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DOMAINfest Global Santa Monica
January 26-28, 2010
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Sponsors & Exhibitors
Platinum
 | CPX Interactive As a progressive online ad network and global marketing company, CPX Interactive is redefining the online advertising landscape. By layering the development and execution of cutting edge online strategies on top of its own global distribution model, CPX ensures advertisers success on any metric while efficiently monetizing 100% of its publishers’ inventory…from premium to remnant. Advertiser and Publisher offerings include Reach, Content and Premium Networks.
CPX Interactive delivers more than 30 billion impressions to more than 200 million unique users in more than 60 countries every month and for the last two years, has been named to Inc. Magazine's list of the 500 fastest growing private companies in America. |
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Gold
 | .CO .CO is a new domain extension that offers people and companies more choice in branding their online presence with a truly global, recognizable and credible domain name. It’s the online space where possibility meets opportunity; where people can fulfill their dreams and the world’s next great enterprises will have a home. Please mark your calendars for the .CO launch this Summer. |
|  | Banks.com The InterSearch AdNet is the web’s newest, Premium PPC Network and serves over 10 billion global ad impressions monthly on such highly trafficked sites such as: Look.com, Banks.com, IRS.com, as well a premium distribution network that is second to none. Advertisers can take comfort in knowing that they’re accessing quality inventory that rivals that of the tier one search providers because our publishing network consists exclusively of existing Google, Yahoo! and Bing distribution partners. Publishers can take comfort in knowing that they’re maximizing page yield and leaving no inventory unsold. Visit us today at www.InterSearch.com and find out what you’ve been missing. |
|  | DCL Group EuroDNS is a Domain name Registrar specialized in International Domain extensions, offering a large range of choice with more than 150 TLDs. EuroDNS serves a large variety of clients ranging from SMEs to some of the world's largest Domain Investors and offers dedicated naming solutions to Trademark holders. EuroDNS operates from Luxembourg, one of the first countries to recognize that Domain Names are IP and offering one of the best technical, fiscal, political and legal environments for IT companies and service projects. By strongly participating in leading industry forums and major domaining conferences, EuroDNS seeks to promote e-Commerce and wider Internet adoption. www.eurodns.com |
 | LookSmart LookSmart (www.looksmart.com) is a pioneer of the online search advertising industry. Founded in 1997, LookSmart was one of the first consumer-facing sites that provided internet search capabilities for users. Today, LookSmart operates one of the largest independent pay-per-click (PPC ) search advertising networks with over two billion daily search queries. LookSmart maintains direct relationships with thousands of diverse search advertisers, and specializes in connecting these advertisers with high quality traffic sources via its award winning, best-in-class AdCenter platform. LookSmart serves advertisers’ targeted PPC ads on its trusted distribution network, helping its publisher partners to maximize revenue on their traffic. |
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Silver
 | .ME People communicate with their Web friends and attract customers with a cool, new approach - using .ME.
Let .ME be about you too!
1. Combine .ME with your own personal touch (BobParsons.Me, RicardoDeSousa.Me, BlogDoctor.Me). 2. Start networking with people (YouAnd.Me, CSSStyle.Me, ByHand.Me). 3. Express yourself (Amuze.Me, PositiveAttitude.Me, MyOwnRevolution.Me). 4. Stand out from the crowd and reach the pinnacle of creativity with .ME domain: Interact-with .Me, Day Dream With .Me, Network with .Me, Work-with.Me, Have Fun With .Me – You name it, .ME makes it MEmorable! |
|  | Affinity Affinity (affinity.com) is a pay per click advertising network that provides high performance solutions for online publishers and advertisers. Founded in early 2006, Affinity provides customized monetization solutions for different types of publishers including search portals, toolbars, online directories, domain parking, blogs, URL errors, desktop applications and content websites. Our flagship search monetization product delivers over 10bn ad impressions through our network of in-house properties and partner syndication channels to 75,000+ advertisers each month.
Affinity is an independently operated subsidiary of Hostway Corporation (hostway.com). |
|  | Domainmonster.com Domainmonster.com is the fastest growing ICANN accredited registrar in the UK. With 50 percent of its business overseas, Domainmonster trades in Dollars, Euro & Sterling, with offices in London, New York, Paris and Auckland.
A top 3 performer in all major domain launches of the past 2 years, Domainmonster’s growth can be attributed to industry leading customer service, coupled with a committed investment to research, development and infrastructure. More than 30% of Domainmonster’s total base consists of inbound transfers; customers choosing to consolidate their domains with a registrar they can trust.
