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The
award
winners were chosen in
open balloting conducted by an
independent third party, Votenet.com,
to insure a a fair voting system.
I'm sure many of the other industry
news sites and blogs reported the
results while I was away but I
wanted to place them into the record
here as well so the program and
those honored get the recognition
they deserve. The 2014 awards
and their winners were:
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| Award |
Winner |
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| Domain
Ambassador Award |
Richard
Lau |
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| Best
Industry Conference |
NamesCon |
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| Industry
Customer Service Rep |
Joe
Higgins, RookMedia.net |
| |
| Quiet
Champion |
Nat
Cohen |
| |
| Best
Independent Broker |
Andrew
Rosener, MediaOptions.com |
| |
| Best
Brokerage Agency |
DomainNameSales.com |
| |
| Best
Domainer Resource |
DomainTools.com |
| |
| Best
Domain Auctions |
NameJet.com |
| |
| Best
Domain Marketplace |
Sedo.com |
| |
| Best
Domain Financial Services |
Escrow.com |
| |
| Best
Domain Publication |
DNJournal.com |
| |
| Best
Legal Services |
John
Berryhill |
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| Most
Helpful Resource for Domain
Industry Newcomers |
Domain
Sherpa.com |
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| Best
Parking Solution |
InternetTraffic.com |
| |
| Best
Industry Forum |
DNForum.com |
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| Your
Favorite New gTLD |
.CLUB |
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You
can see full descriptions
for what each award category entails
here. Congratulations to all of the
winners and nominees
- you have clearly earned the
respect and admiration of your peers
for the way you conduct yourselves
and do business.
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More
new gTLDs were also
released while I was away as
the weekly introductions of
new extensions continues. At
the same time, a new entry in
an old extension, .co.com,
moved into general
availability
Tuesday. |
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.co.com
came out of land rush with several
thousand registrations and the registry
operator said that was accomplished
without the kind of deep
discounting, giveaways and gimmicks
we've seen from a few of the new
gTLDs. The registry also reported
getting its greatest uptake in the
many countries where third level
names like those offered in .co.com
are commonplace, such as the UK where
.co.uk is the most popular
extension. Australia, South Africa,
Brazil, Korea, Japan are other
examples.
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Elsewhere,
Heritage
Auctions has
announced its next Domain
Names & Intellectual
Property Auction will
be held on July 24, 2014
with Bitcoins.com headlining
the catalog. That domain
is being offered by Mark
Karpeles, the |
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founder
of the failed Bitcoin exchange
Mt. Gox, and HA expects
the domain to bring more than $750,000.
Karpeles said, "We are
hoping, with the sale of
Bitcoins.com, to provide some
relief to the people impacted
by the Mt. Gox bankruptcy and
will be putting at least half
of the sale amount toward that
purpose.” |
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Bitcoins.com
is being offered alongside
more than 90 other premium
domain names, including OklahomaCity.com,
DEC.com
(the fifth oldest domain name
on the Internet, circa 1985), Rides.com,
SEM.com,
Digital.com,
Cute.com
and SouthernCalifornia.com. |
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