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The presentation is compiled by DN Journal editor & Publisher Ron Jackson.
Dave Evanson joins A Sedo as Senior consultant sales & trading - postponed DomainConvergence Conference - .co passes 500,000 records A figure familiar in the domain industryDave Evanson, joined Sedo.com as Senior sales consultant brokerage. Dave is a regular Assistant main domain conferences (and was also a speaker at T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Orlando in 2008).It is one of the most highly respected and friendly people in the industry and is here to be perfect for the team of Sedo.
Evanson has more than ten years of experience with domain name investment strategies and web marketing.Evanson also has an extensive strategic planning, marketing, sold Advisory and managerial ejecutiva.Como President of global marketing consultant business Fund, founded in 1991, customers ranged from the list of Fortune 500 to small businesses and included American Express, VISA, Dun & Bradstreet and GE subjected in 1991, he held positions of senior sales and marketing with Bank of America, Citicorp and Harte-Hanks direct Marketing.
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Sedo.comChief Operating Officer of SEDO Jeremiah Johnston, said, "with experience of domain industry and the global fund of Dave, we?re excited for contributions can provide our growing business.""We?re excited to welcome him aboard."If you don't already know Dave and would like to introduce yourself, he can be reached via e-mail at dave.evanson@sedo.com.
DomainConvergence that scheduled conference next week to be held in Montreal, Canada has been deferred .organizador show Frank Michlick told us that the event is to be rescheduled for next spring in Montreal.Tentative dates are May 12-13, 2011, pending the adoption of a definitive agreement with the hotel agreement.
The postponement will remove a conflict with the Conference Thanks III in Valencia, Spain, which will run on the same dates DomainConvergence had been scheduled para.Gracias III gets underway a week from today - Thursday, May 23 - and will run on the 25th.
Another note today - congratulations to the team record .co are in order, as the re-launched extension hit another milestone important when 500,000 records totales.Esa figure is arrived yesterday at least two months before the TLD reopened to the public in July record (.co is officially Colombia country code, but was relaunched as a domain for use in the world).
Juan Diego Street, the operator log .CO Internet S.A.S., Director-General said, "passing records half a million mark so quickly, the Internet and business communities have expressed the wish of"
new and better options to mark its presence in strong línea.La demand domain .co validates our strategy of business and the work we have done to bring the mercado.estamos .co extremely pleased with our results to date ? and eager to continue to grow in the coming months and years. ?
The initial success of .co, the fastest growing (in this case recently re-launched TLD) to date, new TLDs has gained prestige to, among other, street, Lori Anne Wardi (the .co marketing director), the Group of Pappas (who has managed the .co extensive advertising campaign) and Neustar, who provided technical infrastructure and back-end registry services for the. co.
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Those posts gave our readers a flavor of what was going on as the show unfolded, however with conference activities running day and night, there isn't enough time when the event is underway to go into detail about the many interesting sessions held during the week. As a result it has become our custom to spend a few days after returning home to sift through our show notes and photos to produce a more comprehensive review article for the benefit of those who could not attend in person.T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Vancouver 2010 began on the morning of Tuesday, June 8 with nearly all of the seats in the main ballroom filled to hear welcoming comments from show promoter Rick Latona. 
Above: Show promoter Rick Latona delivers his opening remarks.Below: Part of the opening day crowd at T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Vancouver June 8, 2010.
Panelists for the ccTLDs are Taking Over the World - Is North America Immune? session 
T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Moderator Rick Silver
of dollars worth of advertising over the years, making it synonymous with the Internet. No other extension will ever be backed by the kind marketing expenditure it would take to duplicate that. 
Andrew Rosener (MediaOptions.com) introduces himself during the speed networking session. The first day of business closed with a T.R.A.F.F.I.C. staple - Test Track - a platform that gives founders of new businesses that are seeking capital a chance to pitch their ideas to a panel of potential investors (the panel for the Vancouver conference included Richard Lau (DomainManager.com), Gregg McNair (PPX International), Rick Latona (Latonas.com) and Ammar Kubba (Thought Convergence).The founders of four businesses - NamePrince.com, PennyAuction.ca, LeftOfTheDot.com and VisitorDay.com - were chosen to present at the Vancouver Test Track session. While none of the presenters won funding on the spot, some of the panelists wanted to meet later with LeftOfTheDot.com presenters John Lyotier and Chris Jensen to learn more about their company.
