Who is Your Favorite Account Manager
I’m going to give out an award honoring your favorite account manager, account executive, or account representative at a domain industry company. Please post your nomination in the comment section below, and I’ll post a poll early next week where you can vote for your favorite, with the winner receiving $500 cash from me. I’ll offer all the details in the post next week with the poll.
The person you nominate can work for a domain registrar, domain monetization company, aftermarket sales company, domain financing company, or other domain industry focused company. The person can not be the owner of the company, but he or she has to be someone with whom you work on a regular basis and who represents the company at events and/or handles accounts of domain investors.
There are a number of great account people that work with domain investors, and I want to honor the best of the best. One nomination per person.
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D.Ray
Yippee! Let’s serve up another round of Ass Kissing!!LOL!
May 16th, 2012 at 2:04 pm
SJ
Brad from GoDaddy.
May 16th, 2012 at 2:24 pm
brian k
Rich Green from buy domains
May 16th, 2012 at 2:25 pm
Morgan Linton
Can I vote for two? Mine would be Brett from Go Daddy and Rich from Buy Domains, they both go above-and-beyond!
May 16th, 2012 at 2:27 pm
Elliot Silver
@ Morgan
One per person, and since Rich from Buy Domains was nominated already, I’ll mark yours as Brett from Godaddy. What is Brett’s last name. I assume SJ is referring to Brad Larson (correct me if I am wrong).
May 16th, 2012 at 2:29 pm
Swanny
Aaron from BuyDomains
May 16th, 2012 at 2:33 pm
Spike
I’ve never had an Account Rep worth mentioning. Most come and go. The ones that stay longer usually end up overloaded and don’t care about you. Can you add an option to vote “None”?
May 16th, 2012 at 2:40 pm
Acro
I’d like to nominate Matt Overman from NameJet.
May 16th, 2012 at 2:41 pm
Brad Mugford
Brad Larson @ GoDaddy
Brad
May 16th, 2012 at 2:46 pm
zappy zapolin
Brian Kleiner from Buy Domains hands down the best!
Peace. Zappy
May 16th, 2012 at 2:58 pm
Charlotte Gilbert
Michael Ward, DirectNIC
May 16th, 2012 at 3:06 pm
Leo
Brad Larson from GoDaddy
May 16th, 2012 at 4:03 pm
Ian
Brad Larson at GoDaddy
May 16th, 2012 at 4:29 pm
BullS
I am voting myself!!!
May 16th, 2012 at 4:37 pm
Josh Bond
Joe Higgins, formerly of Domain Sponsor, now with some other company (forgot which)
May 16th, 2012 at 7:28 pm
Jason Stewart
OK I have to nominate 2:
Pete Davis @ GoDaddy. I have only had to call on him once, and I was VERY impressed. Got a phone call and email follow up within 24hours and inquire resolved.
Cory Lamay at DomainHoldings.Com:
Im a small client to a company like Domain Holdings. But Cory resolved an issue I was having. Hand’s down this company wins for communicating with customers more then any company I have ever dealt with. Cory is a huge win for this DH team and I would recommend them based on communication alone as it is often lacking in the industry.
Jason
May 16th, 2012 at 7:41 pm
Matthew
Brad Larsen from godaddy
May 16th, 2012 at 8:37 pm
Ron
I think I want Brad Larsen to be my godaddy rep now, looks like he is doing many things right, congrats…
May 16th, 2012 at 9:06 pm
Scott
Cory lemay is le man!!
May 16th, 2012 at 9:11 pm
Jared
Bari Mayerson.
May 16th, 2012 at 9:41 pm
Donna Mahony
Andrew Wright from Fabulous.com
May 16th, 2012 at 9:54 pm
Vincent DiAngelus
Brad Larson @ GoDaddy – in case he was not mentioned before.
May 16th, 2012 at 9:54 pm
Elliot Silver
Thanks for all the nominations. Once someone is nominated once, there isn’t a need to nominate them again
All eligible nominees will be added to the poll on Monday for the vote.
May 16th, 2012 at 9:55 pm
Donna Mahony
@Josh Bond Joe Higgins is now with RookMedia.net Great guy and Rook my current parking company.
May 16th, 2012 at 9:57 pm
JNet
Brad L. is certainly a great, knowledgeable rep/account manager at G-Daddy …as well is my highly dependable & sharp rep Russ “Carson” Dailey…. Brad always delivers on my stuff when Russ is unavailable or on vaca’ … Tess “Of the d’Urbervilles” Diaz is really good & conscientous also.
Also miss my ole’ Moniker rep Dapper Don Lyons who parted ways with Moniker on 12/30/11 .. exact same day as Bari M.
Wonder who Mr. Elliot “Ness” Silver’s pick is ???
May 16th, 2012 at 9:58 pm
JP
Currently, Christina Forker @ NameMedia. Definitely excels at her job and deserves promotion/award. If I won I’d split the $500 with her. Messed up IMHO to make $ off someone else’s name without sharing.
May 16th, 2012 at 11:26 pm
Elliot Silver
@ JP
The winning account manager gets $500, not the people doing the nominating.
