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latest buzz going around the domain name
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The Lowdown is
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Oversee.net
President & CEO Jeff Kupietzy Stepping Down as
Family Plans Move to Israel
After
five years
with
Oversee.net,
the past two-and-a-half as the company's
President and CEO, Jeff
Kupietzky is leaving the company
effective at the end of August. While there have
been rumors that Kupietzky might be departing,
the official word came this afternoon in
a statement released by Oversee.net's
Communications VP Mason Cole.
Cole
wrote: "I am confirming the
departure of Jeff Kupietzky from his executive
role with Oversee at the end of August.
After five years with the company and the last
two and a half years as CEO and President, Jeff
has elected for personal reasons to relocate
his family to Israel. The day-to-day
operations and strategic vision for Oversee will
be led by the company’s Co-Presidents, Debra
Domeyer and Scott Morrow. They are
supported by an operating committee which
includes CFO Liz Murray, and General
Counsel Todd Greene."
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Jef
Kupietzky
Departing Oversee.net President & CEO |
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Oversee.net
Co-Founder Lawrence Ng |
Board
Chairman and Oversee co-founder Lawrence
Ng
said,
“On behalf of the Board and all
Oversee employees, I thank Jeff for his
service to the company. He successfully
navigated the company through some
difficult challenges and positioned it as
an industry leader. We all wish him the
best of luck in his new home and as he
continues his successful career.”
In a September
2010 Cover Story we detailed
Kupietzky's life story. The Columbia
University graduate, who also holds a Harvard
MBA, will be taking his wife Carolyn
and five children to their new home in
Israel.
Ng expressed
his confidence in the company’s
leadership going forward, saying “We
feel extremely fortunate to have such a
talented team of executives who are well
respected throughout the industry. We
are extremely confident in their knowledge
and capabilities, as well as their passion
to lead us to our next chapter of
growth.” |
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(Posted July
29, 2011)
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T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
Co-Founder Howard Neu Enters the Parking Business - But
Not the One You Think!
Parking
has been a staple
of
the domain business for the past decade so it
probably won't surprise you to hear that T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
Co-Founder Howard
Neu has entered the parking
business. What will surprise you is that
it's not domain parking - it is old school automobile
parking! Of course, being an Internet guy,
Howard's new venture does involve a website - a
clean booking platform designed by Danny
Pryor located at NationalParkAndFly.com
that just opened yesterday (Tuesday, July
26).
Howard
is actually second in command at the new company
where he serves as Secretary. His daughter, Wendy
Goldberg, is the President and the one responsible
for luring Howard into a new line of business.
As it happens, Wendy is no stranger to
conventional parking as she owns a parking lot
near the airport in tourist mecca Orlando,
Florida.
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Howard
Neu |
Here's
how it all came together. Earlier this
year Wendy opened a drive-away
business (delivering cars to customers at
locations they specify) for rental cars in six
Florida locations; Orlando, Tampa,
Ft. Lauderdale, Ft. Myers, Miami
and Jacksonville and she also has an
exclusive drive-away business deal with the
major auto auctions in the state, leading her to
hire 200 drivers and support personnel.
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At the same
time, Howard, who is always trolling for
meaningful domain names, noticed that NationalParkAndFly.com
was unregistered. So he grabbed not only
that domain, but every geo targeted Park
and Fly domain for all of the major
airports around the country, including OrlandoParkAndFly.com,
TampaParkAndFly.com, etc. Howard
said the parking lot that Wendy owns |
near the
Orlando airport wasn't being fully
utilized so by marrying that property
with his new category
defining domains a new web based
booking business was born (National
Park and Fly, Inc.). |
With the click of a mouse travelers can now order a parking spot in Orlando that comes with immediate
shuttle service to and from the Orlando International
Airport. The daily rate at the secure lot is just
$5.95, a big discount from airport garage rates. For a few dollars more you can have your car
sparkling clean inside and out when you return. The company offers a wash and vacuum service that costs less than at full-service car wash locations in the area. Howard said the company plans to open up in a new area every 2 to 3 months with
Tampa, Ft. Myers, Las Vegas and
New York LaGuardia first on the expansion list.
Another
feature the company expects to add by the Labor
Day weekend is a nationwide database
featuring airport travel information including
flight delays and airport travel conditions. Use
of the database will be free to all website
visitors whether they are reserving a parking
spot or not.
With
falling PPC rates over the past few years, a lot
of people have been looking for an alternative
to parking, but who would have guessed
that one alternative to parking would be parking!
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(Posted July
27, 2011)
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Morgan
Linton Launches DomainTheft.org in Effort to Stem
Stolen Name Sales
Domain
investor/developer Morgan
Linton
has
seen fellow domain owners victimized by domain
thieves far too often, so he has decided
to try to do something about it. Linton
just launched his solution, a new
centralized domain database service at DomainTheft.org
designed to let buyers and sellers know
if any given name has been reported
stolen by its owner.
Linton
said that all
of the domains listed as stolen at
DomainTheft.org will be verified by a
proprietary algorithm called DTVS
(Domain Theft Verification System).
Linton noted, "DTVS does an initial
check to ensure that the theft report is
valid, then sends it to a member of
DomainTheft.org’s task force for
investigation." To
offset operational costs, Linton |
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said
domain owners will pay a small monthly
fee ($5 per month for a basic
listing or $10 per month for a
premium listing) to publicize
their stolen domains in a database that
is available to every major domain name
sales platform and marketplace,
including platforms like eBay and
Flippa. |
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Morgan
Linton
Founder, DomainTheft.org |
Linton
said, "If every marketplace checks
our database before listing a domain for
sale it will not only dramatically reduce
the number of stolen domains, but also
improve the chance of recovery. Along with
listing domain names in our database we
have dedicated recovery agents that will
work with registrars and law enforcement
agencies to recover stolen
domains." Of
course, considerably more work would go
into a recovery effort than a domain
listing but, in a novel approach, Linton
said that rather than charge a set price,
DomainTheft.org will let domain owners
decide what the service was worth to them
and pay accordingly for successful
recoveries. Linton
noted that law enforcement agencies
currently do not have a procedure in place
to track domain theft and generally
nothing is done. He added, "Most
domain registrars |
and marketplaces try to
stay-out of these situations as well and
assume zero responsibility for the
loss, even if the customer put their
life-savings into the domain. There have
been no domain name police, theft
database, or recovery agents, until
now." |
“Our
goal is big and the challenge is even bigger,
but we think that we can make a huge impact in
the Domain Name Security space," Linton
said. "If everyone checks our database
before they buy a domain name, it will be almost
impossible for thieves to sell domains. By
making it harder to sell stolen domains, thieves
will become less inclined to even attempt a
theft."
