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Review of the 2008 DomainerMeeting Conference in Paris, France June
19-20
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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
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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
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2008
Domain Roundtable Wrap Up: Networking Opportunities in Stunning San
Francisco Setting Helped This Show Rise Above Auction Woes
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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
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Simply
Super: T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
West 2008 Took Care of Business at Domain Industry Summit in Las
Vegas
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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
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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.
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DOMAINfest
Global 2008 Delivers Dazzling Conference Encore in Hollywood,
California
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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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