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latest buzz going around the domain name
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Part
One of Rousing Schwartz vs. Schilling New gTLD
Debate Video is Here - Plus Industry Companies Form
Association to Promote the New Extensions
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Without
question
a highlight of last week's T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
East conference at Fort Lauderdale
Beach, Florida was a rousing debate
over the pros and cons of new gTLDs
that pitted teams led by industry giants Rick
Schwartz and Frank Schilling against
each other on Monday,
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Schwartz,
the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Co-Founder and
immensely
successful domain investor who is a bear
when it comes to new gTLDs, recruited
fellow investor Lonnie Borck to
argue the case that .com will
continue to thoroughly dominate the domain
landscape. Legendary investor Schilling,
who is also the head of new gTLD registry operator
Uniregistry.com,
was joined by three fellow new gTLD
advocates - Tim Johnson (.kiwi), Jeffrey
Sass (.club) and Monte Cahn (RightOfTheDot.com)
- in a quarter that tried to
counter Schwartz and Borck's arguments.
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Frank
Schilling (left) and Rick Schwartz
trade punches in a lively debate
about new gTLDs Oct. 21 at T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
East.
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In
addition to being an informative give and
take it made great theater so
people were delighted when Schwartz
promised to put a video of the
debate online so everyone could enjoy it.
You can see part one (of two) by
clicking play below and Schwartz said the
second part will be available early next
week. Believe me, this is a show
you won't want to miss!
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While the
debate over new gTLDs goes on, several
companies involved in rolling out or
supporting new extensions have formed a new
association to promote gTLDs. Founders
of the international nonprofit
organization known as the Domain Name
Association (located at TheDNA.org)
said the association that was announced
Monday (Oct. 28, 2013) was created to
"promote the interests of the domain
name industry by advocating the use,
adoption, and expansion of domain names as
the primary tool for users to navigate the
Internet."
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Their
press released added, "The Domain
Name Association will educate Internet
users around the world about the benefits
of domain names, with a specific focus
on the imminent introduction of new
Top-Level Domains," The DNA
thinks new gTLDs "will revolutionize
the way we navigate the Internet."
Others are not so sure about that,
of course, as shown by the
Schwartz-Schilling debate above.
Membership in
tne DNA is open to organizations involved
in all aspects of managing domain
names, including domain name registries,
registrars, resellers, and registry
service providers. Founding members
serving on an Interim Board include ARI
Registry Services, Demand Media,
Donuts, FairWinds Partners, GoDaddy,
Google, Momentous, United
TLD, and WhatBox?. DomainsBot
Inc., Minds + Machines and RightOfTheDot,
LLC are also Founding members. |
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(Posted October
31, 2013)
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Heritage
Auctions Nationwide Marketing Campaign Puts
Domains Alongside Art, Jewelry, Coins &
Other Valuable Assets
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Three
months ago
I
told you about one of the
world's three biggest auction houses - Heritage
Auctions (HA) - opening a new
domain division headed by veteran
domain investor Aron Meystedt and
how important this development was for the
domain industry. For the first time
an auction house in the same league as Sotheby's
and Christie's is treating high end
domain names as valuable assets
displayed alongside traditional investment
collectibles like art, jewelry and
coins. With
HA's first
domain and intellectual property auction
coming up November 21, readers of
the New York Times got a
first hand look at what I meant this past
Sunday. HA took out a large ad to promote
their fall auctions featuring various
categories of art, timepieces and jewelry,
Tiffany & Lalique art glass, fine wine
and more, including, yes, domain names
(listed right below the fold in the copy
of the ad at right sent to us by Marc
Ostrofsky (bidding the domain
name auction is now
open). As
you can see, domains are keeping some extremely
good company these days, thanks to
Heritage Auctions. Seeing domains listed
alongside these other asset classes can
only elevate them dramatically in
the public's eyes. |
Heritage
Auctions ad in the New York Times
Sunday, Oct. 24, 2013
Photo courtesy of Marc Ostrofsky |
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Ostrofosky (probably
the most excited I've seen him since he
sold Business.com in a $7.5
million deal) said, "If
this auction works well, Christy's and
Southeby's will jump in too and that
one change in our world gets 10,000%
more players looking at our assets and
that drives prices UP."
Ostrofsky
added that domain investors need to seize
this opportunity by letting everyone
in their business circles, especially
mainstream business, know about HA
offering domain names now. If we help get
that message out to the rest of the
business world it could produce some huge
long term dividends.
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Aron
Meystedt, Founder & Director,
Domain Name & Intellectual
Property Division
Heritage Auctions (HA.com) |
Meanwhile
Heritage Auctions is doing their
part. To find out more about their marketing
strategy I checked in with Aron
Meystedt, the Founder and
Director of HA's new Intellectual
Property Division. "Our
marketing and PR teams are working
very hard to put premium domain
assets in front of the right
people," Aron told me.
"We have another New York
Times advertisement coming out
in one week, which will highlight
the domain name auction exclusively.
We’re also talking with several
major media outlets about our story:
For the first time ever, a
major auction house is holding an
auction for domain names and
intellectual property."
"Our
PR team is reaching out to
approximately 500 top media
outlets with our story – we
are confident our story is newsworthy,
especially when we mention some of
the names in our auction:
MutualFunds.com, Animation.com,
NL.com, QR.com, Bicycle.com,
DVDs.com, Sociology.com,
CurrencyExchange.com and
others," Meystedt said.
"We are performing a great deal
of direct marketing as well,
via phone and direct mail.
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prospective
buyers for the category defining
domain names like LuxuryBags.com,
DoctorateDegree.com,
BusinessPhones.com and several of
the names mentioned above (plus
others, of course). We are
sending out FedEx mailers to
the decision makers at these
firms, including our brochure, a
personalized letter, our
capabilities catalog and a few other
pieces. We don’t mind spending the
time and money to make meaningful
one-on-one connections. We will
follow up this effort with phone
calls to all recipients,"
Meystedt added.
"We’ve also printed and
mailed over 10,000 brochures to
prospective buyers based on net
worth or product category. We are
also implementing other techniques
to reach the affluent investors and
the high net worth individuals.
All of our outreach includes education.
This education covers why
domain names are great for business
use and investment purposes.
We help potential buyers understand
the business advantages of
owning a category defining domain
name as well as the advantages
of owning a domain name for investment.
The domain investment community has
wanted to reach high net worth
individuals with this exact message
for a long time, and
I am very grateful for the
opportunity to be an ambassador for
our industry!," Meystedt
concluded. |
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(Posted October
29, 2013)
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The
Domain Industry Joins Family and Friends
Mourning the Loss of 45-Year-Old Trellian
Founder and CEO Ren Warmuz
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It
is always painful
to lose someone you care about but when a
person in the very prime of their
life is lost way too soon, the hurt
is even deeper. The kind of bad news none
of us ever wants to hear came today when
we learned that Ren Warmuz,
the brilliant 45-year-old Founder and CEO
of Trellian.com
(the parent company of Above.com
and many other well-known Internet brands)
had passed away Sunday afternoon (October
27) after a long battle with colon cancer. I
first heard about Ren's passing from his
friend and colleague, Trellian Vice
President Nancy Bianchi, who like
everyone who knew Ren, is finding it
difficult to believe this source of
overflowing positive energy is
really gone. Nancy pointed me to the
moving comments Ren's brother and business
partner David posted
at Above.com today. David,
who was with family members surrounding
Ren when he passed, wrote about how Ren
tackled his health problem the same way he
every problem he faced in life - head
on. |
(L
to R): Ren Warmuz, Nancy Bianchi
and David Warmuz
at the 2012 T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference in
Fort Lauderdale.
(photo corutesy of Barbara Neu)
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David said,
"The
sheer pain endured throughout would have
crippled most, but not Ren.
Documenting his epic battle every step of
the way on his blog - http://www.mcrc4.com/ -
he leaves behind a legacy of
research, treatment options, genetic tests
to insist on, diets and supplements
beneficial for treating cancer not known
to most." |
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David
added, "I always considered Ren an absolute genius,
and was fortunate to have him part of my
life, not only just growing up together
but working together since 1997. We made a
great team, creating and releasing
many ground breaking software and web
applications. It saddens me the most that
Ren leaves behind his wife and two
beautiful children, age 9 and 6."
While
Ren is gone his fight continues.
David said, "Ren's work is far from
over and a Ren Warmuz Cancer Research
Foundation will be established to help
others beat their "little
mutants", as Ren called his cancer. My
best friend, my brother, you will be
missed!"
Life
is far too fragile. Just a couple of days
ago I learned that a classmate from my
high school class and her husband were
both killed in a terrible car crash in
Florida. When the news was posted
on Facebook by a fellow classmate I didn't
know what to say - nothing you can say in
the face of such a tragedy is adequate.
