Who Are The Most Influential People In The Domain Industry?

[rudyhernandez]

Hi everyone.
I'm gearing up to write an article on the most prominent, significant, dominant, leading impacting people in the domain industry.

Seems I need to test my findings with the good ol' opinions of my fellow NamePro members.

If you have a couple of minutes, please list a couple of persons (and their company) that you feel are making a prime positive impact in the domain game.

Your answers can't be wrong (it's an opinion after all) and all answers will be respected and collaborated.

Senior members....where you at?

Thanks in advance to everyone!
Rudy
Logistik Labs

 

[gazzip]

I'll start you off with two of my favourites

Rick Schwartz - www.rickschwartz.typepad.com

Frank Schilling - www.sevenmile.com


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[Jeff]

I'll start you off with two, as well (and they just happen to have the same initials)! :lala:

Ron James

Ron Jackson

:gl: :imho:

 

[npcomplete]

I think the most prominent person in Domain History is Jon Postel. who passed away in 1998. The wikipedia article does not do justice to Jon's place in the history of DNS, although it is a good article. Jon was editor of the RFC series, and was basically IANA during his time here on earth.

I think Vint Cerf needs a place on this list near the top too.

These first two helped design the system, so we could sell it!

One more suggestion: From the marketing end, Monte Cahn. He has really helped build the market for high priced domains, and made that market accessible to the general public from both the buying and selling end.

Suggestions for List:
1.) Jon Postel
2.) Vint Cerf
3.) Monte Cahn

Marc

 

[RSK2000]

The other person who was very influential in the development of the web was Tim Berners-Lee.

 

[htmlindex]

Kevin Ham "The man who owns the Internet"

 

[Malaysia]

The other person who was very influential in the development of the web was Tim Berners-Lee.

oh yeah this is the person ..if not for him there wun be a domain industry..

 

[gwkg]

Rick Latona owner of DigiPawn.com

From June:

Rick Latona Lights Up New DNJournal Top 20 With 3 Charted Domains Including 1 at 400K

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The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. Atlanta's Rick Latona went on a spending spree this past week and more than half a million dollars later he is the proud owner of three names that landed on the upper half of our new Top 20 chart and another one that just missed making the Big Board. His top purchase set him back $400,000 and ranks as the 6th biggest sale reported so far in 2006.

 

[Keynes]

Adam Dicker and John Berryhill are both highly influential and at the top of their games.

 

[lzy]

Chris Chena?

 

[smashfactory]

Kevin Ham "The man who owns the Internet"

Al Gore for sure- after all, he created the internet :lol:



sorry, could not resist

 

[rudyhernandez]

Thanks for the input so far!


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[thegenius1]

Craig Nine : IDNforums.com owner , brought alot of new opportunity to people.

 

[skeitel]

me?

- Javier Marti
Author of Choosing profitable domain names 101 - Stay away from "the giant's niches"
and founder of Trendinews.com
http://trendinews.com/?p=89
comments on Frank blog
http://www.sevenmile.com/2007-11/domainers-managing-growth-and-success/#comments
http://www.sevenmile.com/2007-11/traffic-traffic-everywhere-but-nobody-converts/#comments

- Scandi and Gerry, although I don't know if they are still in this forum
They used to be here and posted interesting opinions

- Michael Gilmour
brings a technical, analytical, refreshing look at domain names and parking in his blog
http://www.whizzbangsblog.com/component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,1/

 

[Badger]

Eytan Elbaz
Thunayan Al-Ghanim
Kevin Ham
Frank Schilling
Russell Horowitz

 

[John_Walsh]

Chris Chena?

Yes! of course, i also consider him one of the giant of Domain industry.
http://www.chena.com/index.php

 

[Alex]

Pimp Daddy - because of the advertisment that his company got, and the awareness that domains got because of the commercials.

Sahar

 

[xXDanteXx]

Bob Parsons anyone? :hehe:

 

[Mark]

It really just depends on what portion of the industry you are looking at - Many mentioned above have affected the Industry from different aspects ...

As far as "People/Individuals" goes :

Frank Schilling
Rick Schwartz
Yun Ye of the former Ultimate Search
The discussion around Elequa has always kept Domainers interested
Ron Jackson for his DnJournal

As far as Corporate type Entities :

BuyDomains (NameMedia)

Marchex


As far as Sites go (Not mentioning the obvious forums) - DnJournal (Ron Jackson)


There are just so many it's hard to say - I believe Frank influences many people today through his Blog - But there are many others as well. Rick and Frank both do their best to Wake up the old Guard over Major Businesses and Industries out there IMO -


Good luck with the Article :tu:

 

[sashas]

Danica Patrick.

and lagging way way behind are:

Frank Schilling (He seems to be the kind of guy you would want advertising the domain industry...the domaining poster boy)
Rick Schwartz (for all his work with Traffic)
Ron Jackson (DnJournal is virtually the WSJ of domaining)
Monte Cahn (one hell of a marketing genius)
Sahar (very accessible. The 'common man's domainer')

Even though Kevin Ham might be the richest of the lot, I don't think he's influential. He's hardly in public. The most influential people are generally those that are able to wield the power of the public. I'm sure he's very influential behind the scenes, but for the common domainer, he's hardly someone influential.