Read more about Domainmonster, at www.domainmonster.com |
|  | Neustar, Inc Neustar (NYSE: NSR) provides market-leading and innovative services that enable trusted communication across networks, applications, and enterprises around the world. Neustar Domain Name Registry Services operates the global registry for .BIZ and .US; in addition, it provides back-end registry services for .TEL, .TRAVEL and .CO, gateway services to country code top level domains, internationalized domain names (IDNs), and full registry services to new top level domains. Neustar’s registry is connected to more than 250 domain name registrars worldwide. For more information, visit www.neustar.biz and www.neustarregistry.biz. |
|  | Parked Technology Services About Parked.com - www.parked.com Founded in 2006, Parked.com offers domain parking solutions for domain name owners. Parked.com leverages technology for dynamic domain name optimization providing leading edge parked pages that are relevant to what internet users are looking for and ensuring targeted traffic for advertisers. With clients worldwide who combined own 5,000,000 domain names, Parked.com has aggressively become a leader in the domain parking space and was voted best parking company in the 2008 User Choice Awards.
About WhyPark - www.whypark.com WhyPark quickly builds domains to become living websites through its domain development platform. The company's proprietary system provides new and relevant content daily to clients' domain names, obtaining search engine visibility for domains instead of relying strictly on existing traffic. |
|  | Sedo.com With close to one million members around the world trading domains in more than 28 languages, Sedo stands alone as the only global domain marketplace. It may be close to impossible to directly register quality domains anymore, but Sedo’s domain marketplace offers the world’s largest selection of premium domains with more than 14 million names for sale!
Sedo offers our users all the tools needed to buy and sell domains among a community of global users, including professional domain appraisals, brokerage services, targeted marketing, and our popular domain parking program. More than 4.2 million domains use Sedo's parking programs to earn revenue while promoting its sale. |
|  | Skenzo Skenzo is one of the world's leading traffic monetization companies. By revenue, it was the #1 fastest growing domain parking company worldwide for 2006 & 2007. By headcount, with >250 employees, it is currently the #1 largest domain parking company. Skenzo (as part of the Directi Group) has been featured by Deloitte and Touche amongst the Top 500 fastest growing tech cos in Asia for four consecutive years(2005, 2006, 2007 & 2008).
Skenzo provides its clients with expert advice, comprehensive access to the best monetization opportunities, and outstanding execution. Their diverse client base includes some of the world's most successful and influential domain portfolio holders, domain registrars, and online publishers.
Skenzo aims to deliver long-term superior performance by using leading-edge technology, high-quality research, proprietary processes and the best talent in the field of monetization. |
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Bronze
 | Bank of America Bank of America Merrill Lynch is one of the world’s largest financial institutions, serving small and middle market businesses and large corporations with a full range of banking, investing, asset management and other financial products and services. In the New Media / Internet Banking segment, we are the leader in providing growth capital and advisory services to the industry, whether it’s to finance working capital and acquisitions or to advise you on strategic alternatives. For more information, contact Elaine Colegate, Senior Vice President, at (213) 621-7155 or elaine.colegate@baml.com. |
|  | DomainersChoice.com www.domainerschoice.com
DomainersChoice.com, based in Nanjing, China, is a domain name registrar addressing the needs of domainers by offering ccTLD and gTLD registrations at the industry's best prices. Tools for bulk processing of domain operations as well as multilingual support belong to DomainersChoice.com's portfolio.
DomainersChoice.com provides free whois protection service, free DNS and redirection, a state-of-the-art user interface, a free Android application for managing domain portfolios, and a comprehensive collection of freely accessible tools targeted at the needs of domainers, such as a free whois lookup tool with additional traffic information, typo generators, or route tracing to available servers. |
|  | Elephant Traffic Elephant Traffic new company simple Online Platform model working with Domainers get higher payouts with no extra work Advertisers guaranteed cheaper traffic We do the Selling Industries specialize Travel strong in Finance and Retail Monthly Reports easy to use Personal contact No Risk! continue parking ...Yes, this is a non-traditional company description, but that's because we are a non-traditional company. Ask us how we can help you earn non-traditional revenues. www.elephant-traffic.com |
|  | NameJet, LLC NameJet™ is a domain name auction company with an exclusive inventory of expired and deleted domains from top domain name registrars such as Network Solutions, eNom and Bulk Register. Our available inventory is updated on a daily basis and contains hundreds of thousands of domains. NameJet provides solutions for customers who wish to acquire expiring and newly available domains with an easy-to-use website that allows clients to participate in auctions and manage backorder requests. Users can also create saved searches to receive email alerts when matching domains become available on the platform. For more information, visit www.NameJet.com. |
|  | Text-Link-Ads Located in New York City, Text Link Ads is the largest link acquisition network in the SEO industry. We specialize in placing static html links on relevant, authoritative web properties in our network of over 40,000 websites. Over 5,000 clients leverage Text Link Ads to improve their organic search engine rankings as well as increase direct traffic and brand exposure. We currently work with Fortune 500 firms, individual website owners, as well as over 120 search marketing agencies.
