Tag Archives: conferences

Sun 1st November 2009
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The TRAFFIC NY Show Where Dreams Came True - On a personal note, I want to thank everyone in the domainer community for honoring me with the Domainer of the Year and the Domain Hall of Fame Awards. I’m quite humbled by your support and greatly appreciate the honor.  I was actually shocked to win, so surprised that I could barely put two words together, but at least I got to thank my Wife Judi who has been by my side for 22 years, and Adam Matuzich who has been on my other side for 8 years. My induction to the Domain Hall of Fame was made ... read more ...
Mon 26th October 2009
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Injury KO’s Monte Cahn From TRAFFIC Auction - As the TRAFFIC show sets to open tonight in New York there will be a very familiar face missing. Monte Cahn, for most the face of Moniker.com is sidelined rehabbing a very serious injury to his Achilles tendon which he has been struggling with for several months. Monte is certainly going to be missed and personally its hard for me to imagine a Moniker auction without him. Victor Pitts from Moniker will be stepping in for Monte. We of course wish Monte a fully recovery as he has a long, painful road ... read more ...
 
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Well I’m Sure Going Be Busy The Next Couple Of Days - Off to TRAFFIC in NY this morning and looking at the schedule I”ll sure be busy. I’m on 2 panels, one each day. Tuesday at 10:30 I’ll be joining several other domain investors who will pitch their ideas looking for funding in TRAFFIC version of the Shark Tank called TRAFFIC Test Track On Wednesday at 1pm, I will be joining some fellow bloggers including Ron Jackson, Elliot, Owen and The domain king himself, talking about, well frankly I have no idea, but I’m looking forward to it. Add in ... read more ...
Wed 21st October 2009
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One & Two Letter .Biz Domains Added To Live Moniker TRAFFIC Auction - Moniker.com announced today that it will be auction off one and two letter .biz at the Moniker.com Live TRAFFIC Auction next week. The live auction takes place on Wednesday, October 28, from 4:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. U.S. Eastern time  at the New York Marriott Brooklyn Bridge Hotel in Brooklyn, N.Y.   Remote online  bidding is available at snapnames.com The extended online auction will be held from Thursday, October 29 through Wednesday, November 4. .BIZ names in the Moniker live auction include: •   ... read more ...
Tue 13th October 2009
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Moniker Releases Teaser List For Live TRAFFIC NY Auction - Today Moniker.com released the list of some of the best domains it will be selling at its auction to be held at the  TRAFFIC New York show on Wednesday October 28th at 4pm EST. Remote bidding will be available on Snapnames.com. This list is not the full list of live domains, which are expected to be around 200 domains, but just a sampling of some of the domains schduled to be auctioned and is subject to change. No pricing information was released for the teasers. There are certainly some great domains ... read more ...
Wed 23rd September 2009
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CEO Of Zappos.com Is Keynote Speaker At DomainFest - Oversee.net announced today that the CEO and of Zappos.com, Tony Hsieh, will be the keynote speaker at DomainFest being held on January 26-28, 2010, in Santa Monica, California. Zappos.com was founded in 2000 and has grown to a $1 billion-a-year online retailer. The company was recognized by Fast Company magazine as one of the world’s 50 most innovative companies. Hsieh and his team recently sold Zappos to Amazon.com for more than $850 million. (However, since this was a largely all stock transaction, ... read more ...
Wed 26th August 2009
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Registration for MeetDomainers 2009 in Poland is now open! Partial Auction List Announced - The Second annual “MeetDomainers” show, a “Truly European Meeting of Domain Investors”, will be held at Warsaw Marriott Hotel, September 25-27. MeetDomainers is an international meeting of people who love to do business and love domain names. It is dedicated to entrepreneurs and domain investors who want to share their knowledge and experience with each other. English-Polish Polish-English simultaneous translation will be provided at the Meeting. “This meeting will be a great networking ... read more ...
Tue 25th August 2009
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TRAFFIC Show Coming To Vegas In January, The Weekend Before DomainFest: You Like? - The TRAFFIC show organizers just announced that TRAFFIC Las Vegas will be held at the Hard Rock Hotel on January 21 through 23. According to the organizers: “The show will feature as many as seven full meals, three cocktail parties, great seminars, big name speakers, and the best night-time parties.” What this means is that TRAFFIC Vegas will be held in Vegas, the weekend before DomainFest.com. (DomainFest starts on the following Tuesday) Personally I like this move and plan on attending both ... read more ...
