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Here's the The Lowdown
from DN Journal,
updated daily
to
fill you in on the latest buzz going around the domain name industry.
The Lowdown is
compiled by DN Journal Editor & Publisher Ron
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You
may remember a post
from May
when I told you about the owner of Atlanta.com,
Skip Hoagland, moving to hire
reporters away from the long established
local newspaper, the Atlanta Journal and
Consititution. Another key player in the
geodomain space, Castello
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Cities
Internet Network, led by
brothers Michael Castello and David
Castello, has just made a creative
move of their own that promises to bring
more local readers to their thriving PalmSprings.com
site.
Rather than
raid local publications for talent, the
Castello Brothers have forged a win-win
partnership with Bob Marra, the
well-known owner of three popular local
publications; The Public Record,
Wheeler's Market Intelligence
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Michael
Castello & David Castello
Castello Cities Internet Network
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and Travelhost Magazine Palm
Springs & Desert Cities.
Marra has agreed to write a new weekly
column, The
Palm Springs Valley Business Update with
Bob Marra for
PalmSprings.com and in return the site
will promote his print
publications.
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Bob
Marra |
While
Marra will benefit from exposure
to PalmSprings.com's global
Internet audience, the site will
gain fresh weekly content
from a local leader who will
bring his own well established
following to PalmSprings.com.
With this move, PalmSprings.com
also serves notice that it is
now more that just a tourism
oriented site - the foundation
has been laid to grow it into an
influential media platform.
David
Castello noted "Bob is a
frequent speaker at all Tourism
Bureaus, Visitor Bureaus and
Hotel Associations including
Palm Springs, Palm Desert,
Cathedral City, Rancho Mirage,
Indian Wells and La Quinta.
He usually gives the "State
of the Local Economy" talk
at city luncheons and is also a
founding member of the Coachella
Valley Economic Partnership (CVEP)." |
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With
so many people migrating from
print to the web Marra is
obviously one of the forward
thinking commentators who
understand the importance of
expanding their personal
"brand" online. The
importance of doing that was
underscored in an article
published in the New York
Times yesterday. The
piece by Brian Stelter, Web
Traffic (or Lack of) May Be a
Reason for a Columnist’s
Dismissal,
reported that the Washington
Post is believed to have
dropped long-time columnist Dan
Froomkin because fewer
people were reading his column online.
In an analysis of Mr.
Froomkin’s departure, The
Washington City Paper
called it a historical marker
for The Post, “the first time
that a major personnel decision
has hinged so squarely on Web
hits.”
No
need to feel sorry for Froomkin
though - he has already found a new
job. He was promptly snapped
up by the popular web only
publication, the Huffington
Post, where he will
write regular dispatches and
manage four reporters in
Washington.
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In
other notes today, registration
has opened for the 2009 Domain
Convergence
conference that will be
held in Toronto,
Canada at the Radisson
Admiral Habourfront
Hotel August
13-14. This will be
the second outing for
the event that debuted
last year in Niagara
Falls, Ontario.
those who register before
July 20th
can save $100 off the
standard fee of $749.
Domain
Convergence, the only
event in Canada
of its kind, was founded
by Frank Michlich
who noted “Not only do
attendees get the
opportunity to learn
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industry
experts, but they also
have the chance to
network with other
domainers and pursue
profitable relationships
that would otherwise be
impossible to
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Frank,
as you may know, co-founded DomainNameNews.com
with Adam Strong and
Adam is celebrating some big
news of his own. He and his
wife Angie welcomed their
second child, Grant Nathaniel
Strong, to the world
Saturday afternoon, just after
5pm. Grant, who weighed in a 6
pounds, 6 ounces, joins older
brother Blake in the
Strong household. Our
congratulations to Adam and
Angie on this very special event for
their family.
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Vivian
Tran |
Last
but certainly not least,
Friday was marketing and
communications whiz Vivian
Tran's last day at Oversee.net
(parent company of DomainSponsor,
SnapNames and Moniker.com).
Vivian decided to go
back to school to get
her MBA and she
will do it at one of the
nation's top business
schools, Emory
University's Giozueta
School of Business
in Atlanta.
I
was in touch frequently
with Vivian over the
past few years and
always looked forward to
seeing her smiling face
at Oversee's DOMAINfest
Global conferences.
She is a brilliant,
talented young woman
whom I have no doubt
will make a big splash
in the business world
when she is done at
Emory.
Many
of Vivian's former
duties at Oversee will
be handled now by
Oversee's Creative
Manager Jennifer
McKay. |
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