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People in the News: NameMedia's Jason Miner, ICA's Phil Corwin, Marc Ostrofsky & Lana Del Rey

I want to wrap up another busy week in the domain business with some news and information from or about some well-known figures in our always fascinating field.  Let's start with well  

  

Jason Miner
Chief Operating Officer, NameMedia

deserved congratulations to NameMedia's Jason Miner who was promoted to Chief Operating Officer Thursday. 

Jason joined the company in 2005 as the Director of Sales for the company’s domain marketplace (best known for its AfternicDLS), and went on to assume responsibilities for business development, marketing, customer service and portfolio management. 

NameMedia Chairman and CEO Kelly Conlin noted, "Jason has been a key leader in developing the strategy and executing the business plan for NameMedia. In addition, he has been an excellent mentor to many people across the company who join me in congratulating Jason on this well- deserved recognition.”

Kelly makes a great point there. I have had people who report to Jason at NameMedia tell me what an inspirational leader he is and how much they enjoy working for him. To hear that 

kind of unsolicited praise about someone's boss in casual conversation is not something I hear every day and it speaks volumes about Miner - one of the industry's true good guys in addition to being one of its most outstanding executives.  

Another guy the industry is fortunate to have in its corner, Internet Commerce Association Legal Counsel Phil Corwin, went to bat for domain owners again this week. There has been a move afoot among trademark interests to turn ICANN's proposed Universal Rapid Suspension (URS) system into a cut-rate ($300) UDRP - a move, that if successful, would make it dramatically cheaper and easier for over-reaching TM holders to try to take domains they are not entitled to. They would also like to apply this form of the URS on .com this year via contract negotiations.

Corwin responded with a detailed article shining a spotlight on the scheme as well as a letter to ICANN (that follows the article linked to above) vehemently opposing changes that would tilt an already lopsided system even further against the interests of domain registrants.

ICA Legal Counsel Phil Corwin

Industry pioneer Marc Ostrofksy made a huge splash this past year with the  publication of his book, Get Rick Click!, which quickly became a New York Times bestseller. As the book shot up the charts Marc got the opportunity to spread the "domain gospel" through a number of mainstream media outlets - including two national TV appearances on ABC-TV's The View

This week MarcOmania entered an even more hallowed corner of pop culture when the book title showed up as a question on the legendary game show Jeopardy! You can check it out on this YouTube video clip. While the question stumped the panelists, there's no doubt the unsolicited plug will help sell even more copies of Ostrofsky's guide on how to make money on the Internet.

Last but certainly not least, we want to congratulate new music superstar Lana Del Rey (daughter of Rob Grant) on her outstanding live performance (seen by an audience of around 30 million people) as a guest on American Idol last night (Thursday, March 22, 2012). Lana, a friend and longtime favorite of ours, sang her big hit "Video Games" and her stage presence continues to blossom every time she steps into the spotlight. 

Earlier this week Lana performed live with Katy Perry at Germany's prestigious Echo Awards in Berlin. OK Magazine has some great photos of two of the hottest female singers in the world together that you will want to check out. Have a great weekend and we'll see you back here Monday!

(Posted March 23, 2012) 


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