 
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DomainFest Early Bird Registration Opens; Schedule Announced - DomainSponsor, the domain monetization business of Oversee.net and organizer of DOMAINfest,  opened early bird registration today and published a preliminary agenda for DOMAINfest Global 2010 which will be held at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel in Santa Monica, Calif. from January 26-28, 2010. The entire property has been reserved exclusively for this conference. Registration, which includes all sessions, meals and official parties, is offered at an early bird discounted rate of $895 through September ... read more ...
Thu 20th August 2009
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Former TRAFFIC Keynote Speaker Corcoran, Lands Right In The “Shark Tank” - In case you haven’t seen it, ABC new reality show the Shark Tank, has a domain connection. The show allowed people who own a business, or a product, pitch it to 5 very successful and wealthy businessmen, call the Sharks,  and attempt to sell a piece of the business product or idea, for cold hard cash. The cool part of the show is that the 5 sharks actually invest their own money into the ventures or products. One of the five sharks on the show is Barbara Corcoran,  who started The Corcoran Group, ... read more ...
Mon 17th August 2009
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TRAFFIC Award Nominations Are Opened: Here Are Our Picks - The TRAFFIC show organizers announced this morning that nominations are opened for its annual awards: Here is the official announcement: “””It’s that time of the year!  Time to sharpen your pens, so to speak, and give us your nominations for the Sixth Annual T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Awards to be presented at T.R.A.F.F.I.C. NEW YORK 2009!  The oldest and most coveted awards in the Domain Industry. We have added a new category this year – Best Domain News Blog (but don’t nominate RicksBlog.com ... read more ...
Wed 17th June 2009
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Fall Out From TRAFFIC Announcement: Moniker.com is Out: Will There Be A Trade Show War? - Well after the announcements yesterday coming out of the TRAFFIC show organizers and Rick Latona, that Rick Latona will be a partner of the TRAFFIC conference in 2010 and beyond, that means 1 thing for sure. Moniker.com is out. TRAFFIC New York, which will be held in October, will be the last TRAFFIC show in which Moniker.com will run a Live Auction (they still will be the premier auction for the NY show). Moniker.com, one of the many companies owned by Oversee.net already hosts its own show, Domainfest.com, ... read more ...
Fri 12th June 2009
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Here It Is: AfterMarket’s Live Auction List For DomainRoundtable Show - The Aftermarket Auction list was just released for the DomainRoundtable to be held in Washington DC next week. The auction will be held on Tuesday June 16th at 4pm EST. Our Favorite name after a quick look is a Geo domain, NewRochelle.com at $32K, but some other very good domains are on the list. As usually for Aftermarket.com, bidding is now opened and remote bidding will be available before and during the live auction There are only 71 domains on the list, which should make for a fast paced auction Here ... read more ...
Thu 7th May 2009
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Moniker Silent Auction Nets $460K - The Moniker.com silent auction from the TRAFFIC show just closed on SnapNames.com and auction netting $460K in sales with 201 domains sold. Here is a complete list of the domain that sold at the silent auction, combined with the Live Moniker.com auction the Moniker team did a very respectable $2.6M in sales for the TRAFFIC show. diego.com $58,830.00 dvdshrink.com $43,180.00 casco.com $23,530.00 oxygentanks.com $21,000.00 greatfalls.com ... read more ...
Thu 30th April 2009
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Moniker Live TRAFFIC Auction Nets $2.1 Million - The Live Moniker TRAFFIC auction just concluded with a total of $2.1 Million dollars in sales. The domain Ad.com, lead the pack selling for $1.4 Million,  after having a reserve range of just $250K-$500K. It appears the domain was purchased by Directi. The next highest priced domain sale was bottledwater.com, for $45K, Athletic.com came in at $40K, and then Vixen.com at $32K. In all 90 domains sold, or  just under 50%,  a great sell through rate, in a bad economy. As I have said all along there ... read more ...
Tue 28th April 2009
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Rick Latona Live TRAFFIC Auction Nets $375K - The Rick Latona Live Auction from the TRAFFIC show just finished and grossed about $375K in sales. No big surprises on domains that sold. Shows.com which we predicted $125K for, sold for $102K making it the highest priced sale. SmartPhones.com sold for $95K. The combo of Mortuary.com and Mortuaries.com which we predicted would sell did for the reserve of $25K. FLR.com which was first thought to have sold at $16K, sounded like it did not in fact sell, as it was bought back at the end without a buyer. Several ... read more ...
