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In
addition
to a
new
Cover Story marking DN Journal's
10th Anniversary (celebrated
on New Year's Day 2013), I have been
featuring
some of the key people and events we have covered
over the past decade in a series of Lowdown
posts the past couple of weeks. I last touched on 2011
Thursday. Today we complete the journey
with a glimpse at some of 2012's many
highlights.
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DN Journal's
signature elements appear at different
intervals with the daily Lowdown
(which you are reading now), the weekly
domain sales reports and our
monthly Cover
Stories and Newsletters.
There is also
one annual element - our State
of the Industry article that appears
each year as our January Cover Story
(being published around the middle of that
month). In it we have many of the
industry's top executives, attorneys,
investors and developers comment on what
they view as the key trends and events of
the year just passed, as well as what they
expect to see in the new year ahead.
NameMedia
CEO Kelly Conlin and Oversee.net
CEO Debra Domeyer were among the
industry leaders featured in our 2012
State of The Industry story.
You can revisit it now to see how closely
the various predictions made at the start
of 2012 panned out by year's end. |
Two
popular CEOs - NameMedia's Kelly Conlin
(left) and Oversee.net's Debra Domeyer
show they can lead on the dance floor as
well as in the corner office at the 2012
T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference's official
party at Fort Lauderdale Beach, Florida.
(Photo courtesy of Barbara Neu). |
In
2012 we also continued to draw from the
industry's remarkably deep well of
amazing personal success stories from
around the world. Our April 2012 Cover Story -
Great
Scot! How Tommy Butler Went From Gutting
Chickens to Developing Glasgow.com and Dozens of
Other Successful Sites was a prime
example, detailing how Scotand's Tommy Butler
built a geo-based domain empire in his home
country.
Tommy
Butler (right) speaking at the 2012
Domaining Europe conference in Valencia,
Spain
with DomainHoldings.com CEO Jason Boshoff
listening intently to what he had to say. One
of the most fascinating things about domain
investors and developers is that they come from every
walk of life. Tommy gutted chickens while
others have been everything from lawn mowers
to electricians to doctors and lawyers
(and everything in between). Even commercial
airline pilots - the field where Bob Olea,
the subject of our July
2012 Cover Story, first made his
mark (and continues to do so as a United
Airlines captain).
At
the start of his career as a commercial airline
pilot, Bob Olea
gets an on the job visit from his wife Trudie. In
2012 we also published our second Cover
Story on industry giant Frank Schilling,
following our biographical 2007
piece on him with an update covering
his new role as one of the industry's leading
providers of services to other domain investors
via InternetTraffic.com
and DomainNameSales.com.
In October 2012, Frank picked up a record third T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
Domainer of Year Award. He is also in T.R.A.F.F.I.C.'s
Domain Hall of Fame and, in the photo below,
is shown on stage with eight of his fellow HOF
members including 2012 inductees Michael Mann
and Chad Folkening. I've written
Cover Stories (still available in our Archive)
on every one of those on stage with me
(with Frank Schilling and Michael Mann each
having been featured twice).
Nine members of
T.R.A.F.F.I.C.'s Domain Hall of Fame on
stage together at the 2012 T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Awards ceremony at the Ritz Carlton in Fort Lauderdale Beach,
Florida. They are (left to right) Ron Jackson, Dr. Chris Hartnett, Adam Dicker, Howard Neu, Rick Schwartz, Michael Berkens
and Frank Schilling along with
2012's two new inductees Michael Mann and Chad
Folkening. (Photo courtesy of Louis Rafael Rosenthal
of RookMedia). The
past 10 years has been a remarkable ride. I want
to thank every one of you who has let me
accompany you on this amazing adventure as well
as every one that has dropped in here to read
about it (you and our advertisers are the most
important people of all because without
you DNJournal.com wouldn't exist). Now let's
get that next decade started - I can't wait
to see what it has in store for all of us!
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