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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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People
& Companies in the News: Chicago.com,
Oversee.net, Bill Sweetman and Chad Folkening's
New VentureCamp
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Last
year
I told you about Chicago.com
owner Josh Metnick finding a rich new
domain monetization vein by selling
Chicago.com email addresses and
sub-domains (sold in teh same form as his
own identity.chicago.com).
Today Metnick announced another major step
forward - the signing of a marketing
partnership agreement with the Chicago
Tribune Media Group.
The
multi-year deal will bring hundreds of thousands of
dotChicago domain names and @Chicago email identities to market in
three auction phases. Registration for initial bidding
closes on June 25, 2013.
Metnick
said, “Chicagoans can now
upgrade their Yahoo!, Gmail, Hotmail and AOL email address to get an exciting new
Chicago.com email address, without needing to change their existing email provider. Additionally, we are
proud to donate a portion of the proceeds from the domain name auctions to benefit
A Better
Chicago" (a non-profit
organization that helps many worthy Chicago
causes.)
Bill
Adee, Vice President of Digital Development and Operations at Chicago Tribune Media
Group, added, “We see tremendous opportunity in offering Chicago.com's innovative products to our loyal readers and
users. Now, everyone can
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Josh
Metnick, Chicago.com
Co-Founder, @Identity
LLC
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own
a small, digital piece of the greatest city in the world, while benefiting
from a simple, memorable email address or website URL.”
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Elsewhere,
domain industry giant Oversee.net
has announced major upgrades to one of
their signature developed properties - AirportParking.com.
The site provides
an easy way for web and mobile users to
find and compare rates, features and
consumer reviews of money-saving off-site
airport parking lots and also book
reservations, locking in the rate and a
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AirportParking.com
announced new responsive design and
navigation elements that enhance the
search and booking experience for smartphone
users. iPhone owners can add
their AirportParking.com reservations
to their Apple Passbook,
eliminating the need to carry a printed
confirmation of the reservation. |
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Also
today - congratulations are in order
to Bill Sweetman, the Domain
Portfolio General Manager at Tucows.
Bill will be opening his own consultancy
shop a week from today (Friday,
April 26) when he closes out a five
and half year run with the
well-known Canadian company.
"I've
never worked at any place this long,
and if I could clone myself I'd
stick around Tucows forever,"
Sweetman told me. "However, after
much reflection and soul-searching,
I decided to follow my dream
to do consulting work full-time
under my own new brand. I will be
launching a boutique domain name
consulting firm later this quarter,
and we will offer a variety of
services to startups, entrepreneurs,
and marketers, as well as individual
and corporate domain name owners.
More details, including |
Bill
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the
name of my new venture, will be
announced later." You
can read more about Bill's decision
in this
post on his blog.
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One
other note - in case you
missed it - our April
newsletter went out to opt-in
subscribers today. It's all
about Chad Folkening's
ambitious new enterprise - VentureCamp.
Chad is shooting for the stars
with this one - a unique
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start up incubator/web-based
reality docu-series in which 3 teams of
four entrepreneurs each will compete to build the best online business while living in a
mansion with world class
mentors! We have all of
the details on the show that
debuts in June in the full
newsletter that can also be
read here. |
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(Posted April
19, 2013)
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