Instead I replied with a quote I had
recently come across that I found
comforting. It's not something I thought I
would be sharing again so soon but in
remembering Ren, I still can't think of
anything that sums up my feelings as
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Ren
Warmuz at the 2007 Domain
Roundtable conference in Seattle. |
"Death
takes the body. God takes the soul. Our mind
holds the memories. Our heart keeps the love.
Our faith lets us know we will meet again."
- Nishan Panwar
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(Posted October
28, 2013)
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Domain
Hall of Fame Member Michael Mann Announces Plan
to Start a New Political Party
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Michael
Mann |
After
making his mark
in the domain industry T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
Hall of Fame member Michael
Mann is now seeking to
overcome a much bigger challenge - establishing a
new political party in the United
States that he has dubbed the Better
Government Party (as a wildly
successful domain investor, leave it to
Mann to choose a category defining name
- and yes he owns the .com, as well
as the .net and the .org). Mann,
a Washington, D.C. native,
explained why he decided to take on the
daunting task of establishing a major
third party in a new
article just published by the Upstart
Business Journal. Mann, who has
been featured in two DNJournal.com
Cover Stories - one in September
2003 and another in September
2007, told author Laura
Baverrman that the Republican and
Democratic Parties are "are
useless, corrupt and fraudulent" and
that his party
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accountability." Mann added,
"Americans are so used to Congressmen
lying, cheating and stealing that they
have been conditioned to think it’s
acceptable. The government is broken,
so there is no other choice. It doesn't
have to be me. If someone else presents
something rational, I'd join them. But where
are they?" Of
course others, with even deeper pockets
than Mann, have tried unsuccessfully to
establish a viable alternative to the two
current major parties. Mann is aware of
that but told Baverman, "I'm very
persistent and I'll spend years and
years and years til I get it right." It
is surely the longest of long shots but,
you have to admit, it could be pretty
interesting to have a domainer in the White
House (especially one as outspoken as
Mann). In the 1928 Presidential
campaign, a Herbert Hoover ad
crowed about putting "a chicken in
every pot". Perhaps Mann could
top that by promising "a category
defining .com in every portfolio".
I might even vote for that! |
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(Posted October
26, 2013)
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T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
East 2013 Ends With Food, Friends & Fond
Farewells at Wednesday Morning
Breakfast
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The
curtain came down
on
the 25th edition of T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
Wednesday morning when the 2013
T.R.A.F.F.I.C. East conference closed
with the show's traditional Farewell
Breakfast at the Ritz Carlton Hotel
on Florida's Fort Lauderdale Beach.
A
scene from the 2013 T.R.A.F.F.I.C. East
Farewell Breakfast Wednesday morning
(Oct. 23) I've
always thought the Farewell Breakfast was
a perfect way to end a productive
and thoroughly enjoyable week at
T.R.A.F.F.I.C. It's a chance to spend a
final hour or two with your business
brothers and sisters in a completely
relaxing environment - no more running to
catch the next conference session or make
a meeting. Of course, those sessions and
meetings are why just about everyone left
the show filled with energy and
optimism about the year ahead, but at
the same time, after being on the go
pretty much non stop from sunrise
to midnight every day, it's nice to sit
back with friends and a cup of coffee to
relax and recharge before beginning the
journey home.
 Above:
Sedo's Jeff Wood (at far left)
finishes filling a plate at
T.R.A.F.F.I.C. East's Farewell
Breakfast Wedneasday morning. Below:
Vincent Jacques (VinsDomains.com)
and his wife Annette at
breakfast.
This
was the last year of T.R.A.F.F.I.C.'s
3-year run at the beautiful Ritz Carlton
overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. Next fall
the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. East show will move a
few miles down the coast to Miami Beach
where it will run Oct. 12-15, 2014
at the fabulous beachfront Fontainebleau
Hotel. While the Ritz was a great
location, many people go to every
T.R.A.F.F.I.C. show, so it's good to give
them a change of scenery every two of
three years. Before
that Miami Beach show rolls around, many
will attend the T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
West conference that will
return to the world renowned Bellagio
Hotel in Las Vegas May 28-31, 2014
(you can see our
review of the 2013 show at the Bellagio
here). It will be very
interesting to see how the months between
now and next May play out. Those at
breakfast Wednesday think we will have a
lot to smile about when T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
reconvenes in Las Vegas.
At
one breakfast table Wednesday morning
(left to right) Bob Olea, Alan
Hack, Lonnie Borck, Freddie
Schiwek, T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Co-Founders Rick
Schwartz and Howard Neu, and Bill
Sweetman enjoyed comparing notes
before saying goodbye until next time. We
wound up taking over 1,500 photos at
T.R.A.F.F.I.C. this week so we only had a
chance to share a small fraction of those
with you in our daily Lowdown posts
(including those from the final day of
business that I didn't get a chance to
publish until we got back to Tampa last
night). We've saved some of
the best ones for a Cover Story Photo
Review of T.R.A.F.F.I.C. that we will
be publishing by the end of next week.
That will put the highlights from a highly
rewarding week in South Florida in one
spot for easy future reference. In
the meantime, thanks to the T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
family - Rick & Alina Schwartz,
Howard & Barbara Neu, Ray
Neu & Kimberly Howard, for again
making T.R.A.F.F.I.C. such a true home
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24, 2013)
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Photos
& Highlights from the Final Day of Business at
the 2013 T.R.A.F.F.I.C. East Conference
+ Who Showed Up For a Business Session in a
Bathrobe?
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The
final day of business
at the 2013 T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
East conference Tuesday (Oct. 22) got
underway with a 9am breakfast at the Ritz
Carlton on Fort Lauderdale
Beach that featured some special
guests. Victoria Castello, the
mother of T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Domain Hall of
Fame members Michael
Castello and David Castello
was there with her friend John O'Hare
and they stayed for the full day of
conference activity (including the
induction of two new Hall of Fame
members). Also spending the day with her
"domain family" was Carmella Savanello,
the mother of T.R.A.F.F.I.C.'s
extraordinary hostess, Barbara Neu.
(L
to R) Ron Jackson (DNJournal), Carmella
Savanello, John O'Hare, Victoria
Castello and
Diana Jackson Tuesday morning (Oct.
22) at T.R.A.F.F.I.C. East in Fort
Lauderdale Beach.
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After
breakfast, any T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
attendee that wanted to was invited
to take the stage and give a Two-minute
Elevator Pitch promoting their
business. I followed that with a
report on 3Q-2013 domain sales
that were up dramatically
from both the previous quarter (37.5%
higher dollar volume across all
extensions) and the same quarter a
year ago (up 47%)! I'll have
all of the details on that for you
in a new newsletter
next week.
At
10:30am it was time to hand out the
annual T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Awards
recognizing excellence in
various industry categories (as
chosen by domain industry voters). The
2013 winners (shown in photos at
right and below where winners were
on hand to accept) were:
Best
New Monetizing Solution: InternetTraffic.com
Best
Overall Domain Solution: Sedo
"We
Get It" Award:
Amazon
Developer
of the Year:
Michael
Cyger
Best
Domain Blog:
DNJournal.com
(Ron Jackson)
Sponsor
of The Year:
Go
Daddy
Domainer
of the Year:
Frank
Schilling
Bandit
Berkens Goodwill Ambassador
Award:
Gregg
McNair
Domain
Hall of Fame:
(two
new members are voted in each year):
Jeff
Gabriel (The broker in the
record-setting $13 million sale of
Sex.com who is now with
DomainNameSales.com and was
previously with Igloo.com (when the
company was known as DomainAdvisors)
and Sedo.com). Jeff had a good
reason for missing
T.R.A.F.F.I.C. East this year - he
was with his wife Melissa who
gave
birth to their son Richard Tuesday
- the same day Jeff was named to the
Hall of Fame. Congrats Jeff &
Melissa!
Igal
Lichtman (the late great domain
investor/developer and entrepreneur
who was profiled in the first ever
DN Journal Cover Story back in |
Sedo's
Brad Lemire (center) accepts the
Best Overall Domain Solution
Award from T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Co-Founders
Howard Neu and Rick
Schwartz.
DomainSherpa.com's
Michael Cyger (right)
accepts the Developer of the Year
Award.
DNJournal.com's
Ron Jackson (2nd from
left)
accepts the Best Domain Blog
Award. |
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2003
and was featured again in our February
2012 Cover Story). Mr.
Lichtman passed away in February
2013. |
Sedo's
Negar Hajikhani (4th from left)
accepting the Broker of the Year Award
(the first female to win the honor).
PPX
International Chairman Gregg McNair
(2nd from left) accepts the Bandit
Berkens Goodwill Ambassador Award with
the owner of the beloved late Yorkie
the award is named for, Judi and
Michael Berkens at his side (Bandit
was a frequent visitor to domain
conferences who showed unconditional
love to everyone he encountered). The
annual award recognizes the person who
voters feel has been the industry's best
goodwill ambassador over the past
year.
