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eRealEstate.com
and NeuLaw.com, sites owned by show organizers Rick Schwartz and
Howard Neu,
sponsored a final breakfast Thursday morning to make sure their
guests went home with a full stomach. Not that anyone was
starving after a week of wining and dining that would rival any
cruise ship. Every aspect of the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. experience is
first class which keeps people coming back for more and
generates the word of mouth recommendations that continue to
swell the roster of registrants. Also
during breakfast Thursday, the World Association of Domain Name
Developers held a board of directors meeting. WADND stages the
T.R.A.F.F.I.C. shows and the discussion included possible
agendas and locations for upcoming conferences. Cities in the
the Northeast corridor between Boston and Atlantic City
(including New York) are now being looked at for a possible
summer show.
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Howard
Neu
T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Co-Founder
& Moderator Extraordinaire
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A lot
of people at Santa Clara had arrived in town a day or two before
the conference started or stayed a day or two after. I'm seeing
more and more of this as domainers tack extra time onto the
official show schedule to meet in smaller groups before or after
the main event. Richard Meyer flew in from Baltimore on Saturday
so he could do some site seeing and then have dinner with Howard
Hoffman of PPCIncome.com Sunday night before the show (Hoffman
lives in Palo Alto, just minutes from the Santa Clara
Marriott).
I
experimented with this a bit myself by scheduling a late flight
home Thursday. That gave me time to hang out in the lobby and chat
with other show goers who were checking out late. I'm glad I did
that. It gave me a chance to talk with some people I missed during
the show, including Angie Barrow and David Brayshaw
from the U.K. who are building
out an ambitious village network involving thousands of .co.uk
domains.
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also bumped into old friend Roger Collins (Afternic President) and
new acquaintence Freddy Schiwek, VP of International Business
Development for EuroDNS.com. We wound up heading off to lunch
together where we had a great time catching up on what was
happening in our respective business and personal lives. Next time
I may pencil in more of this "spare time" before or
after the show. As others figured out before me, it is time very
well spent.
In
fact, from the time I stepped off the plane at the San Jose
airport (4 miles from the Marriott) to the time I got back on
board to go home, I would be hard pressed to identify even a few
minutes (aside from very limited sleep time) that was not well
spent at T.R.A.F.F.I.C. I'm ready to go again and
fortunately the wait won't be long with Las Vegas less than three
months away. Hope to see you there! |
Roger
Collins
President, Afternic.com |
Photo Gallery
Here
are some random extra photos from Silicon Valley we thought you
might enjoy. To those of you who were hiding, we will get
you next time! To those who want their pictures removed we can
discuss that (standard fees will apply of course).
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| Moniker CEO Monte Cahn: the James
Brown of the domain business. JB was known as the
Hardest Working Man in Show Business. Monte is the domain
world's version. |
Richard Meyer of Baltimore's Dotcom
Group LLC enjoyed his first T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference
(and thanks for picking me up at the airport!) |
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Mark Van Dyke of Army.com |
| Markus Schnermann of
KeywordDomains.com came all the way from Germany. |
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| Larry Fischer of SmartName.com.
Has a great portfolio and is an even greater guy. |
Matthew Prince made the long journey
from Australia. |
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| .Info fan Dale Porter of
TheNameStore.com drove up from San Diego after Howard
Hoffman promised to pay for his gas if
he went around promoting Hoffman's bottled water company,
HioSilver. |
Page Howe of SiteHQ.com |
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| Keith Levenson of Acme Media.
That's domain pioneer Roy Messer in the bottom right
corner. |
Rob Moritz of CitiesUnlimited.com |
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How do these guys always manage to look
so....well....Fabulous!
Left to right: Andrew Wright, Dan Warner, Michael
Robertson (all Fabulous.com) |
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Steve Sturgeon of DomainNameLawyers.com
chats with Fred Duca of Automobiles.com |
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| Dan Warner takes a shine
to Rick Schwartz, but I don't think that's the kind
of shine the Domain King had in mind! (Photo courtesy
of Barbara Neu, who along with Alina Schwartz
again won kudos for making everyone feel at home). |
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