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The Lowdown
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March 31, 2009 Post
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Here's the The
Lowdown from DNJournal.com! Updated
daily to fill you in on the latest buzz going
around the domain name industry!
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Another
one bites the dust.
The Chicago
Sun-Times has filed
for chapter 11 bankruptcy, just a few months
after Chicago's other major daily newspaper, the Chicago
Tribune, did the same. The Sun Times
plans to keep publishing under bankruptcy protection but
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shareholders
will be wiped out and more job cuts and enforced
furloughs are expected.
Just
this morning our local paper, The Tampa Tribune,
announced they were cutting 65 more jobs. This
continuing devastation in traditional media (and how city
.com website operators can benefit from the historic
shift of media to the Internet) will be the theme of
next month's GeoDomain
Expo in San Diego (April 23-35
at the Catamaran Resort). We will be publishing a
preview of that conference later this week. |
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Meanwhile,
our preview of next month's T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
Silicon Valley conference, featuring a wide
ranging interview with show co-founder Rick Schwartz,
went out to subscribers
of our monthly newsletter last night. You can also read
it online here. The show will be held at the
Santa Clara Marriott April 27-30. Incidentally,
the perfect domain name for that location, SantaClara.com,
is to be auctioned off at the show by Moniker.com.
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If you missed the
DOMAINfest Global conference in Hollywood,
California in January (or were there and
would just like to re-live it), you can now view
full-length videos of the seminars on the
show's website. The video of the keynote
fireside chat with Apple Computer Co-Founder
Steve Wozniak is also on the site. As
many of you know, Wozniak is currently competing
on ABC-TV's Dancing With the |
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Stars.
A photo collage has also been added along with
both video and written testimonials from those
who were there. Below are direct links to all of
the new content added at Domainfest.com:
http://www.domainfest.com/vids
http://www.domainfest.com/photos
http://www.domainfest.com/videotestimonials
http://www.domainfest.com/writtentestimonials
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Some other
notes to pass along to you today. The
Domain
Madness live auction being
staged by DomainConsultant.com
and Aftermarket.com
gets underway today at 3:15pm U.S.
Eastern Time (2:15 Central) at The
Palms in Las Vegas. You can
check out the auction
catalog here. There will be
a live video feed of the auction that
you can access from this
page (the video feed link is
at the top of the right column).
Domain
Madness will also be giving away a $1,000
prize to a contest entrant who picked
the names that end up selling (the
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Also don't forget
that the Bido.com
charity auction to benefit the Hacienda
de los Milagros (House of Miracles)
animal sanctuary will be held at 1pm U.S.
Eastern time tomorrow. A portolio featuring
dozens of donated animal related domain names
will be auctioned off to help the Arizona sanctuary
keep its doors open.
(Posted March
31, 2009) |
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