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Here's the The Lowdown
from DN Journal,
updated daily
to
fill you in on the latest buzz going around the domain name industry.
The Lowdown is
compiled by DN Journal Editor & Publisher Ron
Jackson. |
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The
curtain came down on the 2009 Domain Roundtable
conference
Tuesday
night with a farewell party at Washington. D.C.
hot spot Club Josephine. The final order of
business before attendees headed to the party to
celebrate was Aftermarket.com's
live domain auction that wound up yielding over
$498,000 in sales. The blockbuster was Contests.com,
a gem of a name that went to National A-1 for $380,000. 
Scene
from Aftermarket.com's live domain auction
Tuesday
at the Domain Roundtable conference in Washington,
D.C.
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Shortly
before the auction began, Larry Fischer
of DirectNavigation.com told me he
thought the name would go for $400,000, a
prediction that just missed being a direct hit.
Just over half of the names in the live auction
were sold and more will change hands in the
extended silent auction that runs to June 24.
I mentioned
yesterday that Diana and I celebrated our 25th
wedding anniversary Tuesday during the
Roundtable conference. For some time Diana had
been hinting that she wanted to go on a romantic
cruise for the occasion, so it took a little
while for her to warm up to the idea of going to
Washington instead (as you can see in the photo
at right).
However, the show
organizers from Thought Convergence (including
CEO Kevin Vo, CSO Ammar Kubba and
Director of Corporate |
Diana's
reaction when I told her we
would be celebrating our 25th
anniversary at a domain conference. |
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Events Laura
Schmidt, who did an amazing job of putting
this conference together) totally won her over
by surprising us with a beautiful cake during
the party at Club Josephine.
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Better
yet, we also got to help one of the nicest guys in the industry, Rob
Grant (at left in the photo above), celebrate his birthday Tuesday. Thought
Convergence also surprised Rob with a delectable
cake of his own. The thoughtful gestures from the
TCI team and the opportunity to |
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Laura
Schmidt (left) - the woman
who put Domain Roundtable together. |
celebrate
with so many industry friends left all three of us
in agreement that we were exactly where we wanted
to be on these special occasions.
We
arrived back home in Florida tonight and as soon
as I complete the weekly domain
sales report (that should be polished
off and posted between 1-2pm Friday, U.S.
Eastern time) I'll begin work on the comprehensive
Domain Roundtable review article that we expect to
publish by Monday night (June 22). We only had
time to scratch the surface in our daily Lowdown
posts from the show, but in the upcoming article
we'll give you the details on all of the sessions
and social events, along with dozens of previously
unpublished photos. |
In
tomorrow's Lowdown post I'll have some comments on the big
news
that broke Tuesday about Rick Latona teaming up
with T.R.A.F.F.I.C. co-founders Rick Schwartz
and Howard Neu and their plans to run a half dozen
T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conferences around the globe in 2010.
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(Posted
June
17, 2009) |
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