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Dave
Evanson Joins Sedo as Senior Sales & Brokerage
Consultant - DomainConvergence Conference Postponed -
.CO Passes 500,000 Registrations
A
familiar figure in the domain industry,Dave
Evanson, has joined Sedo.com
as Senior Sales and Brokerage Consultant. Dave
is a regular attendee at the major domain
conferences (and was also a speaker at T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
Orlando in 2008). He is one of the
most highly respected and personable people in
the industry and looks from here to be a perfect
fit for the Sedo team.
Evanson
has over ten years of experience with domain
name investment strategies and web marketing. Evanson
also has an extensive business background in
strategic planning, marketing,
consultative selling and executive management.
As president of the global marketing
consultancy he founded in 1991, his clients
ranged from Fortune 500 to small
companies and included American Express, VISA,
Dun & Bradstreet, and General
Electric. Prior to 1991, he held senior
sales and marketing positions with Bank of
America, Citicorp and Harte-Hanks
Direct Marketing.
Dave
Evanson Senior Sales & Brokerage Consultant Sedo.com
Sedo
COO Jeremiah Johnston said,
"With Dave's domain industry
expertise and overall background,
we’re excited for the contributions he
can provide our growing business.
We’re thrilled to welcome him
aboard." If you don't already know
Dave and would like to introduce
yourself, he can be reached via email at [email protected].
The
DomainConvergenceconference that was
scheduled to be held in
Montreal, Canada next week
has been postponed. Show
organizer Frank Michlick
told us the event is being
rescheduled for next spring in
Montreal. Tentative dates are May
12-13, 2011, pending
approval of a final contract
agreement with the hotel.
The
postponement will eliminate a
conflict with the Domaining
III conference in Valencia,
Spain that will run on the
same dates DomainConvergence had
been scheduled for. Domaining
III gets underway a week from
today - Thursday, May 23
- and will run through the 25th.
One
other note today - congratulations
to the .CO registry team
are in order as the re-launched
extension hit another major
milestone yesterday when it
passed 500,000 total
registrations. That figure was
reached less than the two
months after the TLD
re-opened for public
registration in July (.CO is
officially Colombia's country
code, but it was re-launched as
a TLD available for use around
the globe).
Juan
Diego Calle, the CEO of
registry operator.CO
Internet S.A.S.,
said, "In passing the
half-million registrations mark
so quickly, the Internet and
business communities have voiced
their desire for
new
and better options in branding
their online presence. The
strong demand for .CO domains
validates our business strategy
and the work we have done to
bring .CO to market. We
are extremely pleased with our
results to date – and look
forward to continued growth in
the coming months and years.”
The
initial success of .CO, the
fastest growing new TLD (in this
case newly re-launched TLD) to
date, has won kudos for, among
others, Calle, Lori Anne
Wardi (.CO's Director of
Marketing), the Pappas
Group (who has
administered .CO's extensive
advertising campaign) and Neustar,
who provided .CO's back-end
registry services and technical
infrastructure.
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