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Here's the The Lowdown
from DN Journal,
updated daily
to
fill you in on the latest buzz going around the domain name industry.
The Lowdown is
compiled by DN Journal Editor & Publisher Ron
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Yesterday
I brought you up to date
on
several
bits of conference, company and domain
community news that developed while I was in Amsterdam
last week covering the
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Skip
Hoagland
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T.R.A.F.F.I.C. ccTLDs
conference. Today I'll finish up the housekeeping with
some notes on recent developments involving prominent
industry people. Just as I was leaving for Europe, Skip
Hoagland (GeoDomains New Media LLC President
& CEO) contacted me to let me know that he had just
expanded his geodomain empire by acquiring LocalDomains.com. Hoagland
(who owns Atlanta.com, BuenosAires.com, Cuba.com
and many other prime generic domains) said, "LocalDomains.com
will connect people from around the world to websites
where they can find useful information that pertains to
their local area." He said the planned new site will
serve as a cross-linking network that will tie together
websites and online properties that span the globe ranging
from local websites to tourist sites.
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Over the years Dark
Blue Sea COO Dan Warner had become the
public face of the Australian company's
best known subsidiary, Fabulous.com (Warner
also wrote several well received articles
for DN Journal). Last week Warner left the
company, following in the footsteps of CEO Richard
Moore who previously announced he would be
departing July 1.
After 7 seven years
with Dark Blue Sea, Warner, who played a key role
in staging the T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
Down Under conference on Australia's Gold
Coast last November, said he was ready
to take on a new challenge. He will remain active
in the domain industry in both consulting and
development roles.
Warner always has
plenty to say on industry issues so I would also
look for him to resume blogging at DanWarner.com
soon. He |
Dan
Warner |
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posted on the site a
year ago but his obligations at DBS did not leave
him with enough time to utilize that platform.
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Simonetta
Batteiger |
Simonetta
Batteiger is taking on new
responsibilities at Sedo.com.
Simonetta has been with Sedo for three
years, serving most recently as the
company's Director of Finance and Sales.
She has just moved into a new role as
Director of Parking Sales which will give
her responsibility for Sedo's North and
South American account managers, as well
as the company's customers in those
markets.
Simonetta has
become a regular at the major domain
conferences and you may have already had
the good fortune to meet here at Domainer
Mardi Gras in New Orleans earlier
this year or at T.R.A.F.F.I.C. New York
last fall. You'll have another chance to
chat with her about Sedo's services at the
Domain
Roundtable conference that
gets underway in Washington, D.C.
Sunday night. |
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The
globe trotting Gregg McNair continues
to build a new domain monetization
system at Hong Kong based Strata
PPX Services. The
company has been on an acquisition
binge and last week they added
another key piece to their
platform by purchasing JB Media
LLC of Scottsdale, Arizona.
JB Media is an on line
consumer product marketing and
manufacturing company currently
specializing in high volume
consumer verticals and generating
millions in sales.
McNair
spoke about Strata's CPA
(cost per acquisition) based
strategy at the T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
conference in Amsterdam last week.
"Strata PPX is expanding
operations to maximize returns for
our partners and domain clients”
McNair said, adding “The JB
Media acquisition will initially double
the revenues of the PPX
media division through vertical
integration. Reciprocally, PPX
will use its marketing and
technology expertise to increase
the global reach of JB
Media."
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Gregg
McNair, speaking at
T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
ccTLDs last week in Amsterdam. |
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Rick
Schwartz |
Finally,
all of you must have heard by now
about Rick Schwartz's latest
sales coup as he closed
a deal to sell Candy.com
for $3 million to the Melville
Candy Company of Massachusetts.
That landmark sale, the second
biggest of 2009 (trailing only Toys.com
at $5.1 million), will head
the weekly domain sales report we
are currently working on (the
complete report will be published here
Wednesday around lunch time in the
Eastern U.S.).
I
think that Schwartz, widely known as
the co-founder of the T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
conference, has now firmly
established himself as the best
negotiator in the domain business.
For anyone else, Candy.com would be
a once in a lifetime sale but for
Schwartz deals like this (including Men.com,
Property.com and iReport.com)
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to hand
it to the guy. He has always
preached the high value of domains
and he never sells one for less than
he thinks it is worth. |
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(Posted
June
9, 2009) |
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