Tag Archives: conferences

Wed 19th October 2011
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There Must Have Been Two TRAFFIC Conferences This Week Because we Sure Attended A Different One Than Owen - When I woke up this morning I would never have thought I would have to write a post critical of another blogger. Having come off the high of winning the blogger of the year award and accepting on behalf of all domain bloggers recognizing the time, work, commitment and criticism we voluntarily subject ourselves too, the LAST thing I wanted to do, especially today, is call another blogger out. Oh well. So I read Owen Frager’s post this morning about his experience at the TRAFFIC conference entitled ... read more ...
 
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Thanks To All, As TheDomains.com Wins The Best Blog Award At TRAFFIC - Just a quick note to thank all of you our readers; the commentators; and all of you that voted  TheDomains.com as the Best Domain Blog at TRAFFIC yesterday. Both Judi and I are quite touched to receive the honor. Special thanks to the organizers of the TRAFFIC show Rick, Howard and to Barbara and Alina, Ray and Kim without whose very hard work the TRAFFIC show would not be possible. Also a special shout out to Adam Matuzich and Ray Neu, who keep the blog up and running and all of our advertisers ... read more ...
 
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UPDATED: TRAFFIC Auction Nets $240K As .XXX Accounts For $77K - UPDATE:  I was informed by the owner of the domain names that sold “conditionally” at the auction, MovieTheater.com and MovieTheatre.com for $45,000 that he did NOT accept the lower sales price and therefore these domain did NOT sell and have been removed and the sales figures adjusted. The live domain name Auction from the TRAFFIC show just concluded with about $240,000 in sales of which $77K were for .XXX domains. I think the lack of online bidding hurt the overall sales figures. Several of ... read more ...
Wed 28th September 2011
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Domainfest Party Moves To House Of Blues & Early Bird $995 Rate Ends Friday -   DomainSponsor®, the domain traffic monetization division of Oversee.net® and organizer of the critically acclaimed DOMAINfest® series of conferences, has confirmed the venues and themes for the evening networking activities at its 2012 DOMAINfest Global® Conference to be held from January 31 to February 2, 2012 at the luxurious Fairmont Miramar Hotel in Santa Monica, Calif. Tuesday Opening Night Reception and Dinner at Monsoon Restaurant DOMAINfest Global attendees will greet old friends and ... read more ...
Thu 22nd September 2011
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Next Up: NewDomains.Org Conference in Munich Next Week - Tommorow we start heading out to Munich for the NewDomains.org conference. The conference is expecting around 250+ attendees many of which have never attended a conference on the new gTLD program according to the show orgainzers. As you can see from below its a pretty packed confernece with a lot of the top people in the field coming to chat about the new program Dr. Stephen Crocker the new Chariman of ICANN will kick the conference off as the keynote speaker. I will be speaking on a panel on the ... read more ...
Sat 3rd September 2011
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Quick Poll: Which Domains With A Reserve Price of $100K+ Will Sell At The Domainfest/SnapNames Auction? - The Domainfest NY meetup auction ends on September 20th at 3:15pm EST so on this labor day weekend we thought we would put up a poll asking you which domain(s) with a reserve of  100K or more  will sell at the auction. There are 45 domain names with a reserve price of $100K or more, so we are giving you 5 picks but you must make all 5 at one time. Of course you can also vote that  “none will sell” Please vote on the poll on the right and place any comments below for bragging rights Here are ... read more ...
Mon 29th August 2011
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No Online Bidding From Live Domain Auction At The TRAFFIC Conference - The organizers of the TRAFFIC conference just announced there will NOT be any online bidding at the  live domain name auction held at the conference. Of course for many of the first domain TRAFFIC conferences there was no online bidding, but later shows had online bidding through either SnapNames.com or Proxybid. It seems phone and even some sort of text bidding will be allowed, but it certainly will give more incentive to people to attend the conference when online bidding is not available. Moreover ... read more ...
Thu 25th August 2011
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John Perry Barlow of a Electronic Frontier Foundation: “I Don’t Think Domain Names Are Necessary” - John Perry Barlow of the  Electronic Frontier foundation was the keynote speaker at the Dot Nxt show this morning and pretty much blasted the new gTLD program, ICANN and domain names in general. “”I can’t see how expanding the domain space its going to be to the benefit of the internet.” “ICANN is going to be sitting on a billion dollars from application fees, escrow fees, and I don’t see how that is going to anyone much good” “However I understand that the train may have already ... read more ...
Mon 22nd August 2011
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The Domainfest New York Meet Up Auction List Goes Live: End.com, Hot.com, Customs.com Up For Grabs - Tomorrow night is the Domainfest Meetup in New York. Part of the Meetup is a online domain name auction which starts tomorrow and concludes on September 20th at 3:15pm EST. SnapNames.com has just put up the 400 domain names that will be part of the auction. End.com, Hot.com and Customs.com are the domains that caught my eye. The Meetup will be held Tuesday night from 7-10Pm EST at Mad46 Rooftop, its a nice venue with great views of the city. Its $150 to attend and you can sign up here. Here is the ... read more ...
 
