The Domainers Choice Awards announced their winners on Saturday at DBR Fun Fest, Kevin McKim from NameInnovations live tweeted the winners.
TheDomains.com was nominated for best publication, we congratulate Ron Jackson for winning that award, Ron has always been number one in my book so I am very glad to see him win the award. Ron is off for an extended vacation in celebration of his 30th Wedding anniversary.
Kudos to Donna Mahony for all the hard word and effort she put into this award ceremony, I think Donna really did it up right and she deserves a big round of applause.
Congrats to all the winners for DCA 2014.
Domain Ambassador Award
This award is to honor an individual or a group that has consistently represented the best of our industry. Through their tireless endeavors, these individuals are recognized by their peers as those who always operate with integrity. These individual(s) promote the domain industry as a natural accompaniment to their own businesses, and recognize that the expanding success of the domain industry benefits the entire community.
Winner:Richard Lau
Best Industry Conference
This award is to honor the conference that provides the best overall value to the domain community.
Winner: Namescon
Industry Customer Service Rep
This award is to honor the customer service representative that consistently goes above and beyond to provide the highest levels of service to the domain community. Please include their name, company, and title, and a brief description of why you feel that they deserve to be recognized.
Winner: Joe Higgins
Quiet Champion
So many work silently and tirelessly behind the scenes with legislation, ICANN, etc. This could also be a domain professional that has shown success through hard work and diligence. This person never expects to receive accolades, rewards nor do they demand recognition for themselves.
Winner: Nat Cohen
Best Independent Broker
This award is to honor the independent broker who best fills your needs. This individual practices timely responsive communication, strong negotiation skills, ethical businesses practices, maintains relationships with the decision makers in many industries and always represents their client. Sales numbers are NOT important.
Winner Andrew Rosener
Best Brokerage Agency
This award is to honor the brokerage house who best fills your needs. This business practices timely responsive communication, strong negotiation skills, and maintain relationships with the decision makers in many industries. They must be able to effectively and ethically maintain and negotiate outbound sales as well as inbound leads. Members of the same brokerage company cannot submit a coworkers name (for example, a candidate working for XYZ Brokerage cannot nominate an agent from XYZ Brokerage–even another office of XYZ Brokerage–to receive the Domainer’s Choice nomination) We would like this to be clients choice of brokerage, not a mandated vote from the office.
Winner: DomainNameSales.com
Best Domainer Resource
This award is to honor the domain tool or service that you find indispensable, or that provides you the highest value in your domain activities.
Winner: Domain Tools
Best Domain Auctions
This award is to honor the auction platform that provides the best or most efficient interface. They consistently enable domainer’s to build their portfolios by delivering top quality domain names at affordable investor/wholesale prices.
Winner: NameJet
Best Domain Marketplace
This award is to honor the marketplace that provides the best or most efficient interface. They consistently enable domainers to build their portfolios by providing an efficient marketplace and delivering top quality domain names at affordable investor/wholesale prices.
Winner: Sedo
Best Domain Financial Services
This award is to honor the escrow or financial service that consistently provides you the best value in your domain activities.
Winner: Escrow.com
Best Domain Publication
This award is to honor your favorite domain publication or blog.
Winner: DN Journal
Best Legal Services
This award is to honor the legal service or attorney that has consistently and successfully served the needs of the domain community.
Winner: John Berryhill
Most Helpful Resource for Domain Industry Newcomers
This award is for the person or company that is most helpful in educating newcomers in the industry.
Winner: Domain Sherpa
Best Parking Solution
This award is for the parking company that provides the best earnings, user interface and service to the industry.
Winner: Internet Traffic
Best Industry Forum
This award is for the forum that provides the best user experience: helpful members, great moderation, useful information.
Winner: DNForum
Your Favorite New gTLD
We didn’t want to leave the gTLDs out of the nominations so because it’s too soon to choose a “Best Anything” in a gTLD category, we decided to just ask a survey type question for fun. What’s your favorite new gTLD?
Winner: Dot Club
Familiar winners there.
Reading domaining blogs for 2+ years I found out that there is a group of same about 20 people that call each other somehow special. Seriously? Is this community that small or that close? It is a shame. Think about it.
Because they like to kiss each other A=ss
I would say it is a small community Peter and certainly does not have 100 service providers in a lot of categories. Do you think those that won were not worthy ?
BullS, you are kinda right…
Raymond, there is a lot of bigger and better domain investors, however they don’t want to be part of this community of showmen for many reasons. I understand their reasons and I do agree with them. I am sure you are enough intelligent to see it same way. Why you actually agreed to be a part of this silly group?
I certainly agree there are other big domain investors in the world that do not participate in the industry at conferences or posting their sales. I have relationships with some of those people you speak of and you are right they don’t want the limelight in any way, they prefer to operate under the radar.
I never thought of myself as belonging to a group, I have pretty much interacted with people at all levels of the spectrum. I have participated in forums and written for blogs and my blog, but I am nobody.in the industry really.
I do agree there is a lot of concentration of the best names and the best pr by a smaller group than most industries. I think its the nature of the domain industry timeline. If you turned 21 in 2004 or 2008 and said this seems like a cool industry, all the great .coms were long since gone and some bought and sold a second time, so it means that those new to the business have to have a big budget or be creative at finding a niche in standing out. It is a much more complex business today IMO.
Name them ? Who is bigger in the business than those nominated like schwartz, schilling and rosener ?
All great people who won. Ironically, I believe that Michael Cyger was kicked out of Domain Boardroom.
Yes he was banned.
The voting was handled by an independent 3rd party voting company. Nominations and finals were open to all. I think the choices were all good and as far as Michael Cyger is concerned..I agree he has the best resources for newbies and I’d go a step further and say he is one of the best resources of info for everyone! Membership in DomainBoardroom.com has nothing to do with the awards.
Congratulations to all the winners. Well deserved. Thanks to Donna and her staff for putting on a great show. I enjoyed the conversations and company of all that were in attendance. Thank you also for letting me put in a few minutes on the importance of the ICA (www.InternetCommerce.org) in helping to protect our ability to create success from our domain names.
Michael, your talk was great. I love your middle stance of asking the community to help and asking ICA to give us more reason and ability to do so. It was refreshing!
Congrats to all the winners! They are all very well deserved and I was happy to participate in this process. Keep up the great work Ray, Donna, Mike and all the winners!
I didn’t win but was also honored to be nominated. I do think the nomination process and voting being held by a third party is a very good idea and Donna and her team should be commended for conducting the award process in that manner.
As for Mr. Cyger being banned from DomainBoard Room he is in good company, I’m banned as well but I think I beat him by at least a couple of years.
LOL Michael, you were removed for not being active which is understandable. Because I keep a low ceiling on member count I am forced to only keep participating members. Being removed isn’t always a reflection of anything but the fact that a person doesn’t meet the requirements. And being inside the doors or outside the doors doesn’t necessarily make one a better or worse member of the community.
Congrats to all the winners! I’m especially happy to see John Berryhill win under legal.
(/Brooklyn accent on) That guy! I mean that guy is the real deal! (/Brooklyn accent off)
All kidding aside, Dr. Berryhill is a great asset to the domain name community. If you have any UDRP issues, trust me, he’s the one to call. His actions and reputation precedes him. Excellent choice! The other nominees were not too shabby either.