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Over the weekend Skip Hoagland, who most of your know as one of the key players in the geodomain sector (owner of Atlanta.com, MyrtleBeach.com, BuenosAires.com and many

Skip Hoagland
(Hunting and fishing are a big part of 
this domain investor/developer's life)

others), sent out a press release announcing that his company,  DomainsNewMedia.com, had formed two new partnerships to develop some of his best generic non-geo keyword domains. Today I hooked up with Skip (who is currently in Argentina) to get some more information on what his new projects involve. 

If you read our July 2008 Cover Story on Hoagland you know he has always been a strong advocate of finding qualified partners to develop top tier domains. To do just that with four of his best sporting domains; Fishing.com, FlyFishing.com, Shooting.com and ShotgunSports.com, Hoagland has cut a deal with Argentina based Patagona Publishing and Media to build those properties into category killing web portals. 

Hoagland said Patagonia already manages 50 

hunting and fishing enthusiast websites as well as booking agencies that arrange hunting and fishing trips around the world. Patagonia also publishes coffee table books on these sports. In addition to Patgonia's expertise in the space, Hoagland said he was impressed by the two young U.S. educated leaders of the company and was confident in their ability to build the domains into dominating websites.

In another major partnership arrangement, Hoagland cut a deal with Databanq CEO David Bayer to develop Hoagland's ChamberOfCommerce.com and CVB.com domains (CVB is a major travel industry term for Convention And Visitors Bureaus).  

Hoagland said ChamberofCommerce.com would be built into a brand people will be able to rely on for trusted information on businesses from some 7,000 cities worldwide that are in the company's database. CVB.com will naturally focus on the areas of travel and tourism.

Hoagland said his company is also developing  geo-targeted domains he owns for classified ads and Yellow Pages directories. 

Partnering was a key topic at the Domain Roundtable conference in Washington, D.C. last week. More and more owners of top tier 

Databanq CEO David Bayer

domains are deciding the best way to maximize the potential of those names is to marry the best domains with the best possible managers to build full blown web based businesses on them.

Speaking of Domain Roundtable we just published our comprehensive show review article this morning with dozens of previously unpublished photos and details on that major industry event in the nation's capital.

(Posted June 23, 2009)

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