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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
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Industry
Veteran Opens New Forum Dedicated to Domain
Leasing + Howard Neu Celebrates an Anniversary
and It's Also a Special Day for the Water School
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In
January
I wrote
about the increasing interest in domain
leasing. Recently Rick Schwartz has
been leading the charge with his new JointVentures.com
project, but many others have also gotten
onboard. The latest is industry veteran Gordon
Martin (well-known for well over a decade
for the services he has provided at DropWizard.com).
In fact, more than 10 years ago, Martin had
begun developing his LeasingDomains.com domain, but he found the idea was still
"before its time" back then. It
looks like leasing's time may have finally come
though. As Schwartz noted
on his blog a few weeks ago, Martin
recently completed a lease on an unnamed .com
domain that could be worth over $800,000 to him
over the term of the contract. With that deal in
hand Martin, with assistance from Bill Roy,
has just opened a new public forum at LeasingDomains.com. Martin
said the new forum is not a competitor to a
public joint venture group that Schwartz
recently started on LinkedIn.
Martin noted
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lease image from Bigstock
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that, with Rick's
focus on high .com domains as lease
candidates, that group "will represent the cream
and we will represent the rest along with the ccTLDs
and the DIY crowd. LeasingDomains.com is a
chat board and industry resource center. Aside
from domainers I want to start attracting end
users to the forum." The doors have
just opened so, if you are interested you can check
it out by registering here.
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In a related
note, Rick Schwartz's fellow co-founder of
the T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
conference, attorney Howard Neu, is
marking the 3rd anniversary of his NeusNews.com
blog today. Howard is using the occasion
to debut a new look for the blog
(courtesy of Danny Pryor and his Rodan
Media Group). Heading
into the fourth year of NeusNews, Howard
said he would continue to do what has set
him apart form other blogs - publishing
all the news that is of interest to
domainers from a legal perspective. |
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Today is also
a special day for our friends at The
Water School - it is World
Water Day - a day set aside to
recognize the global effort towards access
to clean water and basic sanitation
for all. For many years now, the
domain industry has been a major
contributor to The Water School's mission
of making that happen. |
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In
fact, a new campaign is underway right
now in which the co-promoter of next
month's Domaining
Spain conference, Jodi
Chamberlain, has agreed to have her
head shaved if industry supporters rally
around her to help meet her goal by
making a donation of any size to the Water
School at WaterShave.org.
Jodi is already a third of the way there,
but if those long brown locks are going to
go April 25th in Spain, your help
will be needed to make
it happen for this most worthy
cause. |
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(Posted March
22, 2013)
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