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Photo Review of the 2008 DomainerMeeting Conference in Paris, France June 19-20

By Ron Jackson

Europe's first DomainerMeeting conference was held in Paris, France at the Hotel Le Meridien Montparnasse June 19-20. I was unable to make the trip as my wife had to undergo knee surgery the day before the event began but I arranged to have show organizers send us some photos so we could give you an inside look at the action. A special thank you goes to Xavier Buck and Freddy Schiwek from EuroDNS.com and Melanie Delannoy for providing the pictures.

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T.R.A.F.F.I.C. East 2008 Review: Domainers Fall Under Disney's Spell During Conference Week in the Magic Kingdom

By Ron Jackson

The 2008 T.R.A.F.F.I.C. East conference in Orlando May 20-24 was different - and despite all of the past success this pioneering conference has enjoyed that is exactly what it needed to be. The formula that T.R.A.F.F.I.C. introduced when they staged the first major domain show in October 2004 is now being utilized by other promoters and with all of the competing shows spaced no more than 60 days apart "conference fatigue" has started to set in. To combat that, all of the promoters now have to find a way to stand out from the crowd.

Since they were the guys who started it all, it's not surprising that T.R.A.F.F.I.C. co-founders Rick Schwartz and Howard Neu are also the ones who decided to start forging a new path in Orlando in an effort to get ahead of the curve. For Schwartz and Neu, the bad news was that attendance at this show was down considerably from their February show in Las Vegas. The good news is that many people who went to Orlando, including me, will tell you that it was the most enjoyable conference they've ever attended. 

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 Conference Co-Founders 
Rick Schwartz
& Howard Neu opened a new playbook for
T.R.A.F.F.I.C. East 2008


2008 Domain Roundtable Wrap Up: Networking Opportunities in Stunning San Francisco Setting Helped This Show Rise Above Auction Woes 

By Ron Jackson

After spending the first three years of its life in the Seattle area, where its parent company Name Intelligence, Inc. is based,  the Domain Roundtable conference pulled up stakes and hit the road for 2008. Show organizers proved they could travel in style, settling into the elegant Palace Hotel in downtown San Francisco for their April 18-21 run.  

The show was sandwiched in between two other major conferences in the City by the Bay, AdTech just before and Web 2.0 immediately after Roundtable. The domain conference pulled some people from each but that gain was offset by the dates conflicting with the Passover holiday that kept some domainers of the Jewish faith at home or resulted in them leaving early for seders (traditional dinners) Saturday night. The net result was an attendance figure that was about the same as 2007 but DRT drew a top notch group of attendees. 

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The elegant Palace Hotel in San Francisco provided a great new setting for Domain Roundtable 2008


Simply Super: T.R.A.F.F.I.C. West 2008 Took Care of Business at Domain Industry Summit in Las Vegas

By Ron Jackson

When I headed out to Las Vegas Feb. 18 for the 2008 T.R.A.F.F.I.C. West conference the Super Bowl game that had been played two weeks earlier was still on my mind. The underdog Giants had knocked off the unbeaten and presumably unbeatable Patriots in one of the best NFL championship games ever. 

The game brought back a lot memories because I had the opportunity to cover several Super Bowls when I was a TV sportscaster in in the 1980's. In that era the transformation of the Super Bowl from football game to one of the country's premier business events was already well underway. Then as now just about every major corporation set up tents, threw great parties and sponsored special activities that drew clients and potential business partners like bees to honey. I was thinking about this on the way to Vegas because if the domain business has a Super Bowl the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference is it. 

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Say Hello to DNZoom and Goodbye to Domain Management Hassles

By Ron Jackson

If you are like most people in this business, you have found that the domain names in your portfolio have a way of multiplying like rabbits on maximum strength Viagra. Before long, managing all of those domains can become a real headache - especially when you reach hundreds or thousands of domains in your collection as I have.

Like many of you I tracked my domains in an Excel spreadsheet, but that leaves a lot to be desired, especially if you forget to enter names you buy in your Excel file. I've done that several times and a few years ago it cost me four 3-letter domains. I thought there had to be a better way to keep track of domains. Some smart guys based in Louisville, Kentucky thought the same thing and when they looked around and didn't find what they were searching for, they created it themselves, called it DNZoom - and it was good!

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ModernGigabyte co-founders Michael Fountain (left) and Jeremy Christ paved the  
way for DNZoom.


DOMAINfest Global 2008 Delivers Dazzling Conference Encore in Hollywood, California

By Ron Jackson

The organizers of the DOMAINfest Global Conference 2008 in Hollywood, California, Oversee.net, did just about everything right during their three-day run at the Renaissance Hotel January 21-23. Well, everything except keeping away the highly unusual (for Southern California) cold rainy weather that prevailed throughout the week. The area was in dire need of the moisture though and inside the Renaissance, the DOMAINfest crew kept attendees in a sunny mood with a well-thought out agenda, comfortable quarters, good food and drink and great people everywhere you turned. 

Let's start with the people - there were a lot of them and  that was the first of many surprises that would be served up during the week. Last year approximately 400 people gathered in the debut DOMAINfest Global show at the same venue. With the general economy struggling now I expected them to come in around the same number this time out and was shocked to find over 600 hands on deck opening day - many of whom were attending their first domain conference. 

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A capacity crowd fills the grand ballroom at the DOMAINfest Global 2008 conference in Hollywood, California


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