Announces awards in the Users' Choice category, Largest Net Gain, Best ICANN Reseller, Best Drop Catcher and Largest Position Jump for a Registrar.

Name Intelligence, today announced that it has identified achievers in various segments of the Internet industry at the 2004 Name Intelligence Awards. The various categories for the awards included: Users' Choice, Largest Net Gain, Best ICANN Reseller, Largest Position Jump, Best Secondary Market, Best Drop Catcher, Most Innovative use of Technology and Best Parking Page Program.

This year's Users' Choice awards were given to domain name registrars GoDaddy, Network Solutions, Tucows, Register.com, eNom, Melbourne IT, Dotster and BulkRegister on the basis of loyal and satisfied customer-base and proven integrity in customer relations, among other key metrics.

The Largest Position Jump award for companies with a net increase of over 100,000 new domains in the previous calendar year and an increase of no less than 200% in overall growth was given to Name.com (410% Increase), Fabulous.com (340% Increase), and Moniker (275% Increase).

For their domain transfer handling process, SnapNames received the distinctive Most Innovative with Domains Award. Westerdal said, "SnapNames domain transfer handling process is revolutionizing how domain transfers are processed in the industry."

Winners of the other categories included:
Largest Net Gain Award - GoDaddy
Best ICANN Reseller - eNom
Best Secondary Market - Afternic and Sedo
Best Drop Catcher - eNom, Pool.com and SnapNames
Best Parking Page Program - Domain Sponsor