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Feb. 20, 2008 Post

Here's the The Lowdown from DNJournal.com! Updated daily to fill you in on the latest buzz going around the domain name industry!

Compiled by Ron Jackson (Editor/Publisher)

 

Moniker's SnapNames Live Domain Auction is underway as I write this today from the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. West domain conference at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas. I just slipped out to post an update on show events yesterday and earlier today since there has been no 

Scene from the TrafficZ Party at the Rio Hotel last 
night (Feb. 19) in Las Vegas. This outdoor deck at the Voodoo Lounge offered a spectacular 360-degree 
view of the Las Vegas skyline from 51 stories up.

time to do it before now. Tuesday's highlights included a full round of seminars on the conference theme "transparency in the domain industry", or more to the point - the lack thereof. I'll have details on each of those sessions in our comprehensive show wrap-up article that will be published late next week. The business day was followed by Jim McCann's keynote speech (noted in my earlier post today), then a great party hosted by show sponsor TrafficZ at the Rio Hotel's 51st floor Voodoo Lounge (see photo at left).

For me and many others, the highlight of today's schedule thus far has been an unexpected delight delivered by Kevin Ham of Reinvent Technology. During the day's first panel discussion

Kevin Ham delivering a truly memorable 
talk at T.R.A.F.F.I.C. West 2008 this 
morning (Feb. 20)

(about what has been learned from previous keynote speakers at T.R.A.F.F.I.C.) Ham, probably the most financially successful domain investor of all time, delivered a spontaneous from the heart talk about what constitutes real success in life that, with its focus on family and loved ones, left some in the room near tears. It was one of the most eloquent and moving speeches I have ever heard and Ham was given a well deserved standing ovation when he finished. Since it was early in the morning and most registrants slept in after being out late last night, only a few were lucky enough to be in the room when Ham started talking. I'm sure glad I was one of them. 

There were two other excellent seminar sessions before the auction began this afternoon. The seminars and panel discussions at this show were some of the best I've seen in a long time. More on all of them in our wrap up article next week. I 

have to head back out for the close of the auction and the farewell dinner tonight. The show closes tomorrow morning with a bon voyage breakfast and a T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Board of Advisors meeting. After those conclude I'll post tomorrow with highlights, final auction results and pix from the closing conference events. 

Before heading back the floor, below are a couple of photos from Sunday's pre-conference Exotic Car Road Rally, courtesy of Barbara Neu.

Some of the cool rides in the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Road Rally Sunday (Feb. 17)

Sahar Sarid tries a Lamborghini on for size.

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