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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
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DOMAINfest
Global Gets a New Name and Joins T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
Las Vegas in Opening Registration for 2013 Shows
That Will Run on a Revamped Playing Field
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In
recent years
Oversee.net
has been steadily broadening the focus
of their DOMAINfest Global conference
to include a wide variety of website
development, marketing, monetization and SEO
topics - a makeover that has transformed
it from a pure domain conference into a one stop
Internet business summit. As I've said
before, I think that is a smart
move that positions the already popular show for
even greater growth in the years ahead,
especially with its home base being Los
Angeles, a city that is a hotbed for
Internet business and start up activity.
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The
show fully embraced its expanded mission today
by announcing the event has been renamed Webfest
Global with the upcoming February
2013 event, the 7th in the series, the first
to carry the new banner. In tandem with the name
change, Oversee has opened show
registration (with a $1095 early
bird rate that is good through December 31)
and posted the preliminary agenda
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for
the event hat will run February 5-7 at
the Fairmount Miramar Hotel in Santa
Monica, California - a lovely oceanfront
venue that hosted the last three DOMAINfest
Global conferences.
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Domains
will still have a prominent place at Webfest
Global with the first day of the conference
devoted to domain related topics, but the
re-positioning of the show leaves the T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
conference, the originator of large scale domain
conferences back in 2004,
as the last globally focused pure domain show
still standing. That's a far cry from just there
years ago when we covered six different
domain conferences on both sides of the Atlantic
in one six-month
span. An inevitable shakeout
followed with the survivors now commanding clearly
staked out ground that should serve them
well for many years to come.
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T.R.A.F.F.I.C.,
who just closed their lone 2012 show last week on Florida's Fort Lauderdale Beach,
will run twice in 2013. They will be
returning to Las
Vegas for the first time in
three years for a show that will run May
29-June 1 at the Bellagio Hotel.
Registration
for that highly anticipated event opened
Wednesday with a $995
early bird price in place on the first 50
tickets.
T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
will also hold their traditional South
Florida show in October 2013 when it
will return to the Ritz Carlton on Fort Lauderdale
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Domain
investors and developers employ a wide variety
of money making strategies. Some prefer more
passive approaches like PPC, affiliate marketing
and sales, while others are all about developing
their domains into full blown businesses. With
the way the conference scene has shaken out it
is now much easier to identify a conference that
best suits your individual needs.
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Those
who try to cover all of the bases will
still turn up at both Webfest
Global and T.R.A.F.F.I.C., as well as at
some of the many excellent regional
conferences around the
world. There is only so much money to go
around though, so those with a specific
strategy and/or a limited budget can zero
in on the one that is most closely
aligned with their own objectives. One
thing has not changed though.
That is the incomparable value you
get from meeting others in the space face
to face. I've been watching
conference events unfold for close to a
decade now and I firmly believe there |
Scene
from the speed networking session
at
T.R.A.F.F.I.C. 2012 last week in
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is no one
thing you can do to more quickly
accelerate your business than get
out there and make the kind of personal
connections that can only be made by
getting to know your peers by speaking
with them eye to eye. There is no
better place to do that than in the
unique networking environment that
today's top conferences provide. |
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(Posted October
18, 2012)
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