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(Posted July
26, 2011)
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Marc
Ostrofsky Profiled in New Cover Story - Adam Dicker
Opens Domain College - MTV Shines a Light on Lizzy Grant
& DOMAINfest NYC Auction Deadline is Friday
Everyone
in the domain business
knows
who Marc Ostrofsky is. He made domain
names a global news story when he sold Business.com
in a deal valued at a then world record $7.5
million in 1999 and he is back in the
spotlight this year as the author of the best
selling book Get Rich Click! The Ultimate Guide to Making Money on the Internet.
While
Ostrofsky's name has been synonymous with
domains names for more than a decade, domains
are just the latest chapter in a much
bigger entrepreneurial success story that hasn't
been told in its entirety until now. We
put together the whole story in a new Cover
Story that fills in the blanks and
unveils many little known facts about the
Houston-based entrepreneur and his many business
ventures. One of the most interesting personal
tidbits is the close link Ostrofsky has to one
of the Three Stooges (in fact his middle
name comes from that association!) If you
thought you knew everything there is to know
about Ostrofsky, think again! You can read
the article here.
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Marc
Ostrofsky
Author
of Get Rich Click! |
Adam
Dicker
DNFCollege.com |
Elsewhere,
a former DN Journal cover boy, DNForum.com
owner Adam Dicker (who we profiled
back in 2005), has just launched an
admirable new project at DNFCollege.com.
It is a free domain course in
which Dicker shares tips from his vast
experience in buying and selling
domains. He also provides advice on some
of the best tools available for domain
investors.
Dicker
said sharing his knowledge through his
DNF College is his way of paying it
forward after more than ten very
successful years in the domain business.
"I learn something new every day in this industry so I
don’t know everything, however I know
what works as it worked for me,"
Dicker said, adding, "I
have made mistakes over the years but
have learned from them and I would like
to pass on my teachings so others
don’t make the same mistakes."
Nearly
150 "students" have already
registered for the course. More
background about DNFCollege.com can be
found in this
release. |
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In another
item with yet another connection to
someone who has been the subject of
a DN Journal Cover Story, Lizzy
Grant (stage name - Lana Del Rey),
the up and coming recording artist
who is the daughter of noted domain
investor Rob
Grant, continues to make
waves in the music business. Lana was
the subject of a rave
review published in the
Style section at MTV.com last
week.
Writer Gaby
Wilson wrote, "If you haven't heard of Lana Del Rey,
YOU WILL SOON because we are convinced that this gorgeous crooner is going to be
everywhere ASAP...The enormously
satisfying juxtaposition of old-school
glamour plus inexplicably morose
contemporary images in her music video
plus super-duper prettiness is completely
blowing our minds."
You don't
get much higher praise than that (and I
completely agree with it). Also be sure
to check out Lana's new video for
her song "Video Games"
that is at
the end of the MTV column. |
Lizzy
Grant/Lana del Rey |
One
other note today - Friday
(July 29) is the deadline
for submitting
domains for the Moniker/SnapNames
online auction that will be open
in conjunction with the DOMAINfest |
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New
York City meet-up
coming to the Big Apple Tuesday,
August 23. A pair of
seven-figure sales (involving Social.com
and Data.com) resulted
from publicity surrounding the
last DOMAINfest auction (held in
conjunction with DOMAINfest
Europe in June). If
you can get a name or two into
the NYC sale it will undoubtedly
give your domains an always
welcome boost in
visibility.
The
New York meet-up will take place
from 7-10 pm at the Mad46
Rooftop Lounge, located on
the 19th floor of the Roosevelt
Hotel at Madison Avenue
and 46th Street. Networking
opportunities, food and drinks
are included in the $150
registration cost. |
The
associated auction begins on
Tuesday, August 23 at
12 Noon US Eastern time (9am
Pacific) and concludes on
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
at 3:15pm. Eastern (12:15pm
Pacific). |
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(Posted July
25, 2011)
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It's
Official - Domain Thief Daniel Goncalves Sentenced to 5
Years in Prison in Precedent Setting Case
Last
December
I
told you that a convicted domain
thief named Daniel Goncalves would
likely be spending five years in
prison after pleading guilty in a
plea bargain arrangement with the |
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New
Jersey Division of Criminal Justice (NJDCJ).
That is the stretch in the Big House that
the NJDCJ recommended and today it
became official. Goncalves was
sentenced to five years for stealing the
domain name P2P.com from Internet
entrepreneur Marc Ostrofsky and
selling it on eBay.com for $121,000
to former NBA basketball player
Mark Madsen.
Goncalves was sentenced before Superior
Court Judge Stuart Peim in Union
County, N.J. following a guilty plea
to multiple criminal counts. Had
he not pled out, Goncalves could have
received 15 years in the slammer.
In
this landmark case, Goncalves became the
first domain thief in history to be
criminally prosecuted in the |
United
States. Ostrofsky and his partners Albert
and Lesli Angel worked to track down
Goncalves with the New Jersey Cyber
Crimes unit. The successful
prosecution sets a major precedent
in that there are no laws currently in
place to protect domain name theft. States
like California consider an
internet domain name similar to a piece of
real estate. If it’s stolen the owner
may have a remedy to get it returned but
it’s a long and expensive process,
However, most other states like New
York or New Jersey consider the
domain name a piece of “intellectual
property” similar to a copyright or
trademark, and owners have no legal
recourse to get back that stolen asset. Domain
name owners hope that this case will
instigate new legislation that will
protect these valuable properties. |
Ostrofsky,
a domain industry pioneer, is also author of the
New York Times best-selling book Get
Rich Click!, The Ultimate Guide To Making
Money Online. He initially gained
famed for selling Business.com in a transaction
valued at $7.5 million in 1999. High
profile transactions like that one helped to
fuel interest in domain names as investment
assets, but laws creating remedies for victims
of domain theft have lagged behind market
developments.
