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Christian
Zouzas, the owner of America.us,
recently announced the roll-out of a
full-blown website there. Again, this is
the handiwork of Local Matters who
developed the site in a revenue sharing
arrangement with Zouzas.
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If
you visit America.us, you will
notice that there are listings
for all 50 states and every
major city in the country. When
you drill down the the location
you are interested you find
well-populated pages featuring
links to travel, business,
entertainment and information
resources within that community.
The advertising is currently a
combination of banners provided
by Local Matters and Google
AdSense but ad space can
also be sold directly to local
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Given
the vast scope of a site trying to cover
the entire United States, the
kind of services provided by Local
Matters (and several other companies who
compete in the directory space) are real
Godsends to domain owners who want to
ramp up development on their properties
as quickly as possible.
Incidentally,
America.us is just one of many top tier .us
domains that Zouzas holds. He told us he
is seeing a lot of encouraging signs for
America's country code. One of
those was a post
on Bido.com co-founder Sahar
Sarid's blog yesterday. In giving a
progress report on his company's auction
platform Sahar noted "just a market
observation, .Info and .US
are on the move, with very decent
trading numbers (volume, prices,
activity)."
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One
other note today, .tel
fans who plan to attend the Domain
Convergence
conference in Toronto August
13-14 can look forward to a free
bonus event, Toronto
TelCamp 1, that has been
scheduled to coincide with the
show. TelCamp 1 will get started
at 8:30am on Saturday, August
15. Justin Hayward of
the Telnic
registry will be participating
in the camp (as well as speaking
at Domain Convergence). Rick
Silver (n49.com)
and Steve Smith (Webnames.ca)
are also on a growing list of
confirmed attendees for TelCamp
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Scott
Smith ( President of TelCartel.com)
and two other leading .tel
owner/developers, Mark Kolb and
“Freaky Steve” are hosting
the camp. Smith said, “Telcamp
1 is a community-driven event
where attendees define the agenda and
collaborate on themes and issues
surrounding .tel domains. Attendees will
also learn techniques to help create new
and compelling uses for the domains from
community experts." People wishing
to attend this event can sign up on the
TelCamp 1 Toronto wiki at http://www.telcampus.org/wiki/TelCamp.
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