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You
may have heard
the sound of corks popping in
domain/internet circles over the past few
days. Several well-known faces in our
industry had good reason to celebrate. For
starters Team
Internet AG, the parent
company of ParkingCrew.com
(who was profiled in our February 2013 Newsletter),
scored a huge honor when Deloitte released
the names of the companies included on
their prestigious 2013
Technology Fast 50 list for
Germany. Team
Internet not only made the list - they
were #1 on it, giving
them the title of Fastest
Growing Technology Company ("Rising
Star") in Germany! Congratulations to
CEO Nico Zeifang, COO Stefan
Wiegard, CTO Mario Witte and
the entire team on this big
win. |
TeamInternet
COO Stefan Wiegard (center) and
CTO Mario Witte (right) picking up
their 2013
Technology Fast 50 #1 award from Deloitte.
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Shortly
before Team Internet was celebrating in Germany,
Indian entrepreneur Anshul Goyal was
doing the same in New Delhi after his
company, EMail.biz
(a service we profiled
when it launched late last year), won
the 2013 ABP Brand
Excellence Award in the IT Portal Category. ABP
is a prominent Indian news organization whose
Brand Excellence Awards "give recognition
to those brands and marketers who have achieved extraordinary
success from innovative and effective
marketing practices."
Email.biz
Founder Anshul Goyal (2nd from left)
receiving the 2013 ABP Brand Excellence
Award in the IT Portal Category during a ceremony
in New Delhi. India.
In
covering the event The Telegraph wrote,
"the award was given in recognition of the
pioneering work of Email.biz for their
conceptualization and successful execution of
their email service which has garnered a record
number of registered users, 1,48,718, in
a short span of time. The who's who of the
Indian IT industry were present at this event
hosted by World Brand Congress, in
partnership with CMO Asia and CMO
Council USA."
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Elsewhere, Fred
Mercaldo of CitiesPlanet.com
is celebrating his company's acquisition
of developed website Burbank.com
from Elliot Silver of Silver
Internet Ventures, LLC (Elliot is also
the author of the DomainInvesting.com
blog).
The price was
not disclosed but Mercaldo said, “This six
figure purchase will be the first of a
series of upcoming announcements in the
fourth quarter, as many other large deals
are in the works. Our partnership
with Tallwave is thriving, and
we anticipate launching a completely new
software platform for all of our City.com
brands by year's end.”
One other
note today, DomainSherpa.com
Founder Michael Cyger asked us to
let you know that he is organizing an
informal Meetup for domain
investors in the Seattle area that
will be held one evening in early
2014. |
Fred
Mercaldo
CitiesPlanet.com Founder |
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Seattle
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Cyger
noted, "Seattle is bustling
with activity and it's time we
organized a get together to help
people meet. Based in Seattle,
in addition to domain name investors
and entrepreneurs, are companies including
Marchex, Donuts, NameJet,
DomainTools, GoDaddy, Enom and many
others."
At this
point Michael is just asking people
interested in attending to sign
up for his meetup newsletter at DNSeattle.com
so he can get a count, then pick a
location and finalize a date. |
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