Albert
Angel |
Marc
Ostrofsky |
Albert
Angel, who spoke at the sentencing, said
“in our effort to redress the injuries
inflicted on us, we came to appreciate
how undeveloped this area of the law is,
and how victims of domain theft face an
unmarked and totally uphill battle to
get a remedy. Today’s sentencing helps
to define a path for other victims and
law enforcers to follow, and reinforces
the likelihood that the theft of a
domain can and will be prosecuted.”
The
industry owes a debt of gratitude
to the Angels and Ostrofsky for the
years they spent pursuing this criminal
and bringing him to justice. The
prospect of going to jail is something
other domain thieves will now have to
take into consideration when
contemplating whether or not they want
to commit this crime. |
(Posted July
22, 2011)
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Fueled
by Multi-Million Dollar VC Investment Domain
Holdings Charges Into the Domain Development Race With
DomainPower.com
The
Domain
Holdings Group
that
was founded just a year ago by former DN
Journal Cover Boys John
Ferber and Chad
Folkening (along with partner Erik
Simons) continue to make major
waves in the domain industry. The
company announced
it has received a $2.9 million investment
from Valhalla
Partners, WWC Capital and BrokersWeb
Inc. Founder and CEO Matias De Tezanos
(who was also the subject of a DN
Journal Cover Story in 2005), as
well as other angel investors.
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Most
of that money is going to re-launch the
company's beefed up domain development
platform, Rapid Domain Builder, under a new
name and address at DomainPower.com.
With more horsepower under the hood, DomainPower
provides a turnkey solution for domain owners,
offering vertical-specific frameworks for quick
SEO-ready website development, site enhancement
plug-ins and multiple revenue opportunities, all
managed in one location.
Domain Holdings CEO Jason Boshoff said,
"We
are excited to come out of stealth mode with a
new look to our award-winning platform (Editor's
note: Rapid Domain Builder won the
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judge's
award in the Pitchfest Contest at DOMAINfest
Global in 2010).
This gives users a powerful domain management
and monetization solution that can help identify
the overall status of a domain portfolio,
recognize growth opportunities and, overall,
offers easy management."
The
redesign's primary focus was a new user
interface, developing a larger selection
of vertical-specific frameworks and adding domain
portfolio management solutions. The newly
launched UI features an upgraded dashboard,
sortable by individual domain performance or a
full portfolio performance overview, with
real-time updates of site and portfolio
statistics. Updates include revenue, traffic,
traffic sources, keywords and other site vitals
integral to the growth, health and maintenance
of domains.
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On a
related note, last week I reviewed
a new state of the art platform at Protrada.com
that makes acquiring, managing &
monetizing domains a breeze. At the time
the company was offer a 7-day free
trial so people could check it out
for themselves. Today they informed me
that they |
have
increased the free
trial period to 14 days.
I think that is an excellent idea. While
I found the platform very intuitive and
easy to use, there are so many features
included that having the extra time to
explore them will be a big plus for
potential clients. |
(Posted July
20, 2011)
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T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
Tabs Bill Karamouzis To Deliver Ft. Lauderdale Keynote -
Ron Jackson to Speak at 1st GeoPublishers Expo in
Chicago
The
agendas for two key domain conferences
coming
up in October are shaping up nicely. The
granddaddy of them all - T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
- has settled on the keynote speaker for their
big show coming up October 16-19, 2011 at
the Ritz Carlton Hotel on Florida's
Ft. Lauderdale Beach. HallPass Media Founder
Bill Karamouzis (who was the subject of
our April 2010 Cover
Story) will do the honors.
T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
Co-Founder Rick Schwartz said Karamouzis
will speak on a topic he is intimately familiar
with - "The Challenge of Developing
Our Domains Into Businesses." That
is indeed a challenge, but few have done it
better than Bill who has had some massive
successes with Hallpass Media's game websites.
That success caught the attention of MindJolt,
one of the largest cross-platform game
developers and publishers in the world, and they
wound up buying
Hallpass earlier this year.
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Bill
Karamouzis
Founder, Hallpass Media |
With
so much interest in developing to maximize
domain value, Karamouzis is an excellent pick to
headline what will be the only
T.R.A.F.F.I.C conference in 2011. I've
been looking forward to this one all year and am
even more so with Karamouzis on the
agenda.
Speaking
of T.R.A.F.F.I.C., TheParkingPlace.com,
Media Breakaway's new domain monetization
platform that I
told you about last month, is
currently running a promotion that is giving
their clients a chance to pick up a free pass
to T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Ft. Lauderdale (worth $1,595
at the current registration rate). Any
client that earns $10,000 at
TheParkingPlace.com over the three-month
period from July 1 through Sept. 30 will get
a free ticket.
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Another
conference I am very much looking
forward to is the first GeoPublishers.com
Expo coming up October
1-2 at the Fairmont Hotel in Chicago
(there will also be a welcoming
reception on the evening of September
30, the night before the show begins).
This event is being staged by a new
association that was
launched earlier this year by leading
geodomain owners.
I just
accepted an invitation to speak on the opening
morning of the conference October 1.
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will be
talking about how geodomains give their
owners the disruptive power to
assume a leadership role in local
media as traditional outlets
continue to wither with their audiences
moving to the Internet.
The
GeoPublishers Expo is offering a very
reasonable registration
rate of $495, with additional
registrations taken by the same company
priced at just $395. |
(Posted July
19, 2011)
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Ex-ICANN
Chairman Jumps to New gTLD Job, Google Adopts .CO &
Doors Open in Domainsville
Peter
Dengate Thrush,
who
was ICANN's
Chairman of the Board until stepping down
from that position after last month's ICANN
international meeting in Singapore, has
already stepped into a new position, one
that will keep him closely tied to the domain
industry.
