The Internet Commerce Association has revealed the nominees for the Lonnie Borck Memorial Award and the inaugural Trailblazer Award. Both of these awards will be given during the ICA annual meeting in Las Vegas in January. ICA members are now able to vote for the award winners using a rank choice voting system.
The nominees, who were each nominated by members of the domain investing community at large, include the following people and industry companies:
2025 Lonnie Borck Memorial Award: (ABC Order)
- Bob Hawkes
- Richard Lau
- Brad Mugford
- Jeffrey Neuman
- Andrew Rosener
- Steven Sacks
- Jen Sale
2025 Trailblazer Award: (ABC Order)
- Dynadot
- Chad Folkening
- Ari Goldberger
- Leanne McMahon
- Darpan Munjal/Atom
- Rick Schwartz
- Michael Sumner/Namebio
- Dennis Tinerino/DomainSmoke.com
Congratulations to all of the nominees.
I don’t feel worthy to be on that list but honored and flattered nonetheless.
Lonnie was such a great guy, I ran across this video I recorded at namescon that had a quick spot of him in it just a few months before he passed…
https://youtu.be/pztFUjYRCxo
best of luck to all the nominees for both awards, the last couple decades in the domain space has been a blast but our best days may still be ahead of us!
Steven