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Vern Jurovich, An early partner of Frank Schilling, is coming back into the business. For those of us who know Vern, its great to see him back in the business. He is one of the brightest and down to earth people that you’ll ever meet.
Here’s the Press Release:
GEORGE TOWN, GRAND CAYMAN, CAYMAN ISLANDS–(Marketwired – Oct 6, 2014) – Uniregistry.com is proud to announce the re-hiring of Vern Jurovich as its Chief Operating Officer. Vern will help oversee all aspects of Uniregistry and help Frank Schilling shoulder business relationships and tactical day-to-day business operations across all markets.
“I’m just delighted to welcome Vern back to our thriving team. Our greatest contributors never truly leave Uniregistry. We’re a family, on a mission together and it shows in the spark, commitment and vibrancy of the great people who help move our ship forward,” said Uniregistry founder Frank Schilling. “Vern’s oversight will help shape our platform and guide other members of the team as we expand our operations and grow internationally.”
Immediately before rejoining Uniregistry, Vern was cofounder of the VancouverRealEstate.com start-up and continues as a non-managing owner of one of the largest real estate brokerages in Western Canada. Vern’s expertise includes online marketing, business development, and he has a deep-seeded intellect surrounding domain name operations and management.
Vern has worked in the domain name industry for more than 11 years, and was with Uniregistry and InternetTraffic.com at their inception. He helped build the original DomainNameSales.com (DNS) platform and will be pivotal in integrating the DNS business unit within Uniregistry infrastructure in 2015.
Ok. how would you like to be part of a World Class Accelerator, working on businesses developed around key generic domains. Well now is your chance. Gary Millin, who is both a venture capitalist and a serial entrepreneur can make this happen. Gary is part of World.com. They own some of the most prime real estate on the web. His firm has built up businesses on such generic names as Doctor.com, Lawyer.com, India.com, USA.com, Popstar.com, London.com, Paris.com, and Madrid.com.
Now here is your chance. Go to http://www.worldaccelerator.com/ to see what needs to be done.
Congrats to Gary and Gerry.
Here is the full press release:
Domain-Driven Business Accelerator Unveiled
World Media Group has introduced into the ever-expanding accelerator marketplace, a first-of-its-kind accelerator that combines the inherent, powerful benefits of a premium domain name with winning development teams from all over the world.
New York, NY, November 14, 2012 (PRWeb) – Business incubators and accelerators have captured the imaginations of entrepreneurs worldwide, and these institutions have given birth to some of the most transformative Internet and technology businesses today. World Media Group, a company that specializes in bringing recognizable domain names to life in meaningful ways for online consumers, has announced the launch of World Accelerator (www.worldaccelerator.com)–a new business accelerator that utilizes a concept not yet seen in the burgeoning startup development marketplace.
In addition to offering traditional accelerator elements, such as seed capital and mentorship, World Accelerator offers teams the unique opportunity to build a thriving business on the foundation of a prominent and highly brandable domain name with access to a readily identifiable constituency of customers. Names such as alumni.com, comic.com, diploma.com, fight.com, fact.com, FAQ.com, Japan.com are just a few examples of the brands available via the accelerator. In real estate, billions are paid for premium locations. Online, your location is your domain name and a premier address can make the difference in giving you the credibility you need to open doors, improve conversions, improve retention and accelerate your business.
Led by Gary Millin as CEO, an industry maven responsible for turning World Media Group’s development of premium domain names into growing businesses, World Accelerator’s innovation is in providing startup companies with a valuable brand around which to build their businesses as a crucial starting point.
“Over the last ten years, the cost and time needed to bring exciting and disruptive businesses to market has dramatically compressed. However building credibility with customers, partners and your brand still takes time.” said Millin. “World Accelerator changes this paradigm, turning it upside down as companies can now start with a powerful existing brand on day one. With this business accelerator model we can empower the right teams – those with sound business plans, leadership and poised for action – to successfully develop these fertile domains into lucrative businesses.”
Since 2007, World Media Group has successfully developed numerous domain names into businesses, proving the model which is the foundation of the new accelerator. Millin, in his work with World Media Group and in collaboration with top management teams around the world, has achieved success with domain names such as Doctor.com, Lawyer.com, India.com, USA.com, Popstar.com, London.com, Paris.com, and Madrid.com. These, along with other World Media Group properties, have seen an average of 45% per annum revenue expansion and, today, generate over 20 million visitors a month.
Having outfitted his new business accelerator venture with a similar recipe for success, Millin is excited to start working now with even more top teams and entrepreneurs – stating that he has “extremely high hopes” for all of the businesses and people who will be seeking the services of World Accelerator – which is currently launching a beta site in order to generate interest and identify prospective participants for developing some of the most promising of its 1,000-plus internet domains.
“With our beta launch, World Accelerator will be seeking entrepreneurs and teams who have an interest and the capacity to develop these brands into successful sites. The criteria for acceptance into the program are pure and simple – a great idea that can leverage the brand, a solid leadership team, and an executable strategy,” said Millin. “Entrepreneur teams accepted into the World Accelerator program will have access to capital and mentoring, and of course a high visibility domain name – the key differentiator between World Accelerator’s services and those of other business accelerators.”
