Home

Featured in the Wall Street Journal · Forbes · Newsweek · USA Today · New York Times · CNN/Money

August 27, 2012

Domain Sales

News Headlines

Articles

Dear Domey

Resources

Archive

YTD Sales Charts

The Lowdown

Legal Matters

Letters to Editor

Classified Ads

About Us

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Lowdown



Feb. 21, 2009 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
(DN Journal Editor/Publisher)
Subscribe to our
RSS Feed
 

After opening Thursday evening with a pair of social events,  the Domainer Mardi Gras conference in New Orleans got down to business Friday with a morning keynote address from 

Domainer Mardi Gras keynote speaker Tim Burns 
delivering his address Friday in New Orleans

Louisiana State Representative Tim Burns, followed by a pair of luncheon speakers and a trio of afternoon seminars.

Burns, who has authored three books, including one titled Entrepreneurship.com, delivered an interesting talk on how the current global economic crisis developed and the role that entrepreneurs, like domain investor/developers, will play in helping get business moving again.

In the lunch break that followed DomainNameWire.com's Andrew Allemann released some results from his annual survey of domain owners and I spoke about current industry and aftermarket trends.

The three afternoon seminars covered Risk Management, Domain Tax Issues and Lessons in Offshoring. I'll have more details on all of the Friday sessions and addresses in a comprehensive conference review article that we expect to publish on March 2. 

As informative as the seminars were, the light attendance at those sessions compared to the crowds that turned out for the social events made it clear that the #1 attraction at this show was the chance to party with old and new domain industry friends during the world famous Mardi Gras celebration. The "distractions" in New Orleans during Mardi Gras are even more pronounced than they are in popular conference cities like Las Vegas and Orlando where local attractions lure people away from the hotel meeting rooms.

While that can be a challenge for show promoters, registrants get great value from getting to know their business partners better in the relaxed, entertaining environment that cities like this provide. Parked.com certainly provided a perfect environment for that by sponsoring a Bourbon Street balcony party that ran until 3am this morning (long past the time Diana and I were back at the hotel and sound asleep!).

Late afternoon view of the Parked.com balcony on 
Bourbon Street where attendees would get a birds 
eye view of Mardi Gras revelers below when the sun
went down and the street was packed wall to wall. 

In the photo below you can see the view from the balcony a few hours after dark when Mardi Gras revelers packed every square inch of the street below. At the far left you see Thought Convergence exec Jay Westerdal among the Parked guests tossing strands of beads to the throng below.

 

The Domainer Mardi Gras conference closes today. A brunch at the Court of Two Sisters will take up the entire morning then business gets underway at Noon with the first of two seminars. Aftermarket.com's live domain auction will follow at 2:45pm local time, then a closing awards ceremony brings the curtain down at 4:15pm. Many will stay in town for a second night on the Parked.com balcony, but Diana and I have to catch a flight to Ohio for my mother's 90th birthday celebration this weekend. I'll have closing day conference highlights in this space for you on Monday.
(Posted Feb. 21, 2009)


For all current Lowdown posts - Go Here


We need your help to keep giving domainers The Lowdown, so please email [email protected] with any interesting information you might have. If possible, include the source of your information so we can check it out (for example a URL if you read it in a forum or on a site elsewhere). 


 Home  Domain Sales  YTD Sales Charts   Latest News  The Lowdown  Articles  
Legal Matters
  Dear Domey  Letters to Editor  Resources  Classified Ads  Archive  About Us

Hit Counter

 

Copyright 2009 DNJournal.com - an Internet Edge, Inc. company. 
No material may be copied from this site without expressed written consent.