Today in The Lowdown:Speak now or
forever hold your peace! Monday is the last day you can lodge a protest that may
keep over-reaching trademark interests from helping themselves to your domains
in the future. Also, for your holiday weekend enjoyment, hundreds of previously
unseen photos from T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Amsterdam and Silicon Valley.
Everything about the
T.R.A.F.F.I.C. ccTLDs conference in Amsterdam June 1-4 was fresh - fresh
faces, fresh content and a fresh venue. As closely as I have followed
this industry for the past seven years there was still a lot about
ccTLDs that I didn't know. So, like everyone else who made the trip
to the Netherlands, I got a valuable
education and came back with a much greater
appreciation for the mind share country codes have among Internet
users outside the U.S. (a group that is growing much
faster than the user base in the mature American market).
Here's is the
definitive review of the first T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
conference ever held in Europe, the first with a
program centered entirely around country codes domains and
the first staged (under a special licensing agreement) by new show
promoter Rick Latona.
When I walked onto the National Mall in
Washington D.C. a few days ago, I felt like I had just finished competing
in The Amazing Race.I was in the nation's capital for the
2009 Domain Roundtable conference at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Washington,
D.C. (held June 14-16) - my sixth major domain conference in six months.
Since mid-April I had averaged one show every two weeks.
Could there possibly be anything new
left to talk about at Roundtable after so many shows had preceded it? Would
there be any new faces left to see that I hadn't seen in the
previous five shows? Could Roundtable's new owner, Thought
Convergence, come up with any surprises that would make them stand
out in a very large conference crowd? The answers to all three questions
would turn out to be an emphaticyes. Click Here for Full Story
The T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference returned to the
site of one of its greatest triumphs April 27-30 when the 2009
T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Silicon Valley show was staged in Santa Clara, California.
Three years before, in the same location, T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Co-Founders Rick
Schwartz and Howard Neu produced an event that played a key role in
launching a phenomenal boom in the domain business.
That left them with a tough act to follow this time, especially since the
overall economy is now mired in a severe slump. Attendance took a hit as a
result but as has always been the case at T.R.A.F.F.I.C., quality trumps
quantity. Here is our blow by blow account of what went down in the
Valley.
Click Here for Full Story
A $500,000 .com
sale and the year's biggest .net sale highlight this week's action in the
domain aftermarket. Get all of the details in our new
domain sales report.
Our comprehensive wire to wire review of
the 2009 Domain Roundtable
conference in Washington,D.C. is now available here.
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