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Top
Level Domain Holdings Limited, the
only publicly traded company focused exclusively
on acquiring and operating new generic top-level
domains, today announced that Thrush has joined
the company as its Executive Chairman,
effective immediately. Thurush
is joining a company that, through its wholly
owned subsidiary Minds+Machines,is
working on plans to operate a variety of new
gTLDs, including .nyc, .eco and .radio.
At
the ICANN meeting in Singapore, Thrush led the
ICANN Board to approve the organization's
controversial roll out of an unlimited number of
new gTLDs. His shift, less than a month later,
to a leadership position in a new business that
ICANN created and has regulatory control over,
is already drawing criticism from those who view
it as a conflict of interest. None the less,
there are no regulations in place that bar such
a move and Thrush's expertise and connections in
the area of new TLDs obviously make him a very
valuable addition to any company operating
in that space.
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Peter
Dengate Thrush
Executive Chairman
Top Level Domain Holdings
Photo source: ICANNPhotos |
TLDH
CEO Antony Van Couvering acknowleded
that, noting, “Peter will be an outstanding
asset to TLDH. Peter and I have worked together
as ICANN participants since its inception, and I
am very pleased to welcome him as our Executive
Chairman. Peter championed successfully the
approval of the new gTLD programme at the
highest levels and with Peter on board I have
every confidence we will achieve the same
success at TLDH. I can’t think of a better
addition to our team - Peter is a superstar
in our field, and we are delighted to have him
at the helm.”
Thrush
added, “I am delighted to be welcomed to this
first-class team, which has had an extensive and
productive involvement with the new gTLD
programme and which has stood out as innovative,
bold, and effective. New gTLDs represent a major
opportunity for the Company and its investors,
for TLD applicants and for the Internet
community, and I welcome the chance to make a
contribution.”
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Elsewhere
today, yet another internet giant - Google
this time - has bought a one-letter
.CO domain, G.CO (for an
undisclosed price), to use
as a URL shortener (following in the
footsteps of Amazon, GoDaddy
and Twitter among others). The
official announcement
came from .CO registry operator .CO
Internet S.A.S. this afternoon. |
The
registry's CEO, Juan
Diego Calle, said, “We are
thrilled to have Google join the select
group of premium Internet brands that
are using the .CO domain to innovate
online. By featuring G.CO in its product
and service marketing efforts worldwide,
we are confident that Google will help
to drive massive awareness and
adoption of the .CO domain extension
in the years ahead.”
.CO
Internet S.A.S. has certainly scored
an unparalleled string of marketing
coups in a roll out that has made it the
gold standard when it comes to launching
a new TLD (in this case, actually
re-launching an existing TLD, Colombia's
country code, as a global
extension). |
One other
note - a new domain information
portal just opened
its doors today at Domainsville.com.
The free site is the brainchild of Abdu
Tarabichi, a long time domainer who
is based in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Among the
site's many features are a home
page headline
feed from various
industry |
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blogs and
news services (as well as a direct
connection to Domainsville's own blog),
another section on the home page that
gives you currently active promo
codes that can be used to get
discounts from registrars and other
service providers, as well as a directory
of companies and individuals that
provide professional products and
services.
There is
also a calendar of events on the
home page that will help you keep track
of domain conferences, meet-ups,
webinars, and live auctions. Users who
are signed in can also customize,
edit, or remove information widgets
as they desire. For example, if you do
business with select domain registrars,
you can eliminate the clutter by hiding
promo codes from all other
companies.
The site,
still listed as being Beta, looks to be
off to an excellent start with a ton of
useful features all under one roof. |
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(Posted July
18, 2011)
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New
Domain Sales, Financing & Analysis Tools from
CAX.com, Zenscrow & Sedo Show Industry Innovation Is
Alive and Well
On
Wednesday
I
told you about the innovative new domain
acquisition and management platform at Protrada.com.
In recent weeks I've seen the debut of several
other new services that are offering interesting
new approaches to domain sales, financing &
leasingand market analysis.
With
respect to domain sales, Francois
Carrillo, who runs the popular
domain news aggregation site, Domaining.com,
has come with a novel twist to
encourage more bidding at his domain
sales site CAX.com.
It allows those who list names for sale
there to offer cash bonuses to
those who get the bidding going, whether
or not they end up winning the
auction. |
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For
example, the seller could offer 10% of
the final sales price to the first person
to bid in an auction. If a name sells
for say $500, that first bidder would
get $50 even if they didn't win the
auction. If they end up being the
only bidder and win the auction, they
still get that 10% - so if they bid $500
and no one else bids, they get the $50
due them taken off the sales price,
reducing it to $450.
The
seller can offer incentives in a number
of other ways too. For example they
could offer 5% to the first bidder and
5% to the person who places the 2nd
highest bid in the auction (giving the
person who is nosed out at the end some
compensation for making it a race which,
of course, generates a bigger sale for
the domain owner). You can find more details
on the system, including the measures
that are taken to prevent shill bidding
at Carrillo's Everytime.com.
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Another
new service, Zenscrow.com,
offers a new way to facilitate seller
financed domain sales
(through monthly payments) and domain
lease agreements. |
Zenscrow
Founder Adam Paddock
said, "We see the secondary
market as a place where prices
are well outside the reach of
most buyers, including corporate
end users. There is a great need
for financing to enable deals
to close, but current
financing options have been
plagued with restrictions and
high interest rates. Seller
financing or leasing is a great
solution as the seller and buyer
directly determine the finance
terms, but there are security
issues and the process of
entering into these types of
transactions can be complex. We
created Zenscrow to solve those
issues."
To
do this, Paddock said
Zenscrow monitors the
way buyers use a domain
while making monthly
payments to the seller.
"During the finance
or lease term the domain
is held in escrow with Escrow.com
or NeuLaw.com
and the buyer is given
full use of the domain.