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TRAFFIC Chats About Its Live Domain Name Auction & Changing The Game Up - The organizers of the TRAFFIC conference just sent out A notice regarding the live domain auction that will be held at the October Conference. They are definitely trying to change things up including:  “The only domains that we will accept directly are the ones that have a flat fee paid in advance for the listing or prime domains with a $25,000 minimum value…We expect more than 50% of the listings will be paid listings!” “”Every auction should be a contest. That is why we don’t care ... read more ...
Sat 6th August 2011
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.XXX To Be The Diamond Overall Sponsor of TRAFFIC - According to a Press Release out tonight the ICM Registry, the company who is running the .XXX TLD today announced it had signed to be the Diamond Overall Sponsor of T.R.A.F.F.I.C. 2011, to be held at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Fort Lauderdale Beach, Florida from October 16 to October 19, 2011. “The event will be the first opportunity for ICM to unveil its long-term plans for the .xxx TLD to the Domainer community since approval back in March earlier this year. “The event will enable us to promote ... read more ...
Tue 26th July 2011
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GEOPUBLISHERS.COM Announces The 2011 EXPO for The GeoDomain Industry - GeoPublishers.com the new trade association for the geodomain industry will be holding its inaugural Expo in Chicago, from September 30- October 1, 2011. The Expo starts with the President’s reception on Friday September 30th, followed by a day-and-a-half program of keynotes and panels, and a sponsored dinner on Saturday 1 October. The line up of Speakers is impressive. These are the confirmed speakers: Don Jones, President of New Orleans.com Gordon Borrell, CEO of Borrell Associates Sandy Martin, ... read more ...
Sun 24th July 2011
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iBreakfast & Smart TLD To Put On New gTLD Conference In New York On Aug 3rd - The “dot com” era is expanding and will soon be joined with a myriad of possibilities. This is the web’s new lakefront property frontier. Cities, brands, industries, interest groups, even start-up concepts could be your domain. ICANN’s recent ruling to open up the process to apply for and run new domain registries forever will alter the way things are represented online. The implications for SEO and trademark protection are critical, and the opportunities presented to brands, industry associations ... read more ...
Tue 19th July 2011
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Bill Kara Of HallPass Media To Be The KeyNote Speaker At TRAFFIC - Rich Schwartz has just tweeted that Bill Kara will be the keynote speaker at TRAFFIC. Bill Kara (Bill Karamouzis) is someone who should be known to everyone in the domain industry. Bill is head of HallPass Media, Inc.,  and was featured in a DNJournal.com cover story back in 2010 shortly after he purchased CookingGames.com for $350,000 In the DNJournal Story,  Bill said he had spent over $4 million acquiring domain names in the then past two years. In April of this year, Bill’s company HallPass ... read more ...
Wed 8th June 2011
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UPDATED: DomainFest Live Auction Cancelled & Moved To Next Week - I just received notice from someone attending the Live DomainFest auction in Barcelona that the auction for today has been cancelled due to technical issues and rescheduled for next week. We wrote earlier that SnapNames.com the remote bidding system has been down for hours and Moniker.com is also down. While we await some official word I’m told the domain name auction will be held next Wednesday at the same time 10am EST. Unfortunately for me, I will be traveling to Singapore and will miss the ... read more ...
 
