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Time to announce our DomainTools binoculars contest winners!!!

Chosen at random by our lovely employees Kirsten, Tim P. and Brian, the winners of the Domain Monitoring Tool contest (aka DomainTools Binoculars giveaway) are:

Batfan, Sara Freixa and WebsiteToSell.com — Congratulations!

To claim your new binoculars, please email monica@domaintools.com.

Thank you to all who participated in our Fun Friday giveaway!

You’ve probably noticed that in our recent conference pictures, little red DomainTools binoculars keep popping up — and for good reason. They’ve been a hit! We started giving these away at a few of the conferences we’ve attended this year, including Domain Rountable, INTA and the SMX Search Marketing Expo. The response from exhibitors and attendees at these conferences has been incredibly entertaining.

The collection of comments we’ve been receiving range from “My kids would LOVE these!” and “You guys have the coolest swag out of all the exhibitors” to “these are so fun – and they actually work?!” and “Is it okay if I take…uhm…two or three?”. Top comment prize goes to an individual at INTA that came back late on the last day of the exhibit and said, “I came back to this hall specifically for these binoculars!”. Surprisingly, we even had inquiries about our binoculars even after our conferences had come and gone!

So, without further adieu, for those who have been asking us how they can get their hands on a pair of DomainTools binoculars…this is your chance!

Here’s how you can enter to win a pair of DomainTools binoculars (so you can monitor your domains and those of our competitors, of course!):

1. Comment on this blog (along with your email address) or on our Facebook page saying “I want those DomainTools binoculars” by Sunday, June 26, 2011.

2. We’ll draw 3 winners at random (the old fashioned way) and we’ll announce the winner on Monday, June 27, 2011.

That’s it! Good luck!

We just wrapped up our with SMX Advanced in Seattle this Tuesday and Wednesday. If you missed the press release about our attendance, be sure to read it. It was our first time at a search marketing conference, and it was interesting to introduce DomainTools to curious attendees who wanted more in-depth details about all of our services. Those conversations were nicely balanced with  stories from others who enthusiastically said, “I use you guys all the time”.  We love attending conferences as a chance to meet members and learn about what people love to use.

Here are a few photos of the conference, also posted on our Facebook page:

One of the highlights of SMX Advanced, like previous conferences, has been the You&A with Matt Cutts. Coined the Alan Greenspan of Google, Matt is their most well-known software engineer. The You&A was a hilarious and very engaging discussion that started out with Danny Sullivan, Editor-in-Chief of Search Engine Land, giving Matt a giant Panda bear along with a panda foot stool. An interesting story surfaced about Larry Page, CEO of Google, and his search for the term “warm mangos”. The Google team who was working on improving search quality needed to understand the logic behind someone searching for the term ‘warm mangos’ – turns out, mangoes warm up when they are packaged in boxes due to the carbon dioxide produced. As the banter about ‘warm mangos’ was being highlighted, it is not a coincidence that WarmMangos.com was registered during that session