Tag Archives: conferences

Mon 16th September 2013
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“First Glance” TRAFFIC Auction List Revealed - The organizers of the T.R.A.F.F.I.C conference, which will be held in just about one month at the Ritz Carlton in Ft. Lauderdale from October 20-23, just released its “First Glance List” for the domains that will be going up on auction during T.R.A.F.F.I.C. According to the organizers the entire list will be out next week. Also, some of these domain name will wind up being in the “Silent” auction not the live auction. Auction is scheduled for Monday October 21, 2013 Under $90k Reserve: Postal.com GoldWanted.com ... read more ...
Tue 6th August 2013
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The T.R.A.F.F.I.C Conference Moves To The Fountainbleu Hotel in Miami Beach Starting In 2014 - The orgainzer of the T.R.A.F.F.I.C conference announced this morning that beginning in “2014 and beyond, we will have outgrown the current venue as you will see in October. So we decided to move T.R.A.F.F.I.C. a little south in 2014 to the WORLD FAMOUS Fountainbleu Hotel in Miami Beach“. “So with the Fountainbleu in the East and The Bellagio in the West, T.R.A.F.F.I.C. is setting the stage for great expansion that is coming to the Domain Industry. We simply provide a common intersection, a ... read more ...
Sat 3rd August 2013
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2013 TRAFFIC Award Nominees Announced - In an email tonight from the organizers of the TRAFFIC conference annouunced  the nominees for the 2013 TRAFFIC Awards. Congrats to all Nominees!!! “Below are YOUR nominees for the 10th Annual 2013 T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Awards.” “Official voting ballots will be mailed to you later this month and awards will be presented on Tuesday October 22nd at the Ritz Carlton in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.” “Congratulations and good luck to all nominees!!”   BEST NEW MONETIZING SOLUTION Nominees are: InternetTraffic.com/DomainNameSales.com YTZ ... read more ...
Wed 31st July 2013
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T.R.A.F.F.I.C. AWARD Nominations for 2013 Are Open & Close On Friday - The organizers of the TRAFFIC conference announced this morning that nominations for the 2013  T.R.A.F.F.I.C. AWARDS are now open. Nominations will remain open until Friday. August 2nd at 6 P.M. EDT. All those that are eligible to vote should have received an email this morning containing the ballot and some new rules: “We have added a few new guidelines this year to maintain the integrity of the voting process as the last 2 years were record breakers for voting.” “1. Nominations must be made ... read more ...
Wed 19th June 2013
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NewDomains Conference Is Back In Oct In Munich & CEO OF ICANN Is Keynote - The NewDomains.org conference is coming back to Munich on October 27th-29th and the CEO of ICANN Fadi Chehadé is going to be the headline speaker. The program focuses on three tracks: Legal, Marketing and Registries/Registrars for the new gTLD program. The conference is being put on once again by United-domains AG. I attended the last conference which was in 2011 and it was a very well run conference, with great networking events. The draft agenda is already published here Registration is already ... read more ...
Mon 22nd April 2013
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TRAFFIC Changing Venues In Florida & Returns To Vegas in 2014 - The organizers of the TRAFFIC Conference sent out an email today saying that it would be changing its Venue in Florida in 2014 2015. Also TRAFFIC will be returning to Las Vegas in 2014 as well: “”In some other news, we have now signed contracts thru 2015 in Florida at a new venue starting in 2014 and also in Las Vegas at the Bellagio thru 2014.” TRAFFIC has been held at the past two years and will be held in 2013 at the Ritz Carlton Fort Lauderdale Beach. TRAFFIC has been held in Miami and ... read more ...
Wed 13th March 2013
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TRAFFIC Vegas Opens Up Auction Submissions & Eliminates Paid Submissions -             According to a press release we received today  T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference is taking submissions for the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. auction in Las Vegas which will be held May 29th- June 1st at the Bellagio Hotel. The submission period opens today and will be “ending next Wednesday” which is March 20th 2013,  (or sooner). “We had an exciting auction last year but this year we are going to ratchet it up a bit.” say Rich Schwartz. According to the announcement the auction will not accept ... read more ...
 
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Braden Pollock/Morgan Linton Headline LeadsCon Las Vegas 2013 - It looks like some familar faces will be headlining the LeadsCon conference in Las Vegas which is being held March 19-20, 2013 at The Mirage Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. According to a press release I received from Jay Weintraub of  NextCustomer, Inc. the Creators and Producers of LeadsCon LoCo SummitWebFest Global at least a couple of sessions will feature some star domainers and chatting about using domain names to create leads “LeadsCon Las Vegas 2013 will mark “its sixth year of showcasing ... read more ...
