Winners make their cases in videos.
Voting has opened to pick the grand prize winner in Verisign’s Internet Official contest.
The fifteen winners so far each received $5,000. The grand prize winner will pick up a cool $30,000.
Each of the winners was asked to create a video about why they picked their domain name. I just watched all fifteen, and I have to say there’s a wide gap in quality. But voting won’t just be about which video is better…I suspect social media promotion will win the day.
I think running this contest was ingenious. Verisign was able to show that good .com domain names are available for registration (even if they’re hard to find). Some of the winners have domains that match new domain name extensions, too.
Honestly, I think some of the new TLD operators should have thought of and executed on this idea first. It would have made a huge impact having people ask their friends on social media to vote for their domain names based on new TLDs.
Mike Sallese says
Andrew- thanks for covering the contest! I hope you and your readers will consider LastSecondFlights.com when voting! Thanks, Mike
Electric Motorcycle says
Nice articles on the contest as you would expect from DNW and Andrew. People should vote for ElectricMotorcycleClub.com as it shows that even when a domain is taken in a new TLD you can still buy the .COM you need. 🙂
Don’t you think that other TLD operators will run similar contests at some point?
Pat says
Of course, my vote is for my domain, WarmEscapes.com! It is simply the best .com that meets the contest criteria. Check out my video to see why. I hope everyone agrees and votes for WarmEscapes.com.