I’ve already imported the posts and now need to move them to the correct categories. After that is done, you’ll notice that I will be redirecting the URLs from Domain Editorial over to Domain Name News. *Sniff* Good bye Domain Editorial, I’ll miss you.

Hey wait, maybe I’ll re-use the layout for something else, it’s too nice to throw away, don’t you think?

As Dan Kimball shared with me, one way that this product will be offered is a co-branded solution through parking and domain name registration companies. The platform connects to different registrars, marketplaces and parking providers (eNom, register.com, NetworkSolutions, tucows, EuroDNS, NameCheap, TDNAM, Afternic, Sedo and Domainsponsor) and diplayes the informaiton about your entire portfolio in one location.

I imagine that the registrars and parking companies will try to limit their offerings to their own, especially if they are going to give their product to their customer base for free. However you can often prove that you are the best by enabling your clients to compare.

Another question remains if domainers trust others with their sensitive data. ModernGigabyte has lots of experience in keeping data safe and private and has put a lot of that knowledge into this product, but some domainers might still prefer to handle this data in-house.

I for one think that this is just the first of many new tools that will help domainers manage their portfolios in a more automated fashion, which in turn will allow all of us to spend more time on sustaining and improving our businesses.
Find out more about the new product by visiting the Product Tour - you can also apply to be one of the 100 beta testers.

SANTA MONICA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Demand Media, Inc., the next-generation social media company, today announced its acquisition of ExpertVillage.com, the premier Internet source for professional “how-to” videos filmed and produced by local filmmakers that feature experts on a broad range of topics. The acquisition significantly expands Demand Media’s social media platform with a growing library of diverse video content to be distributed across its network of niche social media web properties and available for users to integrate into their Channelme.tv video sites.

Launched with video in 2006, ExpertVillage is a highly trafficked video portal for how-to information and the largest provider of “made for the Internet” video content. This content was created through ExpertVillage’s proprietary process wherein filmmakers select specific how-to topics and produce videos on that subject matter. The filmmaker engages an expert on the selected topic and produces approximately 15 short how-to videos.

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“We intend on increasing the scale of ExpertVillage’s existing business and expanding into new content areas,” said Demand Media co-founder and CEO, Richard Rosenblatt. “While we have enhanced our media properties through textual, photographic and social media content, we were seeking a video solution that could be integrated into our platform. ExpertVillage’s video solution and its network of filmmakers epitomize our approach to new media and our scale will provide their filmmakers with substantially more topics to develop. We are anxious to begin working together as one company.”

[full Press Release]

Watch the video here.

Over the past few months, we’ve had numerous requests from many of you asking to view the daily lists prior to it being released each day in exchange for paying a premium.  As such, beginning this Monday we will now be offering a Premium Membership for those who have been requesting this “sneak peak”.   As such, I am excited to announce the launch of Daily Domain DropT (www.DailyDomainDrop.com), which effective Sunday evening will replace the Daily Domain Drop list that each of you have been receiving via email over the past several months.

David offers two types of memberships:

Standard Membership

• No monthly fee
• $5 honor payment per registered name
• Lists become available Monday-Friday 8am EST

Premium Membership

• $60/month subscription fee
• $2 honor payment per registered name
• Lists become available at 8pm EST Sunday-Thursday, 12 hours before the become available to standard members.
• Premium members will receive exclusive bonus niche lists
• Premium members have access to an archive of all previous lists and can search those by keywords.

Great looking site Danny & David. I wish you the best of success.

Quoted from the DomainTools Blog:

You may recognize the name, Michael Collins ran Afternic with his brother for a few years (His brother still works there). Well, Michael moved on to run a new business that he had purchased called Speed and Truck World (Speed-Truck.com) but the call of the Domain Industry was too strong to keep him away. He was asked if he would be interested in joining the ICA by Ron Jackson as their new Executive Director. He was not that sure about the job until after he talking with some of the Board Members like Bob Martin and Frank Schilling.

Now that he has the job he said, “I am not able to sell anything I don’t believe in. I feel like I would be making a difference.” For those of you that know Michael, he has a big heart has always treated his partners with a lot of respect. I personally think Michael is an excellent choice for the ICA position.

Congratulations on the new job Michael, I definitely agree with Jay on this being a great choice.

[via DomainTools Blog, Picture from ICANNWiki]