Text-Link-Ads is a division of MediaWhiz, a leading online performance marketing agency. |
|  | TrafficMedia TrafficMedia is an Internet media company specializing in rapid property development. Domain owners have been suffering with declining revenues and diminishing property values. Change that trend! Use TrafficMedia's state-of-the-art Vortalizer technology and transform your entire portfolio from parking to portals with very little time and effort. Even if you have the resources to develop a few of your premium properties, you're likely settling for ineffective parking templates for the remainder of your portfolio. By combining intelligent domain name categorization techniques with drag and drop editing, Vortalizer enables effortless development of unique portals that generate superior revenues. To try, visit www.trafficmedia.com. |
|  | Verisign VeriSign is the Internet trust company. As the steward of the .com and .net Top Level Domain Names, VeriSign manages one of the largest, most reliable, and secure networks in the world. The VeriSign Secured Seal is recognized by 86% of Internet users, making it easy for them to know that a Web site is secure and authentic. VeriSign has a superior track record for protecting sensitive information, and its services can increase traffic, conversion, and loyalty for customers. And as more consumer and business applications migrate to the cloud, VeriSign’s deep expertise gives the company unsurpassed ability to deliver reliable and secure transactions for cloud-based services. |
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Other Sponsors
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|  | AdKnowledge, Inc Adknowledge is a performance-based advertising network that utilizes powerful predictive technology to connect advertisers with consumers across multiple channels, including Email, Social, Domains, and Web Content. Founded in 2004, Adknowledge has grown to be the largest independent advertiser marketplace focused on high-quality alternatives to traditional search engine advertising. In the past two years, the company has acquired Super Rewards, MIVA, Cubics, Lookery, Mediarun, and Adonomics. Adknowledge is headquartered in Kansas City, and has domestic offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Ft. Myers, FL., New York, and international offices in Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia. For information, visit www.adknowledge.com. |
|  | AdMarketplace adMarketplace is a premium Pay-Per-Click advertising network that brings the power of Search to Content advertising. adMarketplace's PerformancePricer ad serving technology ensures that 100,000 direct advertisers receive high performing traffic while 300,000 web properties maximize their yield. Our exclusive Ad Tag Cloud, available through pubmarketplace.com, brings the high yield of Search advertising to content publishers. For advertisers, our platform delivers Return on Ad Spend (RoAS) performance metrics that compare favorably with Search. Launched in 2003, adMarketplace was exclusive to eBay until 2007, and is headquartered in Manhattan. For more information, visit us at admarketplace.com |
|  | Casale Media Casale Media is one of the world’s largest online media networks, reaching over 200 million unique visitors worldwide each month and representing more than 4,000 premium online media properties and domain portfolios. Our established relationships with major online advertisers across all vertical market segments allows us to deliver the most effective and relevant advertisements for your inventory and audience, while our sophisticated optimization technology operates in real time on many different levels to ensure that ads are placed in their highest performing locations. This translates into industry leading CPM rates for our domain publishers.
Casale Media has high quality advertisers and advanced proprietary technology that together facilitate publishers’ ability to optimize site performance automatically and maximize the profitability of their inventory without compromising content quality or visitor experience. With Casale Media, domain publishers are free to focus on creating and publishing high quality content, all the while gaining the maximum possible return from their advertising inventory. For more information on how to maximize advertising income with total inventory control, please visit us at http://www.casalemedia.com/Publishers/. |
|  | DomainAdvertising.com DomainAdvertising.com is a pioneer in the domain industry when it comes to unparalleled focus on top-level interest and buy-in from the best advertisers. Through our strong partnerships with top advertisers an advertising aggregators focused on domain traffic, we serve ads across all geographies, verticals and types of ad inventory. Everything we do is tailored to meet the unique requirements of our publishers and advertisers and to maximize their returns. Our success lies in the world-class technology we employ, the stellar industry insight of our specialist teams and intelligent human optimization. |
|  | DomainManagement.net Launching @ Domainfest 2010 Domain Management is a serious alternative to Domain Parking offering a fully managed solution Turning your portfolio into indexed websites that search engines love.
