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events
scheduled over the next eight weeks in the U.S.
alone. DOMAINfest will get things started
with their Meet-up
in New York City Tuesday night
(August 23). The event will run from 7-10pm at
the Mad46 Rooftop Lounge (located
atop the 19th floor of The Roosevelt Hotel
on Madison Avenue at 46th Street.)
In
addition to the networking dinner at the heart
of the meet-up, a four-week long Moniker
online auction is being held in
conjunction with the event. Bidding on several
hundred domains opens Tuesday afternoon and will
continue until the sale closes at 3:15pm
(U.S. Eastern time) on Tuesday, Sept. 20.
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On
the opposite side of the U.S., new gTLDs
will be the topic of the 2011
.Nxt conference that runs Wednesday
through Friday (August 24-26) at the InterContinental
Hotel in San Francisco. Then, two
weeks from today (Monday, Sept. 5), the
second edition of DNCruise
(the only domain conference on a cruise ship)
gets underway when a Carnival ocean liner
leaves the port of Tampa, Florida for
stops in Grand Cayman and Cozumel,
Mexico before returning to Tampa Sept. 10.
Three
weeks after the cruise, the first ever Geo
Publishers Expo will get underway in
Chicago with a Friday evening reception
at the Fairmont Hotel. That even will
continue Oct. 1-2 with most of the bright
lights from the geodomain industry in
attendance.
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The
conference run ends with a grand
finale - the only T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
conference of the year - an industry
extravaganza that will be held at the Ritz
Carlton Hotel on Florida's Ft.
Lauderdale Beach October 16-19.
Today,
show organizers Rick Schwartz and
Howard Neu released details on
the show's revamped live
domain auction that will be
held October 18 at 4pm (U.S.
Eastern time). They are adopting a new
domain submission and commission plan
(detailed at the link above) that they
believe will produce a much livelier
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Though
I won't be able to make the two conferences this
week, I will be attending and speaking at all
of the latter three; DNCruise, the GeoPublishers
Expo and, of course, the granddaddy of them all
- T.R.A.F.F.I.C. I'm looking forward to seeing
many of you at those events.
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One other
note today, Sedo
has added a new member to their
management team. Thies Lindenthal, a
veteran internet entrepreneur and
researcher, will bring his scientific
expertise (and a PhD in Real Estate) to
the domain pricing field as Product
Manager for Domain Pricing. Sedo
recently partnered with Lindenthal to
develop IDNX,
the first standard price index for
domain names that uses real estate
valuation methodology to accurately
assess the domain name market. IDNX will
continue to be an independent project.
Sedo CEO Tim
Schumacher said, “Thies's
expertise and experience with online
commerce, coupled with his scientific
background in economic and real estate
research, are the ideal combination to
help grow Sedo’s domain pricing
service into the industry leader.”
Lindenthal added, “I am thrilled to
combine my passions for the domain
market and real estate research at Sedo.
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Thies
Lindenthal
(Photo: courtesy of epri.eu) |
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forward to
continuing work on IDNX, and to bringing
my research to Sedo in order to develop
transparent, industry-leading domain
pricing services for the marketplace.” |
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