Zenscrow's patent
pending process
constantly reviews the
buyer’s development
and use of the domain to
prevent trademark or
copyright infringement, Google
penalties, or other
misuses that can cause
devaluation,"
Paddock said. "If
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issue
is found, the buyer is
notified and provided
with a chance to make a
correction. If he fails
to do so he loses his
right to use the domain
while making
payments." |
To
simplify the process, Zenscrow
handles all other aspects of
seller financed domain sales and
domain leases including the
creation of a sale or lease
agreement, assisting with
domain transfers, and managing
scheduled monthly payments
between buyers and sellers.
Paddock added that for a limited
time Zenscrow is also offering a
free brokerage service
where a Zenscrow agent will
negotiate a seller financed
domain sale or domain lease on
behalf of a buyer or
seller.
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Sedo
announced another cool
innovation this week - the industry’s domain price index
(IDNX)
for the secondary domain marketplace. The index offers domain name managers and investors unique insight into fluctuations in the domain name market.
FoxBusiness.com
even wondered if the new
Sedo tool could predict
the next recession! |
The
IDNX was developed by Berlin-based economist and internet entrepreneur,
Thies Lindenthal, and uses Sedo’s current and historical sales figures
data (more than 200,000
transactions), going back over the last six years. From this data,
Sedo said the IDNX can provide domain investors with
critical insight into the current market value of domains, as well as highlighting domain industry trends to help determine the true value of their domains.
By comparing domain sales trends
against mainstream business
metrics, the IDNX also highlights the
connections between the online and offline economy, showing that domain prices have a clear economic foundation.
For example, the index shows a strong correlation between the domain name market and standard economic indicators, including changes in the NASDAQ 100 index
and the stock prices of internet giant
Google. Despite a big
decline in parking revenues, the
IDNX indicates domain name
values climbed to an all-time high in
May 2011.
Sedo
CEO Tim Schumacher
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Sedo
CEO Tim Schumacher said,
"Lindenthal’s extensive research on domain pricing validates the domain name market and shows that domain markets are not a fantasy land where dreamers trade esoteric goods at imaginary prices. Domainers who use the insights IDNX offers and ancillary domain pricing tools to set fair and fixed prices on their domain names, ultimately help make our industry more valued and respected. In turn, this will continue to positively impact domain name sales.”
If
you want to learn more
about the IDNX,
Schumacher and Lindenthal will be hosting a
free webinar on August
23, 2011 to provide a broad overview of the tool, and best practices on how domain investors can use the tool to make the best domain buying decisions.
You can register
for that event here. |
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Verisign
Jacks Up .Com and .Net Prices Yet Again
In
yet another painful reminder
of
how egregiously ICANN sold domain
registrants down the river in their last
contract negotiations with Verisign,
the company announced another wholesale price
hike for .com and .net
domains today. One can only imagine how
many millions of dollars ICANN's
failure to put the .com and .net
contracts out for competitive bidding
have cost domain registrants around the
world. The latest jump in prices takes
effect Jan. 15, 2012.
The
complete press
release is below:
Verisign
Announces Increase in .com/.net Domain
Name Fees |
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DULLES,
VA (Marketwire) - VeriSign, Inc. (
NASDAQ
:
VRSN
), the trusted provider of Internet
infrastructure services for the networked world,
today announced, effective Jan. 15, 2012,
an increase in registry domain name fees for
.com and .net, per its agreements
with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names
and Numbers (ICANN).
Verisign
announced that as of Jan. 15, 2012, the registry
fee for .com domain names will increase from
$7.34 to $7.85 and that the registry fee for
.net domain names will increase from $4.65 to
$5.11.
Continued
strong global Internet usage growth, along with
increasingly powerful distributed denial of
service (DDoS) attacks leveled against all parts
of the Internet's critical infrastructure, have
dramatically increased the demands on Internet
infrastructure providers such as Verisign. In
the last five years, the volume of Domain Name
System (DNS) queries on Verisign's global
Internet infrastructure has more than doubled,
increasing to an average daily query load of 57
billion in the first quarter of 2011. Future
growth is expected to occur at an even faster
pace. Verisign's infrastructure has maintained
100 percent operational security, accuracy and
stability for more than a decade due to
continued innovation and investment in the
infrastructure.
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New
State of the Art Platform at Protrada.com Makes
Acquiring, Managing & Monetizing Domains a
Breeze
Troy
Rushton
CEO, Protrada.com |
When
I entered the domain business
almost
a decade ago I quickly found myself
spending 12-16 hours a day, 7 days a
week, researching, acquiring and
managing a rapidly growing portfolio of
domain names. I wish Protrada.com
had been around then - it would have
allowed me to get all of my domain
acquisition and management chores done
in a fraction of the time. Not
that I have any regrets - this business
has been good to me, as it has to
hundreds of others - but time is our
most valuable asset (it's the only
thing we can never replace) and
Protrada makes it possible to save prodigious
amounts of time and still run a huge
domain portfolio including all of the
tasks attendant to that - acquisition,
sales, monetization, management and even
a respectable level of development.
Protrada,
built by the same talented Australian
team that created the Parklings.com
domain monetization platform, made its
public launch this evening, but I got a preview
last night when the company's Business
Development Manager, Louise Munck
arranged for CEO Troy Rushton to
take me through a complete demo of what
the platform is capable of. I came away
from the hour extremely impressed with
what I saw. |
Protrada
might be described as the domain world's version
of the Swiss Army knife - it does everything
and it is extremely easy to use. I am
going to touch on a few of the features in this
post but the best way to see what Protrada can
so is to see it for yourself, something
they allow you to do through a free
7-day trial. If you decide it is for
you, they have four different monthly price
levels (ranging from $29 a month to $199 a
month) based on the number of domains you want
to have under management and the feature sets
you want. This is a serious platform with
unbridled power designed for domain
professionals (or those hell-bent on becoming
one). A
screenshot of a sample Protrada dashboard
detailing auctions you are watching, winning and
losing, as well as those you are selling. Access
to other functions are accessed from the menu in
the black bar at the top. Let's
start with domain acquisition functions.
