PITCHfest™ Contest
The recent DOMAINfest Global® 2010 conference featured two PITCHfest™ contest sessions in which a total of eight finalists introduced attendees to new, innovative products and services designed to help domain owners enhance the value of their domain name assets.
Three winners were selected based on the creativity, viability, originality, and revenue potential of their beta stage or recently launched products. Two winners collected their PITCHfest Service Innovator trophies based on votes from expert judges, and the third winner was chosen based on audience voting.
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The winner of the first PITCHfest session was adMarketplace, which was recognized for Ad Cloud 2.0, a proprietary and innovative new display ad unit that increases revenue for web publishers by offering users a menu of relevant text-based offers. Other contest finalists giving presentations were Verisign, Elephant Traffic, and Tempesta Media. Judges for this first PITCHfest session included Frank Schilling (Name Administration Inc.), Adam Rioux (Octane 360), Eric Liaw (Technology Crossover Ventures), and Ron Sheridan (RSS.com). |
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The second PITCHfest session winner was Chad Folkening of eCorp. Chad introduced the new RapidDomainBuilder.com platform which provides owners of undeveloped domains a customizable, scalable, easy to use, domain building tool with fully integrated features and frameworks. Other contest finalists giving presentations included RootOrange.com, Skinected.com and DevRich.com. PITCHfest session two judges were David Liu (Jefferies & Company, Inc.), Douglas McPherson (Idealab), Richard Morganstern (Tech Coast Angels) and Ron Sheridan. |
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Attendees at the conference voted for RootOrange as their favorite. Co-founders Frank Langston and Camilo Acosta received their trophy for a new service that gives small businesses an affordable way to lease high value, generic domains exclusively for their local market and offers owners of those domains increased revenues. |
| Camilo Acosta Frank Langston |