Popular Balaton Today web-platform shuts down!
After ICANN ‘s June 20, 2011 announcement to allow for new generic Top Level Domain registrations.
The popular website, "balaton-today", focusing on the popular lake region of Balaton in Hungary, closed down its testing-platform using a new semantic Web 3.0 technology following ICANN announcement to open up and issue new generic top level domain names to shake up the web.
In June 2010, after long and intense efforts of research and development, Ultimate Digital Technologies decided to open up and test its new mash technology in a controlled semi closed version opened up for only a very limited number of accounts, each being able to test their skills to competitively generate dynamic information to this new platform. Within 3-6 months the platform generated ~ 40,000 pages downloads from interested consumers, bloggers (human), and also search robots found the site.
Within a few months from the moment of opening up, the site became a serious competitor to long existing sites focusing on the same area. The difference? Dynamic competitive content, the missing part of most social network platforms. In some months our "Laboratory Project" collected a real treasure of feedback, sufficient to re-adjust, learn, implement and make changes, and make a difference for those following its content driven integrated and collaborative regional site. "People think first local and then broaden their horizon and fan out"
The content quality of local stakeholders ensures constant competition amongst blogger and publishers, and those with a real local interest. It Prioritizes news placements in a fair " quality focused" way! That’s the uniqueness of our collaborated platform!
When local media laws in Hungary changed for the worse, and simultaneously ICANN announced its intend to open-up the Web for new gTLD applicants, the Balaton Today site shut down to creating time, focus and means for UDT management to prepare for applying for the Top level domain ".today".
