By: Raymond Hackney
There is less than 6 hours to register for the Domainers Choice Awards, you need to register by tonight at 12 Midnight, Eastern Time. You cannot participate in the voting if you do not actually register and get your nominations in by tonight.
Once the nominations phase has been completed, we will then turn the list and the top 3 nominees in each category over to Votenet.com and they will prepare the final voting platform. Once all nominations have been received, all registered members will receive notification of open voting via email.
The voting for the winners will begin on May 8th 2014 and run through midnight May 30th 2014.
Winners will be announced on June 28 at a ceremony in Dana Point CA. Details soon!
Any funds received that are above and beyond expenses will go to the DomainersChoiceScholarshipFund.com. Details about this non profit 501c3 organization will be available soon.
I think its a really cool thing that Donna Mahony is doing and she is doing it the right way imo, using an outside third party.
Domaining is still small compared to many industries, many larger fields have award ceremonies and of course in some fields they are a very big deal. I think as any industry grows and wants credibility and recognition for their participants, you need to have a system in place that is set up professionally and Donna has done that with the Domainers Choice Awards.
The Academy Awards of course has Oscar, maybe we need a vote for The Domainers Choice Awards, I won a Donna or a Namey, Webby is taken.
I just signed up Ray and you do deserve an award because if it was not for you 75% of these blogs wouldn’t exist. You probably won’t get enough votes but you deserve this one and you got my vote.
Domain Ambassador Award
This award is to honor an individual or a group that has consistently represented the best of our industry. Through their tireless endeavors, these individuals are recognized by their peers as those who always operate with integrity. These individual(s) promote the domain industry as a natural accompaniment to their own businesses, and recognize that the expanding success of the domain industry benefits the entire community.
I hope you win best blog Raymond, you are the best writer in the business. Kudos.
Thank you Raymond. To Todd and Tom, I agree that Ray is at the top of the heap. What’s difficult for people when nominating, is that there is no way to nominate Ray for his best stuff because it’s not all in one place. Maybe Ray isn’t the only one this happens too so next year we’ll try to take it into consideration when choosing categories.
Thanks for the kind words Todd and Tom.
Good luck with this Donna and I am fine in the blog category, it should be fun and what do you think we call them a “Donna” ?
@Ray…I liked one of your choices, not that one!! That would be just too weird!
Oh I know you are much too modest Donna for that, I volunteer it so you get the recognition you deserve.
Here to present The Namey for best parking provider…