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Today in The Lowdown: Companies in the News - Sedo, Moniker, eBusinessDomains.com, Neustar and Pool.com. Sedo kicks off our round up with 3rd quarter results from their popular aftermarket platform where sales volume rose 5.5% from the previous quarter and average sale prices soared 37%.

 


MythBuster: Former Farmer Gregg McNair Proves Opportunties Still Abound in the Domain Business

I often hear people say that the really big opportunities in the domain business are long gone. That if you were not one of the lucky ones who snapped up the best domain names in the mid 90s when no one else realized how valuable they could become, you were too late for the dance. That is a misconception that talented latecomers to the industry have repeatedly proven wrong. 

Gregg McNair, the Executive Chairman of Hong Kong based domain management and monetization firm PPX International Ltd. is a perfect case in point. McNair didn't discover the domain business until late 2005 but in less than four years he has seemingly come out of nowhere to become one of the major players in the industry. 

In fact the indefatigable Aussie seems to be everywhere these days. He is at virtually every major domain conference, often as a featured speaker, but he is just as likely to pop up in some remote corner of the globe working on behalf of The Water School, a organization that is helping to eradicate disease and needless loss of life by providing simple, safe and sustainable clean water solutions to the developing world.  Click Here for Full Story


Gregg McNair  
Executive Chairman
PPX International



Partners in Paradise: Our Review of the 2009 SedoPro Partner Forum in Key West, Florida 

By Ron Jackson

The 2009 SedoPro Partner Forum was held at the Waldorf Astoria's Casa Marina Resort in Key West, Florida October 7-9. Sedo's annual gathering is a different animal than mainstream domain conferences that cover a broad range of industry issues and attract registrants of all kinds - individual domain investors, service providers and venture capitalists to name just a few. Sedo's Partner Forum is a special corporate event that is staged primarily to thank their top clients and business associates for their support. 

Less than 100 people are invited to attend the Forum which alternates between Europe and the U.S. each year. The Sedo events focus much more on networking during social and recreational events than than they do on business seminars. With the SedoPro Forum's picturesque locations the company knows their guests want to spend more time outdoors than being cooped up in a conference room. Here is how the 2009 edition went down.  
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Scene from the beach at 
the Casina Marina Resort in 
Key West, Florida where the 
2009 SedoPro Partner Forum 
was held October 7-9.


 


Editor's Note: The event previewed below is now history. We are currently working our comprehensive conference review article that will be published this weekend.

T.R.A.F.F.I.C. New York 2009 Preview - This Year's Theme is "Survival"

By Ron Jackson

The T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference returns to New York City for the third time this month with a show that will run October 26-29 at the Brooklyn Bridge Marriott. Conference co-founders Rick Schwartz and Howard Neu will be adding several fresh ingredients to their already successful recipe.

Their first New York conference in 2007 set new industry standards with domainers taking center stage in the media capital of the world, Moniker posting a live domain auction record that still stands (with sales hitting eight figures) and overall optimism among domain investors reaching an all time high.  Just one year later, T.R.A.F.F.I.C. returned to New York the same week that the world economy went into the scariest meltdown since the Great Depression. PPC revenues had already been cut in half and they have gone further south since then. That has triggered a new wave of experimentation as domain owners try to find ways to restore their revenue streams. 

We hooked up with Schwartz and Neu for an exclusive interview to find out how they have tailored T.R.A.F.F.I.C. New York 2009 to address the landscape we have today.  Click Here for Full Story

 

 



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A Trio of Six-Figure sales led the action in the domain aftermarket over the past two weeks. Get all of the details in our latest weekly domain sales report.
Our comprehensive review of the 2009 SedoPro Partner Forum that ran Oct. 7-9 at the Casa Marina Resort in Key West, Florida. 
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