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Above:
Members of the T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
Domain Hall of Fame that were in
attendance at this year's show took
the stage for the induction of
two new members that were named
Tuesday - Jeff Gabriel and
the late Igal Lichtman. Two
of Igal's close friends, Hall of
Fame member Adam Dicker and
leading industry attorney Ari
Goldberger (2nd and 3rd from
left, respectively) accepted Mr.
Lichtman's Award and will present it
to his widow, Michal Lichtman.
The
other current Hall of Fame members
in attendance were Ron Jackson
(far left in the photo above) and,
to the right of Mr. Goldberger,
Howard Neu, Rick Schwartz,
Michael Berkens, Monte Cahn and
Chad Folkening.
T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
also commissioned noted Florida
sculptor Bradley
Arthur to create a
unique metal menorah that was also
presented to honor Igal. |
Sculptor
Bradley Arthur
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Tuesday's
first business session was a Domainer
and Broker View of the State of the
Industry that featured John
Ferber (DomainHoldings.com), Lonnie
Borck (B52.com), Bill McClure
(Coffee.org), Gregg Ostrick,
Tessa Holcomb (Igloo.com) and
Ammar Kubba (ThoughtConvergence,.com).
This
session began with a humorous
twist. Kubba, who has been known
to stay out late on occasion, was missing
when the session began. Some assumed
the pre-noon start of the session
may have come while he was sleeping
in. Five minutes after the
session began Kubba - much to the
audience's delight - was escorted
into the ballroom still wearing a
bathrobe!
It
turns out the whole thing was pre-planned
but no one let moderator Howard
Neu in on the prank, though as
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Ammar
Kubba "apologizes" for
being late for a
morning
panel discussion Tuesday as
moderator Howard Neu looks on. |
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picture
above right shows, Howard was as
amused as everyone else. As I
watched this all unfold one scary
thought crossed my mind though -
Ammar might just create a new
fashion trend with this bathrobe
thing. My worst fears would be
realized before the day was over
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In
the session that followed, Kubba (still in
his bathrobe) joined Adam Dicker, Rick
Schwartz and Michael Berkens
for The DomainSherpa.com Five Live! program.
The fifth member of the quintet was
interviewer Michael Cyger (DomainSherpa.com)
who had the four veteran domain investors
evaluate and appraise domains submitted by
audience members. It was an extremely
useful educational exercise that
later morphed into a highly entertaining
"registered or unregistered?"
competition in the second part of the
program.
The
latter portion required the panelists to
guess whether or not certain domain names
Cyger came up with were available or
already registered. Perhaps aided by
his distracting attire, Kubba wound up
winning the contest by getting 5 of the 6
domains right.
The
DomainSherpa.com Five Live! session
featured (L to R) Adam Dicker,
Michael Cyger, Ammar Kubba, Rick
Schwartz and Michael Berkens.
Cyger
does the show that was presented at
T.R.A.F.F.I.C. every Thursday on
the web at DomainSherpa.com
with the originator of the idea, Page
Howe, as one of the four regular
guests (Ammar Kubba filled in for Page at
T.R.A.F.F.I.C.).
The
business day concluded with a
T.R.A.F.F.I.C. staple - the Meeting of
the Chiefs - in which leaders from
nine well-known companies took the stage
to offer their thoughts on current
industry affairs and answer questions from
the audience.
The
Meeting of the Chiefs panel
featured (L to R): Paul Nicks (Go
Daddy), Adam Dicker (DNForum.com), Andee
Hill (Escrow.com), Gregg McNair
(PPX International), Michael Gilmour
(ParkLogic.com), moderator Howard Neu
(standing), Donny Simonton (Voodoo.com),
Victor Pitts (Above.com), Ammar
Kubba (ThoughtConvergence.com -
and back in normal clothing!) and Joe
Higgins (RookMedia.net).
The
business portion of T.R.A.F.F.I.C. East
2013 was now done, but there was still a
lot of socializing/networking left
to do! At 8:30pm Tuesday night
guests were welcomed to the traditional Closing
Night Party with dessert, coffee, beer
and wine.
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Above:
Guests begin arriving at T.R.A.F.F.I.C.'s
Closing Night Party that ran
until 11pm (an hour longer than
scheduled).
At
right: Negar Hajikhani (Sedo)
and Judi Berkens model a
lovely scarf custom made by Barbara
Neu's mother, Carmella.
Below:
Also lighting up the Closing Night
Party were (L to R) Barbara Neu
(T.R.A.F.F.I.C.), Bill McClure (Coffee.org)
and Bill's wife Jammie.
As
full a day and night as Tuesday had
already been, there was still more
to come with Gregg McNair
opening up his suite at the top of
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Below:
After the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Closing Night
Party many accepted Gregg McNair's
nightly invitation to drop by his suite
for some late night networking at
his Igloo.com
party. I have it on good authority that
the last man standing finally threw in the
towel after 4am this morning!
Below:
Guests at the McNair/Igloo.com party
included (front row L to R); Tessa
Holcomb (Igloo.com), Alan Hack,
Andee Hill (Escrow.com) and (back
row L to R) Igloo.com's Amanda Waltz
and Holly Griesel.
Below:
Earlier I mentioned that I feared Ammar
Kubba might have started a new
fashion trend by wearing a bathrobe
to a business session earlier Tuesday. My
fears were realized at the McNair/Igloo.com
party Tuesday night where more than a few
guests showed up in bathrobes,
including host Gregg McNair (in the
red bowtie) and T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Co-Founder Rick
Schwartz.
T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
East 2013 officially closed this
morning (Wednesday, Oct. 23) with the
traditional Farewell Breakfast.
I'll have highlights from that event in
tomorrow's post. Right now, I have to get
back to my online shopping - I'm in the
market for a good looking bathrobe! |
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Photos
& Highlights from Day Two
at the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. East Conference Monday at
Fort Lauderdale Beach
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The
2013 T.R.A.F.F.I.C. East conference
continued Monday (Oct. 21) with the first
full day of business at the Ritz
Carlton Hotel on Florida's Fort
Lauderdale Beach. Show co-founders Rick
Schwartz welcomed attendees during a Power Brunch that
opened at 9am. 
T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
Co-founders Rick Schwartz (left) and
Howard Neu welcome attendees to
T.R.A.F.F.I.C. East 2013 Monday
morning at the Ritz Carlton on Fort
Lauderdale Beach.
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Adam
Dicker |
The
opening business session Monday was The
Adam Dicker Show, hosted by
interviewer extraordinaire Michael
Cyger of DomainSherpa.com.
Adam, who owns DNForum.com
and blogs at TheArtOfTheName.com,
gave attendees a treasure trove of
practical advice on how to make
money with domains that they could
take home and put to use right away.
The Adam Dicker Show idea was
spawned by a similar session with
Adam that was one of the biggest
hits at last year's conference. That
prompted Schwartz and Neu to make it
a show staple.
T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
may also want to make Monday
morning's follow-up session - Team
Schwartz vs. Team Schllling (in
a spirited (to put it mildly) debate
over new gTLDs) a regular show
feature. |
Frank
Schilling (Uniregistry.com) and
teammates Tim Johnson (.kiwi), Jeffrey
Sass (.club) and Monte Cahn
(RightOfTheDot.com) made the case for new
gTLD success while Rick Schwartz
and his lone teammate, Lonnie Borck,
carried the .com mantle and
explained why they believe new gTLDs will be left in .com's dust. All
contributed points in the battle
while leaving Schilling and Schwartz
(positioned directly across from each
other behind the podium) to do the heaviest
infighting. Schwartz had the exchange
videotaped and said
he will have it posted online
in the near future. When it is online ths
somethng you will want to see.
Frank
Schilling (left) and Rick Schwartz
trade punches in a lively debate
about new gTLDs Monday. It was a
one of those rare hours that was both
highly informative and wildly entertaining
on a topic that will be front and center
for several years to come.
The
day's next session featured Domainer
Success Stories from four panelists
who had many of them to talk about.
Above:
The Domainer Success Stories panel
discussion featured (left to right) Braden
Pollock (LegalBrandMarketing.com),
moderator Howard Neu (standing), Ari
Goldberger (ESQwire.com), Gregg
Ostrick and Adam Dicker
(DNForum.com). Below:
After trhe Domainer Success Stories
session, attendees enjoyed a networking
luncheon in the adjacent food and
beverage ballrooom. 
After
lunch it was time to Meet the Bloggers
in a
75-minute session that featured seven of
the industry's leading bloggers and
writers who offered their opinions on
industry trends and also fielded questions
from the audience. 