You can enter specified keywords and each day
Protrada will automatically search all of
the major auction platforms (including expired
and aftermarket domains) and import a list of
names available that day along with key data
for each name to help you decide what to go
after (you can set up parameters in advance to
further filter the list to show only those that
meet data metrics you specify). The system will
also bid for you and hold those bids
until the last possible minute so your activity
doesn't attract competitors to names you are
interested in. It can even grab Buy It Now
domains that meet your pre-set price and
criteria. A
list of domains up for bid that have been
imported and assessed by the Protrada
system. (Note:
In addition to new acquisitions, you can of
course import any of your existing
domains into the system, either manually one by
one or in bulk with a text of .csv file.
You can also pull them into this system directly
from many major registrar accounts). If
you want to go off auto pilot from time to time
and get into the middle of the action there is
also a 24-hour live trading floor that
will be right up your alley. Another
great feature is that you can set up various Actions
that will automatically put the domains you
acquire to work instantly. Those actions
can change DNS to the nameservers you specify,
place the domain up for sale (on multiple
platforms with a price marked up by any
percentage you specify) or even do a quick
development project, complete with articles,
user generated content and social media features
that are much better received by search engines
than the usual parked page. The
powerful Create Action screen at Protrada Another
big plus is that you can collect email
addresses from your site visitors so you can
build a valuable lead database that can be
tapped over and over. You
can also add your own advertising network codes
to display ads and, if you wish, add your own
original content and images - but most will
probably prefer to let the system do all of
the work. Most sites are generated in well
under one minute. You can see an sample
auto-generated site at FiremanTShirts.com. The
Portolio area of the platform lets you
track how each domain is performing across a
variety of monetization options than can be
tapped with each name (everything from CPC and
CPA to Amazon, Shopping.com, ClickBank and
others). Domains are sorted into four
performance categories (from Dog to Star) making
it easy to see which ones are doing well and
which might be better letting go. A
screenshot from the Protrada Portfolio area In
the portfolio area you also have access to all
of your management tools including those
that edit the look and content of your auto
developed websites. The
Reports area is also extremely robust
with access to Google analytics, detailed data
on your sources of traffic and much more. Having
these stats constantly at hand can also be a big
help in selling your domains. As
I noted earlier this is a very intuitive
system than I found unusually easy to use for
one that has so much power under the hood. To
further aid those who need a little help along
the way, pop-up videos are available
across the platform to show you how
things are done. I've
barely scratched the surface here, so if it
looks interesting, explore the platform in depth
for a week via Protrada's free
trial and see how this compares to
the way you are currently managing your domain
business. This must be what it feels like to
upgrade from a Model T to a Ferrari.
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Domain
Industry Sole Men Complete 330-Mile, 29-Day Barefoot
Walk in Bali to Help Indonesia's Needy Children
In
a post
last month
I
told you about a 330-mile barefoot
walk around Bali that was
being undertaken by UK domainer
Robert Epstone and fellow
Rotarian Beat Schmid de Gruneck to |
Sole
Men Robert Epstone and Beat
Schmid
de Gruneck (right) on their barefoot
journey |
raise
funds for needy children in Indonesia
where they both reside (the week after
my post Owen Frager published a
very interesting in-depth
profile of Epstone who once
managed the seminal rock band T Rex).
I'm happy to report that the two men,
who formed an organization called Sole
Men of Indonesia to support
their efforts aimed at helping the more
than 232,000 homeless children in
Indonesia, have successfully completed
their 29-day journey.
Epstone
told me just over $12,000 was
received over the course of the walk
with more still coming in. Not bad
considering this first walk was planned
to be a 'proof of concept'
mission that will now allow them to
credibly approach corporate sponsors and
major donors for support in a series of
similar walks they have planned in
Indonesia and other locations around the
globe.
More
importantly they drew a great deal of attention
to their cause. Epstone said "We |
achieved
great publicity for our awareness campaign
in a number of newspapers in Indonesia,
the UK and globally online. We had
coverage by four Indonesian TV stations
- TVRI-Bali, Bali TV, Alam
TV and Bali's ITN as
well as the UK's ITV news channel
and two Indonesian film companies
including BaliTodayShow.com that
constantly posted progress videos to
YouTube. Through reports in these
media and our own including Facebook,
Twitter (robertepstone) and Solemen.org
we have received donations from the UK,
Japan, China, the USA and Switzerland so
far, as well as donations on the road
from interested tourists from France,
Belgium and Australia."
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The
Governor of Bali, Pak Made Mangku Pastika
(center), came out to thank Robert and Beat
for their efforts during a stop at Kuta Beach
where they helped with a beach clean up
effort.
Epstone
detailed how the money is being used noting,
"Sole Men Indonesia has been funding the
printing and distribution of basic health care
manuals for poor children of different ages. For
example, advice on basic health care for
the younger children coupled with information on
HIV prevention, alcoholism, drugs, and addiction
for the older children. Together with a
doctor and/or nurse from Yayasan
Anak Anak we used these for
health presentations we made in schools,
orphanages and villages around Bali during our
535 kilometer (330 mile) barefoot walk. Going
forward our plan is to fund additional mobile
health clinics to reach children in places
where currently they have little or no access to
medical health care, health education as well as
much needed education regarding their
environment."
"As
funds are increased through donations we plan to
donate an urgently needed replacement ambulance
for the Bumi
Sehat Foundation (Ibu Robin) in Aceh as
the previous second hand one donated by Rotary
is now dead from rust and wear and tear
after seven years in constant use."
"Our
final mission is to establish a center for
homeless children with facilities to help
them readjust emotionally, intellectually and
spiritually with education programs and
vocational training to prepare for work within
the Bali Tourist industry through our
relationship with the Ministry of Culture and
Tourism," Epstone said.
Sole
Man Robert Epstone (4th from left) with
another supporter, I Gusti Putu Laksaguna
(3rd from right), the Inspector General of the Ministry
of Culture and Tourism for Indonesia
If
you are wondering why they decided to walk
barefoot, Epstone answered, "We
did it barefoot to be in solidarity with
those unfortunate shoeless children
and adults who don't have a choice as we
have."
Epstone
said special care is being taken to insure than
all donations go to help those need. "Due
to Indonesia being pretty highly
ranked in terms of corruption, our policy is
never to hand over money and like Rotary not
to fund overhead. Instead we will continue
to fund actual projects as outlined
above. In the case where we may fund a vehicle,
either an ambulance for Aceh or one elsewhere to
serve as a mobile health clinic, we will always
retain the original registration documents to
prevent them being sold for cash - perhaps an
unlikely situation but one which we intend to
avoid," Epstone said.