Tue 5th February 2013
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Inc.com On Value of Killer Domain: Purchased For $12K Turned Into $19 Million Yr Business - Inc.com just published the story of Jesse Stein who bought the domain SportsMemorabilia.com for just $12,500 and turned it into a $19.5 million retail business. Its a domainers dream story. SportsMemorabilia.com was purchased by Mr.  Stein in 2006, for $12,500 from Moniker.com in March 2006 At the time it was a parked domain and in “just six years Stein turned it into a recognized retail brand with more than 450,000 products from across 13 sports–taking in $19.5 million in 2012 and earning a ... read more ...
Mon 4th February 2013
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Moniker/SnapNames.com To Auction Off “Premium .Dm” Domains At Webfest - Although the WebFest conference got underway today, there is a late addition to the live and extended auction. Today Moniker.com/SnapNames announced that it will be conducting an auction of premium .dm domains as part of the live auction conducted from the Webfest Global Conference being held in Santa Monica, CA on Wednesday, February 6, 2013, starting at 4:00 pm Pacific Time. The domain names are owned by the The DotDM Corporation, the official administrator for .dm the top-level domain (TLD) of ... read more ...
Fri 1st February 2013
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Are The .Net Costumes Domains At Webfest The Best In The Auction? Here’s The Numbers - When we published our poll a few days ago asking what domain name at Webfest, with a reserve price of $100K or more would sell, we notice 3 of the domain names were .Net’s; Halloweencostumes.net, Costumes.net and Costumes.net. We reached out to Moniker.com to get more information on these domain and asked why they were priced into the six figures. The short answer is each of the domains make quite a bit of money. Here are the details:Halloweencostumes.net Includes Rev producing website, that averages ... read more ...
Wed 30th January 2013
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WaterSchool’s Water Night Is A Can’t Miss Event At Webfest - WaterNight, A great fundraising event to benefit the WaterSchool.com, is being held in Santa Monica during Webfest Already on the guest list are new Registries like Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry, Donuts, to some of the top companies in the domaining crowd; NameJet, Thought Convergence, NameDrive, Parking Crew, InternetX, the girls from DomainAdvisors, and DomainTools, even the new CEO of ICANN, Fadi Chehadé, will be there around 11pm for what I believe is his first official  “Meet Greet”. The ... read more ...
Tue 29th January 2013
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Final Webfest Auction List Released - The final list of the domain names to be auctioned off as part of the Webfest conference was been released by Moniker.com/SnapNames.com The live domain auction will be held on, Wednesday February 6 at 4:00pm Pacific Time. Prebidding is now live on SnapNames.com, where there is already some $35,000 in prebids. There are .com’s., .net’s, .Me and .Ca domains up for sale. The domain with the highest reserve range is Bali.com which is a huge tourist destination which has a reserve price of $750,000-$1M Here ... read more ...
Thu 24th January 2013
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Oversee Should Have Secured The Domain Webfest.com Before Changing The Name Of Its Conference - When Oversee.net announced a few months ago it was changing its name from Domainfest to Webfest you would have thought they would have at least secured the right to use the domain Webfest.com Afterall, Oversee.net is in the domain business and even though they have switched gears by broadening the old Domainfest into Webfest it doesn’t change the fact that Oversee is a major player in the domain business and that most of their revenue was and is still generated in the domain business Although the ... read more ...
 
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What? Kim Kardashian Is The KeyNote Speaker for Webfest Global - Kim Kardashian has been named as the KeyNote Speaker for Webfest Global. I know, read it again. Yes I have the same look on my face when I got the email from Oversee.net this evening. “‘As you know, Kim is a highly successful entrepreneur. ” Oversee wrote “We are looking forward to her sharing insights and perspective related to how she has leveraged her brand to build many successful businesses, including ShoeDazzle.com, and to help many charities, like the Dream Foundation.  In addition, ... read more ...
Wed 5th December 2012
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Registration For Domaining Spain 2013 Is Now Opened: Here’s How You Can Save 50% Off The Registration Fee - The 2nd Domaining Spain conference is going to be held from April 25-27, 2013 in Valencia, Spain and follows on the heels of what was a very well received initial conference held earlier this year. The conference will be centered around ccTLD and the New gTLD The confernce will be held at the Sorolla Palace Hotel with rooms starting at a extremely reasonable 70 euro’s per night (about $85) The cost of the conference which includes all sessions plus food and drinks is 600 Euros. The first 10 readers ... read more ...
Mon 3rd December 2012
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Leading Integrated Brand Agency Digitas reliable to pronounce during Digital Marketing & gTLD Strategy Congress - According to a press release we just received, “The Digital Marketing gTLD Strategy Congress today announced Carl Fremont, Executive Vice President, Global Media Director, Digitas will address an audience of brand managers and domain industry insiders on March 11, 2013 at the Dream Downtown Hotel in New York City”. TheDomains.com is one of the sponsors of the conference and I will be attending it on behalf of the blog and Monte Cahn will be representing RightoftheDot.com. “Carl oversees all ... read more ...
