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For
starters, DomainSponsor, the domain monetization
division of Oversee.net, announced that Zappos CEO and co-founder Tony
Hsieh will be the keynote speaker at the fourth annual
DOMAINfest
Global conference that will run January
26-28, 2010 in Santa Monica, California.
35-year-old Harvard graduate Hsieh and his team
recently sold Zappos to Amazon.com for more than $850
million. Oversee
CEO and President Jeff Kupietzky said, “Tony's
fresh thinking, insights related to online consumer
behaviors and needs, and intelligent risk-taking have set
new standards for how to succeed in e-commerce.
DOMAINfest has always been a breeding ground for new ideas
on how to get the most out of a domain name investment, so
Tony’s fireside chat will provide our guests with plenty
of innovative ideas and inspiration.” Hsieh
recently purchased Clothes.com for $4.9 million,
demonstrating his understanding of the connection between
Internet real estate, marketing and brand power.
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Tony
Hsieh
Zappo's Co-Founder
will be the keynote speaker
at DOMAINfest Global 2010
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Registry
operator Neustar, Inc. continues to pick up
new business from companies that plan to go after new
gTLDs once ICANN starts rolling them
out next year. The DotGreen Registry |
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Corporation is
the latest organization to select
Neustar to provide the registry and
DNS (Domain Name System) services required to
support a .green global Top-Level Domain -
if they are successful in their quest to gain
rights to the proposed extension. |
Tim
Switzer, vice president of Neustar Registry Services,
said "Neustar is very pleased to be associated with
an organization that is so committed to environmental and
humanitarian causes. We are confident businesses,
organizations and individuals around the world will want
to use a .green web address to demonstrate their
commitment to environmentalism." Of
course, a different group planning to go after the .eco
extension will be targeting much the same audience which
sets up an interesting horse race if both end up getting
the green light from ICANN.
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And last but not
least, Sedo
announced another acquisition today, revealing
their purchase of domain monetization services
provider ParkingPanel.com.
Sedo
said they will be incorporating the
ParkingPanel.com brand into their own and
transitioning ParkingPanel.com’s members to
Sedo’s platform by the end of the month.
Financial terms of the agreement were not
disclosed.
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Sedo
CEO Tim Schumacher said “We look forward
to a smooth integration of the ParkingPanel.com
brand into Sedo’s community of domain buyers and
sellers. This acquisition is another example of
Sedo’s commitment to sustaining growth and
increasing our membership throughout the year.” |
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