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from DN Journal,
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to
fill you in on the latest buzz going around the domain name industry.
The Lowdown is
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DNForum
Owner Adam Dicker Stars in New Video Blog, Edwin
Hayward Launches Offensive Against .UK Proposal
& Sedo's Dave Evanson Announces Big .CO.UK Sale
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One
of the most popular sessions
at
the 2012
T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference, held at Fort
Lauderdale Beach, Florida earlier this
month, featured DNForum.com
owner Adam Dicker dispensing advice on
how to turn domains into money making
businesses. It's something Dicker has been
doing successfully for years and at
T.R.A.F.F.I.C. he detailed exactly how he does
it. Attendees busily scribbled down notes on
everything he said and the session generated a
tremendous amount of buzz when Dicker left the
stage. If
you were not at T.R.A.F.F.I.C. (or if you were
and want to hear a lot more of what Dicker has
to say) you will be delighted to know that he
has just launched a new video blog at TheArtOfTheName.com.
Dicker promised that the 10-minute introductory
video used to launch
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Adam
Dicker
TheArtOfTheName.com
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the
free site today would be followed by many
more and he immediately began making good on
that promise with a second video on finding desirable
content for your sites.
Adam
has been very successful in this business and it
is great to see someone with his level of
expertise give back to the community (especially
new domain investors and developers who are
always seeking reliable guidance) in such a
generous way. A video blog requires a big
time commitment, but if Adam can juggle the
task along with his many other endeavors, his
new site will rapidly become one of the
industry's most valuable resources.
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Edwin
Hayward |
Adam
wasn't the only one launching an
important new site this week. Another
industry veteran, England's Edwin
Hayward, raised the curtain on a
well-written and researched site at MyDomainNames.co.uk
opposing Nominet's controversial
plan to allow second level
registrations (at a far higher cost) on
the .UK ccTLD ( for instance
example.uk). Such a move would instantly
devalue corresponding third level
domains in the long established and
globally recogniized .CO.UK
extension (such as example.co.uk).
In
a 26-page paper that can be
downloaded here
(.pdf file), Hayward made several key
points, just a few of which are noted
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The
internet is big business and hugely
important to the UK economy (8.3% of GDP)
with all of that based on third level
British domain names (like example.co.uk).
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Most
businesses use .co.uk, and 93% of UK
names are .co.uk.
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Proposed
.uk names will not be offered to
the owners of .co.uk (e.g. the BBC would
not automatically get BBC.uk).
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Existing
domain owners will have to prove
that they are entitled to the matching .uk
domain name, or buy it at auction (if
it hasn't already been taken by a trademark
holder).
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The
direct cost to UK businesses will be at
least £50,000,000 per year, and
associated adjustment costs could run to £billions.
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Other
countries went about the same process quite
differently. In every previous case,
existing domain owners were given
priority ahead of other interests.
Visit Edwin's
site for more critical information -
the most important being what you can do to
protest the current deeply flawed proposal.
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Speaking of
.co.uk (and a perfect example how
valuable that extension can be), Sedo's
Dave Evanson (who won T.R.A.F.F.I.C.'s
Broker of the Year Award this year) announced
on his Facebook page today that
he has just sold WebHosting.co.uk
for $500,000 (once verified that
will rank as the second biggest sale of 2012
year to date in any
extension).
Congrats
to Dave on the latest of several
blockbuster sales he has handled this
year. When you're hot, you're hot! |
Sedo's
Dave Evanson (center) receiving the 2012
Broker
of the Year Award from T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
Co-Founders Rick
Schwartz & Howard Neu.
(Photo courtesy of Barbara Neu) |
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(Posted October
30, 2012)
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