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LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aftermarket.com, a division of Thought Convergence™, is pleased to announce the successful completion of its latest auction at the Domain Roundtable conference. With a better than 50% sell-through rate during the live bidding and strong interest throughout the extended auction, Aftermarket.com has solidified its position as a market leader in the domain name secondary market.

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LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Thought Convergence is proud to announce the fifth annual Domain Roundtable conference, set to take place June 14-17, 2009, at the Grand Hyatt Washington in Washington DC. This year’s theme, Reaching Beyond: Shaping our Future Together, looks to assemble key players and decision makers from the domain, financial, legal and Internet technology sectors. Interested parties should visit www.DomainRoundtable.com for the latest registration information.

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LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aftermarket.com, a division of Thought Convergence, has concluded its live and online auction, which took place February 21, 2009 from the Domainer Mardi Gras conference in New Orleans, Louisiana. The auction proved to be a success by moving 78% of the inventory; continuing to build upon the impressive sell-through rates that have become synonymous with Aftermarket.com. The auction house maintained its strategy of offering several domains at no or low reserve, prompting increased interest and participation. The following domains proved that bidding activity increases when appropriately priced:

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Aftermarket.com, a division of Thought Convergence, Inc., has released the final catalog for the auction at Domainer Mardi Gras, available at www.Aftermarket.com/domainer-mardi-gras. The live and online event is set to take place February 21, 2009 at 2:45 PM CST in New Orleans, Louisiana. The catalog is comprised of over 50 premium domain names. Featured domains include:

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LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aftermarket.com, a division of Thought Convergence, Inc., announced today that it has been selected as the premier auction house for Domainer Mardi Gras. The live event is set to take place February 21, 2009 in New Orleans, Louisiana. The domain submission period for the simultaneous online and in-person auction is currently underway at www.Aftermarket.com and will remain open until January 30, 2009.

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LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Aftermarket.com live auction took place November 20, 2008 at T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Down Under, moving an impressive 80% of the domain auction inventory, an increase of 28% over the previous Aftermarket.com auction in New York. This also marks one of the highest sell-thru rates in the industry.

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LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Thought Convergence, Inc.’s Aftermarket.com has released 100 noteworthy domain names to be featured in the simultaneous live and online auction, taking place at T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Down Under, Nov. 20, 2008 at 8:30 AM AEST UTC/GMT +10 hours (Nov. 19, 2008, 2:30 PM PST). Featured domains include Saws.com, BusinessFirms.com, DentalPolicy.com, Broadcasting.com.au and many more high-quality lots. A complete list of domains can be found on the DomainTools blog at blog.domaintools.com.

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There are lots of companies playing one or two angles of the domain name business: sales, monetization, registration, etc. Thought Convergence, however, is making a play to own the entire life of the domain from research to registration all the way through sales. That puts it in a class with another Los Angeles domain icon: Oversee.net.
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LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Thought Convergence announces the designation of Aftermarket.com as the premier auction house for the upcoming T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Down Under conference in Queensland, Australia. This simultaneous in-person and online auction will commence on November 20, 2008, beginning at 8:30 AM AEST UTC/GMT +10 hours (Nov 19, 2008, 2:30 PM PST).

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LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--On Wednesday, September 24, 2008, Thought Convergence will launch its new Aftermarket.com live auction platform at the upcoming T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference in New York. Domainer investors and aficionados can look forward to bidding on a broad selection of high-quality domain names, aggressively priced, ensuring upside potential for buyers and creating liquidity for sellers. Significant investment opportunities present themselves with domain lots including Husband.com & Wife.com, Off.com, Palermo.com, Association.com, TrademarkAttorneys.com & TrademarkLawyers.com, NewYorkApartment.com & NewYorkLoft.com, Eat.net, and many others! Visit www.Aftermarket.com to view a complete list of inventory.

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LOS ANGELES & SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Thought Convergence, the industry-leading provider of domain management, monetization and development tools and technologies for premium domain owners and aggregators of high-quality domain portfolios, announced today that it has completed its acquisition of Name Intelligence, the company behind the highly-acclaimed DomainTools service and the Domain Roundtable conference. The acquisition expands Thought Convergence’s already extensive suite of industry-leading domain tools, services and technologies, and paves the path for management’s vision of a unified Domain Ecosystem.

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Thought Convergence General Manager, Philip Reynolds, is elected to The Internet Commerce Associations Board of Directors.

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Kevin Vo, founder of TrafficZ, talks with Sevan Derderian and Domainer TV at the Voodoo Lounge atop the Rio Resort during the TrafficZ Party at TRAFFIC West 2008 in Las Vegas. Vo talks about TrafficZ 5.0, the TRAFFIC conferences, and where TrafficZ is headed in the months and years to come.

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Thought Convergence co-owners, Kevin Vo and Ammar Kubba, are featured in the November 2007 DN Journal!

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LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--LeaseThis.com, the primary source for domain asset solutions, announced today that it will begin offering for lease 500,000 domains (also known as URLs) managed by the Domain Distribution Network (DDN), a product of Dark Blue Sea Ltd, an Australian-based Internet company specializing in domain names and direct navigation. The addition of the Domain Distribution Networks’ inventory brings LeaseThis.com’s stock to nearly four million domain names, all of which will be available for short- and long-term leasing at a flat rate.

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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NameMedia’s Afternic Domain Listing Service (DLS) and LeaseThis.com today announced a strategic marketing partnership that will expand LeaseThis.com inventory by 700,000 premium domains names.
The partnership will allow LeaseThis.com customers to lease or purchase AfternicDLS premium domains via the LeaseThis.com Web site.
NameMedia owns the largest portfolio of premium domain names in the world and the company’s AfternicDLS sales platform was recently named the industry leader in secondary market domain names by The Domain Name Journal.

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LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--LeaseThis.com, the primary source for domain asset solutions, officially launched globally today, providing advertisers with a new online advertising model that eliminates the ongoing problem of click fraud and makes popular domain names (also known as URLs) widely accessible and affordable to advertisers. By offering advertisers a flat rate to lease a domain name, LeaseThis.com has eliminated the industry issue of click fraud, which is caused by repeatedly clicking on advertising links to purposely drive up the cost for the advertiser in a pay-per-click model.

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