As
you would expect, their 29-day journey
produced some unforgettable moments.
"We met with some amazing people
along the way helping poor and homeless
children in Bali as well as incredible
kindness, humility and selflessness in
teachers, villagers and communities,"
Epstone said. "We learned the value
of a smile and sympathy :) - which
meant so much especially as quite often
we were in some pain from the
roads."
"We
also learned to recognize where help is
needed especially when making the health
education presentations which were very
eagerly received by the children. We
learned and were reminded time and again
that sharing is caring and that
there is still so much that can be done
in Bali, not only with health
education but also environmental issues
which of course impact on health. For
example the main reason for pollution is
the burning of plastic which later
causes cancer in the community." |
The
barefoot trek took a toll
on
Epstone's right leg, ankle and
foot.
All had to be patched soon after
he passed the 300-kilometer mark. |
So
what's next for the Sole Men? "We
have just been invited to do a barefoot walk all
around the southern part of Bali from August
9th to 11th to support education, re-skilling
and creation of eco-friendly job and business
opportunities, for the poor and disadvantaged in
that area," Epstone said. The Sole
Men will be joined by nine volunteers and staff
from the R.O.L.E
Foundation and end up at a
special fund raising dinner at the Ayana
Hotel (formerly the Ritz Carlton).
Yet
another big event may be on the horizon. Epstone
said, "The
Quicksilver
Foundation has invited Sole Men,
subject to board approval, to do a 500 kilometer
barefoot walk to the World Surfing
Championships on Australia's Gold Coast
(ending February 27, 2012) where 10,000
people will attend the final day.
For
two guys walking without shoes, Robert and Beat
are certainly covering a lot of ground!
If you wish to donate to their cause you
can do so here.
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South
Florida Domainers Group Ready to Reconvene on the
Intracoastal Waterway
One
of the most active
local
domain investor/developer groups in the U.S., South
Florida Domainers, has another
exceptionally attractive event coming up next
week - the evening of Thursday, July 21
to be specific. After attracting the largest
crowd in the group's history for an event
at the home of Secret Millionaire John
Ferber (Of DomainHoldings.com)
at the end of March, organizers had a new
standard to live up to. It looks like they have
come up with the strong follow-up they
were looking for, again with the help of the
Domain Holdings Group, along with two new
sponsors - the upcoming T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
Ft. Lauderdale conference and local
limo company Limousines.bz. Attendees
will meet at Domain Holdings headquarters in Delray
Beach at 5:30pm on July 21. The Domain
Holdings crew will host a meet and greet and present a
quick demo of their platform, then everyone will
take a short walk to an adjacent dock for the
main event - a two-hour cruise up and
down the Intracoastal Waterway on the Delray
Yacht Cruises boat S.S. Lady Delray. South
Florida Domainers Group guests will board
one these boats operated by Delray
Yacht Cruises next Thursday evening
for a ride on Florida's Intracoastal
Waterway.
Everyone
will board
the boat by 6:45pm where they will find
appetizers and a cash bar. They will then
enjoying cruising and networking from
7-9pm. Organizers say they have a
couple of speakers lined up, but most of the
time is being left open so local domainers can
socialize. Space is limited to 70 passengers so
it is being made available on a first come,
first served basis. Domainers can bring a
spouse or guest (one only due to space
limitations). If your plans change, be sure to
let them know so someone else can use the spot.
To RSVP for this free event and reserve your place you will want to visit
this page ASAP.
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Domain
Industry Pioneer and Best Selling Author Marc Ostrofsky
Shines On National TV Again Today
Marc
Ostrofsky
is
a domain industry veteran who first gained fame
for selling Business.com in a deal valued
at $7.5 million in 1999 but these days he
is better known as the best selling author of Get
Rich Click!, a
hot new book about making money on the internet
that he released in May. The success of his book
earned Marc an invitation to appear on ABC-TV's
national morning talk show The View
June 9th (you can read our
review of his appearance here). Marc
performed so well on the show that the producers
invited him to come back for today's
network telecast (Friday, July 8, 2011). Last
time Marc talked about how you can use domain
names and other tools to make money on the
Internet. This time producers ask him to talk
about some of his favorite apps for
smartphones and Apple's Ipad in a segment titled
Amazing Apps. Once again Marc did
a terrific job of explaining technology in
terms that non-techies can easily understand and
get excited about (you
can view
his segment here). . Marc
Ostrofsky (right) on today's national
telecast of ABC-TV's The View
with co-hosts Whoopi Goldberg (left) and Elisabeth
Hasselbeck (center). After
watching Ostrofsky's two guest shots I have come
away convinced that some smart network
producer will make him a regular on their
show (if I ran The View I would sign him
up before someone else does) or give him a show
of his own. The Internet and closely related
fields like mobile are among the few exceptionally
bright spots in an otherwise dismal economy.
With the web providing a path for people to
bypass the moribund job market and go into
business for themselves there is currently a
great hunger for information on how to to do
that so Marc's message comes at a perfect point
in history. Plus, he has the personality, the
been there done that credibility and the communications
skills necessary to impart that message to the
masses, making him a valuable media commodity. Though
today's appearance was about apps rather than
domains I found it just as interesting as I
learned about some cool new apps I will download
myself. I already use several that Marc
highlighted like Yelp, Shazam and Red
Laser but was not aware of Word Lens,
one that wowed me (as well as the show's hosts).
That app allows you to point you phone's video
camera at printed words and see them instantly
translated from one language to another. You
almost have to see it to believe it. Marc
is serving up some good stuff and shining a
bright and positive media light on our business
in the process. I can't wait to see more.
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Castello
Brothers Moving Their Home Base From Palm Springs to
Nashville, DNForum Goes Mobile and Marc Ostrofsky
Returns to The View Friday
Castello
Cities Internet Network,
the
corporate entity that administers the Castello
Brothers' blue chip portfolio of
geo/generic domain names and developed websites,
has been based in Palm Springs, California
since 1998 (PalmSprings.com
is one of CCIN's premier properties).