The
Meet the Bloggers panel Monday
afternoon featured (left to right)
moderator Howard Neu, Ron
Jackson (DNJournal.com), Michael
Berkens (TheDomains.com), Michael
Cyger (DomainSherpa.com), Andrew
Allemann (DomainNameWire.com), Owen
Frager (The Frager Factor), Elliot
Silver (DomainInvesting.com) and
Adam Dicker (TheArtOfTheName.com). If
you take a closer look at the T-shirt
DomainNameWire's Andrew Allemann
was wearing Monday you see it advertised a
new escrow platform that Thought
Convergence is about to launch at Agreed.com.
In an effort to raise money for The
Water School, Andrew ran an
auction on his blog with the highest
bidder to be featured in a story on his
site, plus Andrew agreed to wear a T-shirt
advertising the winning bidder's
company for a full day at
T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Monday. Appropriately enough,
Agreed.com won the auction with a
$2,750 bid from TC's Ammar Kubba. 
Ammar
Kubba (Agreed.com) and Andrew
Allemann (DomainNameWire.com) in the Agreed.com
T-shirts they wore Monday after
Andrew's fund raising auction for The
Water School. Monday's
business day closed with T.R.A.F.F.I.C.'s
live domain auction.
DomainNameNews.com live blogged the auction
results as they came in. Most
of the domains not sold in the live
auction are being moved to the online
silent auction that Above.com
will be handling through the end of this
month. 
A
scene from T.R.A.F.F.I.C.'s live domain
auction Monday with auctioneer Joel
Langbaum
(who also filled that role in the first
T.R.A.F.F.I.C. auctions nearly a decade
ago) at the podium. With
business out of the way Monday, attendees were
able to take a break for a few hours
before heading out to the official
T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Party that ran from 9pm
to 1am this morning at the Atlantic
Surf Club, located next door to the
Ritz. 
Above:
T.R.A.F.F.I.C. guests begin arriving at
the Atlantic Surf Club on Fort
Lauderdale Beach Monday night for the official
T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Party. Below:
Faces in the crowd included Andrew
Reberry (NameBright.com, at left) and Braden
Pollock (LegalBrandMarketing.com). 
Below:
Also lighting up Monday night's
party were (left to right standing) Tessa
Holcomb (Igloo.com), Liz Murray
(CFO, Oversee.net), Andee Hill
(Escrow.com), Debra Domeyer (CEO,
Oversee.net), Judi Berkens and Diana
Jackson, plus one lucky guy, Gregg
McNair (seated) with Barbara Neu (T.R.A.F.F.I.C.). 
The
final day of T.R.A.F.F.I.C. East 2013
(Tuesday, Oct. 22) is underway as I
write this. I'll have all of the Tuesday
photos & highlights for you in my next
post from Fort Lauderdale Beach tomorrow.
The conference will officially close with
the Farewell Breakfast Wednesday
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Opening
Day Photos & Highlights from the 2013
T.R.A.F.F.I.C. East Conference at Fort
Lauderdale Beach
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The
2013 T.R.A.F.F.I.C. East conference
officially got underway Sunday (Oct. 20)
at the Ritz Carlton Hotel on Florida's
Fort Lauderdale Beach. Registration
opened at 12 Noon and 30 minutes later
champagne and mimosas were flowing at
the opening day Cabana Party on the Ritz
Carlton's pool deck.
Frank
Schilling (InternetTraffic.com) and Ammar
Kubba (ThoughtConvergence.com)
at Sunday's poolside Cabana Party
that kicked off the 2013 T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
conference.
Above:
T.R.A.F.F.I.C. attendees visiting the
Above.com cabana Sunday.
Below:
Truc Tran (domain investor from
Oslo, Norway) with
Above.com's Nancy Bianchi Sunday at
the Above.com cabana.
At
4:30pm T.R.A.F.F.I.C. held their
traditional orientation session for
first time conference attendees. Show
organzers told us nearly a third of
this year's T.R.A.F.F.I.C. East
registrants have never been to a domain
conference before. That is a good sign of
growig interest in the industry.
At
5:30pm it was time for
T.R.A.F.F.I.C's traditional Opening Night
Cocktail Party held on the 4th floor
of the Ritz where guests enjoyed a birds
eye view of the Atlantic Ocean through the
floor to ceiling windows.
Among
those at T.R.A.F.F.I.C.'s Opening Nght
Cocktail Party were (left to right) Steve
Kaziyev, Jason Schaeffer, Dan
Adamson, Cate Colgan, Russ
Goodwin, Dave Evanson and
T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Co-Founder Howard Neu.
A
hghlight of the cocktail party for
a lot of us was seeing veteran domain
investor Roy Flanders walk into the
room. Roy, who lives on Nantucket
Island in Massachusetts, has
been battling some major health issues
over the past year or two and travel is
not easy for him so we weren't expecting
him to make the trip. Roy said he decided
to do it at the last minute and we
are certainly glad he did. I'm hopeful his
return to T.R.A.F.F.I.C. will be as
therapeutic and uplifting to him as seeing
him was for us.
Roy
Flanders (right) with Ari
Goldberger Sunday night
at T.R.A.F.F.I.C.'s Opening Night
Cocktail Party.
After
the cocktail party a large group of
attendees who do business with Frank
Schilling's companies - InternetTraffic.com
and DomainNameSales.com
- boarded buses for a short trip up N. Ft.
Lauderdale Beach Boulevard to the S3
Restaurant where Frank hosted a dinner
party for his many clients and
friends.
Above:
Frank Schilling, standing at far left,
addressing his guests at the S3
Restaurant Sunday night on Fort
Lauderdale Beach. With over 90 guests
on hand Frank had to gve his welcome
message twice to cover the two
rooms needed to seat everyone (the shot
above covers ony about a quarter of the
crowd in one room)..
Frank
Schilling
(left) and T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Co-Founder Rick
Schwartz took the opportunity to
promote their .Coms vs. New gTLDs
Battle Royal that was the highlight of
Monday's agenda at T.R.A.F.F.I.C. (as
expected it turned out to be one of the
most entertaining and informative
conference sessions of the past decade -
more on that in tomorrow's post as
sessions I need to cover are are still
going on as I write this).
Above:
Rick Schwartz throws a
"haymaker" at Frank Schilling
Sunday night - a prevew of what he said
was to come during their debate today.
Below:
Afer their "fisticuffs" Frank
and Rick, who are longtime
friends despite their differing views on
new gTLDs, kissed and made up
(well...at least they made up, I'm still
trying to get them to kiss as that would
be the picture of the year).
At
the end of the night, a group of the last
Schilling dinner guests to leave posed for
the group photo below (Frank is
third from the left in the front row with
Ammar Kubba sitting on his lap (don't
ask!). By the way, domain industry veteran
Monte Cahn, at far right in the
front row, is also an investor in the
popular S3 Restaurant that hosted the
event.
Below:
As I noted earlier the Monday's first full
day of business at T.R.A.F.F.I.C. is still
underway as I write this. I'll have all of
the Monday photos and highlights from
T.R.A.F.F.I.C. in my next post from Fort
Lauderdale Beach tomorrow. |
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Photos
& Highlights From a Fabulous Day of
T.R.A.F.F.I.C East Pre-Show Networking in Fort
Lauderdale Beach Saturday
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The
flock of T.R.A.F.F.I.C. early birds
continued to grow Saturday on a
gorgeous day at the Ritz Carlton Hotel
at Fort Lauderdale Beach, Florida.
The conference
doesn't officially gets underway until
this afternoon (Sunday, Oct. 21) but
dozens of attendees came to town early to
enjoy a couple of days of preshow cabana
and poolside networking.
The
spectaular view from the T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
cabanas shortly before they opened for
preshow networking Saturday morning
(Oct. 19) at the Ritz Carlton Hotel
on Florida's Fort Lauderdale Beach.
(L
to R); Barbara Neu
(T.R.A.F.F.I.C.), Tessa Holcomb
(Igloo.com) and first time show attendee Rebecca
(from the UK) at the welcome desk on the
Ritz Carlton pool deck Saturday.
(L
to R) at the .CLUB Cabana - Michael
Berkens (TheDomains.com) and his
handsome
Yorkie Romeo, Jeffrey Sass
(.CLUB) and Victor Pitts
(Above.com). After
spending a beautiful day by the
pool and cabanas, Saturday evening
was open for people to enjoy the pleasant
surroundings, all within walking distance
of the Ritz. Most formed groups of various
sizes to sample the many restaurants
nearby. DNForum.com
owner Adam Dicker hosted
several dozen guests for a big dinner at Shula's
on the Beach (a very pleasant repeat
of one of the most memorable events from
last year's conference week).
DNForum.com
owner Adam Dicker, flanked by sons Corey
and Jordan, at Shula's on
the
Beach where Adam hosted several dozen
guests for a preshow dinner party last
night.
