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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: Bill Sweetman,
David Castello & Bree, T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Las
Vegas, Hilco IP Auctions, Afternic & Directi
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As
we head into
the 3-day Memorial Day holiday weekend in
the U.S. I wanted to pass along some news
and information from several fronts that came in
over the past couple of days. Let's
start with congratulations to former Tucows
VP Bill Sweetman who is venturing out on
his own with the founding of Name
Ninja, a boutique domain name
consulting firm. Sweetman thinks the timing is
right, noting "With the massive expansion
of the Internet namespace due to the upcoming
rollout of hundreds of new generic Top-Level
Domains (gTLDs), the global demand for
expert domain name advice and strategy is
going to explode.”
Sweetman
said the new firm will help companies acquire,
manage, protect, and profit from their domain
names. Name Ninja is offering a suite of
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Bill
Sweetman
NameNinja.com Founder
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consulting services
to three types of clients: startups,
entrepreneurs and marketers; individual and
corporate domain name owners; and new gTLD
registries and operators.
The
Toronto-based firm will focus on domain
name acquisition (buyer broker), domain name
rescue, domain name protection, corporate domain
name strategy, and domain name portfolio
management. Name Ninja will also assist new gTLD
registries and operators with distribution,
marketing, and secondary market services.
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Earlier
this week I told you about
upcoming the Nashville-based
rock trio fronted by bree (that
also features Domain Hall of Famer David
Castello on drums) making their
national TV debut on the AXS-TV
channel. On June 18th, the band's
debut CD - All American Girl
- will be released. If you want to be
first in line, you will be happy to know
that the 11-track disc is now available
for pre-order on iTunes.
The band
played two tracks from the new album live
in the studio on AXS-TV - the title track,
"All American Girl" and
"You Can't Take the Heart Out of
Me" (you can see their performance of
that song on YouTube at
this link). |
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The final
countdown to next week's T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
Las Vegas conference at the Bellagio
Hotel is now underway. The final
agenda for the show that runs Wednesday,
May 29 through Saturday, June
1 has now been released.
In addition
to being there to cover the show for you
(with daily highlights in this column),
I'll make a couple of trips to the stage
to speak. On Thursday afternoon
(May 30) at 12:45 I'll join Adam Dicker,
Shane Cultra, Morgan Linton,
Andrew Allemann, Elliot Silver and
Michael Cyger for a Meet the
Bloggers panel discussion
moderated by Howard Neu. |
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Then on
Friday morning (May 31) at 10:45 I'll
return to give the audience an update on
the latest domain sales trends,
based on the weekly data that flows into
us from sellers around the world. |
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In a related
note, for the first time in two months, no
six-figure sales were reported in
our latest
weekly domain sales report,
but it looks like the streak may resume in
our next report. A Hilco Streambank
IP auction ended Wednesday with
Bargain.com selling for $150,000.
As soon as that name is paid for and the
name is transferred to the new owner it
will become eligible for our charts.
The Hilco
Streambank auction also
produced a five-figure three-letter .com
sale - ETM.com at $16,659.
The company said there are parties
interested in some of the names that did
not sell - at numbers less than the
original reserves - and they think it is
likely one or more additional post-acution
sales will be made. |
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Elsewhere,
Afternic
expanded their aftermarket
reseller network yet again,
announcing a partnership with Directi,
the largest domain registrar in Asia
and 7th largest registrar in
the world. Directi will join the
Afternic reseller network as a Premium
Partner, incorporating
Afternic’s vast inventory of
premium domains for sale through
their BigRock brand. |
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(Posted May
24, 2013)
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