May 16th, 2012 at 11:27 pm
JP
Thanks for the clarification. I probably read the above too fast. Of course nomination still the same. Why isn’t there a nicest guy award or some sort embassador award at TRAFFIC coz you’d nail it every time.
May 16th, 2012 at 11:32 pm
Arvind Reddy
I nominate : Pete Davis, Executive Accounts Manager, Godaddy.com
May 17th, 2012 at 1:45 am
Susi Mariella
I vote for Brian Kleiner from BuyDomains.com
May 17th, 2012 at 3:39 am
Leon/Sabian
Our vote: Cameron Bell from Fabulous/DarkBlueSea
May 17th, 2012 at 10:03 am
Ted Olson
Molly Riemer – SmartName
May 17th, 2012 at 11:30 am
John Martel
Without a doubt, Pete Davis @ GoDaddy! He’s a great guy, excels at his job and like me is a sports fan from the Boston area.
May 17th, 2012 at 11:36 am
T Pickett
Patrick Calvoni at BuyDomains. No question.
May 17th, 2012 at 11:39 am
Kirsten
Molly Riemer @SmartName/NameMedia – without a doubt!
May 17th, 2012 at 11:43 am
Ron
Don’t some corporations have rules against accepting cash from clients?
May 17th, 2012 at 11:52 am
Elliot Silver
@ Ron
Not sure, but if they do I would be happy to make a contribution to a charity of their choice in their name.
May 17th, 2012 at 12:55 pm
Dan K
Molly Riemer @ SmartNames is our current favorite.
May 17th, 2012 at 12:56 pm
Rich H
Mauli Fry at Thought Convergence is an angel!
May 17th, 2012 at 1:57 pm
CP2
George Eblacker at Godaddy.com. He’s been really helpful when it’s came to strategic domain purchases. His advice has helped me tremendously in the domain name after market space. Thanks, George.
May 17th, 2012 at 2:53 pm
Stratis
Michelle Blair from Sedo is our favorite.
May 17th, 2012 at 2:56 pm
Paul
Michelle Blair @ Sedo
May 17th, 2012 at 3:54 pm
Adam Y
Michelle Blair at Sedo is great
May 17th, 2012 at 4:19 pm
Bill Sweetman
Dave Helgeson at Afternic / BuyDomains rocks the house!
May 17th, 2012 at 4:21 pm
mike B
Michelle Blair at Sedo has helped me so much…. she is my favorite of all.
May 17th, 2012 at 4:39 pm
chris q
Micah Smurthwaite @ 101domain.com
May 17th, 2012 at 5:26 pm
Wayne H
Michelle Blair at sedo is always helpful and quick
May 18th, 2012 at 10:25 am
JNet
Yeah… Andrew Wright at Fabulous is also very good & dependable too
May 18th, 2012 at 10:51 am
Sammy Ashouri
Jacqueline D. with Dynadot.com.
Absolute best account rep. Always goes above and beyond to help if there are any problems and makes me feel extremely comfortable keeping my domains with the company.
Can’t explain how much I appreciate everything she has done for me. Thanks Jacqueline!
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May 18th, 2012 at 2:45 pm
Chris
Caroline – Name.com
May 20th, 2012 at 1:07 am
David Bleaman
Tess Diaz @ Go Daddy
May 20th, 2012 at 11:17 am
Jacek
If its valid worldwide Lucas Himschoot at Instra.com -> real pro, helpful and very nice person
(Instra.com alone also known as EuropeRegistry.com is the greatest rip-off I’ve ever had the misfortune of experiencing. It gives me bad feeling about Australia)
May 20th, 2012 at 2:05 pm
Stu Maloff
Marc Gawith from GoDaddy.com is my nomination! He has been my rep for 7 years or so and I have no complaints, only positive things to say.
May 20th, 2012 at 3:09 pm
zuuie.com
I would like to nominate Michelle Blair at sedo.
May 21st, 2012 at 8:30 am
Vin
I nominate Brian Kleiner at Buy Domains
May 21st, 2012 at 1:41 pm
Elliot Silver
Nominations are done, and voting is now happening: http://www.elliotsblog.com/500-for-the-best-domain-industry-account-manager-9393
May 21st, 2012 at 2:19 pm
Nuno Oliveira
Lots of people with whom I’ve worked with…
I know it’s too late but another two top notch persons are:
Ryan Reely from Godaddy
Glenda May from Moniker
Both have helped me several times in these last year.
May 23rd, 2012 at 3:51 pm
Rick Bartleman
I see that it’s too late but having worked with Jon Grant, Jacob (Nima) NoJoumi, Justin Finkelstein, Mike and Greg Silvius at GoDaddy for many years and knowing them on a personal level, I really feel their names should at least be mentioned.
P.S. I thought I saw a pic of you with Nima in NYC?
May 23rd, 2012 at 4:31 pm
R.
Jared Sherwood from Godaddy and Nick from Webnames
May 24th, 2012 at 12:52 am
David Kumar
Cameron Bell @ fabulous.com
May 24th, 2012 at 10:53 pm
Adish Kuar
I wish to work with TZ
May 25th, 2012 at 4:43 am
DNR
Michelle B from Sedo is always very helpful
May 30th, 2012 at 12:46 pm