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IRED HISTORY
Time Line
The Beginning
1995 - Year 1
1st Anniversary
1996 - Year 2
1997 - Year 3
The IRED Team
Attitude & News Home
Directories
Int'l Realty
US Realty
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IRED.COM - The History
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TIME LINE
Feb 3, 1995
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Becky Swann creates Internet Real Estate Directory |
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June, 1995 |
Start of rating directory links |
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Aug, 1995 |
Joann Chokrach assumes role of Webmaster and site developer |
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Nov, 1995 |
Inman News Features & IRED form IRED NEWS |
| Dec, 1995 | IRED Directories reach 3000 entries
IRED Begins Enhanced Links Program |
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Feb 3, 1996 |
IRED Directories reach 5000 entries |
| Mar, 1996 |
IRED News Disbands |
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Apr 6, 1996 |
IRED.COM goes on-line
Later in the month, IRED.Com, Inc. is formed |
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May, 1996 |
First Mirror site ired-europe goes on-line |
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Aug, 1996 |
First IRED employee hired for U.S. reviews |
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Nov, 1996 |
2nd Mirror site, IRED-ASIA goes on-line |
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Dec, 1996 |
IRED logs more than 2 million hits
& more than 38,000 Home Page views per month |
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Feb 3, 1997 |
IRED Directories reach 14,000 entries in 52 countries |
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Mar, 1997 |
Easter Egg Hunt results in 4,059,023 "hits" and 78,463 Home Page views - the most traffic for any month of the year |
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Jul, 1997 |
IRED redesigns to include separate tracks for consumers and professionals
Name is changed to International Real Estate Digest
New logo is added
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Aug, 1997 |
Exclusive Commercial Real Estate sites are transferred from the IRED directories to PikeNet
All "billboard" sites are removed from the IRED directories
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Nov, 1997 |
The Int'l Section of IRED & NAR Int'l Operations form alliance
IRED forms partnership with New Homes Co-ordinate to bring architectural plans and new construction listings to consumers
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Dec, 1997 |
IRED counts a total of 56 awards for the last 3 years, and is nominated for the 1998 WEB MAGAZINE WEBBY Award
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Jan, 1998 |
IRED logs
5,054,604 "hits" and 81,953 Home Page views for the month |
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Feb 3, 1998 |
IRED Directories exceed 18,000 entries in 102 countries, and over 1000 pages of content. |
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Mar 15 1998 |
IRED Directories exceed 20,000 entries in 109 countries, and over 1500 pages of content. |
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Sep 15 1998 |
Entries in the IRED Directories top 25,000 entries in 112 countries. |
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Nov 05 1998 |
Having outgrown our server, IRED relocates site to Verio Hosting |
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Dec 01 1998 |
Verio proves a much faster server.Additional tweaks to the site and optimizing the HTML code improve speed even more. |
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January 01 1999 |
Joann Chokrach resigns. Domestic and International directories are merged. |
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