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Dicker is the man behind High Impact Sites, Inc., a company that owns thousands of high-profile domains and operates a number of active websites including DNForum.com, the thriving online community visited daily by hundreds of domain fanatics.
'''Adam Dicker''' is the owner of [[DNForum.com]]. <ref>[http://www.elliotsblog.com/adam-dicker-can-any-one-company-turn-a-domain-into-a-business-1270 Elliot's Blog]</ref> He is also the founder of High Impact Sites Inc. a company that operates a number of active websites, including Penpals.com, Planets.com and Witchcraft.com. <ref>[http://blog.domaintools.com/2007/06/internet-reit-going-public/ Domain Tools Blog]</ref>


Casual surfers who know nothing about this industry still come into regular contact with Dicker’s company when they type in generic names and land on the highly profitable PPC (pay per click) pages he operates. He attracts them with a wide variety of topics through domains like Penpals.com, Planets.com, Witchcraft.com, FirePrevention.com, SM.com, ElvisPresley.com, SpongebobSquarepants.com and Download.net to name just a few.
===Career History===


Career History
* He joined [[GoDaddy]] as VP of Domain Name Aftermarket in 2007<ref>[http://www.conceptualist.com/2007/11/06/godaddy-hires-adam-dicker-domain-heavyweight-dnforum-owner/ Conceptualist.com]</ref> and resigned 2010 <ref>[http://www.namepros.com/industry-news/635208-adam-dicker-out-at-tdnam.html Namepros.com]</ref>


Adam Dicker, former VP of Domain Aftermarket at GoDaddy has left the company according to a post on DNForum, a forum that is owned and operated by Dicker. According to his post he left GoDaddy on good terms and wants to use the gained time in order to focus on other projects. During his 2 year tenure with the company (Adam Dicker joined in July of 2007) he had also enabled the company to become a .CA accredited registrar. The company will continue their operations in Canada and is expecting even more growth in 2010.
* He joined [[iREIT]] in 2006 as an executive vice president and a member of the Board of Advisors <ref>[http://www.domaineditorial.com/2006/08/22/dnforums-adam-dicker-joines-ireits-executive-team/  Domaineditorial.com]</ref>
 
* He Bought DNForum.com from [[Greg Ricks]] in the spring of 2003 <ref>[http://www.dnjournal.com/columns/cover030605.htm DNJournal.com]</ref>
 
* Dicker was the Network Services Manager for Quantitude, a Cendant-owned company before he started working in the domain name industry <ref>[http://blog.domaintools.com/2007/06/internet-reit-going-public/ Domaintools.com]</ref>
 
== References ==
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Latest revision as of 19:30, 17 May 2021

Affiliation: DNforum
Country: Canada
Website:

   http://www.dnforum.com/

Facebook:    Adam Dicker
LinkedIn:    Adam Dicker
Twitter:    @adamdicker

Adam Dicker is the owner of DNForum.com. [1] He is also the founder of High Impact Sites Inc. a company that operates a number of active websites, including Penpals.com, Planets.com and Witchcraft.com. [2]

Career History

  • He joined GoDaddy as VP of Domain Name Aftermarket in 2007[3] and resigned 2010 [4]
  • He joined iREIT in 2006 as an executive vice president and a member of the Board of Advisors [5]
  • Dicker was the Network Services Manager for Quantitude, a Cendant-owned company before he started working in the domain name industry [7]

References