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 July 13, 2008 Post

Here's the The Lowdown from DNJournal.com! Updated daily to fill you in on the latest buzz going around the domain name industry!
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The 2008 GeoDomain Expo closed in Chicago Saturday (July 12) with a 12-hour day packed with big events. It opened with a morning session featuring stories from five geodomain pioneers (all seen in the photo below showing, left to right); Josh Metnick (Chicago.com), Dan Pulcrano (Boulevards New Media), the Castello Brothers (David and Michael) and Skip Hoagland. 

Metnick is the man who originally came up with the idea for an association of .com city domain owners and got a ball rolling that led to the formation of Associated Cities, the group that presented the GeoDomain Expo in association with the Kelsey Group. All five panelists are founding board members of Associated Cities and are geodomain pioneers in every sense of the word. Associated Cities will soon be renamed Associated Geos as the organization starts welcoming state and country geo domain owners to their membership ranks. 

The Saturday luncheon featured a powerful address from Internet Commerce Association Legal Counsel Phil Corwin. Corwin detailed current theats to domain owners (including specific threats to geodomain owners) and what the ICA is doing to meet those challenges. I'll have more on his talk as well as greater detail on all of the show sessions in our comprehensive review of the conference that will be published by the end of this week.

After lunch I sat on a five-man panel discussion about GeoDomains In the News that also included David Kesmodel (author of The Domain Game), Andrew Allemann (DomainNameWire.com), Elliot Silver (ElliotsBlog.com) and Steven Morales (SimplyGeo.com). David Castello moderated the session and though I am a bit biased on this specific topic, I thought it was an exceptional session that shed a lot of light on the rising interest in geodomains.

Phil Corwin
ICA Legal Counsel

The final informational session of the Expo was a GeoDomain Town Hall meeting that Mark Burgess (SanDiego.com) and Skip Hoagland presided over.  There were open mikes for attendees to bring up any topic they wished with Burgess, Hoagland and various audience members providing the answers.


Wayne Wheat
New auctioneer for the Moniker live auction

Moniker's live domain auction followed with 40 lots selling for a total of $279,000. The top sale was SantaClara.com and a group of additional Santa Clara related domains for a total of $82,500 - a nice lot acquired by Page Howe who is steadily building a real presence in the geo space. The next best sales were Afghan.com ($30,000) and Asia.org (also $30,000). OysterBay.com added another $24,500. The Castello Brothers raised $2,500 for the Internet Commerce Association by donating ChicagoHotelReservations.com to the sale with the proceeds earmarked for the ICA.

Moniker brought in a new auctioneer for this event,  Wayne Wheat, a polished Texan that I thought did a great job. He is a real high energy auctioneer and who kept things moving at a rapid pace (aided by a frantic spotter named Leb who added further color to the show).

The curtain came down on the 2008 GeoDomain Expo with the big GeoDomain Awards dinner last night. The winners were chosen in voting by their geodomain peers. I had the honor of emceeing the event and handing out the highly deserved honors. The winners in the ten categories were:

  • Best Monetized GeoDomain - PalmSprings.com

  • Most Economic Impact - Richmond.com

  • Most Influential GeoDomain.com - Vegas.com

  • Best GeoDomain Technology - NewYorkCity.com

  • Best U.S. City GeoDomain - Vegas.com

  • Best U.S. State GeoDomain - Hawaii.com

  • Best U.S. Destination GeoDomain - Branson.com

  • Best International City GeoDomain - Acapulco.com

  • Best Country GeoDomain - Australia.com

  • GeoDomain Hall of Fame (a new honor that will be bestowed on two inductees each year) - The inaugural winners (pictured from left to right in the photo below) were: Patrick Carleton (Executive Director of Associated Cities) and the Castello Brothers (Michael and David).

We will have photos of all of the GeoDomain Award winners in our comprehensive conference review article that will be out at the end of this week. In a nutshell, this show was a huge success and one that will become even more important in the years ahead as domain owners continue to focus more on developing their domains into real businesses.
(Posted July 13, 2008)  

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