Tag Archives: cloud.com

Tue 12th July 2011
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Branding Lesson: Cloud.com Was Much Better Than VMOps - Domain name boosted VMops in the hot cloud market. “Citrix Buys Cloud.com for more than $200 million” That sounds much better than what the headline could have been: “Citrix Buys VMOps” Cloud.com started its life as VMops. But when Meetup.com’s founder put Cloud.com up for auction, VMOps took notice. In February 2010 the company acquired the domain name on the heels of a $17 million funding round. I caught up with Cloud.com VP of Business Development ... read more ...
Fri 23rd July 2010
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Cloud.com Floats Higher with Good Domain Name - Cloud computing company gets more marketing punch with good domain name. Cloud.com VP of Business Development Shannon Williams admits that he wasn’t a huge believer in the power of a generic domain name for marketing. But when the opportunity for his company to purchase Cloud.com was discussed internally, he finally came around. Now he is a believer. I caught up with Williams during HostingCon this week in Austin. He explained some of the benefits of having the ... read more ...
Tue 24th March 2009
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Meetup.com Founder Puts Cloud.com on a Block - Popular internet site’s founder to auction off Cloud.com. SYS-CON Events, promotor of this month’s Cloud Computing Expo in New York, has announced that the domain name Cloud.com will be auctioned off during the conference. Cloud.com is owned by Meetup.com co-founder Scott Heiferman. I attempted to contact Heiferman but the phone number in whois is not a working number. The e-mail address for the contact is on the Heiferman.com domain name. In a 2007 post on ... read more ...