Generating its clients revenue streams from traditional business models, such as cpc pay per sale also to take its service a step further Domain Management will other is client a new service of managed lead generation via deploying virtual telephone numbers that are answered live and live email response therefore increasing the revenue of the portfolio. |
|  | DotAsia DotAsia Organisation (http://www.registry.asia) is a not-for-profit corporation with a mission to promote Internet development and adoption in Asia. The organization oversees the ‘.Asia’ top-level Internet domain name, and is formed as an open consortium of 20 official top-level-domain authorities around the region, including .CN (China), .JP (Japan), .KR (Korea), .IN (India), .NZ (New Zealand), .PH (Philippines), etc., and 5 regional Internet organizations including APNIC, APNG, APCERT, PAN and APTLD. In the past two decades Asia has developed into a global force in the commercial, political and cultural network. The .Asia domain aspires to embrace this dynamism in the Asia Century to become a nucleus, intersection and breeding ground for Internet activity and development in the region. |
|  | The Water School www.WaterSchool.com
The Water School (TWS) is a Canadian incorporated non-profit organization with a mission to provide simple, safe, strategic, and sustainable clean water solutions to the developing world. TWS was founded in 2007 by Bob Dell, a water scientist, and Fraser Edwards, a businessman with decades of experience in partnering with indigenous leaders to implement lasting change. The Water School currently implements solar disinfection through its integrated teaching program of health and hygiene, called Ray of Hope. |
|  | theWHIR Since 2000, The Web Host Industry Review (www.thewhir.com <http://www.thewhir.com> ) has made a name for itself as the foremost authority of the Web host industry providing reliable, insightful and comprehensive news, reviews and resources to the hosting community. TheWHIR Blogs (www.thewhir.com/blogs <http://www.thewhir.com/blogs> ) provides a community of expert industry perspectives. The Web Host Industry Review Magazine (www.thewhir.com/magazine <http://www.thewhir.com/magazine> ) also offers a business-minded, issue-driven perspective of interest to executives and decision-makers. WHIR TV (www.thewhir.com/tv <http://www.thewhir.com/tv> ) offers on demand web hosting video interviews and web hosting video features of the key persons and events of the web hosting industry. WHIR Events (http://www.whirevents.com) brings together like-minded hosting industry professionals and decision-makers in local communities. |
|  | Trellian Trellian's Above.com is an advanced domain parking management solution developed for domain portfolio holders to maximize revenues and increase productivity.
Above provides sophisticated analytics, normalized traffic data and detailed reporting to identify the best performing parking services for each domain in your portfolio.
Easily manage your domain portfolio and multiple parking services in one centralized dashboard for convenient side by side transparent performance comparison.
Award winning, “Best New Monetizing Solution” as voted by domainers, T.R.A.F.F.I.C 2009
Trellian, founded in 1997, is a global leader dedicated to delivering innovative internet solutions and web-based technology services. www.above.com |
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Your DOMAINfest Hosts  | DomainSponsor www.domainsponsor.com
DomainSponsor, a member of the Oversee.net family of companies, is the pioneer and leader in monetizing direct navigation traffic on undeveloped domains, serving domain owners since 2002. It monetizes more than five million third party domain names every month.
With its ongoing investment in cutting-edge landing page optimization technology, DomainSponsor offers a win-win-win scenario for users, advertisers, and domain owners. Users get to the specific content they desire faster. Advertisers get highly motivated, high-converting traffic. And domain owners get maximum monetization |
|  | Moniker & SnapNames www.moniker.com & www.snapnames.com
Moniker®, along with SnapNames.com®, is part of Oversee.net’s Aftermarket and Registrar Division, which offers businesses and individual investors an array of services for domain name registration, acquisition, management, appraisal, brokerage and sales. Moniker, one of the domain name industry’s most respected registrars, introduced the live domain name auction concept and conducts auctions around the world each year. SnapNames operates the largest auction of expired and deleting domain names and gives its customers exclusive first access to the world’s most valuable names every day. For more information, visit www.Moniker.com, www.MonikerBrokerage.com, and www.SnapNames.com. |
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