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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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Companies
in the News: MediaOptions, DomainIndex, Nominet
and Telnames
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Domain
brokerage company
MediaOptions.com,
whose founder & CEO, Andrew Rosener,
was interviewed in our September 2012 Cover
Story about the brokerage business, announced
a key addition to their management team
today. Tess Diaz, one of Go Daddy's
longest tenured (6 1/2 years there) and most
respected Executive Account Managers, has accepted a
new Coordinator of Business Development position
with Panama-based Media Options. CEO Andrew Rosener
said Tess was the person who got him interested
in the domain business in the first place.
Rosener said, "I couldn't be happier to have the opportunity
to work even more closely with Tess. For the past
six years Tess has been a critical advisor
and assistant to our business in her role at Go Daddy as our Executive Account Manager,
but now that we have her full time and attention, I look forward to the improvements and
innovation she'll bring to the team." Ms.
Diaz said, "I'm delighted to join the Media
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Tess
Diaz
Coordinator of Business Development
MediaOptions.com
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Options team. Media Options is such a
responsible and respected leader, particularly in increasing end-user perceptions on
domain value via education and their own portfolio of
online businesses. Together, our clients can expect to experience Media Options' established results through our ongoing
commitment to improving efficiency and effectiveness."
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Elsewhere, Nominet's
controversial
plan to introduce .uk
domains that would compete with the long
established .co.uk extension that
Nominet already administers, resulted in
a dire
prediction of dramatically
reduced .co.uk values being issued
by DomainIndex.com
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The
domain
name benchmarking, rating and appraisal
service, said DomainIndex.com "believes
the introduction of the .uk TLD would massively
destroy the value of existing .co.uk
domains and in fact Nominetīs
announcement already inflicted harm to
the value of .co.uk domains and the
aftermarket, as well as the investment
climate in the .uk TLD. Our analysis of
the proposal, which Nominet defends as a
move to increase Internet Security,
would have several adverse
effects." The adverse effects
DomainIndex predicts are detailed
here.
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In
news from another TLD, Telnames
is trying to breath some life
into the .tel extension,
that has been rarely seen since
its 2008 birth, by releasing a
new Mobile
Website Builder app for the
iPhone that was announced
today. The company said
the app, now available as a free
download from the Apple App
Store, "enables
professionals and businesses to
buy and create their own mobile-friendly
website in less than 10 minutes
with just their thumb."
Telnames
CEO Khashayar Mahdavi
said, "We believe this app
changes the game by removing all
the complexities |
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involved
in buying and building a
mobile-ready website. From today
anyone, regardless of technical
ability, can get their own place
online in a matter of minutes."
More information on the
application and Telnames can be
found at http://telnamesapp.tel. |
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(Posted November
13, 2012)
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