Chris Jensen (left) and John Lyotier of LeftOfTheDot.com tell potential investors 
Above: Guests in one section of the rooftop circular lounge where 
Below: A highlight of the party came when PPX Internatational's Executive Chairman 
After the cocktail party wound down around 7pm, the night was still young so attendees scattered to various private functions around town or at the hotel. My wife Diana and I were honored to join a group of 14 remarkable people at a dinner Richard Lau hosted at the nearby Fairmont Hotel to honor The Water School, a ground breaking charitable organization that has become near and dear to the hearts of many domain investors, including Lau and Gregg McNair who have been instrumental in bringing the cause (providing clean drinking water that is saving lives in developing nations around the globe) to the industry's attention.Special guests at this dinner included Fraser Edwards, who co-founded The Water School with Bob Dell, and three amazing young people who Edwards said are ready to step up and help carry on the organization's life saving mission long after he and Bob are gone.
Special guests at Richard Lau's Tuesday night dinner honoring The Water School were (left 
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The DN Journal Top 20 
Country Code Top 20
There were dozens of additional four figure sales off the ccTLD chart. Sedo had the lion's share of those including InfoPlan.de and LiveScores.co.uk at $3,120 each. They also sold Tracker.us for $3,000 and InternetWeek.eu for $2,795. Sedo had 43 more ccTLD sales ranging from $1,000 to $2,600 that are listed in the table below:Additional Sedo ccTLD Sales Between $1,000 - $2,600Drop.com.au once again had a nice group of Australian ccTLD sales to add including CreditCardApproval.com.au at $2,390, League.net.au at $1,499 and FantasyFootball.com.au at $1,406. EscortAgencies.com.au added $1,219 and Naturopaths.com.au notched $1,099. If there are country code extensions in our report that you are not familiar with, you can look up the nation each extension goes with here.Global Contenders (Non .com gTLDs: .biz, .info, .mobi, .net, .org, .asia, .pro & .tel)One of the year's 10 biggest non .com gTLD sales - BreastCancer.net at $35,000 via RickLatona.com - led the Global Contenders pack this week. That was one of four five-figure sales in this category. You saw all of those in the all extension section at the top of this report. The highest GC sale you haven't seen yet is #5 CableTelevision.net, sold for $6,000 by Moniker in their DOMAINfest New York live auction and just closed this past week. Sedo and the AfternicDLS each had a hand in eight GC sales. Sedo's line up included #6 Medicos.org at $5,850 while the AfternicDLS team included #7 (tie) OutdoorThermometers.net at $5,000. The two venues teamed up to sell another domain at that price, Xmas.org. The same keywords were featured in two of the charted sales - PlaygroundEquipment.info at $10,000 and PlaygroundEquipment.biz at $4,000. The same buyer - an end user - bought both domains in private sales involving two separate sellers. Here's how all of the Global Contenders stacked up for the two weeks ending Sept. 12:
Global Contenders Top 20
There were several dozen additional four-figure GC sales just off the chart with the AfternicDLS posting the highest of those - Medcomp.net at $2,500. They added $2,388 for DJMix.org and $2,200 for NaturalSelection.net. The AfternicDLS has 22 more non .com gTLD sales ranging from $1,000 to $2,000. Those are listed in the table below:Additional AfternicDLS non .com gTLD Sales Between $1,000 - $2,000In additional expanded promotion sales using Sedo the company sold Kaminoefen.net ($1,733), DoorLocks.net ($1,188) and PhotoFix.net ($1,000). The AfternicDLS also worked with YummyNames to sell PickupArtist.org for $1,277. Sedo sold Jugendherberge.mobi for $2,340 and Kit.org for $2,000. Sedo had 16 more four-figure non .com gTLD sales ranging from $1,000 to $1,690. Those are listed in the table below: Additional Sedo non .com gTLD Sales Between $1,000 - $1,690 Elsewhere, SCM.info went for $1,500 in a private sale.
*****As always, we welcome all verifiable sales reports from companies, private sellers or individuals with knowledge of an important sale made through any channel. To contribute information and help make this column better, just drop a note to editor@dnjournal.com.We truly appreciate the industry leading companies who share their sales information with us to help everyone in the business get a handle on current domain values. Richard Meyer of Domain Sales Center also provides invaluable help in collecting data for these sales reports each week.Every Wednesday we publish the highest reported domain name sales for the previous week. On Mondays and Tuesdays our contributors send us their sales data for the previous 7 days. We then compile that information and write this article to give you the most comprehensive sales report in the industry. Editor's Note: If you wish to review previous Domain Sales columns, they are available in our Archive.
Roland LaPlante
