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In
addition to running his primary business, Legal
Brand Marketing, Pollock invests in
a lot of other areas. He told me, "When
I see a good opportunity, it’s hard for me to
say no. Patrick and his wife Ze are doing
a phenomenal job on ScienceFiction.com
with unique monthly traffic averaging over 425,000
visitors. This is obviously a strong name in a
great niche. Soon we’ll start selling ad space
to movies and media companies with large ad
budgets - nice combination!" Ruddell
said he now has over a dozen writers creating
daily content for the site and it is not
uncommon for a dozen new stories to go up on any
given day. He added that all of that content and
a strong social media presence (for both himself
and the individual writers) has helped increase
traffic tenfold over the past year. 
Patrick
Ruddell
(standing left) and Braden Pollock
(right) are now partners in several
projects.
(Photo from DNCruise
2 in September 2011). You
might think that Ruddell, who also stages the DNCruise
conference, had to be a science fiction nut
to pour so much time and money into
ScienceFiction.com (the original partners
acquired the domain for $175,000 in
December 2010), but that is not the case - well,
not the case until recently. "Before we got
ScienceFiction.com I was not a "sci-fi geek"
but that has all changed now,"
Ruddell admitted. "I own hundreds of comic
books and watch every science fiction movie and
TV show I can - I am a BIG fan now!"
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Elsewhere,
as you have no doubt heard (ad
infinitum), ICANN's new gTLD
program opens Thursday (January
12, 2012), when the organization will
begin accepting applications to operate
an unlimited number of new
extensions. Tomorrow (Thursday, Jan. 11)
ICANN President and CEO Rod Beckstrom
and ICANN Board Chairman Dr. Stephen
Crocker will hold a news conference
in Washington, D.C. to answer
journalists’ questions about what will
be one the biggest changes in Internet
history (and perhaps the most ill-advised
one according to the program's many
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The news conference at the National Press
Club is scheduled to run from 2:00-3:00pm
(U.S. Eastern time) and it is to be broadcast in
a live webcast at http://www.icann.org/.
ICANN has put together a 6-minute video overview
of the program that can be seen here
and a new gTLD FAQ is also available here.
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One other
note today, Sedo
announced they have signed a two-year
exclusive partnership with the .CO
Registry (.CO Internet S.A.S.)
to provide brokerage of a select set of
previously unreleased .CO domain names,
including:
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clothes.co
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software.co
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hardware.co
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body.co
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france.co
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profit.co
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onlinemusic.co
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internetmarketing.co
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onlinedating.co
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jobsonline.co
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To
see the complete portfolio of .CO
domains available via Sedo, you can
visit http://sedo.co.
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Lori
Anne Wardi, Vice President of .CO
Internet S.A.S. said, “Sedo has
done a fabulous job helping to establish
and develop the secondary market for
premium .CO domain names. Given their
expertise and global reach, we are
confident that Sedo is the perfect
partner to help us bring these valuable
digital assets to end-users
worldwide.”
In
a related note, last week .CO was recognized
in the World
Finance 100 List of the 100
finest businesses of 2011, alongside
companies like Facebook, Google,
Microsoft and other innovative
companies who have outperformed the
competition, and helped to redefine the
business landscape.
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(Posted Jan.
10, 2012)
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