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DomainMarket
President Chad Bennett Resigns, Protrada
Partners With DomainPower and .US Registry Up
For Grabs Again
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Chad
Bennett,
who served as President and Chief
Technical Officer at Michael
Mann's aftermarket sales venue, DomainMarket.com,
for the past 10 months has stepped down from
that position. Bennett has decided to
devote
all of his time to Lancera.com,
an IT outsourcing company he founded in 2011.
Bennett said Lancera now has over 70
full-time employees with three offices in the
U.S. and the Philippines. Bennett
was proud of the growth DomainMarket has
experienced over the past year, telling his
Facebook friends, "In the short time I was
there we doubled e-commerce revenues and
traffic to the website, increased monthly
revenues by over 160%, lowered our
expenses by tens of thousands a month and had
created a completely new internal system to
manage DomainMarket's portfolio of over
335,000 domains. The
testimonials page at Lancera includes comments
from several of Mann's businesses
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Chad
Bennett
Lancera.com Founder
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(including
DomainMarket.com and SEO.com), as well as
his well-known non-profit organization, GrassRoots.org. Lancera
has also done work for multiple Fortune 500 and
INC 500 clients.
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Innovative domain name treading platform Protrada
has announced a new partnership with DomainPower.com
(a Domain Holdings, Inc. Company).
The deal paved the way for
DomainPower’s monetization solution to
be integrated into the Protrada platform,
allowing the company's clients to monetize
their domain assets and access reporting
from within their Protrada account. The
integration also |
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completes
the domain lifecycle ambitions of
Protrada, allowing members to research,
bid, buy, sell, backorder, appraise,
market, manage and monetize domains all
from one centralized
platform. |
Protrada
CEO Troy Rushton |
DomainPower CEO Jason Boshoff said, “The DomainPower
monetization decision engine predicts and
optimizes so that traffic generated
through domains will yield the highest
revenue among our large advertiser base.
Working with Protrada has been a pleasure
and DomainPower is confident in our
ability to help Protrada clients earn
more.”
Protrada
also recently launched an education and
training division which aims to assist
new domain investors grasp the
fundamentals of domain investing within
weeks. Protrada CEO Troy Rushton said “We have been very focused
on attracting new domain investors and
it’s now possible for our members to learn
and earn all from one login. Our new
education and support program allows us to
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pursue new audiences beyond traditional domain investors, which
positions us for exciting growth over the
coming years.”
The
contract to operate the .US
registry (America's country code TLD)
is up for grabs again. Neustar's
current contract to administer .US
expires August 31, 2013 so
the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National
Telecommunications and Information
Administration (NTIA) is now
soliciting |
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public
comments that they said
"will inform the procurement
process leading to the award of
a new usTLD contract”.
If you
want to weigh in, pro or con, on how
.US has been run in the past and/or
what attributes should be required
of the eventual winner of the
registry contract you will want to do
it now. The final day comments
will be accepted is coming up March
4, 2013. Detailed information on
how to send your opinions can be
found on this
page. |
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(Posted February
21, 2013)
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