Ron Jackson's the Lowdown starts off with a congratulations to domain industry leaders Dr. Kevin Ham and Dr. Chris Hartnett on their new advanced degrees from Harvard Business School. As Jackson reported back in August, Chris and Kevin were accepted into Harvard's prestigious Advanced Management Program, the highest level executive program offered by the Harvard Business School. They successfully completed the rigorous course and were awarded their degrees on October 24.
Meanwhile, in another positive development for the geodomain industry the owners of Richmond.com (The Whitlock Group) have sold their award winning site to Media General, a communications giant based in the Virginia city. The price was not disclosed but is believed to be well into seven figures.
One final note in today's Lowdown, Fabulous.com has announced the 10 domain names that will be sold in a charity auction to benefit the Internet Commerce Association November 19th during the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Down Under conference that Fabulous will be hosting on Australia's Gold Coast.
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Source: Reprinted with Ron Jackson’s Permission – DomainNews.com on October 21st, 2008 – Posted by Caycee Boyce – Editor