The 2016 domain industry awards were announced today at The Domain Conference in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
These are the 2016 winners:
Analysis:
These awards are run by incompetent outsiders who have no grasp on the domain industry, and sorry to say, the voters are just as clueless: they vote for whoever they've heard of, with no grasp on whether they qualify or should be awarded.
Developer of the Year is the most laughable award every year.
Broker of the year is Dave Evanson? For those of you who are clueless because you only read the sales charts and voted for him based on that, Dave is a terrible broker. The only reason he closes big sales is because they're handed to him on a silver platter by Sedo. Have you ever actually tried contacting Dave? If you're not a famous industry personality, he will not respond to your calls or emails, despite you having (or your clients having) tens-to-hundreds of thousands to invest in domains. He deserves no award.
Domain Company of the Year? Sedo, the company that hasn't evolved, innovated, or done a single impressive thing in ten years. Do you know what they've done in recent years?
I could go on, but out of respect for the other winners, I will stop here.
What a joke.
@Domain Shane, please pursue your idea for how these awards should be run. We must stop this madness.
These are the 2016 winners:
- Developer of the Year: Michael Cyger
- Blogger of the Year: Elliot Silver
- Registry of the Year: .CLUB
- Registrar of the Year: GoDaddy
- Broker of the Year: Dave Evanson, SEDO
- Domain Investor of the Year: Michael Berkens
- Domain Company of the Year: SEDO
- Goodwill Ambassador, 2016: Ron Jackson
- 2016 Hall of Fame Inductees:
- Nat Cohen
- Gary Chernoff
Analysis:
These awards are run by incompetent outsiders who have no grasp on the domain industry, and sorry to say, the voters are just as clueless: they vote for whoever they've heard of, with no grasp on whether they qualify or should be awarded.
Developer of the Year is the most laughable award every year.
- Who won it in previous years? Adam Dicker. The guy who uses out-of-the-box Wordpress templates and articles from other websites to fill in the empty space.
- Who was nominated this year? Elliot Silver, who had to publicly denounce his nomination because he admittedly is not a developer.
- Who wins it this year? Michael Cyger, a guy who doesn't know the first thing about development. Don't get me wrong, Michael Cyger is a brilliant businessman and publisher, but he is not a developer by any means. He will tell you that.
- Who should have won? Michael of NameBio or Paul of NamePros. You know, real *bleeping* developers.
Broker of the year is Dave Evanson? For those of you who are clueless because you only read the sales charts and voted for him based on that, Dave is a terrible broker. The only reason he closes big sales is because they're handed to him on a silver platter by Sedo. Have you ever actually tried contacting Dave? If you're not a famous industry personality, he will not respond to your calls or emails, despite you having (or your clients having) tens-to-hundreds of thousands to invest in domains. He deserves no award.
Domain Company of the Year? Sedo, the company that hasn't evolved, innovated, or done a single impressive thing in ten years. Do you know what they've done in recent years?
- Become more greedy.
- Increase their commission.
- Refuse to fix the millions of bugs that are reported to them.
- Continue to employ incompetent brokers like Dave Evanson.
I could go on, but out of respect for the other winners, I will stop here.
What a joke.
@Domain Shane, please pursue your idea for how these awards should be run. We must stop this madness.
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