Mon 22nd October 2012
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After TRAFFIC & ICANN Conference Our Winner For Best Swag Award Goes To: Rook Media - After attending both the TRAFFIC conference and the ICANN conference and grabbing all the free giveaways or Swag I could find (all in the interest of research) we are ready to award our Best Swag Award to:  RookMedia.Net At TRAFFIC all those who stayed at the conference hotel got an envelope slipped under their door with a very crisp $10 bill. The accompanying letter read in part: “Instead of buying you yet another branded USB-Stick, we decided to give you something you can actually use. So here’s ... read more ...
Thu 18th October 2012
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DOMAINfest Becomes Webfest Global, Opens Registration, Publishes Tenative Agenda & Yes There Will Be A Domain Auction - According to a press release out this morning  Oversee.net has changed the name of its conference from DOMAINfest To Webfest Global and opened registration for the conference that will be held February 5-7, 2013 at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel in Santa Monica, California. As last year the agenda shows the conference will not just be all about domain names. The three-day Webfest Global 2013 conference will cover a variety of topics related to domain name investing, acquiring and converting online customers, ... read more ...
Wed 23rd May 2012
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Breaking: Dot-Nxt Conference Postponed - The Dot-Nxt conference organizers have just announced that it is postponing is conference, that was schedule for June 20th-22nd in London until the 3rd or 4th. The conference was suppose to be held the week prior to the ICANN Conference in Prague. The delay was blamed on ICANN and delay on the TAS system and the date for the “Big Reveal” which still has not been set by ICANN. In an email today Kieren McCarthy said about the postponement of the conference: “The reason is quite simple: the TAS ... read more ...
Fri 18th May 2012
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Catching Up With NameJet.com Sales: DomainLoan.com; StyleMaker.com; 3dWorld.com + More - Here are some sales from NameJet.com from this past week: DomainLoan.com $8,200 StyleMaker.com $6,756 AdultWebsites.com $4,655 RainDance.com $4,402 3dWorld.com $4,311 Ktec.com $4,200 DraftingTable.com $3,800 foreclosedrealestate.com $3,800 7833.com $3,600 LandscapeCompany.com $3,121 washingtongolf.com $2,988 BeachLiving.com $2,300 PCNN.com $1,710 ThePosse.com $1,211 ideaology.com $1,112 iRow.com $1,010 Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Fri 3rd February 2012
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Domainfest Global Domain Name Auction Nets $717,000 - The live domain name auction from Domainfest Global just ended resulting in $717,450 in sales. QR.com led the way selling for $325,000. Empire.com sold for $135,000 and another two letter .com QE.com sold for $85,00 Marriages.com sold before the auction started for $36,000 Catfood.com sold for $62,000 after selling just a little more than 2 years ago at the TRAFFIC auction in Las Vegas in January 2010 for $41K, a 50% return. Here are all the domain names that sold:   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Mon 30th January 2012
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The Only Thing Missing From Domainfest Speakers & Experts are Domainers - With Domainfest getting ready to kick off tonight, the agenda is full of very interesting people and sessions, the only thing missing seems to be any “domainers”. In years past both Domainfest and TRAFFIC had a heavy concentration of panels full of domainers as well as others in the domain industry. As I reviewed the agenda for Domainfest I actually don’t see one “domainer” on the schedule. There are SEO experts, mobile search experts, representatives of companies inside the industry like ... read more ...
Fri 13th January 2012
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TRAFFIC Opens For Registration & 1st 35 People Get $995 Rate - Just got a email from Rick Schwartz one of the organizers of the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference announcing that he has opened registration for the show for $995 for the 1st 35 people that register. It is the domain name show I have regularly attended since its inception and I already bought one of the 35 discounted tickets. Here is the entire announcement:   “”””T.R.A.F.F.I.C. 2012 is coming in October!  If you presently don’t plan to attend, give me 5 minutes to possibly change your mind ... read more ...
Thu 5th January 2012
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Pre-Bidding For DomainFest Auction Is Underway: Marriages.com; Host.com; Juice.com; Security.com & More - Online pre-bidding for the live domain name auction that will be held as part of the DomainFest conference just opened today. The auction will be held on February 2 starting at 4:30 pm Pacific Time. “Featured” domain names include: Work.com QR.com Security.com Host.com Emails.com Promo.com QE.com Unplugged.com Planners.com Juice.com Eve.com Eco.org Platinum.com Empire.com Marriages.com CivilUnion.com Here are the domain names you can currently bid on and the reserve ranges for each. Obviously ... read more ...