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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
Jackson. |
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Rob
Grant Rings Up Nice Geo-Targeted Real Estate Domain
Sale, Sedo Super Broker Jeff Gabriel Resigns and
DOMAINfest Issues Final Call for PITCHfest Entries
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Rob
Grant
owns
the world's largest collection of geo-targeted
.com real estate domains and it is a rare
occasion when he parts with one of them.
However, this evening Grant, the CEO
of
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RealEstateDirectory.com
announced
that he has sold ParkCityRealEstate.com
to EW Partners of Park City, Utah
for $60,000 in a deal brokered by GoDaddy.com.
Grant
said, ""We rarely sell any of our
valuable geo-targeted real estate domains unless
the offers are significant and reflect the
true value of these names.
ParkCityRealEstate.com was a domain that I
originally hand registered back in
the November 1996. This is a great example
of how valuable these real estate .com domains
have become over the years as a unique asset
class - despite ongoing recessions and our
current global financial crisis. Frankly,
there's no better investment out there."
Recently, Grant partnered
with Sothebys Select Real Estate to
leverage his domain names in test markets
throughout New York, building
custom sites around geo-targeted
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Avid
fisherman Rob
Grant reeled in a nice
.com real estate domain sale this week. |
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domains
like www.LakeGeorgeRealEstate.com.
These partnerships are based on generating
targeted real estate leads that can convert
to actual sales and commissions.
"If
you're fortunate enough to own a specific real-estate.com
domain in a given city or region, and you take
the time to really develop that name into a
major real estate portal, you'll invariably
own that market on the internet,"
Grant said. "We've proven that repeatedly
with our own real estate firm here in the Adirondacks.
AdirondackRealEstate.com
is now responsible for 95% of all our
real estate and vacation rental leads. We
rarely use print any more for any of our
real estate advertising."
Congrats
to Rob, whose sale will undoubtedly give him a
spot on this week's Top 20 sales chart that will
be out Wednesday.
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Elsewhere
today, Michael
Berkens reports that his Sedo
broker, Jeff
Gabriel, has resigned from
the company. Jeff made a huge splash in
November when he brokered the biggest
all cash domain sale ever
reported - Sex.com at $13
million. Meanwhile another Sedo
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just
scored a plum listing in Massachusetts.com.
It is very rare for a state .com domain
to go up for sale so this domain, owned
by Telepathy Inc., is bound to
attract a lot of interest. If you would
like more information send Dave an email
at [email protected].
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One
other note - organizers of the DOMAINfest
Global 2011
conference coming up Feb. 1-3
in Santa, Monica, California,
are reminding people who want to
compete in the show's PITCHfest
contest, that the deadline
to enter
is January 21. You do not
have to be registered for the
conference to submit ideas. If
your idea is among those chosen,
you will be admitted free
to present to the DOMAINfest
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Ten
finalists will be named on or
before January 28. Each
finalist will be given 5 minutes
on stage to present their innovative
online business, service or
technology idea. After
each presentation, a panel of
judges will assign a score of up
to 25 points in each of the
following areas: creativity,
viability, originality and
revenue potential. The winner
will be the finalist who receives
the highest combined score from
the panel of judges.
Also,
at the end of the session, the
audience will indicate which
finalist's product/service was their
favorite using a
real-time text message voting
system. So, we may see two
different winners - the
judge's choice and the audience
favorite. The winner will
receive the DOMAINfest Global
2011 PITCHfest Innovator
trophy and will be
prominently mentioned in a
post-show press release,
exposing their idea to a broad
audience. |
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(Posted Jan.
10, 2011)
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