Above:
(L to R) Gregg McNair (PPX), Jenna
Ferber, John Ferber (DomainHoldings)
and Michael Berkens
(TheDomains.com) at the Adam Dicker dinner
party. Below:
Also among those on hand were Ammar
Kubba (Thought Convergence)
and T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Co-Founder Howard
Neu (right).
Host
Adam Dicker with T.R.A.F.F.I.C.'s Alina
Schwartz (left) and Barbara Neu.
The
dinner hosted by Adam Dicker ended
with everyone
gathering for a group photo to
commemorate a great night. Though
the Dicker dinner ran for three and a half
hours many in this crowd had no interest
in calling it a night when it was over.
Thanks to PPX International
Chairman Gregg McNair, there is
always an entertaining place for
everyone to regroup late and hang out
together for as long as they like. Each
night McNair traditionally throws open
the door to his suite to anyone who
wants to drop in for some quality late
night conversation with like minded
people.
Above:
Diana Jackson and Bob Olea
were among those visiting Gregg McNair's
suite last night - always the most popular
after hours spot in whatever town Gregg
happens to be in at the time!
Below:
Youve heard the expression "too many
cooks in the kitchen" - well, not
in this kitchen! These
"cooks" would be welcome behind
the kitchen sink any time. A little before
midnight last night Gregg McNair
(front left) was surrounded by eight
kitchen helpers - Judi Berkens
(front center), Christian Calvin
(front right) and in the back row (L to R)
Frank Schilling, Ammar Kubba,
Russ Goodwin, Andee Hill and
Kimberly Howard.
The
T.R.A.F.F.I.C. East conference
officially gets underway today
(Sunday, Oct. 20) with Registration opeing
at 12 Noon, a Cabana Party
scheduled from 12:30-4:30pm and the Opening
Night Cocktail Party getting underway
at 5:30pm. I'll have photos and
highlight from all of today's (and
tonight's) activity for you in my next
post from Fort Lauderdale Beach Monday. |
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How
T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Pre-Show Networking Turned into a
Crazy Mix of Mardi Gras and ComicCon
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Above:
A brilliant full moon illuminated
the pool deck at the Ritz Carlton's All
Hallows Eve Party last night on Fort
Lauderdale Beach. |
A
funny thing happened
as the first day of pre-show networking at
the 2013 T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
East conference wound down at the Ritz
Carlton Hotel on Fort Lauderdale
Beach last night - we found ourselves
in the middle of a crazy combination of ComicCon
and a Mardi Gras style masquerade!
Many
early birds are already in town for two
days of poolside and cabana networking
before the conference officially begins
Sunday evening, so conference organizers Rick
Schwartz and Howard Neu and
their wives Alina and Barbara
arranged a table for them at the Ritz's All
Hallows Eve Full Moon Party that was
held on the pool deck Friday night.
This
is an annual public event so the domainers
were vastly outnumbered but we
certainly made our presence known as
you will see in the photos and
highlights below.
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Below:
Just a small section of a big crowd that was
spread across the Ritz's Carlton's pool deck
for last night's Full Moon Party.
T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
Co-Founder Rick Schwartz and his wife Alina
at a table where the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. team hosted early
birds who started pre-show networking
Friday.
Above
(left to right): Early birds Victor Pitts
(Above.com), Michael Gilmour (Park
Logic.com), who arrived from Australia Thursday,
T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Co-Founder Howard Neu, Barabara
Neu and Diana Jackson.
Below:
Two more key members of the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. team,
Kimberly Howard and Ray Neu.
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Above:
I couldn't quite put my finger on it, but
for some reason Michael Berkens
(TheDomains.com) looked 30
years younger last night!
Below
(left to right): Judi Berkens and Michael
Berkens
and two kindred spirits
from the general public found each
other at the All Hallows Eve Party
last night.
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Okay,
here is a test for you. Before
you cheat and look at the caption, guess
who the famous domain investor and blogger
in the photo at left is. I know that with
the disco chain he may look a lot like Andrew
Allemann or Elliot Silver, but
it's not them so keep guessing!
I
guess some explanation is in order so you
won't think our friend wears this getup every
day (Of course, I'm not with him every day
so I can't really swear to that one way or the other!) People were invited to come to
the All Hallows Eve Party in costume
if they wished (since I already
look scary enough without an outfit -
actually especially without an
outfit - I declined that option). Having
said that, and knowing that all of
you
cheated and already looked at the caption
anyhow, yes that is indeed domain investor
and blogger extraordinaire Michael
Berkens of TheDomains.com
and MostWantedDomains.com.
In
Michael's defense he said his lovely wife
Judi put him up to it (or to be more
precise - gave him no say in the matter).
Everyone who knows Judi Berkens knows no
party really begins until she gets there!
And so it was last night. People flock to
Judi like moths to a flame, so in no time
at all another couple (non domainers) with
a similar appreciation for the 70s disco
era was at their side.
I
haven't seen so many masks and costumes
since the last time I was on Bourbon
Street in February. With all of the superheroes
running around it felt like a South
Florida version of ComicCon. There
was Batman and Superman and Iron Man and -
thanks to Michael - even Domain Man!
I bet the other superheroes thought his
uniform was cooler than theirs too!
Of
course, the lady superheroes were
well represented too and though I'm sure they
had an array of amazing super powers I
know none of them could pull off the magic
Barbara Neu does in making a domain
conferene run smoothly.
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T.R.A.F.F.I.C.'s
Barbara Neu (center) flanked by two other female
superheroes.
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This
superhero business is tiring work. When
our party superhero Judi Berkens
needed to recline for a few minutes to
recharge her batteries, her boredom
fighting partners protectively hovered
over her umtil she was back at full
strength. It was like the Avengers
all over again.
Today's
networking action has just gotten started
on the Ritz pool deck and T.R.A.F.F.I.C.'s
cabana row under a bright sun and gorgeous
blue skies. If you are coming into town
today or Sunday before the opening night
cocktal party tomorrow at 5:30pm, you can
drop by the cabanas from 10am-5pm
each day to see fellow attendees.
I'll have
photos and highlights from today's (and
tonight's) activity for you in my next
report from Fort Lauderdale Beach tomorrow
(assuming I am not abducted by a super
villain of course!). |
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T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
East Gets Underway Today With Two Days of
Pre-Show Networking Leading Up to the Main Event
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We'll
be driving south today,
on our way across the state to Fort Lauderdale Beach
for the 2013 T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
East Conference that is getting
underway at the Ritz Carlton Hotel. It
all starts with the first of two pre-show
networking days on T.R.A.F.F.I.C.'s Cabana
Row and the Ritz pool deck (the
main event gets underway with the opening
night cocktail party Sunday at
5:30pm). To
set the scene for you, the cabanas and
pool deck sit seven stories high
providing a gorgeous view of the Atlantic
Ocean. In the first of the photos
below (that we shot at last year's
conference) you can see the pool and
cabana levels sitting atop the lower
portion of the Ritz building (the higher
floors are directly behind in a portion of
the unique structure that was built to
resemble a cruise ship).
A
view from the beach of the Fort Lauderdale
Beach Ritz Carlton Hotel
where T.R.A.F.F.I.C. East 2013 will
be running today through Wednesday (Oct.
23). We'll
be arriving at the Ritz late this
afternoon and I'll be filing daily
reports from the show in this column
starting tomorrow morning (Saturday, Oct.
19). After the sun goes down this evening
an All
Hallow's Eve Full Moon party
will be held on the Ritz pool deck from
7-10pm and you will find most of the
T.R.A.F.F.I.C. early birds there. The
T.R.A.F.F.I.C. cabanas are just a few
steps down from the pool deck, accessible
by stairs at either end of the deck. They
will also be open from 10am-5pm Saturday
and Sunday.
Above:
The view from T.R.A.F.F.I.C.'s Cabana
Row at the Ritz Carlton.
Below:
The Ritz Carlton pool deck
overlooking the Atlantic Ocean
that will be a hub of pre-show
networking activity today through
Sunday.
You
can see the full
agenda for the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. East
conference here. We're looking
forward to seeing many of you there and if
you can't make it we'll try to make you
feel like you are there with our daily
photos and highlights in this column.
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All
Aboard! The First Rolling Domain Conference Took
Place Last Week on a Stunning Luxury Tour Bus in
Berlin
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Over
the past 7 years
Christoph Grueneberg and Thomas
Mueller have staged the largest German
language domain conference - Domainvermarkter-Forum
- eight times in their home country.
The two partners are also active domain
investor/developers and this year they got
so busy with their showpiece ecommerce
site - Sale.de
- that they didn't have time to organize
their usual conference. So, being
the creative people they are, they come up
with a different idea - the first
ever rolling Domain Stammtisch aboard a luxury tour
bus (in German “stammtisch” means
a regular meeting of people in restaurants |
Thomas
Mueller (left) & Christoph
Grueneberg |
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or bars).
