Today is February 2, 2010 and it means that it’s high time to summarize the results of our annual premium Ecommerce Journal AWARDS 2009. This year we decided to add several new categories since the Internet is constantly growing and more and more services become something like mother's milk. This year there was almost no struggle and intrigues we observed last year, however the results are very interesting.

While there are many shocks occurring to the market it will be silly to say that online payment processing is fading. On the contrary, it’s developing. Nowadays we see a lot of new payment systems appeared online, most of them are just the creatures of the enthusiasts that have no knowledge in making business online and desire to learn everything but have a strong will to conquer the whole world… The end of such services is obvious… However there are some time-proved services which quality is unobjectionable. One of such services is PayPal. Though being beat this year by a young Chinese AliPay, PayPal became an unquestionable leader in its category The Best Payment System 2009. Another payment system Liberty Reserve that was one of the most frequently discussed payment processors this year due to its problems with the security system, has gained only 1% less and failed to become the winner. AliPay and Perfect Money have got the forth and the third places respectively.

On the other hand one of the leaders of last year poll in category Best Debut - EcuMoney this year has finally reached the top of the rating but in category The Failure of the Year. Alas… Quick start, deep fall… The rivals of EcuMoney in this category were two more payment systems EvoWallet and Pecunix. It’s a pity that more and more online payment gateways that were designed to comfort businessmen online make users feel disappointed in modern payment services.

Nowadays it is impossible to run business online without a reliable Ddos Protection System. Here there was a competition between two leaders of modern ddos protection market – Dragonara and Block Dos,  with Dragonara service having won the title – The Best Ddos Protection 2009 - with a slight lead ahead of its rival.

It’s a great pleasure for us to announce the name of the winner in category The Best Autoexchanger of 2009 since this year it is again Intexchange. Such brilliant results show great trust clients feel towards Intexchange that continues providing qualitative services to them. We sincerely wish Intexchange prosperity and further development, and hope that more services will show us the same stable growth.

Once having mentioned the autoexangers we should say about the exchangers. This year the last year winner Londongoldexchange have gained just 9% that is the lowest result in this nomination. And the leader in category the Best Exchanger 2009 is Goldexpay that showed a very convincing result 62%. The other services Swapgold and Trainex service got 14% and 16% respectively.

Many people consider Internet as something they can make money with and online forex market became a real work place for thousands of people worldwide. And Forex brokers play not the minor role in this. Having introduced a new nomination The best forex broker we have offered our readers to choose from 6 nominees and neither of them was left without attention. However the leaders in this category were Fxopen and Alpari, and this struggle was the tensest. Both of services are very professional and have lots of the followers who love them very much but there should be only one winner and this winner is Fxopen. Our Congratulations!

The most brilliant result was shown by the admirers of our colleagues Money-news-online. 78% of the respondents have chosen Money-news-online as The Best e-Commerce Blog 2009. And according to the opinion of 56% respondents The Best Internet project of 2009 is Twitter.

And of course, speaking about the Internet we should say about those who make our life more colorful, who think of our leisure. They arePockerStars which have won in category The best online Poker room of 2009 with a result 47% and World of Warcraft that became the best in category The best online Game of 2009 having left Second Life with 28% and Line Age with 16% behind.

Victories are always reached through the struggle. And only struggle makes competitors better and more proficient. All the nominees worth victory and the title “The Best” and the only reason of their failure is inactivity of their clients. Hope that next year they will be more active and their passion will bring their service a desired victory!