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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
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Domain
Attorney Paul Keating Makes An Offer You Can't
Refuse + IDNTools Retools & Escrow.com
Reveals a New Look
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If
you were looking for another good reason
to
attend the 2012
Domaining Europe conference in Valencia,
Spain next month (the show runs April
26-28 at the Sorolla Palace Hotel)
show organizers just announced one today. Noted
domain industry attorney Paul Keating of Law.es
is supporting the 4th annual event by offering free
consultations during the conference. Paul
has offices in Barcelona and London
but handles domain matters worldwide for
a clientele that includes some of the industry's
top portfolio owners, developers, registrars and
popular service providers like DomainTools.com.
If you would like to meet with Paul in Valencia
just send an email to his office ([email protected]) to
set up an appointment. Show
founder Dietmar Stefitz also announced a
free consulting offer for Domaining Europe
attendees from Alvaro Añon of Soho.cl
who will provide a Usability, UX and Persuasion
analysis of your website. Registration
for Domaining Europe 2012 is currently open. The
cost is €600. In addition to many of Europe's
top domain investors and company
representatives, several leading domainers and
brokers from the U.S. will be there. I'll
also be going to Spain to cover the show for
you.
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Attorney
Paul Keating, Law.es
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Elsewhere
today, IDNTools.com
has undergone a complete makeover.
The redesigned, re-purposed site has
just been re-launched as a fixed
price marketplace for
Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs).
IDNTools
co-founders Gary Males and Aaron
Krawitz said many believe that
foreign domain names represent a major
emerging domain investment opportunity
but one obstacle has stood in the way
- the fact that most U.S. |
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domain
investors don't understand foreign
domains. IDNTools has been working to
change that by providing a resource for
both veteran and new IDN investors with
its punycode converter and sales
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They
said the new IDNTools marketplace
represents another big step forward by
providing trusted translations
and reasonable fixed prices
(starting in the low three figures) so
that buyers can invest in IDNs with
confidence.
Those with larger budgets who are
interested in category defining terms in
leading languages, like
"Doctors", "Phone",
"Hotels" and Games" will
also find those listed at fixed prices.
Languages including Chinese, Arabic,
Russian, Japanese, and Hebrew are all
represented in the wide variety of
domains for sale.
To
broaden the site's reach, Males and
Krawitz intend to target native speakers
abroad in addition to the traditional
U.S. domaining community. Toward that
end, they are currently having the site
translated into multiple languages.
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The
domain industry's most popular
escrow service, Escrow.com,
will also be getting a new
look soon. The site's
vaunted escrow services will not
change but the look and feel of
the widely used side will be
modernized with a |
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very
pleasing new look. An exact
launch date has not been set but
you can see what it is going to
look like on this preview
page. Escrow.com
would be happy to get you
feedback on the new look,
something you can offer at their
official Facebook
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(Posted March
27, 2012) |
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