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Welcome to the The
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and information from all corners of the global
domain name
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Michael
Riedl Named CEO at CentralNic, James Iles Joins
Godaddy and Andrew Rosener Repeats as Escrow.com's
Top Broker
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A
new week begins
with some some familiar industry names in the news.
Today CentralNic announced
Michael Riedl has become their new CEO,
replacing Ben Crawford who has overseen a
tremendous growth spurt at the company since first
taking the role in 2009. In the 13 years since
then CentralNic's revenue has grown from $2
million to $700 million with a string
of acquisitions fueling the surge. Mr. Crawford is
also retiring from the Board. Michael
Riedl has served as CentralNic's Chief
Financial Officer since February of 2019.
Chairman Iain McDonald noted, "Michael
has brought a wealth of industry experience and
excellent strategic and leadership skills to
CentralNic, and I am delighted that he will be our
new chief executive officer. He has impressed the
board with the impact he has made over the last
four years, where he has brought clarity,
structure and focus, with the combination of
skills and experience to lead the business through
its next strategic phase." With
Michael's move up, Group Financial Director William Green will become
the new CFO. |
Michael
Riedl
CentralNic CEO
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James
Iles, GoDaddy
Domain Name Industry
Community Manager |
GoDaddy
has created a new Domain Name Industry Community
Manager position and selected prolific
writer James Iles to fill that role.
James has his own blog at JamesNames.com
and has also been a frequent contributor to NamePros,
MediaOptions, DomainSherpa and
DomainNameWire.
Iles explained
his reasons for accepting the GoDaddy offer
in a post
on his blog Friday (December 9).
In it he noted, "Domain investors
likely interact with GoDaddy every day.
Whether that is buying domains through
closeouts and auctions or managing domain
sales on Afternic. Despite this, domain
investors have had no specific point of
contact within GoDaddy to help with
issues, provide information and insight, or
give feedback to help improve products. My
role with GoDaddy will hopefully provide
a bridge between the company and the
domain industry."
For any GoDaddy
related questions, suggestions or
information you can email James at [email protected]. |
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Escrow.com
has announced their annual Master
of Domains list for 2022.
The honor roll recognizes the top ten
domain name brokers based on the total
dollar volume of transactions they closed on
the Escrow.com platform. At first glance,
when you see Andrew Rosener's name
and photo associated with the top
spot on the MOD list you might think
it is old news. That's because the MediaOptions
CEO was number 1 in 2021...also in 2020...and,
oh yes, 2019 too. Yes, he did it
again in 2022, making it four in a
row! The competition was not easy either as
you can see from the names on the complete
list. If this was a baseball team, every one
of them would be an all-star:
1. Andrew
Rosener
(Media Options) |
6. Ryan
McKegney
(DomainAgents.com) |
2. Todd
Reum
(Names.com) |
7. Hobi
Michalec
(Lumis
Group) |
3. Cameron
Gordon
& Josh
Bourne
(Digital DNA) |
8. Stephen
Miholovich
(Name Arena) |
4. Jeffrey
Gabriel
(Saw.com) |
9. Joe
Uddeme
(Name Experts) |
5. Mark
Daniel
(Domain Holdings) |
10. Brian
Harbin
(Grit Brokerage) |
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Andrew
Rosener
CEO, MediaOptions.com
(Parent company, DomainX) |
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(Posted
December 12, 2022)
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