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Frank's
Schilling's place
in
domain industry history was secured
years ago when he was universally
recognized as one of the (if not the)
most successful domain investors of all
time (one example of that was the Cover
Story profile we published
about him in 2007). While Schilling
continues to wear the domain world's
version of the heavyweight championship
belt, over the past year he has been
steadily spreading his wings to cover
even more territory and, with his latest
venture, he is emerging as one the
industry's top service providers
as well.
Schilling
made his first move in that direction
last year when he launched InternetTraffic.com,
a domain monetization service
that reshaped the parking sector overnight
as many top portfolio holders moved
their domains to his new company. That
was a testament to the trust and
affection Schilling has earned over the
years, feelings that were reinforced
when his new clients reported
significant revenue increases in his
system. |
Frank
Schilling
Uniregistry. com |
Schilling
quickly followed up that success by opening his
private domain sales platform at DomainNameSales.com
to his clients. If you follow our weekly
domain sales reports, you know
that DomainNameSales has become a major
player in the aftermarket now as well.
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With
two big wins under his belt, Schilling
just announced
yet another foray into the services
field - this time in the rapidly
emerging new gTLD space with the
launch of Uniregistry
Corp. Uniregistry is a new
registry services company that has applied
to run an undisclosed number of the new top-level
domains that ICANN will begin
rolling out within the next year. On Wednesday
(June 13, 2012) the extensions that
Uniregistry and others have applied for
will be revealed with the total number
of TLD applications expected to be in
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There
are a lot of big name competitors in the new
gTLD game but in their launch announcement,
Schilling and his team members noted a
differentiating factor - that their clients can
expect to benefit from their rich history of service to domain name registrants and
a promise to channel their long-standing culture of service into this new venture.
With a lot of companies that might be regarded
as boilerplate promotion but with Schilling (a
registrant of tens of thousands of domains
himself) and the top
tier people who have signed on to
help manage Uniregistry, they are promises
people fully expect to see honored based on the
past history of those involved.
Frank
Schilling (front row, second from right)
with some of his Uniregistry Corp.
teammates
Capital
comes in several forms. While many successful
companies (including Schilling's) have piled up
the hard currency form of it, few have
built such a rich reserve of the good will
variety. Frank and his teammates have earned
that and it will be their ace in the hole
in the crowded registry service battles ahead.
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