Dubbed the Domainvermarkter
Stammtisch, the event was held
a week ago today (October 9, 2013) aboard
a deluxe Gourmet
Liner in Berlin. Thomas
and Christoph (who will be at next week's T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
conference in Florida) were kind enough to
share some photos from the unique event
with us.
Domainvermarkter
Stammtisch 2013 guests in front
of
the Schloss Charlottenburg Palace in Berlin
last week.
Domainvermarkter
Stammtisch
guests aboard the Gourmet Liner
as
the rolling conference cruised through the
streets of Berlin.
Christoph
Grueneberg told us, "This wasn't a
typical city tour - it was a dining
tour with cooking and eating in the
bus. During the trip a three-course
menu was served onboard and there were
also plenty of drinks (these are domainers
after all)!. Altogether over 30 domainers
from Germany and Austria
took part in the tour sponsored by Backorder.de,
Domainers Registrar, InterNetX,
Sedo, Hexonet and Realtime.at.
Cooks
in the Gourmet Liner's onboard kitchen
prepare the three-course meal
served to Domainvermarkter Stammtisch
guests during their ride around Berlin.
Grueneberg
noted that Dima Beitzke, the new
CSO (Chief Sales Officer) at Sedo GmbH,
introduced himself for the first time (Dima
succeeded the highly regarded Liesbeth
Mack-de Boer in that position).
Sedo
GmbH CSO Dima Beitzke (far right) with
friends aboard the Gourmet Liner. Dima
is holding one of the "I Love
Sale.de" teddy bears that
Grueneberg and Mueller brought along to
promote their rapidly growing ecommerce
site.
After
the road trip the whole group continued on
to the Spagos Bar at the famous Alexanderplatz.
Many of the participants also visited the
biggest German online marketing conference,
OMCap, that took place the
next day. At that conference there
was a special Domainer Channel with
lectures from Christoph Grueneberg
about the new Redemption-Grace Period at
the German DENIC Registry and Markus
Galler (InterNetX) on the subject New
TLDs.
The
Domainvermarkter Stammtisch looks like a great
idea. When Grueneberg and Mueller are
in Florida for T.R.A.F.F.I.C. next week
maybe we can convince them to export this
one to America! |
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With
Domain Investing Becoming a Bigger Game Elliot's
Blog Gets a Perfect New Name
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If
you typed ElliotsBlog.com
into your browser this morning you might
have been surprised to see a different
website appear. Have no fear, the |
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popular
blog written by veteran domain investor Elliot
Silver hasn't been hijacked - it
simply has a new home at an even more
relevant web address - DomainInvesting.com.
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Elliot
explained his reasons for re-branding
the six-year-old site in a post announcing
the change on his re-located blog
today. He acquired the new domain
from friend and fellow domain
investor Lonnie Borck and I
think, given the subject matter
Elliot so ably covers, it is the perfect
name for his platform - one that
instantly identifies what the site
is about while also opening up a lot
of new content and growth
opportunities.
Elliot
said, "I believe rebranding as
DomainInvesting.com will allow me to
expand the audience of my blog,
especially to people who are not
familiar with the business of
investing in domain names. With the
continued growth of the domain
aftermarket combined with the introduction
of new gTLD domain names, I
anticipate that there will be an
influx of investment capital for
domain name assets, and the
DomainInvesting.com branding is more
suitable for continued growth." |
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DomainInvesting.com |
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All of the most successful
blogs have carved out their own unique
identities. Elliot established his by
detailing his own experiences in buying, selling
and developing domains. No one gives a more personal
account of their adventures in domain
investing and thankfully that will continue
alongside the additional content he plans
to provide on what is becoming an increasingly
hot area of investing interest.
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The new gTLDs
Elliot mentioned continue to generate both
good news and bad. In the latter category
I was sorry to hear the news
that DotGreen
Community Inc. has decided to
throw in the towel after working
for six years toward winning
the rights to operate a .green
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The group's CEO, Annalisa
Roger, said there were too many other
contenders (with deeper pockets) competing to
win the extension for DotGreen Community to have
any hope of acquiring it. Though the TLD is
yet to be awarded their efforts have built
up a lot of good will around the
extension. The eventual winner of .green might
benefit by bringing some of the passionate
people from the DotGreen Community aboard when
the extension is launched.
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One other new
gTLD note - 27-year old entrepreneur Daniel
Negari, who was profiled in our latest
Cover
Story, was the one of the
first to take advantage of an ICANN
promotional video program being built
around new gTLD operators. Daniel, the
youngest new gTLD applicant, has already
secured the rights to operate the .xyz
and .college extensions. In the
vide0 below he details his plans for .xyz. |
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15, 2013)
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Demand
Media Co-Founder Richard Rosenblatt Resigns as
Chairman & CEO - Fellow Co-Founder Shawn
Colo to Lead Company on Interim Basis
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Demand
Media Co-Founder
Richard Rosenblatt
(who was profiled in our April
2007 Cover Story) has stepped
down as the company's
Chairman, effective immediately, and has
also resigned as CEO, effective Oct. 31,
2013. The company's board of directors has
named Rosenblatt's fellow Demand Media
co-founder, Shawn Colo, as interim
President, effective immediately, and as
interim CEO, effective upon Mr.
Rosenblatt's resignation. James Quandt has
been appointed Chairman, effective
immediately. The board is to begin a
search for a permanent CEO shortly. Demand
Media
is a leading digital media and
domain services company headquartered in
Santa Monica, California. Over the years
it has acquired several well-known domain
industry companies including giant
registrar eNom. No
reason was given for the change but Mr.
Rosenblatt said, "I want to thank
everyone that helped to make Demand Media
a leading content creation and media
company. It has been a great honor to work
with our investors, board and brilliant
team over the past 7 years. I
realize that all journeys must ultimately
come to an end and want to wish Shawn and
the entire team success as they continue
to grow the business." Mr.
Colo said, "I look forward to working
closely with our board of directors,
executive team, and all of our employees
to achieve our strategic goals. Since
co-founding the company in 2006, I have
been involved in all facets of the
business and am more confident than ever
in Demand Media's potential." Mr.
Quandt, the new Chairman, added, "The
board is excited to have Shawn expand his
responsibilities at Demand Media. Shawn
has played a major role in the company's
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is ideally suited to assume these added
responsibilities because of his integral
knowledge of all aspects of the business
and his strong relationships throughout
the industry." |
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14, 2013)
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Why
Bonus Networking Days Are Attracting a Growing
Flock of T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Early Birds
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I've
been
covering
T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
conferences for almost a decade now (ever
since the first
one in October 2004) and from
the start the only downside for me has
been running out of time before
seeing everyone I wanted to see during the
fast paced event. So, it was a very
welcome development to see co-founders Rick
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pre-show
"Cabana Networking" days
to the conference schedule in recent
years. For the upcoming show at the Ritz
Carlton on Fort Lauderdale Beach,
those days will be Friday and Saturday,
October 18 & 19, with the show
officially opening Sunday evening, October
20 (and running through Wednesday morning,
October 23).
A
view of the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. cabanas just
before last year's show got underway at
the Ritz Carlton on Fort
Lauderdale beach. The cabana row is
just below the pool deck and guests can
walk back and forth between the two levels
via a short stairway on each side of the
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The
thing about T.R.A.F.F.I.C. is that a single
conversation can lead to a business deal
that pays for your entire trip to the
show (and continue to pay dividends long after
the show is over), so it obviously helps to have
as many of those conversations as you can. In
many cases, the more informal the
setting, the better for chatting and
that's where T.R.A.F.F.I.C.'s cabana networking
days shine. With
just a few dozen early birds on hand there is a
lot more face to face time with those
people (in one of the world's most beautiful
settings) than is possible once the show is in
full swing with several hundred people on hand.
More importantly, the few dozen that get into
town early include some of the most interesting,
successful and passionate people in the
industry (if they weren't passionate they
wouldn't be there early)! 
Some
of the 2012 T.R.A.F.F.I.C East early birds
on the Ritz Carlton pool deck the
Saturday before the show opened. If
you are going to T.R.A.F.F.I.C. anyhow, it makes
sense on a lot of levels to join the growing
flock of early birds. The only added cost is a
couple of more nights in a hotel. Those who come
in Friday (Oct. 18), as Diana and I will,
can enjoy an added free bonus (beyond a
day of networking in the cabanas and around the
pool). The Ritz Carlton will be hosting one of
their most popular public events that night -
their All
Hallow's Eve Party under a full
moon on the pool deck overlooking the
Atlantic Ocean. The T.R.A.F.F.I.C. crowd
will stake out a prime piece of deck turf for
that event so early birds can count on enjoying
their first evening in town. There
will be another full day of networking in the
sun Saturday (Oct. 19) followed by an
evening when people can head out in their own
dinner groups to the many restaurants within
easy walking distance of the hotel (the Ritz is
right in the middle of everything on Fort
Lauderdale Beach). 
