Escrow.com Domain Holding Service Growing More Popular

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I think the Domain Holding Service offered by Escrow.com is an excellent tool that can help close deals. The way it works is that buyer and seller agree on a price and a payment plan, and Escrow.com holds the domain name in escrow as the buyer pays using the agreed upon payment schedule. Having this option gives an additional tool to a domain owner when a buyer is enthralled with a domain name but can’t afford the asking price.

According to a tweet from Escrow.com embedded above, it looks like it’s becoming very popular. I reached out to Escrow.com CEO Brandon Abbey to ask

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Announcing DomainInvesting.com

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As you can tell, I made a big change on my blog late last night and rebranded it as DomainInvesting.com. In addition to this major change, I also changed the color scheme and made a few changes to the design of the website. I am very excited about the changes, and I’d like to get your honest feedback about it in the comment section below. Keep in mind, the design may be a bit of a work in progress.

I think you can appreciate the reasons I moved from a personal brand to DomainInvesting.com. The primary reasons I made the change are as follows:

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“Coach” Brandon Abbey Gives Escrow.com Post Game Press Conference

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Escrow.com has made it to the second round of the    “Small Business, Big Game” contest being held by Intuit. The overall winner of the contest will win a free commercial that will air during the Super Bowl. This would be huge for one of the best companies in the domain space, and I want to help support the company’s effort, especially since they are always there to support the domain industry.

Escrow.com CEO Brandon Abbey and the Escrow.com team posted a fun video today that I want to share with you. In the video,  “Coach” Brandon Abbey delivers an “after game” press conference to discuss how Escrow.com helps keep transactions safe and secure.

Check out the video and be sure to vote for Escrow.com (you can vote every day).

Steve Banfield Named SVP & GM, Registrar Services at Enom & Name.com

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When I do business with a company, I like to know the chain of command in case I run into issues that aren’t resolved at the account management level. I don’t like to escalate issues unnecessarily, but it’s good to know who to contact when a situation requires it.

I saw a tweet from eNom this morning announcing that Demand Media named Steve Banfield Senior Vice President and General Manager of Registrar Services. In this role, Banfield is essentially the senior management staff at eNom and Name.com, the domain registrar it acquired in either December of 2012 or January of 2013. I believe Banfield was hired back in August.

Banfield is a tech industry veteran who has an MBA from Harvard. Here’s more information about his background (from his LinkedIn profile):

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Warren Royal in Wall St. Journal: $2 Million+ in Annual Bobblehead Sales

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It’s great to see friends and colleagues getting mainstream recognition related to their business activities, and I want to share an article from the Wall St. Journal that featured Warren Royal, the founder of Bobbleheads.com, who built a successful bobblehead toy business on this exact match domain name.

If you follow baseball, you probably heard that the New York Yankees honored Mariano Riviera with a bobblehead doll giveaway, and due to some apparent truck troubles, the bobblehead dolls were delayed and 18,000 fans were given vouchers for a free bobblehead. People were upset, and the fact that they had to wait in line during and after the game to trade their voucher for a bobblehead made things worse. Several sports and other news outlets picked up on this story.  My first thought was that I hope Warren’s company wasn’t involved in this fiasco!

The WSJ article discussed the Yankees bobblehead situation, but it also discussed bobbleheads in general, touching on the popularity of these figurines. I honed in on the section about Warren, and the business he built is pretty amazing:

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Nokta Domains Relaunches Website

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Nokta DomainsI received an email from Nokta Domains‘ Kubra Koseler, and she wanted to let me know the company recently relaunched its website. I think the redesign is worth mentioning because of the company’s end user reach and potential for that to impact our business.

One thing you will notice right away is a group photo of the Nokta employees. It seems a number of companies in the domain space are doing this, including Domain Holdings and Name.com to name two. Another thing you’ll notice is that the website is entirely in English, despite the company’s Turkish roots (they do have a Turkish language version).

Along with the aesthetic changes to its website, the company made some changes to its

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