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Is SnapNames.com Down For DomainFest? - Is SnapNames.com down for DomainFest? I have been trying to connect to Snapnames.com and the direct link to the auction for the past 15 minutes and now at 10:05 Am which is 5 minutes after the auction was suppose to start from Barcelona the site is not coming up. I’ve been told by at least one other reader that the site has been “down for hours” About an Hour ago SnapNames tweeted:  “We are experiencing some unexpected issues. We are working to fix them as soon as possible” If this continues ... read more ...
Thu 2nd June 2011
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Quick Poll: Which Domain(s) Priced $100K+ Will Sell At DomainFest? - The Live DomainFest auction from Barcelona will be held a week from today, on June 8th at 1PM EST. Pre-bidding is opened on SnapNames.com. There are 18 domain names that have a reserve of $100K or more, so as we usually do we are opening up the poll so you can pick which domains you think will sell from this group. Since there are 18 domains, we are allowing you to pick up to 3 domains you think will sell, but you have to make ALL 3 picks at ONE time. You also can pick the “none will sell”. If ... read more ...
Wed 18th May 2011
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Moniker.com Releases Partial List Of Domains For Live DomainFest Barcelona Domain Auction & Opens Up Pre-Bidding - Moniker.com tonight release a partial list of the domains to be auctioned at DomainFest Barcelona. SnapNames.com has also opened up pre-bidding on the DomainFest Barcelona live domain auction which will be held on June 8th at 1pm EST. I’m sure domains will be added to the list as the auction gets closer but for now there are just a handful of domains. Here are the domains Moniker.com announced tonight: Airports.com AutoRacing.com Bolt.com Data.com Fares.com HorseRacing.com Houses.co.uk Languages.com PreMed.com Renta.com ... read more ...
Wed 23rd February 2011
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.Me To Star At Webfest Along With Founders of About.me and Word Press - The .ME Registry  announced today that Montenegro will host the opening of the 2011 WebFest, Eastern Europe’s largest Internet conference. “Webfest.me runs September 22th-24th in Budva, Montenegro “World recognized speakers and experts from the region and discussions will be conducted about the use of the Internet on global and regional level, the content and business opportunities.” “The annual festival and conference is the region’s effort at raising public awareness about ... read more ...
Sun 13th February 2011
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Hundreds Of News Outlets Are Now Covering The “Playboy Plague” - There are now several hundreds of news outlets that are covering what ABC called the Playboy Plague or what domainers have been calling the domainer flu, that struck at Domainfest Newspapers from the LaTimes to the Toronto Sun,to The New York Post to the Village Voice and even the Wall Street Journal have covered the story. TV stations from ABC to KABC To TMZ have also covered the story. I know there is an  old adage that there is all publicity is good publicity, I think that might be tested by ... read more ...
 
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Lead Story On Good Morning America: “The Playboy Plague” As Barbara and Howard Neu Star - Just watching Good Morning America on ABC  for Sunday morning and the second story lead on this national show (after Egypt) is the sickness out break at the Playboy Mansion party which was part of Domainfest. Referred to by ABC now as the Playboy Plague. In the teaser for the show are the familiar faces of Howard Barbara Neu. If your up and around (its now 8:05 AM EST) check out ABC and you will catch the story I will update this story as the segment actually ads. UPDATED The segment of the outbreak ... read more ...
Mon 24th January 2011
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Quick Poll: Which Domain Priced during $100K Or More Will Sell At Domainfest? - On Feburary 3rd there will be a live domain name auction from the Domainfest show. (Pre-bidding is already opened on Snapnames) In the auction there are 33 domains with a reserve of $100,000 or more. The question we have for you is which one of these domains do you think will sell? You can place your votes in the poll on the right and your comments below Since there are 33 choices we will let you pick three domains on this poll, but to do so you have to make all three selections at the same time. Here ... read more ...
Tue 18th January 2011
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The Entire Schedule of Parties For Domainfest is Released - Domainfest starts just 2 weeks from today in Santa Monica. Oversee just announced the schedule and details of parties for the show: Polynesian Paradise Party.  Tuesday evening’s event will be held in the conference hotel’s Pool Terrace and Miramar Gardens from 6:00-9:00 p.m.  Sponsored by .CO, this party will feature Polynesian music, dancers and cocktails.  There will also be a worst Hawaiian shirt contest. The Golden Era of Hollywood Party at SkyBar. will be held on Wednesday evening’s ... read more ...
Thu 13th January 2011
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DomainFest Auction Pre-bidding is Live: MedicalBilling.com; Smoking.com; Designers.com; Insurancequote.com & More - The DomainFest Global Preliminary Live Auction Catalogs for Premium and Low No Reserve auctions are now available for pre-bidding. Here are some of the domain included in the Premium auction which is already opened for pre-bidding: Footwear.com Girl.com HomeRefinancing.com HouseInsurance.com Kiss.me Love.me MedicalBilling.com HomePrices.com LoanQuotes.com Chili.com Seasons.com Smoking.com Designers.com InsuranceQuote.com TennisCourts.com Here are some of the domains in the low/no reserve auction ... read more ...
 
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Guest Post: Ron Sheridan Heads Up Portland Domainer Meetup - This is a guest post is by Ron Sheridan, who as most of you know was a long time employee of Oversee and now is working on developing and launching  RSS.com: “Back in October I had the good fortune of attending the domain cruise put on myChefPatrick.com (Patrick Rudell).  Patrick did something at the event that for me made the event incredibly valuable:  he asked each person in attendance to come to the front of the room and talk about themselves.  What resulted was an amazing and insightful ... read more ...