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The Lowdown
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Sept. 30, 2008 Post
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Here's the The
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The
latest T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference is now history
but two more meetings for domainers will get underway over
the next seven days, with both of those being held outside
the U.S. First up
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Cracow,
Poland - host city for the
MeetDomainers conference Oct. 3-4 |
will be MeetDomainers,
a show that will be staged in Cracow, Poland this
coming Friday and Saturday (Oct. 3 & 4). The
event will include a live auction Saturday afternoon at
4:30 (local time in Cracow), powered by Aftermarket.pl,
Poland's largest aftermarket site (you can view the
auction list and register to bid through the link in this
sentence).
Show
organizers said "Almost one hundred people will
participate in this event – experts in domain investing,
hosting services, web development and domain parking. Many
different topics will be covered including the
aftermarket, drop catching, parking |
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and registration. Discussions
will also focus on the ccTLD market, domain
investing and legal issues as well."
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The spotlight then
switches to Canada where the first DomainConvergence
conference will be held in Niagara Falls,
Ontario from October 6-8. This event will
also feature a live premium domain name auction that
will be operated by Fusu,
a new domain aftermarket specialist. That sale will
begin at 3pm (EST) on Wednesday, Oct. 8. The
auction is scheduled to run for one hour and unsold
domains will go into a seven-day Internet auction.
Fusu will charge a 15% fee to the seller,
plus 1% of the reserve price (paid upfront)
as a listing fee to encourage lower reserves. Domain
owners can submit their domains via email to [email protected]
until Oct. 4 (include your reserve price as well as
your postal address and phone number).
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Frank
Michlick, the chairman of DomainConvergence,
said "Our aim is to put together a great
conference for the Canadian and international
domainer community, filled with valuable sessions
and opportunities to network. The live auction is
the icing on the cake." You can get $100 off
the standard registration
fee of $599, by entering the code "dnjournal"
when you sign up to attend.
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Elsewhere, the
Extended Online Auction for T.R.A.F.F.I.C. New
York
will close Thursday (Oct. 2) at 3:15pm
(U.S. Eastern time). More than 2,000 domains
are open for bidding on the SnapNames
auction platform. You can get more information
and enter the auction here: www.moniker.com/extendedauction.
Also
don't forget that the online Bids
for Kids charity domain auction we
told you about last month starts tomorrow (October
1) and runs through Friday. Bidjit.com
is hosting the bidding and you can check out
the catalog here.
SmashFactory.com
is helping produce the event which will raise
funds for the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
(Posted
Sept.
30, 2008) |
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