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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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Left
of the Dot Launches First GeoDomain to Use Their
Innovative Domain Monetization Platform & Darren
Cleveland's CityAdvertising.com Makes Inc. 500
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We
first told you about
Left
of the Dot Media back in June 2010,
right after the company had stepped into the
spotlight for the first time with a presentation
made during the Test Track session at at
the T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
Vancouver conference. Left of the
Dot allows multiple businesses to lease sub-domains
off a premium domain name like, for example, Importers.com,
a major success for them that we
told you about in August.
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The
company's latest launch involves their first geodomain
project - Oahu.com.
Oahu.com
lists more than 35,000 businesses from
across the popular Hawaiian island and caters to
both locals and tourists who are seeking
information and deals from Oahu-based
businesses. Oahu is the most populated of the
Hawaiian Islands with 953,000 residents (75%
of the state’s population) and in 2010 Oahu
welcomed 4.3 million tourists.
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Chris
Jensen
CEO, Left of the Dot Media |
Chris
Jensen, CEO of Left of the Dot
Media, said, “For the first time,
businesses can use our brand and lease
sub-domains direct from the website,
examples of which include Hotels.Oahu.com,
Golf.Oahu.com or Tours.Oahu.com."
Jensen
noted, "When a business uses one of
our marketing names, they get an
instantly memorable website address that
can define an entire category.
Marketing names can boost click-through
rates for online advertising, contribute
to search engine rankings, be
used as a landing or splash page for any
marketing campaign, and even used to
brand an entire web presence for
a small business struggling to find the
right domain name to use with their
business.”
Jensen
believes the Oahu.com foundation will
helps those businesses connect with the
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than
10 million web users who search
for Oahu-related information every year.
That will give them an opportunity to
claim a larger share of the vast
amount of money tourists spend on the
island each year ($5.5 billion in
2010 alone). For more information, you
can visit Oahu.com
or call 1.808.638.4085. |
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Congratulations
are also in order today to City
Advertising CEO Darren
Cleveland, whose Delray
Beach, Florida based Internet
advertising agency has
been named one of the
fastest growing companies in America by Inc.
Magazine. In their
annual Inc. 500 rankings, City
Advertising came in at #189 and
they were ranked #7 among the
fastest growing companies in the South
Florida area.
Inc. calculates
the growth rate of tens of thousands of
companies to determine who makes their
elite list each year. After bringing in
just over $129,000 the year the
company was founded (2007), City
Advertising's revenue soared 1,595%
over the next three years coming in at $2.2
million in 2010.
Cleveland,
whose company operates several
directories based on generic domain
names, including FuneralHomes.com,
PaintingContractor.com
and PropertyAppraisers.com,
said, "Our team has |
Darren
Cleveland
CEO, City Advertising |
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worked hard
to get our company to this level in a
short period of time...as more small
businesses shift their advertising
budgets online from traditional media
and the yellow pages, our organization
is very well positioned to take
advantage of this shift and grow for
years to come." |
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(Posted Oct.
11, 2011)
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