Millin has also drawn on his career, both as a venture capitalist and as a serial entrepreneur including founding and running a public company (Mail.com), to ensure that World Accelerator has a terrific team of mentors right out of the gate. The accelerator is headquartered in New York City and already has mentors from across the US, Europe and Asia.
For the six month period ending June 30Th,2011, online ad revenue hit a new all time record stopping just short of $15 billion. That’s a 23% increase over the same period in 2010.
Half the revenue came from search and 37% represented display ads.
It seems that domainers are part of one of the few growth areas in this struggling economy. However with domainers ppc revenues falling the past year or two, someone seems to forgotten to tell Yahoo and Google that our revenue should be rising and not falling.
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Most of the domain community has been looking for additional ways to monetize there names. Marc Ostrofsky is certainly one that has found numerous ways. He will be Keynoting the Affiliate Summit East 2011 this Sunday.
The Affiliate Summit is “the show” to attend to learn alternative revenue sources for your domains. I will be attending. Please LMK if anyone reading this will also be there.
Five months ago, Demand Media went public at $17 per share. Within a short time, the stock hit a high above $28 per share. It seemed like they hit the market at the perfect time. Internet stocks had once again become the favorites of Wall Street.
Flash forward to today, almost 6 months after that opening bell, Demand’s stock has tanked. It hit a low yesterday of 11 3/4. That means in a matter of a few months, the value of stock has gone down over ONE BILLION DOLLARS. Insiders, who have to wait 6 months after the IPO to sell their shares must be biting their nails as the value of their nest eggs continue to erode. My guess was that the stock would be around $10 at the six month mark. I guess in a few days we will all see what happens when additional shares are unloaded on the open market.
Search Marketing Expo opened today and runs through Wednesday. It’s an interesting show. I was there earlier today and ended up running into 3 people I knew. If you live in the NYC area, you might want to get an exhibit ticket, which I believe is just $50 and lets you attend some of the main talks. There are some good networking events/parties today and tomorrow. Their website is searchmarketingexpo.com.
Have you ever been to a party with your wife/husband/significant other and start telling a story. As your speaking, that person cuts in and finishes your sentence. Google Instant is like that person only they interupt you on every word you type. In Google Instant, each time you type a letter, Google predicts what your typing and shows search results that change with each letter you type.
either your going to like Google Instant, or you are going to hate it. There is no in between. How will Google Instant affect domains? I have heard thoughts on each side, however I think we have to wait and see. One thing is for sure, if it lowers Google’s revenue, it will be stopped. Unfortunately, I cant say that about people finishing your sentences.
One of my readers recently sent me information about WEGcash closing down their affiliate program. From what I am told it was one of the more popular adult affiliate programs. I am told that there are many other profitable affiliate companies offering adult services so I think it is a company issue and not an industry wide problem. Here is the letter that was forwarded to me regarding Wegcash:
Today’s communication with our affiliates comes after much deliberation, as well as a heavy heart. After 10 years, and millions of dollars in affiliate payouts, WEGCash has decided that the continuation of the affiliate program is no longer sustainable. Therefore, we will no longer be accepting referrals effective May 21st 2010, at 4PM PST.
The reasons, many of which are obvious to all of us, revolve around the decline in membership revenue. The continued proliferation of free adult videos has spawned a market which does not support an affiliate program. This communication should in no way be interpreted as an industry, political or ethical stance, nor should it be deemed dispiritedness; rather, we choose to look at this as a time to embrace the future.
While our company is closing one door, we are working steadfastly on new opportunities. While we could all engage in the revisionist history of “what ifs,” events leading up to the current free tube models aren’t negotiable; we are better served focusing on the future. We also feel that energy is better served realizing the true successes that our affiliate program brought to us, and to our thousands of wonderful affiliates (without whom we would never have achieved the success we did).
The gravity of this announcement is in no way lost on our company’s staff, from executives and programmers, to its owners. The Wegcash brand was conceived by two passionate and driven entrepreneurs. Throughout the years, its continued prosperity is attributable to the hard working staff members, past and present, who stayed late, came in early, and passionately put their heart and soul into the product. It is also very much attributable to the thousands of affiliates that entrusted our brand with their business.
While today undoubtedly is revealing in terms of the current market, it’s also the lore for the successful future.
Our sincerest thanks to each and every one of you for the past decade of fruition,
WEGCash
Should Google buy Facebook? What would happen if these two major Internet companies merged? This is a question I’ve been thinking about for a while. After all you have two of largest Internet companies who are both dominant forces in their fields. This will form one company that would become a gigantic Internet monster. Google has tons of cash built up. What better way than spending their cash reserves on buying Facebook. However, I would for see a problem with both regulators approving the deal and current Facebook partner, Microsoft letting this happen. But, for a second. imagine all the information at this new company. This new company would basically control the net. Your thoughts?
The future of media is the Internet. Advertisers are starting to realize that more ad dollars have to be allocated to the web. In Q1, a record 1,100,000,000,000 display ads were served to US Internet users. That’s 15% higher than last year. Total ad spending for the Qtr reached $2.7 billion. So who do you think iwas the largest display advertiser in the 11st Qtraa/ none other than fascebook with 176 billion impression. this was the first time in a long time that yahoo has been beat in this category. They came in 2nd with 132 billion ads served.