Golden Arroba Awards for 2007

The website www.aguiluchos.com with two statuettes already to its credit for best website in the Sports category and for being the biggest winner of the night, walked off with the highest honors again in the Second Annual Golden Arroba Awards in last Tuesday’s ceremony held in the Aula Magna of the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD).

The competition included 15 categories and handed out five special awards: Best Web Design, Best Vote Winner, Best Web Cover Design, Best Coverage in the Country and Best Publicity Campaign.

Each winner in the various categories and special prizes received the Golden @ Award, a sleek statuette made of pressed marble and plated with 24-karat gold. They also won a $5,000 cash incentive and $20,000 dollars in products from the sponsors of the contest.

Winners in all the Categories:

1. Applications and Internet Services
   www.aquitucarro.com
2. Art
   www.cocinadominicana.com
3. Associations
   www.surfuturo.org
4. Banking and Finance
   www.universal.com.do
5. Blogs
   www.pedrogenaro.com
6. Sports
   www.aguiluchos.com
7. E-commerce
   www.compreloonline.com
8. Education
   www.preescolarpiolin.com
9. Entertainment
   www.flowmag.com
10. Government
    www.medioambiente.gob.do
11. Hotels, Tourism and Restaurants
    www.constanza.com.do
12. Institutional
    www.arqa.com.do
13. Best use of animation and moving images
    www.arqtec4d.com
14. Personals
    www.samirsaba.com
15. Religion
    www.aquilesazar.org
16. Professional Services
    http://www.maniki.com/

 5 Special Categories

1. Best Web Design
   www.preescolarpiolin.com
2. Largest Vote Recipient
   www.cnzfe.gov.do
3. Best Website Cover
   www.villasbellacolina.com
4. Best Coverage in the Country
   www.surfuturo.org
5. Best Publicity Campaign
   www.the1movement.com

The Competition

The Golden @ Contest, the most important of its kind in the United States and Latin America which recognizes websites contributing to the development of the Internet Industry, has a team of some 50 experts from 17 countries who evaluate the participating websites under the observation  of the BDO International auditing firm.

The president of Golden @ International, Fabrizio Altamirano explained at the ceremony the main elements that serve as a basis for judging the websites: design, navigation, content and creativity, each of which have three to five areas in which they are evaluated.  The Golden @ Contest began in El Salvador in 2001 and is based on strategic alliances between communication and media leaders in each country.