A
large group of 2012 T.R.A.F.F.I.C. East early
birds at a pre-show dinner hosted by
DNForum.com owner Adam Dicker at Shula's
on the Beach. When
the bulk of the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. crowd arrives
Sunday you will be well ahead of the game
(with two days of networking already under your
belt and a pretty nice tan to boot)! What
more could you ask for? Whenever
you will be getting into town we will look
forward to seeing you there. October usually
produces some of Florida's most beautiful
weather (we are enjoying a gorgeous day as I
write this) so pack your swimsuit and sunglasses
alongside your business cards and come on
down!
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10, 2013)
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Bidding
Opens in a T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Silent Auction at the
Above.com Domain Marketplace + Servers.com to be
Sold in Bankruptcy Auction
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The
next T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
conference
is coming up October 20-23 at the Ritz
Carlton on Florida's Fort
Lauderdale Beach. As always, the show
will feature a live
domain auction with this one
scheduled for Monday, October 21 at
4:30pm. However, there is going to be an added
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T.R.A.F.F.I.C
has enlisted Above.com’s
Domain Marketplace to
host an online Silent Auction
in
conjunction with the live event. Bidding
has already opened in
the Silent Auction which will
continue until 3pm (U.S.
Eastern time) on October 31.
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do
not reach the reserve price in
the Silent Auction before the live
event October 21 can be moved into
the sale at the Ritz Carlton (if
show organizers wish to include
them). Those that do meet the
reserve beforehand will stay
in the Silent Auction and names not
sold in the live event will get a second
chance by in the Silent Auction
that will continue for 10 days after
the live event.
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Above.com
President and Founder David
Warmuz said, "We are
delighted that our Domain
Marketplace was selected to
host the 2013 T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
East Silent Auction. The Above
Domain Marketplace is loaded
with features that are not
available in commonplace
marketplaces which most people
are accustomed to. We added
innovative features such as Verified
Traffic Stats, built-in domain
pricing tool, and a
seller’s personal auction
URL, to name just a
few."
Among
the domains included in the
Silent Auction are: 3DCopying.com,
FloridaCharterFlights.com,
WomensFragrances.com, BulkAdvertising.com,
MensWatch.com and Tablets.co.
You can view the entire 2013
Silent Auction inventory here.
To
participate in the auction,
buyers must create
a verified Above account
to bid. Once an account is
created, buyers can create a
watch list to follow just the
domains they are interested
in. |
David
Warmuz
President & Founder,
Above.com |
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Another
auction that will be of
considerable
interest - even though
it includes only one domain
- is coming up
later this month. By
order of the United
States Bankruptcy Court
for the Northern
District of Texas,
Dallas Division, Servers.com
will be auctioned off on
October 29, 2013.
The auction
will take place at 2pm
(local time) at the
office of Trustee’s
Counsel located at: 500
North Akard Street,
Suite 3800, Dallas,
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Only
"qualified
bidders" will
be permitted to attend
the auction. Interested
parties must become
qualified bidders
by providing
financial information to
the Trustee evidencing
the ability to purchase
the domain name and must
deliver to the
Trustee a deposit of
$40,000 to
participate in the
auction (qualified
bidders will be
permitted to participate
in the auction by
telephone).
Daniel
J. Sherman, Chapter
11 Trustee of the Ondova
Limited Company,
said he has received a
"stalking horse
bid" of $300,000
for the domain name. The
Bankruptcy Court has
authorized the Trustee
to attempt to seek
higher and better bids
by conducting the
October 29
auction.
A
hearing to approve the
sale to the highest
bidder has been
scheduled for November
4, 2013 at 2:00 p.m.
Central Time. For more
information you can
visit www.servers.com
or email: [email protected]. |
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8, 2013)
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How
You Can Help Escrow.com Secure a Spot in the
Super Bowl Advertising Line Up
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With
price tags
that can run into several million
dollars Super Bowl ads are reserved
for corporations with very deep
pockets. So deep that global registration
giant Go Daddy has been the only
one from our industry to have a regular
presence in the Big Game (by teaming up
with Go Daddy, the .CO Registry has
also gotten some great exposure on Super
Bowl Sunday). When
the current pro football season ends with
the February 2, 2014 Super Bowl
game at MetLife Stadium (home of
both the New York Giants and the New York
Jets) the more than 100 million TV
viewers around the world may see
another name that is familiar to just
about everybody in this business - Escrow.com
- but it will take some help from you
to put them in the super bright spotlight
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As
successful as they have been in providing
thousands of domain investors and buyers with secure
domain transactions, Escrow.com's
advertising budget doesn't have room for a Super
Bowl spot. So, they decided to get into the
trenches and compete for one in Intuit's
Small Business Big Game contest.
Intuit is going to pay the full cost of
running a 30-second commercial for the contest
winner in the 2014 Super Bowl telecast
(including commercial productions costs). The
good news for Escrow.com fans is they have already
made the first cut.
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In
the opening round of the contest that ran
for two months (August and September)
enough people went to the Vote
for Escrow.com page and cast
ballots that qualified the company for round
two that runs through this month
(the ballot page also has a creative
video from Escrow.com's
President and Managing Director,
"Coach" Brandon Abbey
that you will get a kick out of). At the
end of October the top 20 vote
getters will move on to the semi-finals
in which the 8,000 employees at
Intuit will review each company still
standing, with their vote determining the
four finalists. Once
the final four is set, all previous votes
are thrown out so the competitors
can go at on an even playing field.
They will tell their small business
stories and the one that draws the
most votes from the public wins the
Grand Prize - their own Super Bowl
commercial that will run Feb. 2, 2014. Brandon
Abbey, Andee Hill and the
entire team at Escrow.com have been valued
friends and colleagues to countless people
in our business, as well as steady
supporters of charities that our industry
has gotten behind |
Brandon
Abbey
President & Managing Director
Escrow.com |
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(The
Water School being a prime
example). Now they could use our
support and it doesn't cost a penny to
get behind them. Just go
here and cast your contest vote for
Escrow.com today! |
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7, 2013)
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People
& Companies in the News: Public
Interest Registry, Demand Media's Steve Banfield
and Hilco Streambank
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Several
items
to touch on today as we wrap another
busy week for the domain business. The
week started with the Public
Interest Registry, the
not-for-profit operator of the popular .ORG
TLD, announcing a major re-branding
of the organization. By integrating the
term "Your" into its new
logo, Public Interest Registry aims to
demonstrate its long-standing commitment
to the individuals, organizations and
companies that use .ORG and PIR's upcoming
new gTLDs - .NGO and .ONG.
(The .ORG logo also got a stylistic
makeover as you can see in the graphic at
right). PIR
said the new symbol on the left
side of the logos is meant to be a graphic
interpretation of the organization's
mission of being open to the public
interest with a commitment to
providing a platform that anyone,
anywhere in the world can use to share
their story.
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PIR's
new company logo
New
.org logo
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Public
Interest Registry CEO Brian Cute |
PIR
CEO Brian Cute said, "We're a
small organization operating a huge domain
that people around the world continue to
choose year after year to engage their
communities. "As .ORG continues to
expand its international footprint and
with the introduction of new
internationalized domain names (IDNs),
.NGO and .ONG launching in
the near future, we felt the timing was
right to update our brand to better
reflect our unwavering commitment to the
public interest and to those who choose
these domains to give a voice to their
causes, passions and ideas."
Each
individual TLD logo includes the same
graphic symbol found in the Public
Interest Registry's logo but with its own
unique color, creating a color scheme of
greens, blues, and oranges to reflect the diversity
of different voices, perspectives and
people that Public Interest Registry
serves.
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Demand
Media had some big news
as well, announcing the hiring of
20-year Internet veteran Steve
Banfield as Senior Vice
President and General Manager of
Registrar Services. In that role
Banfield will lead Demand Media’s
two well-known registrar businesses;
Name.com
and eNom
(the world’s largest ICANN
accredited wholesale domain name
registrar) as each team
readies for the launch of new
gTLDs. l
Banfield
has previously built and overseen
teams at notable technology and
entertainment companies including Sony,
Microsoft, Paramount
Pictures and Real Networks.
