Today in The Lowdown: After the antics of one mad barber from Australia, domain conferences on two continents and four scalps collected - the results are now in. Over $50,000 has been raised for one of the domain industry's favorite charities - the Water School. Today we acknowledge those who generously gave to this live saving organization. 

Fly Like an Igal: Lichtman Innovates Again With Vortalizer Automatic Website Building Technology at TrafficMedia 

DN Journal's very first Cover Story nine years ago was about an innovative new parking service that had been created by Igal Lichtman and his partners. Igal had entered the domain space after selling his company, Magic Solutions, to Network Associates (makers of popular McAfee security software) for $110 million. He has been here ever since. His parking service is still here too but it is now part of something much bigger -  Lichtman's growing TrafficMedia empire that is building a complete suite of services aimed at meeting every online business need in one central location.

Lichtman, a former Israeli Air Force officer who is also a  veteran engineer and programmer, has earned his fortune by creating new technology that solves a widespread problem. That is what he is doing again with TrafficMedia, especially with the company's "Vortalizer Technology" behind its innovative MediaSiteBuilder product that removes much of the time and cost involved in developing domains. The product has already caught the attention of a $5 billion dollar Wall Street firm that has licensed the technology to produce websites, mobile sites and Facebook pages for their thousands of small business customers. The same technology is now available to TrafficMedia's parking clients and they can get it at no charge.  
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Igal Lichtman
TrafficMedia Founder

By Ron Jackson

Less than 48 hours after Schumacher turned over his CEO duties to Tobias Flaitz, I sat down with Tim in Santa Monica, California, where we were both attending the 2012 DOMAINfest Global conference, for a private chat about his years at Sedo and the company's meteoric rise during that time. The result was a fascinating look back at a turbulent decade in which the company first thrived, then had to survive a global recession that washed many others away. You won't want to miss this inside look at the history of one of the industry's key companies.     Click here for Full Story 

Tim Schumacher, Sedo
Co-Founder & Former CEO

By Ron Jackson

The 6th annual DOMAINfest Global conference rewarded an estimated 600 guests with a week of unique networking and educational opportunities in a show held under picture perfect sunny Southern California skies at the oceanfront Fairmont Miramar Hotel in Santa Monica Jan. 31 - Feb. 2, 2012.

While this was the 6th show in the DOMAINfest Global series it was considerably different than the ones that came before. The show's organizers, Oversee.net, parent company of lead sponsor DomainSponsor.com, decided to expand the scope of the show beyond traditional domain investor issues with an increasing emphasis on alternative ways to generate traffic and revenue - topics that are of increasing interest to domain owners seeking to offset the heavy decline in PPC revenue in recent years.   Click here for Full Story