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Today in The Lowdown: Options in the domain aftermarket are expanding with the launch of several new sales platforms by established industry players. BargainDomains.com will focus on undervalued names, NoktaDomains.com has a portfolio of 200,000 names to choose from and a third new player will join them soon.

 


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



2009 T.R.A.F.F.I.C. New York Conference Marks the End of an Era

By Ron Jackson

The T.R.A.F.F.I.C. New York conference that ran at the Brooklyn Bridge Marriott October 26-29 marked the end of an era for the domain industry. This show came on the 5th anniversary of a collaboration between co-founders Rick Schwartz and Howard Neu that began with a historic event at the Delray Beach, Florida Marriott in October 2004. Now, after staging 15 shows together and licensing two others overseas, the pioneering duo is turning the reins over to Rick Latona who will be fully responsible for five of the six T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conferences scheduled for 2010.

Schwartz and Neu will resurface on the show circuit only once in the upcoming year, having retained the rights to run a big show in their home state of Florida at the Loews Hotel on Miami's South Beach in October 2010 (October 17-19, 2010 to be specific). Though not exactly their swan song, this third consecutive annual show in the Big Apple was a fitting first class send off for Schwartz and Neu as they begin a 12-month break from the show production grind.   Click Here for Full Story

 

 

 

T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Co-Founders 
Howard Neu
(at podium)
& Rick Schwartz welcome 
attendees to T.R.A.F.F.I.C. 
New York
2009


 


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.  
Click Here for Full Story

 

 

Scene from the beach at 
the Casina Marina Resort in 
Key West, Florida where the 
2009 SedoPro Partner Forum 
was held October 7-9.



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