Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Urgent: Rochester said launching for-pay site

[A message that greeted me moments ago at Roctoday.com]

This just in from Anonymous@7:17 p.m.:

"We (Rochester) evidently are going to unveil a Website that will require paid subscriptions. Our editor Karen Magnuson announced it last week and our digital editor Traci Bauer has been showing it to groups and training people. It is for news only and it is not on the corporate system. It will be called Roctoday.com. I think it will go up late in April or early in May. It has been a quiet project until now."

Can anyone confirm -- and add detail? Please post your replies in the comments section, below. To e-mail confidentially, write gannettblog[at]gmail[dot-com]; see Tipsters Anonymous Policy in the green rail, upper right.

2 comments:

  1. Could be real; here's the domain registration information, according to Network Solutions:

    Registrant:
    DNS Administrator
    Gannett Co., Inc.
    7950 Jones Branch Dr.
    McLean VA 22108
    US
    dns@gannett.com +1.7038546000 Fax: -

    Domain Name: roctoday.com

    Registrar Name: Markmonitor.com
    Registrar Whois: whois.markmonitor.com
    Registrar Homepage: http://www.markmonitor.com

    Administrative Contact:
    Domain Admin
    Gannett Media Technologies International (GMTI)
    740 Duke Street
    Norfolk VA 23510
    US
    DOMAIN-ADMIN@GMTI.GANNETT.COM +1.7576242461 Fax: +1.7574698122
    Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
    InfiNet Domain Services
    InfiNet
    740 Duke St.
    Norfolk VA 23510
    US
    hostmaster@INFI.NET +1.7576642255 Fax: +1.1111111111

    Created on..............: 2007-12-01.
    Expires on..............: 2009-12-01.
    Record last updated on..: 2009-04-11.

    Domain servers in listed order:

    ns1.gannett.com
    ns2.gannett.com
    ns4.gannett.com
    ns3.gannett.com

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  2. Oh, this will be fun to watch.

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