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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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Fantasy
Domaining Contest Offers All Expenses Paid Trip
to DOMAINfest Global 2012 in California
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The
2012 DOMAINfest
Global conference
is
less than 8 weeks away. A Who's Who of
the domain industry will be in Santa Monica,
California for the event that runs January
31
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through
February 2 at the oceanfront Fairmont
Miramar Hotel. You could be there too and
thanks to a Fantasy
Domaining Contest being run by the
conference organizers, you could be going all
expenses paid! First
prize in the contest is free admission to
the show (the current ticket price is $1,195),
$1,000 in travel expenses and four
free hotel nights. If that doesn't get your
competitive juices flowing, nothing will.
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Here's
how it works. The
contest is a bit like Fantasy Football in that
contestants “draft” their initial
roster from a master list of 1,000 domains, put
some in-play, substitute domains in-play, and
trade domains with other contestants. Entrants
will be using the portfolio acquired in the
draft to test their skills and intuition in
projecting the PPC revenue from domain names.
Each contestant will draft/select a portfolio of
35 domains from the master list owned by Oversee.net.
The master list can be downloaded if you want to
take some time to analyze the domains or
use Oversee's online search filters to find
domains with desired keywords or categories.
Choose the domains that you think produced the
most PPC revenue last year between Dec 1, 2010
and January 16, 2011. Then select 25 of
your 35 domains to put on your In-Play game
roster. That roster's cumulative 12/1/10 to
current-date-last-year PPC revenue will
determine your overall ranking.
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Daily
rankings will be posted and you can swap
out under performing domains with names
from your 10-domain "bullpen"
or any names still available on the
master list of 1,000. For more details,
a full explanation of how to play
(including Official Contest Rules) and
to enter, visit http://www.domainfest.com/fantasy.
Please not that the contest is open only
to residents of the United States. The
contest began on December 1, 2011 (but you
can sign-up well after that start date because the ranking of your selected domain portfolio uses cumulative PPC revenue backdated to the Contest's start
date). The contest ends January 16,
2012 with the first, second and
third place winners to be notified on January
18, 2012 (second place is free
admission to Domainfest Global, third
place is 50% off admission). Signing
up for the contest is free but
only one entry per person is allowed. In
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all
expenses paid trip, the winner will also
receive a "Fantasy Domaining
Champion" trophy on stage at
DOMAINfest Global 2012. No one else on
your block is going to have one of
those! |
(Posted Dec.
9, 2011)
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