Thank You

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I am headed back to New York in a few minutes, but I would like to thank you for choosing my blog as the best domain blog at this year’s Traffic awards. It’s an honor to receive the award since it was voted on by my peers, and especially because of the other great blogs that were also nominated.

The Traffic show was a success with somewhere around 3-400 people in attendance. I will try to provide more of a recap later.

I really appreciate your voting for me and thank you for the honor.

Server Migration Finished – Thanks

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I just wanted to give a short update on the server migration. I changed hosting last night after a couple of years. The site has grown quite a bit since I first started, and it was using a whole lot of bandwidth. I am now using Liquid Web, which has been reliable for me on my other websites, and their 24/7 technical support is unbeatable.

I want to thank Kevin Leto (Big Ticket Domains) for his help in migrating the blog. He did the heavy lifting in making sure that all of the articles and comments were successfully moved to the new site.

I also want to thank Michael Sumner for his support with a couple of minor issues that I noticed. Michael is a WP expert and has been helpful on a few of my projects that needed coding and programming expertise.

The site may still be propagating for several more hours, so if you notice something funky or a comment doesn’t post, that’s probably it. The Retweet button is still attempting to read the old server, which is why old posts are able to be retweeted but newer posts aren’t yet. This should be resolved soon.

As always, thanks for stopping by.

Server Migration

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I am currently in the process of migrating my server to a new hosting company. If you post comments on articles, they may not post.

Please try to post a comment here and let me know if you have any trouble.   Also, if you can note whether the footer says “LW Server” or not, that would be helpful. If it doesn’t say LW, it’s a propagation issue.

If you don’t see your comment for the time being, it’s likely a propagation issue and your comment is being directed to the old server.

THANKS FOR YOUR HELP!

Good Direct Marketing Email from Network Solutions as Part of DDN

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As I quickly scanned my email, I saw something from Network Solutions that caught my eye. The subject was “HORSESTABLE.ORG is Available – Register it Now!” Since I own HorseStable.com (I sold HorseSupply.com earlier this year), I thought it would be smart to register the .org, to give a potential buyer some added value.

Since I don’t generally register domain names at NetSol, I emailed my Godaddy representative and asked him to buy this domain name on my behalf. He replied that the domain name has been registered for a while to Protopixel Pty Ltd, one of Dark Blue Sea’s entities.

I looked back at the email I received and I noticed that it was imploring me to buy this premium domain name in the aftermarket, which I believe is part of the Domain Distribution Network. I’ve seen plenty of upsell efforts at registrars like Godaddy working with the DDN, but this is the first time I was emailed directly instead of a point of sale attempt.

Although I felt the subject was a bit misleading with them suggesting I “register” it now, it’s still a smart direct marketing tactic. Had I been an end user client (most of their clients are), I may have opted to buy it.

This is a great example of a well-targeted direct marketing effort.

Hump Day Light Humor

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When I was in graduate school earning a degree in Direct Marketing, my thought about an ideal first job was to work for Lester Wunderman, the person considered the father of direct marketing (he didn’t go by “Direct Marketing King” although he could have). As it worked out, when I graduated in 2004, I was hired as a Project Manager (and then later promoted to New Business Associate) at Wunderman, the company founded by Lester Wunderman and a part of Y&R Brands.

I was going through some old emails yesterday and I found the email I sent to colleagues announcing that I was leaving the company to start a new position at AIG. I thought I would share it here because I think it’s somewhat humorous.

Hi Everyone,

As many of you know, today is my last day at Wunderman.   My life-long dream of becoming a professional basketball player has finally come true.   After years of practice, I have officially been signed by the New York Knickerbockers of the MBA – not the National Basketball Association, but the MBA – (Midget Basketball Association).   For those of you who are unaware, we play Tuesdays and Thursdays at Madison Square – the Park, not the Garden.   I know that the life of a professional athlete is one filled with money, alcohol and groupies, but I certainly will not forget all of you.

All kidding aside, I wanted to take a moment to tell you all how much I have enjoyed working with you.   I have learned so much from all of you, and am lucky to have had the opportunity to work with you….

Working at Wunderman was a great experience for me, and it allowed me to work on the agency side of the advertising business, which was helpful in my next job. Some days I actually miss working for a fun company like Wunderman, but the advantages of self-employment certainly are great!

DomainMarketplace.com Launched by Internet REIT

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I haven’t heard anything from or about Internet REIT in a while, but I received an email this afternoon from Lisa Box who is Vice President of Sales for iREIT. Lisa wrote to let me know about the launch of DomainMarketplace.com, a website that has iREIT-owned domain names for sale:

I hope this email finds you well.   I wanted to let you know we have recently launched www.domainmarketplace.com! Here you can search the iREIT inventory and buy directly from the site.   We are still testing…”

If you don’t know about Internet REIT, you can learn more about the company on its LinkedIn page. They received funding from Maveron, were a big buyer of domain names a couple of years ago (I see several names I previously owned in this new website), ran into trademark issues, and their domain names receive millions of visitors each month.

DomainMarketplace.com has domain names priced from as low as the $50 range all the way up to 7 figures for OfficeSupply.com and Netster.com. It looks like they would also consider offers on their domain names as well.

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