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Video
Interview With the Owner of the World's Greatest
2-Letter .Com Collection - CentralNic's Robert Pooke
Wouldn't
it be greatto
own a meaningful 2-letter .com domain like US.com,
UK.com, EU.com or LA.com?
Or perhaps an NO.com, DE.com, CN.com
or SA.com. Well, as it happens one guy, Robert
Pooke, owns all of those
domains and many
more (including AR.com, BR.com,
RU.com and SE.com to name a few
more). Pooke has used his domains as the
foundation for CentralNic,
a registry services provider that sells sub-domains of those geographically relevant
2-letter gems.
When
I was in Los Angeles for the 2010
DOMAINfest Global conference in
January, Joe Alagna, CentralNic's General
Manager of North American Markets, set up an
interview with Robert for me. Joe, who has been
bitten by the web video bug, videotaped the
interview and recently sent me a copy of his recording. I'm making it the
first video ever
posted on DN Journal because the story of how
Robert Pooke acquired all of those great domains
and how he decided on his current business model
for them is one that few people have heard
before. I hope you find it as interesting as I
did in doing it.
After
talking to Robert I also had Joe Alagna, who is
a very well known figure in the industry, sit
down in front of the camera for an interview
that goes into more detail about CentralNic's
platform and services. I'll have that video for
you in my next Lowdown post.
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