schneider was appointed as the new CEO of Automattic. Exactly two years later, the company raised about $29.5 million from Polaris Venture Partners, True Ventures, Radar Partners, and New York Times Company. This was due to the increasing popularity of WordPress among the bloggers and various other funding offers from investors. By that time WordPress had a team of 18 people working.

In early 2009, WordPress was growing faster than anyone had ever imagined and was witnessing 10% growth each month. The platform was hosting around 15,000 new blogs daily. The growth kept increasing each year, tremendously. In April 2012, it was reported that WordPress empowered more than 70 million sites and made a revenue of $45 million that year.

Matt took the CEO position in Automattic, in 2014, and raised $160 million to take the company’s value to a billion dollars.

Personal Life

Matt has won several awards due to his achievements. Business Insider named him among the top 10 most influential people for changing the face of the internet. In February 2011 he was listed in the Forbes 30 Under 30 for the impact, he has made on the blogging world.

Matt supports a number of non-profit organizations and philanthropic organizations like Archive.org, Innocence Project, Charity: Water foundation, and many more. He is currently living in San Francisco.