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Evan
Longoria (Tampa Bay Rays
All-Star 3rd Baseman) rookie card
graded mint 9 by Becketts. |
To solve
the problem, Allemann, who is well known
within the industry for his DomainNameWire.com
news site, borrowed a page from the
baseball card business. To counter the
problem of over-graded cards being sold
to hapless buyers, trusted third party
grading and verification services like Becketts
and PGI entered the field to
insure that buyers were getting what
they paid for. That third party
verification also added additional value
for legitimate sellers who found they
could sell professionally graded cards
for significantly more money.
There is
one big difference between the sports
card verification companies and DNW
Stats and it is a good one - Allemann's
service is free. The domain owner
just submits the domain (or domains),
DNW Stats then gets the statistics directly
from the parking company and creates
a coded online certificate. The
domain owner can then provide the code
to potential buyers who can use it to
view the verified stats online.
DomainSponsor,
NameDrive, Sedo and Skenzo
have already gotten on board
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DNW Stats
and I would expect more companies to
soon follow because it is a win win for
everyone involved in transactions based
on traffic and revenue.
One other
note today - a follow-up on yesterday's
Who Are They? post. We have
received IDs on two of the four people
we were looking for and helpful hints on
the other two. We asked readers to identify
for the four guys with Richard Lau
(in the white shirt in the photo below
taken at T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Vancouver
in June). David Bleaman of eBuv.com
was the first to identify Shane
Martin (2nd from the left below) and
Susan Prosser from DomainTools.com
followed with the name of Shane's
company - Social Media Research.
The
man standing tall right behind Richard
drew the most email. Several readers
identified Matthias Kaiser, the
Director of European Operations for NameDrive.com.
Michael Robrock was the first to spot
Matthias. We still don't have IDs on our
"bookends" at far left and far
right, but Frank Michlick (who
was at the show) provided two good clues
saying he remembered that the gentleman on
the left owns helicopter.ca and
that the dashing young man at the right
works with Richard (and that his first
name may be Ken). Let's see if
someone can fill in the blanks this
weekend (if not, I will cheat and get the
info for you through back channels so we
can introduce you to the rest of the
quartet next week). |