Mon 27th April 2009
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Our Picks, Pans and Predictions For The Rick Latona TRAFFIC Auction & Why SmartPhones.com Is NOT “The Deal Of The Century” - Tomorrow Tuesday April 28, Rick Latona will be holding his live domain auction, from the TRAFFIC show in California at 3:30 PST, 6:30 EST. Remote bidding will be allowed for those not in attendance. So it’s time for our picks, pans, and predictions for the auction. So with all our stats and figures we find that these are the best buys from the auction: Shows.com at no reserve.  A great one word domain with an Estibot Appraisal of $190K. Our prediction is that this domain will sell for between ... read more ...
Thu 5th March 2009
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Deadline For TRAFFIC Domain Auction Submission Deadline Set: Mar 27th - Moniker.com announced today that submission for the live domain auction to be held at TRAFFIC Santa Clara will close on March 27th. Also Moniker.com limited submissions to 250 domains per submitter. Important: No typos, trademarks, hyphenated or crude adult names will be accepted for the TRAFFIC Santa Clara Auction. Moniker also urged submitters to keep the reserve prices down if you hope to make it to the live auction: “””Reserve pricing is the ultimate factor in leading to a successful auction.  ... read more ...
Thu 19th February 2009
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AfterMarket.com Auction: Our Picks & Analysis - Aftermarket.com will hold a live domain auction from the  Domainer Mardi Gras show, in New Orleans on Saturday February 21st at 3:45pm EST, 12:45 PST. Remote bidding will be available for those not in attendance. According to my records, storagefacility.com sold for $18,000 at TRAFFIC West in 2008.  I don’t know if the domain sale closed and if its the new owner or original owner selling it, but in either event, its a domain which is priced 20% of what is sold for less than a year ago, making ... read more ...
Fri 6th February 2009
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DomainFest Silent Auction Nets $481,000 - The silent/extended auction from DomainFest, which was held by Moniker.com today through SnapNames.com closed today with almost $481,000 in sales. In all, 222 domains sold with blooms.com and resorthotels.com tied for the top spot at $58,830 each. Here is the full list of all the domains that sold through the auction: Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Sun 1st February 2009
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Domaining 2.0? Best Show Ever?, we Don’t Think So: Final Thoughts And Observations From DomainFest - DomainFest’s theme was domaining 2.0, where does the industry go from here. I was honored to speak about the topic.  Since the session was a sit down chat, answering questions from a moderator and the audience, I didn’t prepare remarks.  Instead I spent a lot of time reflecting on the domain business, where its been and where its going.  Unfortunately the session was only a hour and after the moderator’s opening remarks. less than 50 minutes remained. So let me take the time to deal with ... read more ...
Sat 31st January 2009
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Wow We Actually Bought Domains At DomainFest: Our Take, Our Suggestions & How About That “Other” Auction - Having had a good nights sleep, after much drinking and partying at the Mansion, enjoying a wonderful lunch at the Ivy restaurant on an absolutely beautiful day here in LA,  after reading your comments to my post on the Live auction results, and many other blogs, I’m ready to share my thoughts on yesterday auction. I was pretty active in the auctions,  selling 1 name in the live, 1 in the silent and buying 2 names in the silent and 5 in the live, so my perspective is both as an observer and as ... read more ...
Tue 27th January 2009
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Off To DomainFest - Well like many of you i’m at DomainFest for the week. If your coming to the show, safe travels. One word of warning, as I got here yesterday, baby its cold outside, at night. You can catch me speaking at 9:45 Wednesday morning,  at a session called: I also will be part of a bloggers group in the exhibit hall, from 5-6:30 with some great guys: Corner #4: Industry Bloggers’ View of How Our Industry is Evolving Experts: Mike Berkens (TheDomains.com), Michael Gilmour (WhizzBangsBlog.com), ... read more ...
Thu 22nd January 2009
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Live DomainFest Auction for Premier Event Released - Moniker.com has released the domains that will be auctioned off at the premier live domain auction at DomainFest next week. The auction will be held at Thursday Janaury 29, 2009, at the DomainFest show in Hollywood, CA at 1:30-5:30pm PST. Live and online remote live bidding through snapnames.com will be available for this auction. There are some great domains here. There are 5 more .me domains being offered by the registry following the successful auction of 10 .me in New York at TRAFFIC as well ... read more ...
Tue 7th October 2008
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