The agendas for two key domain conferences coming up in October are shaping up nicely. The granddaddy of them all - T.R.A.F.F.I.C. - has settled on the keynote speaker for their big show coming up October 16-19, 2011 at the Ritz Carlton Hotel on Florida's Ft. Lauderdale Beach. HallPass Media Founder Bill Karamouzis (who was the subject of our April 2010 Cover Story) will do the honors. 

T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Co-Founder Rick Schwartz said Karamouzis will speak on a topic he is intimately familiar with - "The Challenge of Developing Our Domains Into Businesses." That is indeed a challenge, but few have done it better than Bill who has had some massive successes with Hallpass Media's game websites. That success caught the attention of MindJolt, one of the largest cross-platform game developers and publishers in the world, and they wound up buying Hallpass earlier this year. 

Bill Karamouzis
Founder, Hallpass Media 

With so much interest in developing to maximize domain value, Karamouzis is an excellent pick to headline what will be the only T.R.A.F.F.I.C  conference in 2011. I've been looking forward to this one all year and am even more so  with Karamouzis on the agenda.

Speaking of T.R.A.F.F.I.C., TheParkingPlace.com, Media Breakaway's new domain monetization platform that I told you about last month, is currently running a promotion that is giving their clients a chance to pick up a free pass to T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Ft. Lauderdale (worth $1,595 at the current registration rate). Any client that earns $10,000 at TheParkingPlace.com over the three-month period from July 1 through Sept. 30 will get a free ticket.

(Posted July 19, 2011)