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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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Domainers
Ready to Meet in Europe, Important .AU Election Imminent
in Australia and Canada Gets Its Own Domain Forum
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I'm
off to Chicago Friday
for
this weekend's inaugural GeoPublishers.com
Expo at the Fairmont Hotel. I
told you more about that event last
week and also had updates on the
upcoming T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
Ft. Lauderdale Beach conference on Monday
and the early 2012 DOMAINfest
Global conference in Santa Monica
yesterday.
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There
is another well established conference coming up
on the other side of the pond next month.
That is the 5th edition of Europe's popular Meet
Domainers show that will be held at
the Polonia Palace Hotel in Warsaw,
Poland on Friday, October 14, 2011.
Organizers
have put together sessions dedicated to the
European domain business including market trends
in the host country, Poland, and the latest
report from NASK, the administrator of
Poland's .pl ccTLD. There will also be
sessions devoted to startups and alternative
investing including presentations on how to
invest in wine, green energy or real estate.
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Another
highlight is expected to be a three-hour
workshop on How to Negotiate Domain Sales
conducted by Ewa Kastory
from Grupa Training & Consulting. The
conference agenda will close with a live
domain auction. 45 domain names (primarily
in the .pl extension) will be put up for bid
by professional auctioneer Piotr
Lengiewicz. Aftermarket.pl
will serve as the auction's technical and escrow
partner. The catalog includes Hotels.pl, Ibiza.pl
and Ogrodnictwo.pl (gardening), to name
just a few, and most of the domains have no
reserves with bids starting at 1 PLN. Online
bidding will be offered for those who register
for the sale by October 12th.
Friday
(Sept. 30) is the last day to get the early registration
rate of €153.75. The cost goes up to €184.50
Saturday (Oct. 1). We may have an even
better deal for you. If you are a foreign
domainer (you live outside Poland) and have
never been to a MeetDomainers conference,
organizers will give the first five of
our readers who write to [email protected]
free admission for the event.
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Simon
Johnson |
In another
important event in another part of the
domain world, auDA, the
administrator of Australia's .au
ccTLD will be holding their annual
meeting on Monday,
October 17, 2011 when four new
directors will be elected to the
auDA board.
The only
candidate from the domain investment
community running for one of those
positions is Simon Johnson (you
can read
his expanded candidate statement here).
Simon is well-known in both the
international and Australian domain
communities. I met him at the T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
Down Under conference in
2008 and can tell you is well
versed in all of the issues and would
make an excellent board member.
Johnson
pointed out that this will be an especially
important election for Australia as
auDA is planning to extend their
definition of domain monetization.
Johnson said, "This change may have
serious negative consequences for
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Marketers.
This is because auDA Policy seeks to
and/or has the effect of imposing content
regulations on domain name
registrants. As such, people will be
forced to evaluate the type and quantity
of information on their websites or
parked pages, just to ensure compliance.
If they don't comply, auDA can take
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"Unfortunately
this over-regulation is also having a negative
impact upon small business and is
driving people offshore. Some domain
investors are reassessing the
high/extreme sovereign risk associated
with .au and finding it to be
outside their risk appetite,"
Johnson said.
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You
can read
all of the candidate statements
here. Clearly this
is an election .au investors
will want to pay attention
to. You have to be an AUDA
member to vote. Members who
cannot attend the meeting but
still wish to vote, can use
this Proxy
Form (PDF) that
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instructions.
All qualifying Members have the
right to appoint a proxy and the
proxy does not need to be a
Member of auDA. Proxy forms must
be received by 5pm
AEDST on
Thursday, October 13, 2011.
Late proxy forms will not be
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David
Sams |
A couple of
other notes before I head out for the
Windy City and the GeoPublishers Expo: DNForum.com
owner Adam Dicker has just opened
a sister forum for Canadian domainers at
DNForum.ca.
Dicker (who is Canadian) said a key
mission for the free forum will be to help get the Canadian ccTLD, .ca, the
recognition it deserves.
Last but
not least, we are getting some terrific
response to our new
Cover Story about David Sams. Sams won
9 Emmy Awards as a wildly successful TV producer in
Hollywood. His credits include introducing
Oprah Winfrey to America and
helping launch iconic game shows Wheel
of Fortune and Jeopardy! He entered the domain industry with still more
success. A couple of years ago, a sudden
stroke turned his life upside down but wound up putting
David on an even more rewarding path.
Check out his remarkable
life story here. |
(Posted Sept.
29, 2011)
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