Readers can suggest question options.
It’s almost time for the 3rd Annual Domain Name Wire Survey. This annual survey helps get a finger on the pulse of the domain community, covering important trends and predictions for the future.
Part of the survey includes selecting the best companies for particular services (e.g. registrar, parking). The number of domain service providers has exploded over the past couple years, and that’s where I need your help. For each of the categories below, please comment if I’ve left any major players off the list.
Domain parking:
Skenzo
DomainSponsor
Name Drive
Active Audience
Parked.com
GoldKey
Sedo/Sedo Pro
Fabulous
Domain Hop
Parking Dots
Dotzup
DomainSpa
Traffic Z
Sendori
*Please note that I’ve excluded service aggregators, such as iMonetize and TrafficClub, from the list this year.
Online domain sales sites:
Sedo
Afternic
SnapNames (non-expiring)
TDNAM (GoDaddy)
eBay
Forums
Additional domain sales companies:
Moniker
DomainTools/Name Intelligence
Domain payment options:
Sedo Escrow-only
Afternic Escrow-only
Escrow.com
Paypal
Wire Transfer
Domain forums:
AcornDomains
NamePros
DNForum
DomainState
Biggest issues facing domain market in 2008:
-Overall economy/recession
-Anti-domainer interests (CADNA, reverse domain hijackers)
-Renegade registrars and resellers
-Registry wholesale price increases
-Domain theft
-Changes in pay-per-click advertising market
Expiring domain services:
SnapNames
NameJet
Afternic
Pool
TDNAM (GoDaddy)
Domain conferences:
T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
Domain Roundtable
DomainFEST
Most influential people in domains:
Bob Parsons
Rick Schwartz
Jay Westerdal
Frank Schilling
Monte Cahn
Sahar Sarid
Kevin Ham
Finally, are there any new questions you’d like to see added this year? You can see previous surveys here.
Shawn says
parketeer.com – domain parking
Adam says
hitfarm,smartname
David J Castello says
GeoDomain Expo
Andrew says
Good ones, thanks guys.
Stephen Douglas says
Hi Andrew,
Congratulations on your third year with your informative survey!
Here are some suggestions from my observations in the turbulent year of 2007 in our industry:
1. For domain auction sites, you should probably do a “Sedo/GreatDomains” entry instead of Sedo by itself. Their purchase of GreatDomains figures in prominently to our business. I would also add LeaseThis.com if Sendori is in this category.
2. For influential people in the domain industry, I would add Ammar Kubba (Trafficz.com) , Jothan Frakes and Ron Sheridan (Oversee.net), Dan Warner (Fabulous.com), Frank Michlich and Adam Strong (Domainnamenews.com), Adam Dicker (DNForum.com), Andrew Allemann (Domainnamewire.com – you may have heard of him!), Mike “Zappy” Zapolin of Internet Real Estate, inc., Matt Bentley (Sedo); Pete Lamson and Brian Carr of NameMedia, Inc.
3. I second David’s nomination of GeoDomain Expo for Domain conferences. I would also talk to Monte and Victor about which industry-specific conferences they feel sells the most domains in the Moniker auctions, and add those too. Step outside our industry and try to promote categorized internet conferences who have participated Moniker’s wise promotion of domain sales within their marketing realms.
4. I would think about the domain industry magazines, Domainer Magazine and Modern Domainer magazine. Which is best?
5. I would create a new category for the official domain industry charity: My choice — Grassroots.org.
6. I would add a “What company or person introduced the most controversial new features that negatively impacted domainers?” question. If I end up on the list for starting my blog, I will go into the fetal position and have pizza’s delivered to my darkened apartment for three weeks (the case of scotch will already be in my closet for easy access.) Frank Schilling will have to personally come over and convince me that life IS worth living, especially when you make over $30 million a year. lol
I’m looking forward to your nominations and the winners of your awards, Andrew. Good job.
Stephen Douglas says
oops, forgot one of the most important categories:
Best Domain Industry Organization:
DNOA
ICA
etc.
Stephen Douglas
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Andrew says
Thanks everyone for your feedback. I’m going to add most of what you mentioned, although I want to keep some of the new categories out until there’s more than a couple options.