Demand Media's Executive Vice
President of Registrar Services, Taryn
Naidu, said, "Our
registrar business serves many
different kinds of customers –
from consumers to business owners
– with products that range from a
single domain name to a
comprehensive API for selling
domains and services. Steve has
spent his career creating
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Steve
Banfield
SVP & GM, Registrars
Services
Demand Media
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market
share for new digital
experiences – which is
required knowledge as we move into a
world with over a thousand new
domain extensions coming to
market.” |
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One
other note - Hilco
Streambank is
holding their second
multi-asset premium domain
name auction October 14-
17, 2013. The
auction will be conducted on
Hilco Streambank’s recently
updated proprietary online
auction platform
where registration and
bidding are now open. |
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The
assets available in this
auction consist of 15
domain packages, including
individual domain offerings
such as ROW.com, DL.com
and brand packages that
include both trademarks and
domains like one
involving formerf
consumer electronics firm Tweeter.com. |
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(Posted October
4, 2013)
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T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
Just Two Weeks Away - Agenda for the Fort
Lauderdale Beach Show Includes a New gTLD
Debate
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I
don't know where
this year went but with T.R.A.F.F.I.C.'s
annual fall show in Florida coming
up in just a couple of weeks, I know we
are in the home stretch for 2013.
T.R.A.F.F.I.C. is always a highlight of
the closing quarter and the upcoming show October
20-23 at the Ritz Carlton
on Fort Lauderdale Beach (preceded
by two days of cabana networking Oct.
18-19) will be no exception. Things
officially get underway Sunday evening,
October 20, with T.R.A.F.F.I.C.'s
traditional opening night cocktail party.
The full
agenda is out now and the first
full day of business (Monday, October 21)
has one session (at 12:45pm) that may
spark some fireworks - T.R.A.F.F.I.C.'s
first public debate on ICANN's
controversial new gTLD program. T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
Co-Founder Rick
Schwartz said that he and an
as yet unnamed fellow domainer will trade
punches with as many as four new gTLD
proponents |
The
Ritz Carlton Hotel on Fort
Lauderdale Beach
Site for T.R.A.F.F.I.C. 2013 coming
up October 20-23
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(a
group that will include Jeffrey Sass of
.CLUB, Monte Cahn from
RightOfThedot.com, a representative
from Frank Schilling's Uniregistry.com
and possibly one more combatant).
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Rick
Schwartz
T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Co-Founder |
Apparently
Schwartz feels confident enough in
his position to give the opposing
team twice as much manpower as his
own. :-)
Later
that same day (Monday, Oct. 21), the
T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Live
Domain Auction will be
staged. Today Schwartz posted his
personal auction "picks"
on his blog.
Another
Monday highlight for me will be the opportunity
to sit in on a 2:45pm Meet the
Bloggers panel discussion
with some of the industry's top
reporters. We will be fielding
questions on a wide variety of
topics.
By
the way, another Meet the
Bloggers panelist, DomainNameWire's
Andrew Allemann, has come up
with a cool idea to raise some extra
money for The
Water School. As he
detailed in a post at DNW
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bidder
getting to advertise their company
(or individual project, domain for
sale, etc.) in a unique way. Andrew
will wear a T-shirt bearing the
winner's logo or message for one
full day at the conference and also
give the company or project a brief
write up on DNW. It's a win win all
the way around and a nice way to support
a worthy charity. |
One other
note, if you are going to T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
and haven't booked your room yet, you have
until tomorrow night at midnight (Friday,
Oct. 4) to save $124 a night at the
Ritz. The show's discounted rate of $275
at the fabulous oceanfront hotel has been
extended to that time, with the rate
scheduled to revert to the Ritz's full
$399 fare after that.
The
rooms at the Ritz are all exceptionally
nice (the shot above is from the room we
had last year) and the show experience is
much more convenient and enjoyable if you
stay on site in the middle of all of
the action. You can find room
information for T.R.A.F.F.I.C. here. |
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(Posted October
3, 2013)
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Sedo
Founders Sell Remaining Shares to United
Internet - Co-Founder Tim Schumacher Comments on
Deal That Will Take Sedo Private
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European
internet giant
United
Internet has acquired
the last 4.46 million shares of Sedo
that were still held by the company's
co-founders, a move that will allow United
to take Sedo private. After
paying €2.60 per share for the
co-founders remaining stake, United now
holds 96.05% of Sedo stock, a
threshold that allows them to "squeeze
out" any remaining shareholders
by paying them fair market value for their
shares (German law has this squeeze out
provision that can be exercised when one
entity controls 95% or more of a company's
shares). United
Internet said they plan to "integrate
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Affiliate
Marketing and Domain Marketing
business fields operated by Sedo Holding
AG more closely into the strategic
development of the United Internet
Group." |
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Tim
Schumacher
Sedo Co-Founder and Former CEO |
In a note
this morning, Sedo Co-Founder and former
CEO Tim
Schumacher told me, "This is
a good step for Sedo. Taking Sedo private
will remove significant unnecessary
costs and distraction of being a
public company, and will thus allow more
intensive focus on the core: customers
and products."
Schumacher said, "For me and my
co-founders personally, by selling our
remaining shares, we will close an
important chapter of our life. Thank you
again to everyone who was - and especially
to everyone who still is - part of the
Sedo story, as customer, partner or team
member!"
Schumacher added, "All the best also
to Tobias & his team - we trust
him to lead Sedo well into the next
successful decade!" (this in
reference to current Sedo CEO Tobias
Flaitz who took over those
duties from Schumacher on Feb. 1, 2012).
United
Internet is a major conglomerate with
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employees. In addition to Sedo they are
the parent company of 1&1, GMX,
WEB.DE, United-Domains, Fasthosts,
InterNetX and Affilinet. |
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(Posted October
2, 2013)
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Igal
Lichtman's Domain Monetization Legacy Lives on
With ParkingCrew Picked to Serve TrafficMedia
Clients
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The
domain industry
lost
a legendary figure this past
February when Igal
Lichtman lost a fierce battle
with cancer (one of the few battles the
gentle giant ever lost). The
pioneering domain investor/developer
amassed a sterling portfolio (including
his favorite lovingly developed gemstone -
Jerusalem.com)
but he excelled in many other areas as
well. Domain monetization is a
field where Igal had an especially large
impact - so much so that his innovative DomainSpa.com
parking service was the subject of the
first ever DNJournal.com Cover
Story a decade ago. DomainSpa
evolved into Lichtman's latest baby, TrafficMedia.com
(a venture we profiled in our February
2012 Cover Story). With Igal's
passing, the TrafficMedia team decided to
look for some kindred spirits to
serve the company's clients in a way that
would carry Lichtman's ideals into the
future. They have made their choice
with the honor going to ParkingCrew.com
(a company we profiled in a February
2013 Newsletter). |
Igal
Lichtman
TrafficMedia Founder
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Current
TrafficMedia clients were the first to get
the news which came to them in a joint
letter from the TrafrficMedia and
ParkingCrew teams. Here is the letter in
its entirety (courtesy of a friend of
Igal's (and ours) - Steven Kaziyev
of NamePursuit.com): |
Dear
Steven:
As
you know Igal, the vision behind Traffic Media/DomainParking.com,
had passed earlier this year.
Igal was one of the first members of the domain
community to recognize domain parking as an
important income stream for domain owners. Many
standard concepts behind today's domain parking
platforms were pioneered by Igal more than 10
years ago.
We at Traffic Media were looking for a partner
to support all of our customers, emphasizing the
fact that Igal’s vision and way of service
will be continued.
ParkingCrew.com
was found to be a great match.
ParkingCrew will continue to follow his
visionary path and continue to provide
innovations to the domain parking world.
On September 17th, 2013, ParkingCrew.com
acquired the TrafficMedia/DomainParking.com
customer base. We are confident that this move
will further improve revenues for our customers.
ParkingCrew is welcoming all active TrafficMedia/DomainParking.com
customers with the following benefits:
-
Net15
payments (that's right, 45 days earlier than
you were used to)
-
a
10% bonus on your September TrafficMedia/DomainParking.com
earnings if you continue to monetize with us
Revenues
previously generated with TrafficMedia/DomainParking.com
will be paid out by TrafficMedia/DomainParking.com.
Moving forward, all revenues generated with
ParkingCrew.com will be paid out by ParkingCrew.
For you there is only one thing to do:
Please go to this
page to claim access to your
ParkingCrew account. Once this has been done,
you will receive your login credentials for
ParkingCrew.com and can continue to check your
stats and manage your domains from within our
interface.
With regards to your domains and landing pages,
you don’t have to do anything. We have made
sure they stay up and running and you are all
set. Since some accounts had ownership
conflicts, please log in to your account and
make sure that all domains you currently control
have been added to your account.
Should you have any further questions, please
don't hesitate to get in contact with [email protected].
Your TrafficMedia and ParkingCrew teams.
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(Posted October
1, 2013)
To refer others
to the
post above only you
can use this URL:
http://www.dnjournal.com/archive/lowdown/2013/dailyposts/20131001.htm
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