Rick Latona is an amazing businessman. He is professional and puts 1000% into everything he does. Recently he rebranded to Latonas.com. It’s a very logical move. The major auction houses in the US are Christie’s and Sothebys. Now we have Latonas to join that impressive rank. Rick and his gang have been working behind the seens to revamp the site and include a new proprietary auction platform. The first auction using this technology is a charity auction being held with WhyPark. Please read the details below and bid for a good cause.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Rick Latona Auctions starts charity auction on behalf of WhyPark.com – Registration and Bidding now open on beta platform.
Atlanta, Georgia USA – December 14, 2009 – Rick Latona Auctions has been working on a proprietary auction platform in collaboration with its sister companies. This week only, it’ll be open to preview and beta test at www.latonas.com. Once the auction is complete the system will be locked back down.
The WhyPark.com charity auction is a real auction with people bidding for real domains and spending real money” stated Rick Latona, CEO of Rick Latona Auctions, “however, it is a beta test of the software and website. The full version with many more features will be released in early January, well ahead of our Main Event at T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Las Vegas. This is only a sneak preview of what we have been working on”.
The WhyPark/Latona’s auction has already started and it ends on Friday at 3:00pm EST at www.Latonas.com. Rick Latona Auctions would like to invite you to take a look at the system, register for the auction, bid, and give comments on the your experience. Don’t bid unless you want the name, however! This is a live auction.
“We have our team standing by to make improvements,” said David Clements, President of Rick Latona Auctions. “We see this as a valuable opportunity to wind up with a platform that is custom suited to our industry, and we really would like to get honest feedback from participants of this first auction.”
Registration and bidding for the auction will be at www.latonas.com all week. This is where you will go to view the catalog and register and bid in the auction.
For any technical questions related to the auction software and to report bugs, please email bugs@latonas.com. For any questions about Rick Latona Auctions, please email David Clements at david@ricklatona.com.
About Rick Latona Auctions:
Rick Latona Auctions is an industry leader in the brokerage of domains and domain auctions. This industry has exceeded 428,000,000 US Dollars in total sales1 representing over 54,000 individual domains sold since October 2003. Auctions attract branding managers and executives looking to buy domains to increase their company’s market share against their competitors. Registered bidders from a live audience and those watching the live online video and audio broadcast compete with one another buying domain names. Rick Latona Auctions is proud to be the exclusive auction company for all six T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Conferences in 2010. Rick Latona Auctions also can assist you by acting as your domain name broker for a domain purchase or sale. For additional information, please visit www.RickLatona.com/auctions.
For further information:
David Clements
Partner/ President
Rick Latona Auctions
+1.678.468.9228
1Source: Ron Jackson, DNJournal.com
Rick is definitely a hard charger.
He is reinventing the domain industry single handedly into a power house. First in mass mini sites, first in domain loans, first in multiple auctions at traffic, first in global domains newsletter, first ccTLD conference, first in global domain conferences, And the list goes on.
Most of these first occruing when he stepped out of the shadows mid 2008.
I wish him success and hope that Latona’s will finally target end users with premium domains, instead of just another auction house with unlimited supply of domains that just sit in inventory. Many have tried and failed to get end users to auctions.
Based on Rick’s track record, I do not doubt he will be the first to be successful with excellent promotion of valuable domains to end users.
YA!! Right!!!!
Steve,
i agree. Rick is one of the most impressive entrepreneur in the space.
larry
You guys are too kind.
Rick,
Wish you would have stepped out of the shadows in 2000. Who knows where the domain industry would be now. You did major accomplishments in one years time, that took others a decade in the industry.
Certainly, you would have made almost everyone in the domain space alot of money if you stayed out of in the shadows since 2000. Everything you have done has helped many make money. Nothing wrong with making money in the process helping others either.
And no I am not kissing *ss, just laying out the facts. 😉
Rick Latona had already stepped out of the shadows in 2006.
Look for Rick halfway down the page.
http://dnjournal.com/cover/2006/february-page2.htm
And, Larry is halfway down this page.
http://dnjournal.com/cover/2006/february-page3.htm
“For additional information, please visit http://www.RickLatona.com/auctions.”
I think someone forgot to tell Rick that he rebranded. 🙂
I love the new site, it’s definitely got a classy feel to it.
While I do agree that Mr Latona has done a lot to popularize
the domain industry and is no doubt focused and a hard worker, unless you are trading in XX,XXX dollar amount domain names, than you are completely out of the realm or loop of his network. I don’t see where he or his company is mentoring or fostering the growth of smaller Domainers interests which must make up the bulk of the Domaining industry. Further, it seems rather elitist and self serving that the focus of most of his auctions are centered around making money with no regard to advancing or promoting the industry as a whole.
Great article, but rather biased in my opinion. Doubt that I will see my comment published.