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The Lowdown
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July 12, 2008 Post
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Here's the The Lowdown
from DNJournal.com! Updated daily to
fill you in on the latest buzz going around the domain name
industry!
Compiled
by Ron Jackson (Editor/Publisher)
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Dan
Pulcrano
Boulevards New Media |
The
first full day of the 2008 GeoDomain Expo
at the W Hotel City Center in Chicago kept
registrants busy from early morning until well past
midnight last night. Dan Pulcrano, a founding board
member of Associated
Cities, the geodomain owner's association that
is staging the show in concert with the Kelsey Group,
kicked off the Friday (July 11) agenda with a GeoDomain
State of the Union address. Details from Pulcrano's talk
as well other addresses and seminar sessions will be
covered in our comprehensive show review article that will
be published by the end of next week.
Pulcrano is the
founder and CEO of Boulevards
New Media and he had some good news yesterday
when it was announced that the Boulevards network
(including LosAngeles.com, Seattle.com, MovieTimes.com
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many other popular sites) has
earned a spot on Quantcast Corporation's list of
the Top 500 most trafficked properties on the web,
reaching #360. “We are pleased to be counted
among the world’s largest Internet properties,"
Pulcrano said. "Quantcast has performed a tremendous
service for the industry by becoming the first ratings
service to transparently aggregate data from multiple
sites into a unified ranking. This is the Forbes 500 of
traffic ratings.”
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In Friday's main event,
the Chairman and Co-Founder of the Kelsey
Group, John Kelsey, delivered the
Expo's keynote address. The Kelsey Group provides
consulting services to publishing companies, helping
them understand and profit from emerging
technologies. They are global experts on local media
so it was a major coup for Associated Cities to have
the Kelsey Group join them in presenting the
GeoDomain Expo. Registrants went to Chicago to learn
how to build their domains into local media
powerhouses and Kelsey has a unique understanding of
what it will take for the new breed of online
companies to supplant traditional media outlets.
After Kelsey's address,
I spoke at lunch about the latest trends in the
domain aftermarket including specific examples of
geodomain and geo targeted domain sales that
demonstrate the growing interest in the geo space. |
John
Kelsey
GeoDomain Expo Keynote Speaker |
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Author
David Kesmodel signing copies
of his book, The Domain Game,
last
night at the GeoDomain Expo in Chicago. |
There were three
informational seminars Friday afternoon
followed by a 6:30 pm social event that
included a cocktail hour, a sit-down dinner
and a book signing session with Wall
Street Journal reporter David
Kesmodel. Kesmodel recently released a
book about the domain industry, The
Domain Game, that has been earning
rave reviews. There was a constant line of
people waiting to meet him and pick up signed
copies of the book which can also be ordered
from Amazon.com.
We will be publishing an interview with David
about his experiences in researching and
writing the groundbreaking book soon.
After dinner,
attendees were bused to one of Chicago's most
popular night spots, The Hunt Club, for
a big party hosted by show sponsor TrafficZ.com.
Two levels of the tri-level club were reserved
for show goers and the venue, selected by Chicago.com
owner (and Associated Cities board member) Josh
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popular choice.
In the photo at right, Jothan Frakes (Oversee.net)
gives the event an enthusiastic thumbs with
Diana Jackson and Ray Neu nodding
in agreement.
The GeoDomain
Expo closes today with another jam-packed
agenda. We will be hearing stories from
geodomain pioneers in an 11am session, then Internet
Commerce Association Legal Counsel
Phil Corwin will speak at lunch. I'll
be part of a 1:30pm panel discussion on GeoDomains
in the News that will be followed by a
GeoDomain Town Hall meeting. Another major
event, Moniker's live geodomain
auction gets underway at 4:30pm (US
Central time) and continues until 7pm. The
curtain comes down on the Expo |
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with the big 2008
GeoDomain Awards Dinner from 8-11pm
tonight. I'll have the winner's list in a post
in this column tomorrow. Publication time is
up in the air because that's where we will be
(up in the air) Sunday morning, on the way
back to Florida. With a late night tonight,
odds are there won't be time to make the post
before we leave for the airport, but we will
be back in the Sunshine State early enough to
publish the final day wrap up in this space by
Sunday evening.
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July
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