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Industry Veteran Opens New Forum Dedicated to Domain Leasing + Howard Neu Celebrates an Anniversary and It's Also a Special Day for the Water School

 In January I wrote about the increasing interest in domain leasing. Recently Rick Schwartz has been leading the charge with his new JointVentures.com project, but many others have also gotten onboard. The latest is industry veteran Gordon Martin (well-known for well over a decade for the services he has provided at DropWizard.com). In fact, more than 10 years ago, Martin had begun developing his LeasingDomains.com domain, but he found the idea was still "before its time" back then.

It looks like leasing's time may have finally come though. As Schwartz noted on his blog a few weeks ago, Martin recently completed a lease on an unnamed .com domain that could be worth over $800,000 to him over the term of the contract. With that deal in hand Martin, with assistance from Bill Roy, has just opened a new public forum at LeasingDomains.com.

Martin said the new forum is not a competitor to a public joint venture group that Schwartz recently started on LinkedIn. Martin noted 

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that, with Rick's focus on high .com domains as lease candidates, that group "will represent the cream and we will represent the rest along with the ccTLDs and the DIY crowd. LeasingDomains.com is a chat board and industry resource center. Aside from domainers I want to start attracting end users to the forum." The doors have just opened so, if you are interested you can check it out by registering here.

In a related note, Rick Schwartz's fellow co-founder of the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference, attorney Howard Neu, is marking the 3rd anniversary of his NeusNews.com blog today. Howard is using the occasion to debut a new look for the blog (courtesy of Danny Pryor and his Rodan Media Group).  Heading into the fourth year of NeusNews, Howard said he would continue to do what has set him apart form other blogs - publishing all the news that is of interest to domainers from a legal perspective

Today is also a special day for our friends at The Water School - it is World Water Day - a day set aside to recognize the global effort towards access to clean water and basic sanitation for all. For many years now, the domain industry has been a major contributor to The Water School's mission of making that happen.

In fact, a new campaign is underway right now in which the co-promoter of next month's Domaining Spain conference, Jodi Chamberlain, has agreed to have her head shaved if industry supporters rally around her to help meet her goal by making a donation of any size to the Water School at WaterShave.org. Jodi is already a third of the way there, but if those long brown locks are going to go April 25th in Spain, your help will be needed to make it happen for this most worthy cause.

(Posted March 22, 2013)  


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