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re: Anyway, it's only a week left for Geo Domain Auction but it's been too quite. Wonder what is happening..
It looks like Moniker doesn't really care about this particular GEO auction. There is a lot
less advertising for the names that going to be auctioned, and also they were very late
to come up with the list in the first place. I might be mistaken, but I think most of the
names won't be sold.
+ unrelated
AssociatedCities.com accepts only .com owners to their network. Personally I think
it is a mistake - we all know that only few people own .com city names in USA with
Boulevards having most of them (http://www.boulevards.com/ ). I asked Patrick from the organization about the price the company charges to become a member of this network, and he mentioned that the price is $250 a year. I have one of the small city .com domain
names that I want to develop at some point, and I am interested to join. The interesting
thing is that if you go to the site you can see on the left side there are all the cities on the network - and there are 101 of them. So, now it made me think, how the organization with the budget of $25250 a year can represent GEO domain name owners? In few days
we are going to have Moniker GEO domain name auction at Associated Cities conference. The auction itself I think goes against the main Associated Cities rule. It is
no secret they want only pure 100% city .com domain names on their network, but
a quick look at the auction name list will produce only 2-3 such names. I see a disconnect here. I think there is a need for Associated Cities to open up for other extensions, or maybe the time is right to create another organization that will represent ALL geo related websites/domains without discrimination.
It looks like Moniker doesn't really care about this particular GEO auction. There is a lot
less advertising for the names that going to be auctioned, and also they were very late
to come up with the list in the first place. I might be mistaken, but I think most of the
names won't be sold.
+ unrelated
AssociatedCities.com accepts only .com owners to their network. Personally I think
it is a mistake - we all know that only few people own .com city names in USA with
Boulevards having most of them (http://www.boulevards.com/ ). I asked Patrick from the organization about the price the company charges to become a member of this network, and he mentioned that the price is $250 a year. I have one of the small city .com domain
names that I want to develop at some point, and I am interested to join. The interesting
thing is that if you go to the site you can see on the left side there are all the cities on the network - and there are 101 of them. So, now it made me think, how the organization with the budget of $25250 a year can represent GEO domain name owners? In few days
we are going to have Moniker GEO domain name auction at Associated Cities conference. The auction itself I think goes against the main Associated Cities rule. It is
no secret they want only pure 100% city .com domain names on their network, but
a quick look at the auction name list will produce only 2-3 such names. I see a disconnect here. I think there is a need for Associated Cities to open up for other extensions, or maybe the time is right to create another organization that will represent ALL geo related websites/domains without discrimination.