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That
will officially change July 15th when Michael
and David Castello are relocating the
company's headquarters to Nashville - the
home of another one of their marquee websites - Nashville.com.
In fact, David told me that CCIN's development
work on Nashville.com over the past couple of
year's has turned the site into their largest
geo brand.
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Rising
star Bree Pelkey in Nashville |
Another
reason for the move is that David's
girlfriend, Bree Pelkey, is a
rapidly rising Nashville
singer/songwriter who will be going into
the studio for rehearsals this month
with David in her backing band. David,
who is a professional drummer,
will join Bree for sessions that start
at Diamond Studios on July 21st,
the day before Bree's 22nd
birthday.
If
you happened to be at the 2010
T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
Las Vegas
conference you will remember seeing
David light up the stage at the Hard
Rock Hotel when he performed a solo
set at an evening event on the show's
opening night.
In
another news item from the Castello
Brothers' camp, they will be delivering
a “State of the Geos” address
during lunch on Saturday, October 1,
2011 at the first ever GeoPublishers
Expo in Chicago. |
David
Castello playing at the Hard Rock Hotel
in Las Vegas (Jan. 2010)
Elsewhere,
you can now follow the hundreds
of ongoing domain conversations
at the web's original domain
name forum - DNForum.com
- while you are on the go!
Owner Adam
Dicker just released
slick new smartphone apps for
iPhone and Android phones
that let you interact with the
more than 100,000 forum |
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members
(and read over 1.7 million
posts) anywhere that a
cellphone signal exists. I
downloaded the $4.99
iPhone app last night and love
it. Discovering DNForum in early
2002 was one of the primary
reasons I got involved in this
industry and having the site in
my pocket wherever I go is an
advance I really
appreciate.
Marc
Ostrofsky
Author or Get Rich
Click! |
One
other note today -
Domain industry pioneer Marc
Ostrofsky, author of
the best selling book Get
Rich Click!,
will be making a return
appearance on ABC-TV's
morning talk show The
View Friday
(July 8) at 11am
(U.S. Eastern time).
Marc first appeared on
the program June 9th (see
our review here)
and was such a hit the
producers immediately
asked him to come back.
Set your DVRs now to
make sure you catch his
return engagement Friday
morning.
Marc
gave domain names a huge
plug in his first
appearance on the show
but he really draws the
audience in by expanding
the scope of his advice
to cover multiple
ways to make
money on the web.
With the economy in the
doldrums and jobs harder
to find that hen's
teeth, Marc's message
comes at a perfect
time when millions
are seeking a viable way
to become their own
boss. Those of us in the
domain business know the
web makes that possible
and Marc is spreading
the good news. |
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Back
From My Longest Break From the Domain Business In a
Decade!
Since
entering the domain industry
in
early 2002 rarely a day has gone by that I
haven't been immersed in one aspect of the
business or another - including days when I was
supposed to be "on vacation." However,
I just returned from a vacation that wound up
being different than in the past as
a set of circumstances developed that required
me to totally disconnect from domains on this
trip. Normally I would expect to experience withdrawal
symptoms in such a situation but time didn't
allow that. Diana
and I went to one of our favorite places in the
world - Sarasota's Siesta Key - for a
week on a spectacular white sand beach that was
named America's best beach by noted
authority Dr.
Beach several years ago (once a
beach wins that award it is retired from the
competition). During the 11 years I was a
sportscaster at the ABC-TV station in Sarasota I
spent almost every morning walking on this
beach. We still live just over an hour's drive
away and always love going back. Scene
from Siesta Key, Florida last week While
we had a chance to enjoy Siesta Key, two other
things - one good and one bad - required our
attention during the hours we were not at the
beach. Shortly before we left for Sarasota,
Diana's mother suffered a stroke and was
hospitalized in Venice, Florida (about 25
minutes south of Sarasota). She came through it
much better than many do (for which the entire
family is very thankful) but will have to
undergo therapy to regain full use of here left
hand and leg. We visited her several times
during the week and were happy to see her mental
faculties and speech fully intact and her determination
to put in the rehab work needed to get back on
her feet as soon as possible. We have no doubt
she will do it as that side of the family comes
from some very hardy stock (Diana's uncle on her
mother's side drove round trip from Florida to
Michigan after his 90th birthday and he
is still going strong today)! The
other event that fell during our vacation week
(and the prime reason we picked this past week
to go) involved our daughter Brittany.
She started her third year of medical school
last Wednesday, as fate would have it, in
Sarasota - one of six cities where the Florida
State University College of Medicine trains
third and fourth year students. So, we spent
time helping her get settled into a new
apartment and buy a new car - a necessity since
she will be doing rotations between three area
hospitals over her final two years of med school
(as well as driving home once in awhile we
hope!) Men
(and Women) in Black: Until a couple of
years ago, no one in our family had ever
bought a black car - now we all have one. Diana
(center) started it, I was next (far
left)
then Brittany (at right) made it
unanimous when she got her new Mustang last
week. The day
this photo was taken one of our neighbors asked
if we were having a black car convention :-) So,
there was plenty keeping us busy right through July
4th (a national holiday in the U.S.). I
finally got back in the office today and have
been chipping away at a mountain of
backed up email and assorted tasks. Still not
done, so if you sent an email over the past week
and haven't heard back from me yet, you should
soon. Thanks for your patience! Now it's back to
work with a lot of projects to take on including
a double-length sales report that will be out
Thursday, a resumption of these daily Lowdown
posts, work on a new newsletter and Cover Story,
etc. etc. I'm glad I love my job! I hope
all of our friends in the U.S. had a great
extended Independence Day weekend and are as
psyched as I am about getting back to
domains!
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Editor's
Note: I will be on vacation through July 4 so
there will be no Lowdown posts this week. Monday, July 4 is Independence
Day - a national holiday in the U.S. - so I want to wish all
of our American readers a safe and enjoyable extended holiday
weekend and look forward to seeing everyone back here on Tuesday,
July 5.
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