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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
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Huge
Development in the GeoDomain World - Some of the
Sector's Biggest Names Have Joined Forces to Launch a
New Association & Expo at GeoPublishers.com
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DN
Journal Exclusive: Some of the biggest
names
in
the geodomain world have joined forces to launch
a new non-profit trade association based
at GeoPublishers.com
with physical
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offices
in New Orleans. Fred Mercaldo of Scottsdale.com
is serving as the organization's first President
with Don Jones (NewOrleans.com)
and Michael Castello (Castello
Cities Internet Network) on board as
1st and 2nd Vice Presidents, respectively.
Treasurer Peter Niederman (Boulder.com)
and Secretary Jessica Bookstaff Doppelt (PigeonForge.com)
complete the line up of officers while the Board
of Directors includes CCIN'S David Castello
(David and his brother
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Michael
were profiled in our December
2006 Cover Story), Bill Hammack (NewOrleans.com),
Tommy Butler (Glasgow.com)
and Gordon Borrell (Borrell
Associates). In addition, Andrew
Martin has been named Executive Director of
GeoPublishers.com. Martin brings extensive
corporate and non-profit experience to his new
role and is currently in charge of the
conference division at renowned
local media research firm
Borrell Associates.
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Several
of the new organization's founders had
leadership roles or were prominent members at Associated
Cities, the geodomain trade
association for .com city domain
owners that has been staging an annual GeoDomain
Expo (the last of which was held in April
2010 in New Orleans). Despite the
success of its conference, Associated Cities has
been plagued by widely publicized internal
battles between some of its
co-founders that has made it difficult for the
organization to function as smoothly as some had
hoped.
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GeoPublishers.com
will start fresh with a new concept that
will include offering membership
to those who own geo or geo-targeted
domains or websites in any extension.
The organization plans to provide its
members with a wide array of benefits
and services including local market data
from Borrell Associates, the
opportunity to participate in co-op
advertising deals, the GeoPublishers
Newsletter, legal information, a
jobs board and marketplace and more.
There will also be an annual Geo
Publishers Expo with the
inaugural conference to be held Sept.
30 through Oct. 2, 2011 at the Chicago
Fairmont. |
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The
association's president, Fred
Mercaldo, said "The on-line
Geo Publishing industry is skyrocketing
and the need for this trade
association is obvious. We will
provide our members with many
unique benefits including the
sharing of information,
interaction with the industry's
most successful and innovative
leaders and many other strategic
initiatives. The
GeoPublishers.com Board of
Directors, along with our
various committees, consist of
some of the most impressive
executives ever assembled in the
history of the Geo Publishing
industry. Our membership already
includes publishing titans such
as McClatchy Newspapers
and Morris Communications.
I encourage all in the Geo
Publishing industry to visit www.GeoPublishers.com
and join
today!"
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Fred
Mercaldo, President
GeoPublishers.com |
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With
a charter membership
role of over 200 geodomain websites already
onboard and such a formidable array of
leadership talent driving the organization,
GeoPublishers.com will clearly be a force to be
reckoned with in the geodomain space - a sector
that I have always felt offers one of the greatest
opportunities in the domain investment
and internet business development world. All
forms of local media continue to gravitate
toward the web and in my opinion good
geodomains provide the perfect platforms
to take advantage of that historic shift.
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(Posted April
21, 2011)
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